{"id":32510,"date":"2022-04-12T14:32:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T20:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=32510"},"modified":"2022-04-12T14:32:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T20:32:44","slug":"electrical-system-grant-program-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=32510","title":{"rendered":"Electrical system grant program approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 12 aimed at helping a Nebraska community address its electrical system challenges.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24412\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24412\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24412\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24412\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenSlama_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;13&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1546507422&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;102&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenSlama_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Julie Slama&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Julie Slama&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenSlama_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24412\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenSlama_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Julie Slama\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenSlama_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenSlama_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24412\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Julie Slama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB977, introduced by Sterling Sen. Julie Slama, transfers $15 million from the Cash Reserve Fund to the Site and Building Development Fund and expands eligibility to include grants to second class cities \u2014 those with a population between 801 and 5,000 residents \u2014 that partner with public power utilities to expand electrical system capacities and enhance redundancy and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>Slama has said that the bill was brought to assist southeast Nebraska\u2019s second-largest town, Falls City, in addressing its substandard electrical capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Eligible grantees are required to secure a minimum commitment of half of a project\u2019s total cost before state dollars will be released.<\/p>\n<p>LB977 passed on a 42-0 vote and took effect immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 12 aimed at helping a Nebraska community address its electrical system challenges.<\/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":[5],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-32510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appropriations","tag-sen-julie-slama"],"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\/32510","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=32510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32513,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32510\/revisions\/32513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}