{"id":21951,"date":"2017-04-24T10:50:50","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T16:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=21951"},"modified":"2019-01-08T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T16:13:39","slug":"employment-preference-approved-for-military-spouses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=21951","title":{"rendered":"Employment preference approved for military spouses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill intended to help military families become established in Nebraska was passed by the Legislature April 24.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24401\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24401\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24401\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBostelman_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;13&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communicati&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Senator Elect Bruce L. Bostelman, December 18th, 2018. Photo by Gregory Nathan \/ University Communication&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1545149814&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2018, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;130&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenBostelman_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Bruce Bostelman&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Bruce Bostelman&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBostelman_inline.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-24401 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBostelman_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Bruce Bostelman\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBostelman_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBostelman_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Bruce Bostelman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB639, introduced by Brainard Sen. Bruce Bostelman, gives preference to active-duty service members when seeking employment with the state or its governmental subdivisions. Military veterans currently are eligible for such a preference.<\/p>\n<p>Spouses of active-duty service members also are preference eligible during the service member\u2019s active-duty term and for the first 180 days immediately following the service member\u2019s discharge or separation from service.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on a 48-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill intended to help military families become established in Nebraska was passed by the Legislature April 24.<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-21951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-and-labor","tag-sen-bruce-bostelman"],"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\/21951","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=21951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24430,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21951\/revisions\/24430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}