{"id":21986,"date":"2017-04-24T13:31:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T19:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=21986"},"modified":"2017-04-24T13:31:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T19:31:36","slug":"hhs-clean-up-bill-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=21986","title":{"rendered":"HHS clean-up bill approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill intended to improve the efficiency of the state Department of Health and Human Services was given final approval April 24.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20158\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20158\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20158\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20158\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenRiepe_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=\"senriepe_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Merv Riepe&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Merv Riepe&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenRiepe_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20158\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenRiepe_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Merv Riepe\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenRiepe_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenRiepe_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Merv Riepe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB417, introduced by Ralston Sen. Merv Reipe, makes numerous technical changes, incorporates operational efficiencies and removes outdated reporting requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Among other provisions, the bill:<br \/>\n\u2022 eliminates waiver reporting requirements for relative foster care;<br \/>\n\u2022 replaces the term \u201cnursing assistant\u201d with \u201cnurse aid\u201d in state law;<br \/>\n\u2022 provides for electronic notifications under the Uniform Credentialing Act;<br \/>\n\u2022 removes the term \u201ccompanion\u201d and make various changes to the newly-named Senior Volunteer Program Act; and<br \/>\n\u2022 mandates that the department make aging services annual grants in an amount not to exceed $25,000.<\/p>\n<p>LB417 passed on a 47-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill intended to improve the efficiency of the state Department of Health and Human Services 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":[12],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-21986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-merv-riepe"],"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\/21986","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=21986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21988,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986\/revisions\/21988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}