{"id":25748,"date":"2019-04-04T12:25:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T18:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=25748"},"modified":"2019-04-04T12:25:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T18:25:09","slug":"tourism-promotion-bill-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=25748","title":{"rendered":"Tourism promotion bill advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would allow the Nebraska Tourism Commission to sell promotional products advanced to select file April 4.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20162\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20162\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20162\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20162\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenStinner_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=\"senstinner_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen.  John Stinner&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. John Stinner&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenStinner_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20162\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenStinner_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. John Stinner\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenStinner_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenStinner_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. John Stinner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sen. John Stinner of Gering said he introduced LB637 to allow the state to benefit from the attention given to the state\u2019s tourism slogan: \u201cHonestly, it\u2019s not for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been a number of major events in Nebraska recent history which [have increased] our exposure as a tourist destination,\u201d Stinner said. \u201cThe commission must have the ability to develop and sell promotional products as part of this marketing strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LB637 would authorize the tourism commission to develop and approve state marketing campaigns and develop and sell tourism products. Revenue generated by any sales would be credited to the commission\u2019s promotional cash fund.<\/p>\n<p>After approving a Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee amendment, which would make the bill\u2019s provisions effective upon passage, lawmakers advanced LB637 on a 40-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would allow the Nebraska Tourism Commission to sell promotional products advanced to select file April 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25743,"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":[11],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-25748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-military-and-veterans-affairs","tag-sen-john-stinner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/LB637Stinner4-4-19a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25748","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=25748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25749,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25748\/revisions\/25749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}