{"id":33514,"date":"2023-02-22T11:17:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T17:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=33514"},"modified":"2023-02-22T12:55:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T18:55:42","slug":"czech-heritage-license-plates-clear-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=33514","title":{"rendered":"Czech heritage license plates clear first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would create a new specialty license plate celebrating Czech heritage advanced from general file Feb. 22.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24402\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24402\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24402\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBrandt_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;16&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1542115071&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;98&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenBrandt_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Tom Brandt&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Tom Brandt&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBrandt_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24402\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBrandt_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Tom Brandt\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBrandt_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBrandt_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Tom Brandt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB140, introduced by Plymouth Sen. Tom Brandt, would authorize the state Department of Motor Vehicles \u2014 in consultation with the Czech Honorary Consul of Nebraska \u2014 to design and issue Czech heritage motor vehicle license plates.<\/p>\n<p>The fee for alphanumeric plates would be $5 and a personalized license plate would cost $40. All funds would be credited to the Department of Motor Vehicles Cash Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Many Nebraskans claim Czech ancestry, Brandt said, and a license plate would be an important acknowledgement of the significance of Czech culture in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCzech heritage is an integral part of Nebraska history,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Omaha Sen. Megan Hunt offered an amendment during debate Feb. 21 that would have removed &#8216;Choose Life&#8217; specialty license plates from state law. She said a pending bill in the Legislature this session that would ban abortion in all but the earliest weeks of pregnancy effectively would remove any meaningful reproductive choice in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment failed on a 4-26 vote just before the Legislature adjourned for the day. A motion from Hunt to reconsider that vote also failed when debate resumed Feb. 22. Lawmakers then voted 44-0 to advance LB140 to select file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would create a new specialty license plate celebrating Czech heritage advanced from general file Feb. 22. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33524,"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":[22],"tags":[247],"class_list":["post-33514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transportation-and-telecommunications","tag-sen-tom-brandt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/LB140Brandt2-22-23a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33514","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=33514"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33520,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33514\/revisions\/33520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}