{"id":23730,"date":"2018-03-26T17:39:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T23:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=23730"},"modified":"2018-03-26T17:39:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T23:39:19","slug":"extension-of-superintendent-license-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=23730","title":{"rendered":"Extension of superintendent license advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers gave first-round approval March 26 to a bill that would extend the duration of certain superintendent licenses.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22811\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=22811\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SenThibodeau_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1511866794&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;110&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0055555555555556&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenThibodeau_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Theresa Thibodeau&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SenThibodeau_inline.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22811\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SenThibodeau_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Theresa Thibodeau\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SenThibodeau_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SenThibodeau_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Under LB733, introduced by Omaha Sen. Theresa Thibodeau, the duration of a Class B county highway or city street superintendent license would change from one to three years. The renewal fee would change from $10 annually to $30 every three years.<\/p>\n<p>Thibodeau said the change would have little to no fiscal impact but would decrease by two-thirds the number of renewals the Board of Examiners for County Highway and City Street Superintendents would have to review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis would create a more cost-efficient system because of the reduced [state Department of Transportation] staff hours that would be required to process renewals,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also would allow those holding Class A and Class B licenses to renew both at once.<\/p>\n<p>Senators advanced the bill to select file on a 35-1 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers gave first-round approval March 26 to a bill that would extend the duration of certain superintendent licenses.\u00a0<\/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":[22],"tags":[242],"class_list":["post-23730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation-and-telecommunications","tag-sen-theresa-thibodeau"],"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\/23730","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=23730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23731,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23730\/revisions\/23731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}