{"id":28512,"date":"2020-08-12T10:48:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=28512"},"modified":"2020-08-12T10:48:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:48:47","slug":"human-trafficking-bill-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=28512","title":{"rendered":"Human trafficking bill approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill Aug. 12 intended to assist victims of human trafficking.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20150\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20150\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20150\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenLinehan_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1479303463&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;95&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=\"senlinehan_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Lou Ann Linehan&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Lou Ann Linehan&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenLinehan_inline-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenLinehan_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20150\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenLinehan_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Lou Ann Linehan\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenLinehan_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenLinehan_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Lou Ann Linehan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB518, as originally introduced by Elkhorn Sen. Lou Ann Linehan, would have adopted the Support for Trafficking Survivors Act. Those provisions were removed, leaving provisions of Bellevue Sen. Carol Blood\u2019s LB745, which outline procedures for certification of immigration visas by local law enforcement in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>The bill requires Nebraska law enforcement agencies to certify a form\u2014within 90 days of when it is requested\u2014for two types of immigration visas that are set aside for victims of certain crimes.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cT\u201d visa is for victims of human trafficking and a \u201cU\u201d visa is for victims of specific crimes who have suffered abuse and who are helpful to law enforcement in the investigation and prosecution of criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>LB518 passed on a 47-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill Aug. 12 intended to assist victims of human trafficking.<\/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":[190],"class_list":["post-28512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-lou-ann"],"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\/28512","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=28512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28514,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28512\/revisions\/28514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}