{"id":19273,"date":"2016-04-07T17:09:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T23:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=19273"},"modified":"2016-04-07T17:09:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T23:09:25","slug":"workforce-innovation-bill-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=19273","title":{"rendered":"Workforce innovation bill passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 7 that provides future guidance for the state\u2019s workforce investment system.<\/p>\n<p>LB1110, introduced by Omaha Sen. Heath Mello, outlines guiding principles for the state\u2019s workforce programs and services so they are responsive to the needs of employers, workers and students.<\/p>\n<p>The bill incorporates provisions of Mello\u2019s LB1029. These provisions create a sector partnership program to study labor availability and skills gaps in the state. The state Department of Labor will provide technical assistance to public-private sector partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on a 44-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 7 that provides future guidance for the state\u2019s workforce investment system. LB1110, introduced by Omaha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-19273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-and-labor","tag-sen-heath-mello"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19276,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19273\/revisions\/19276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}