{"id":35768,"date":"2024-02-29T11:56:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=35768"},"modified":"2024-02-29T11:56:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:56:36","slug":"occupational-licensure-bill-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=35768","title":{"rendered":"Occupational licensure bill approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill Feb. 29 aimed at alleviating certain occupational licensure regulations in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32945\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32945\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=32945\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenConrad_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communicati&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Senator Danielle Conrad.  District 46. December 2, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1669997975&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2022, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;142&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenConrad_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Danielle Conrad&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Danielle Conrad&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenConrad_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32945\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenConrad_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Danielle Conrad\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenConrad_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenConrad_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Danielle Conrad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB16, sponsored by Sen. Danielle Conrad of Lincoln, provides broad reciprocal licensure for military members, apprentices and individuals who are licensed in other states, provided they meet a number of criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Among other provisions, the bill requires that applicants for reciprocal licensure must hold a credential that covers a similar scope of practice, not have a disqualifying criminal record and not have had their credential surrendered or revoked for negligence or misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>LB16 also allows individuals with criminal convictions to provide additional information regarding mitigating factors when submitting an application for licensure, government certification or state recognition of their qualifications and adds two members to the State Electrical Board.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the bill includes provisions of Gordon Sen. Tom Brewer\u2019s LB471, which establish a voluntary registry of interior design professionals in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>Senators passed LB16 on a 42-1 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill Feb. 29 aimed at alleviating certain occupational licensure regulations in Nebraska.<\/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":[11],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-35768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-military-and-veterans-affairs","tag-sen-danielle-conrad"],"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\/35768","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=35768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35770,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35768\/revisions\/35770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}