{"id":28359,"date":"2020-08-03T14:17:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T20:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=28359"},"modified":"2020-08-07T12:50:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T18:50:14","slug":"hemp-program-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=28359","title":{"rendered":"Hemp program updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators updated the Nebraska Hemp Farming Act Aug. 3 to harmonize it with new federal regulations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20136\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20136\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20136\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHalloran_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1479303512&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;82&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"senhalloran_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Steve Halloran&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Steve Halloran&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHalloran_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20136\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHalloran_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Steve Halloran\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHalloran_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenHalloran_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Steve Halloran<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB1152, introduced by Sen. Steve Halloran of Hastings, requires the state Department of Agriculture to receive and process all completed license applications and issue licenses to qualified applicants.<\/p>\n<p>It also requires licensees to maintain a record of hemp shipments sent from or received by the licensee.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the bill references a federal definition of \u201cacceptable hemp THC level\u201d and requires testing laboratories to measure the total THC in a hemp sample and report a measurement of uncertainty along with the test results.<\/p>\n<p>LB1152 clarifies that the lot represented by a hemp sample must be harvested within 15 days.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also defines a negligent violation of the act and clarifies that the presence of uncultivated, naturalized hemp plants in the environment is not considered cultivation for purposes of the act.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it authorizes the Nebraska Hemp Commission to preserve and develop certain Nebraska heirloom hemp varieties.<\/p>\n<p>LB1152 passed on a vote of 44-3 and takes effect immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators updated the Nebraska Hemp Farming Act Aug. 3 to harmonize it with new federal regulations.<\/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":[3],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-28359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-sen-steve-halloran"],"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\/28359","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=28359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28425,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28359\/revisions\/28425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}