{"id":20229,"date":"2017-01-06T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T19:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=20229"},"modified":"2017-01-09T11:35:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T17:35:01","slug":"day-three-bill-introduction-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=20229","title":{"rendered":"Day three bill introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senators reconvened Jan. 6 to introduce new bills.<\/p>\n

\"Sen.
Sen. Mark Kolterman\u00a0submits a new bill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among the 33 bills introduced were:<\/p>\n

LB104<\/a>, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Kate Bolz, which would provide for a surrogate to make health care decisions;<\/p>\n

LB106<\/a>, sponsored by Bancroft Sen. Lydia Brasch, which would change provisions relating to parental rights of a child conceived as a result of sexual assault;<\/p>\n

LB108<\/a>, sponsored by Bellevue Sen. Sue Crawford, which would require guidelines to ensure safety of a minor or dependent whose parent or guardian is arrested;<\/p>\n

LB109<\/a>, sponsored by Bellevue Sen. Carol Blood, which would provide for a temporary teaching certificate or permit for military spouses;<\/p>\n

LB112<\/a>, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Matt Hansen, which would permit provisional voting for voters moving within Nebraska without reregistering to vote;<\/p>\n

LB117<\/a>, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Robert Hilkemann, which would adopt the Investigational Drug Use Act;<\/p>\n

LB120<\/a>, sponsored by Columbus Sen. Paul Schumacher, which would provide for Medical Assistance Act coverage for family planning services as prescribed;<\/p>\n

LB122<\/a>, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks, which would provide for family member visitation petitions;<\/p>\n

LB124<\/a>, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Roy Baker, which would increase the probationary period of community college staff; and<\/p>\n

LB129<\/a>, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Adam Morfeld, which would increase the earned income tax credit.<\/p>\n

A complete list of bills introduced thus far is available at\u00a0NebraskaLegislature.gov<\/a>. New bills may be introduced for the first 10 legislative days, or until Jan. 18.<\/p>\n

Gov. Pete Ricketts\u2019 State of the State address is scheduled for Jan. 12. Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Heavican will give the State of the Judiciary address Jan. 19.<\/p>\n

The session will last 90 legislative days and is tentatively scheduled to adjourn June 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senators reconvened Jan. 6 to introduce new bills. <\/p>\n

Among the 33 bills introduced were:<\/p>\n

LB104, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Kate Bolz, which would provide for a surrogate to make health care decisions;<\/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":true,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,167],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-20229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceremonies","category-features","tag-sen-mark-kolterman"],"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\/20229","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=20229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20244,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20229\/revisions\/20244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}