{"id":24104,"date":"2018-04-18T10:41:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=24104"},"modified":"2018-04-18T10:41:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:41:45","slug":"omnibus-occupational-licensure-bill-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=24104","title":{"rendered":"Omnibus occupational licensure bill approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that makes numerous changes to licensure requirements for health-related occupations passed April 18.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20167\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20167\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20167\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWilliams_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"senwilliams_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Matt Williams&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Matt Williams&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWilliams_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20167\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWilliams_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Matt Williams\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWilliams_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenWilliams_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Matt Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Introduced by Gothenburg Sen. Matt Williams, LB731 allows a pharmacy to provide remote dispensing at a location staffed by a certified pharmacy technician and owned by a supervising pharmacy licensed and located in the state.<\/p>\n<p>A remote pharmacy must be located at least 10 driving miles from the nearest pharmacy and dispensing must occur under remote supervision via a real-time audiovisual communication system by a licensed pharmacist employed by a supervising pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p>LB731 includes provisions of six additional bills:<br \/>\n\u2022 LB681, introduced by Bellevue Sen. Carol Blood, which adopts the physical therapy licensure compact;<br \/>\n\u2022 LB788, introduced by Ralston Sen. Merv Riepe, which requires certain providers to enroll in opiate administering and prescribing continuing education;<br \/>\n\u2022 LB790, introduced by Crete Sen. Laura Ebke, which provides for licensure of mobile cosmetology and nail technology salons;<br \/>\n\u2022 LB794, introduced by Riepe, which removes a current ban on consuming, serving, possessing or distributing alcohol by entities operating under the Cosmetology, Electrology, Esthetics, Nail Technology, and Body Art Act;<br \/>\n\u2022 LB1042, introduced by Omaha Sen. Sara Howard, which addresses regulation and licensure under the Act; and<br \/>\n\u2022 LB1107, introduced by Elkhorn Sen. Lou Ann Linehan, which reduces licensure hour requirements for barbers, cosmetologists, estheticians and nail technologists.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on a 49-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that makes numerous changes to licensure requirements for health-related occupations passed 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":[157],"class_list":["post-24104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-matt-williams"],"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\/24104","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=24104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24106,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24104\/revisions\/24106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}