{"id":24101,"date":"2018-04-18T10:37:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=24101"},"modified":"2018-04-18T10:37:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:37:24","slug":"omnibus-public-health-measure-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=24101","title":{"rendered":"Omnibus public health measure passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed an omnibus public health measure April 18.<\/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-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>LB1034, sponsored by Ralston Sen. Merv Riepe, requires the standards of care and protection for school-age child care programs located within an accredited or approved school to meet the same standards of an accredited or approved school under state Department of Education regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The measure contains provisions of eight additional bills:<br \/>\n\u2022 LB344, sponsored by Thurston Sen. Joni Albrecht, which changes credentials and regulations for substance abuse centers;<br \/>\n\u2022 LB686, sponsored by Bellevue Sen. Carol Blood, which adopts the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact;<br \/>\n\u2022 LB703, sponsored by Seward Sen. Mark Kolterman, which provides an exemption from Nebraska\u2019s unlawful practice of medicine statutes for physicians from another state who accompany an athletic team or organization into the state for an event;<br \/>\n\u2022 LB704, sponsored by Kolterman, which reduces the requirement for licensure of physician graduates of foreign medical schools from three to two years;<br \/>\n\u2022 LB894, sponsored by Bellevue Sen. Sue Crawford, which adopts the Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact, known as REPLICA;<br \/>\n\u2022 LB924, sponsored by Riepe, which changes provisions within the EMS Practice Act, Occupational Therapy Practice Act and Uniform Credentialing Act;<br \/>\n\u2022 LB1035, sponsored by Riepe, which makes a technical change to the state\u2019s Stroke System of Care Act; and<br \/>\n\u2022 LB1057, sponsored by Heartwell John Kuehn, which changes provisions relating to the prescription drug monitoring program.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on a 49-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed an omnibus public health measure April 18.<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-24101","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\/24101","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=24101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24103,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24101\/revisions\/24103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}