{"id":30481,"date":"2021-05-20T12:11:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T18:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30481"},"modified":"2021-05-20T12:11:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T18:11:56","slug":"urban-affairs-omnibus-bill-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30481","title":{"rendered":"Urban affairs omnibus bill passed"},"content":{"rendered":"

An omnibus municipal governance measure passed May 20.<\/p>\n

\"Sen.
Sen. Megan Hunt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LB131, introduced by Sen. Megan Hunt of Omaha, adds \u201cor as otherwise provided by law\u201d to the list of reasons a municipality can waive reading an ordinance three times before its adoption.<\/p>\n

The measure was amended to add provisions of seven other bills:
\n\u2022 LB99, introduced by Fremont Sen. Lynne Walz, which exempts areas designated as extremely blighted from the maximum percentage of a city or village that may be designated blighted under the Community Development Law;
\n\u2022 LB161, introduced by the Urban Affairs Committee, which makes several technical changes to the Building Construction Act;
\n\u2022 LB162, also introduced by the committee, which establishes uniform procedures to detach territory from a municipality\u2019s corporate limits;
\n\u2022 LB218, introduced by Omaha Sen. Justin Wayne, which adopts the 2018 Uniform Plumbing Code as the state\u2019s default code;
\n\u2022 LB549, also introduced by Wayne, which allows municipalities that operate a natural gas plant or natural gas system to apply to the state for emergency grant funding to cover up to 80 percent of extraordinary costs associated with an extreme weather event and provide a one-time, $10 million general fund transfer to fund the grants;
\n\u2022 LB556, introduced by Lincoln Sen. Matt Hansen, which clarifies that municipalities may add requirements to a redevelopment contract to comply with their comprehensive redevelopment plan, affordable housing action plan or other goals established by the municipality; and
\n\u2022 LB647, introduced by Norfolk Sen. Michael Flood, which allows first class cities to increase their bonding threshold from $2 million to $5 million when constructing or buying a public building without a vote of the people.<\/p>\n

Senators passed LB131 on a vote of 40-7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An omnibus municipal governance measure passed May 20.<\/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":[23],"tags":[253],"class_list":["post-30481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-affairs","tag-sen-megan-hunt"],"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\/30481","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=30481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30482,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30481\/revisions\/30482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}