{"id":25835,"date":"2019-04-09T11:27:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=25835"},"modified":"2019-04-09T11:27:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:27:40","slug":"lottery-advertisement-bill-clears-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=25835","title":{"rendered":"Lottery advertisement bill clears first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators gave first-round approval April 8 to a bill that would require the odds of winning to be posted on all Nebraska lottery advertisements.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20134\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20134\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20134\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenGeist_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"sengeist_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Suzanne Geist&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Suzanne Geist&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenGeist_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20134\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenGeist_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Suzanne Geist\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenGeist_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenGeist_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Suzanne Geist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB252, introduced by Sen. Suzanne Geist of Lincoln, would require all state lottery print ads to disclose the odds of winning the largest value prize in a font no smaller than 35 percent of the largest font used in the ad. Online advertisements would be required to disclose the odds in at least 10-point font.<\/p>\n<p>Geist said the state lottery currently does not have to disclose the odds of winning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernment transparency is important and we, as Nebraskans, deserve truth in advertising,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>LB252 advanced to select file on a 38-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators gave first-round approval April 8 to a bill that would require the odds of winning to be posted on all Nebraska lottery advertisements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25825,"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":[10],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-25835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-affairs","tag-sen-suzanne-geist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/LB252Geist4-8-19a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25835","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=25835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25837,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25835\/revisions\/25837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}