{"id":34096,"date":"2023-04-12T08:03:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T14:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=34096"},"modified":"2023-04-12T08:03:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T14:03:14","slug":"state-senator-constitutional-officer-salary-funding-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=34096","title":{"rendered":"State senator, constitutional officer salary funding advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers gave first-round approval April 11 to two bills that are part of the state\u2019s two-year budget package.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24399\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24399\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24399\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenArch_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;1542113790&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;120&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=\"SenArch_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. John Arch&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. John Arch&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenArch_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24399\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenArch_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. John Arch\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenArch_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenArch_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. John Arch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB815, introduced by Speaker John Arch of La Vista at the request of Gov. Jim Pillen, would appropriate funds for the $12,000 annual salaries of members of the Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Omaha Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh offered a series of motions and amendments in order to extend debate on the bill, none of which were adopted. After several hours of discussion, lawmakers advanced LB815 to select file on a 45-1 vote.<\/p>\n<p>LB816, also introduced by Arch at the request of the governor, would appropriate funds for the salaries and benefits for judges and the state\u2019s constitutional officers \u2014 including the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, attorney general and auditor of public accounts, among others.<\/p>\n<p>An Appropriations Committee amendment, adopted 41-0, made minor adjustments to dollar amounts in LB816 based on benefit calculations. Following adoption of the amendment, lawmakers voted 40-0 to give the measure first-round approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers gave first-round approval April 11 to two bills that are part of the state\u2019s two-year budget package.<\/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":[246],"class_list":["post-34096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appropriations","tag-sen-john-arch"],"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\/34096","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=34096"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34098,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34096\/revisions\/34098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}