{"id":25463,"date":"2019-03-15T10:29:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T16:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=25463"},"modified":"2019-03-15T10:29:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T16:29:16","slug":"licensure-fee-waiver-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=25463","title":{"rendered":"Licensure fee waiver approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators passed a bill March 15 that waives initial licensing fees for a variety of health professions under the Uniform Credentialing Act.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20141\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20141\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20141\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHoward_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=\"senhoward_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Sara Howard&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Sara Howard&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHoward_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20141\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHoward_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Sara Howard\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHoward_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHoward_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Sara Howard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB112, introduced by Omaha Sen. Sara Howard, waives initial licensing fees for individuals who:<br \/>\n\u2022 are 18 to 25;<br \/>\n\u2022 have a household income less than 130 percent of the federal poverty level or are enrolled in a state or federal assistance program; and<br \/>\n\u2022 are active duty services members or their spouses, honorably discharged veterans or their spouses and un-remarried surviving spouses of deceased service members.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was approved by a vote of 37-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators passed a bill March 15 that waives initial licensing fees for a variety of health professions under the Uniform Credentialing Act.<\/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":[85],"class_list":["post-25463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-sara-howard"],"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\/25463","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=25463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25467,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25463\/revisions\/25467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}