{"id":3237,"date":"2011-02-09T13:20:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T19:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2013-03-11T15:50:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T21:50:18","slug":"3237","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=3237","title":{"rendered":"Bill to eliminate Northern Ireland investment restrictions advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would eliminate restrictions on investments in Northern Ireland by the state of Nebraska advanced from general file Feb. 9.<\/p>\n<p>LB303, sponsored by Omaha Sen. Beau McCoy, would repeal requirements that the Nebraska Investment Council:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>compile an annual list of corporations doing business in Northern Ireland in which the state investment officer has invested state funds;<\/li>\n<li>determine whether each corporation on the list has, during the preceding year, taken affirmative action to eliminate religious or ethnic discrimination in Northern Ireland; and<\/li>\n<li>invest in a way that encourages corporations that pursue a policy of affirmative action in Northern Ireland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It has been several years since anyone requested the list, McCoy said, and LB303 would allow the Nebraska Investment Council to cancel a subscription used to compile it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis legislation would very simply save $8,500 a year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The bill advanced to select file on a 31-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would eliminate restrictions on investments in Northern Ireland by the state of Nebraska advanced from general file<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement-systems","tag-sen-beau-mccoy"],"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\/3237","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=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10538,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions\/10538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}