{"id":20241,"date":"2017-01-09T11:22:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T17:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=20241"},"modified":"2017-01-09T11:34:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T17:34:35","slug":"day-four-bill-introduction-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=20241","title":{"rendered":"Day four bill introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senators reconvened Jan. 9 to introduce new bills.<\/p>\n

\"Sen.
Sen. Joni Craighead\u00a0submits a new bill.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among the 30 bills introduced were:<\/p>\n

LB135<\/a>, sponsored by Kearney Sen. John Lowe, which would change and eliminate state Department of Agriculture provisions relating to publicity, publications and personnel;<\/p>\n

LB139<\/a>, sponsored by Bellevue Sen. Sue Crawford, which would authorize changes to nonpartisan election of county officials;<\/p>\n

LB144<\/a>, sponsored by Henderson Sen. Curt Friesen, which would change agricultural and horticultural adjusted valuations for calculating state aid to schools;<\/p>\n

LB145<\/a>, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Matt Hansen, which would provide for a hearing to determine financial ability to pay fines and costs and traffic citations and provide for community service;<\/p>\n

LB153<\/a>, sponsored by Heartwell Sen. John Kuehn, which would prohibit certain officeholders and public employees from being a lobbyist;<\/p>\n

LB158<\/a>, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks, which would change provisions relating to appointment of counsel for juveniles;<\/p>\n

LB160<\/a>, sponsored by Omaha Sen. John McCollister, which would expand the definition of victim as relates to crime victims\u2019 rights;<\/p>\n

LB162<\/a>, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Bob Krist, which would change provisions relating to criminal mischief and change and provide additional penalties for bribing or tampering with witnesses, informants or jurors;<\/p>\n

LB163<\/a>, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Tony Vargas, which would require additional polling places prior to elections in certain counties; and<\/p>\n

LR6<\/a>, sponsored by Crete Sen. Laura Ebke, which would call for a convention of the states to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution.<\/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 scheduled to adjourn June 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senators reconvened Jan. 9 to introduce new bills.<\/p>\n

Among the 30 bills introduced were:<\/p>\n

LB135, sponsored by Kearney Sen. John Lowe, which would change and eliminate state Department of Agriculture provisions relating to publicity, publications and personnel;<\/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":[151],"class_list":["post-20241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceremonies","category-features","tag-sen-joni-craighead"],"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\/20241","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=20241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20243,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20241\/revisions\/20243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}