{"id":21963,"date":"2017-04-24T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=21963"},"modified":"2017-04-24T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T17:15:58","slug":"veterans-services-to-be-consolidated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=21963","title":{"rendered":"Veterans\u2019 services to be consolidated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to consolidate veterans\u2019 services in Nebraska was given final approval April 24.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20155\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20155\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20155\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMurante_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"senmurante_inline\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. John Murante&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMurante_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20155\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMurante_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. John Murante\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMurante_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenMurante_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. John Murante<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB340, introduced by Gretna Sen. John Murante on behalf of the governor, transfers all programs, services and duties of the state Department of Health and Human Services Division of Veterans\u2019 Homes to the state Department of Veterans\u2019 Affairs, effective July 1, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also creates the Department of Veterans\u2019 Affairs Cash Fund to receive all money paid to the state by members of the Nebraska veterans\u2019 homes. Division employees will be considered employees of the Department of Veterans\u2019 Affairs after the transition and retain their rights and service under the state personnel system.<\/p>\n<p>LB340 passed on a 49-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to consolidate veterans\u2019 services in Nebraska was given final approval 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":[11],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-21963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-military-and-veterans-affairs","tag-sen-john-murante"],"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\/21963","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=21963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21965,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21963\/revisions\/21965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}