{"id":30999,"date":"2022-01-11T17:18:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T23:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30999"},"modified":"2022-01-11T17:18:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T23:18:10","slug":"day-five-bill-introduction-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=30999","title":{"rendered":"Day five bill introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators reconvened Jan. 11 to continue introduction of new bills.<\/p>\n<p>Among the 22 measures introduced were:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/view_bill.php?DocumentID=46837\">LB960<\/a>, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Tony Vargas, which would eliminate certain basic skill and content test requirements for eligibility for teaching certificates;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/view_bill.php?DocumentID=47021\">LB963<\/a>, sponsored by Glenvil Sen. Dave Murman, which would adopt the Medical Ethics and Diversity Act;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/view_bill.php?DocumentID=46601\">LB965<\/a>, sponsored by Lincoln Sen. Eliot Bostar, which would change the day the state observes Arbor Day;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/view_bill.php?DocumentID=47281\">LB968<\/a>, sponsored by Adams Sen. Myron Dorn, which would appropriate federal funds to the Department of Economic Development for affordable housing and job training;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/view_bill.php?DocumentID=47448\">LB970<\/a>, sponsored by Hastings Sen. Steve Halloran, which would appropriate federal funds to the Department of Agriculture for catastrophic livestock mortality and disposal events; and<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/view_bill.php?DocumentID=47391\">LB978<\/a>, sponsored by Venango Sen. Dan Hughes, which would provide powers and duties relating to the treatment of dredged and fill material under the Environmental Protection Act.<\/p>\n<p>A complete list of bills introduced thus far is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskalegislature.gov\/bills\/search_by_date.php?SessionDay=2022\">NebraskaLegislature.gov<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>New bills may be introduced for the first 10 legislative days, or until Jan. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators reconvened Jan. 11 to continue introduction of new bills.<\/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":[30],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-30999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ceremonies","tag-sen-tony-vargas"],"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\/30999","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=30999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31001,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30999\/revisions\/31001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}