{"id":27783,"date":"2020-03-04T17:03:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T23:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=27783"},"modified":"2020-03-04T17:12:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T23:12:58","slug":"immunity-for-emergency-child-removal-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=27783","title":{"rendered":"Immunity for emergency child removal advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A person assisting a child believed to be in imminent danger would be eligible for legal immunity under a bill advanced from general file March 4.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24401\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24401\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24401\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBostelman_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"SenBostelman_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Bruce Bostelman&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Bruce Bostelman&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBostelman_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24401\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBostelman_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Bruce Bostelman\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBostelman_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBostelman_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Bruce Bostelman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB832, as introduced by Brainard Sen. Bruce Bostelman, would provide criminal and civil immunity for a person who removes a child\u2014who they reasonably believe to be in imminent danger\u2014from a locked motor vehicle, as long as they act in good faith.<\/p>\n<p>Bostelman said he introduced the bill after a child in his district mistakenly was left in a hot car and died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, heat stroke is not about irresponsible people potentially leaving children in cars,\u201d he said. \u201cMost cases occur when a child is mistakenly left [behind] or enters into a vehicle unattended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Judiciary Committee amendment, adopted 39-0, replaced the bill.<\/p>\n<p>State law currently includes a \u201cgood Samaritan\u201d provision that extends legal immunity to a person rendering aid at the scene of an accident or other emergency. The committee amendment would expand the definition to include entering a vehicle to remove a child to avoid immediate harm.<\/p>\n<p>Omaha Sen. Steve Lathrop supported the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hope is that by [advancing] this bill, we can raise awareness so that people are looking in cars in the summer and they don\u2019t hesitate for a second to break a window to get to a child that might otherwise perish,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Senators advanced the bill to select file on a 38-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person assisting a child believed to be in imminent danger would be eligible for legal immunity under a bill advanced from general file March 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27786,"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":[13],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-27783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-sen-bruce-bostelman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/LB832Bostelman3-4-20a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27783","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=27783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27784,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27783\/revisions\/27784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}