{"id":24151,"date":"2018-04-25T04:59:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T10:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=24151"},"modified":"2018-04-25T04:59:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T10:59:25","slug":"push-for-special-session-on-tax-relief-falls-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=24151","title":{"rendered":"Push for special session on tax relief falls short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An attempt by lawmakers to call the Legislature into a special session to reduce property taxes has failed to garner sufficient support. Several tax relief bills were introduced during the regular session, but none were successful.<\/p>\n<p>A small group of senators notified Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale in writing April 10 of their support for a special session to address the issue. As required by state law, Secretary Gale then polled the remaining senators.<\/p>\n<p>As of the 5 p.m. deadline April 23, a total of 14 senators had indicated support for a special session. The support of 33 of the 49 state lawmakers was required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An attempt by lawmakers to call the Legislature into a special session to reduce property taxes has failed to garner sufficient support. Several tax relief bills were introduced during the regular session, but none were successful.<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement"],"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\/24151","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=24151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24153,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24151\/revisions\/24153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}