{"id":36185,"date":"2024-03-28T10:01:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T16:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=36185"},"modified":"2024-03-28T10:01:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T16:01:37","slug":"motorcycle-helmet-requirements-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=36185","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle helmet requirements updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill March 28 modifying Nebraska\u2019s motorcycle helmet law.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24400\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24400\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24400\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24400\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBHansen_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;1546448965&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;140&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=\"SenBHansen_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Ben Hansen&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Ben Hansen&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBHansen_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24400\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBHansen_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Ben Hansen\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBHansen_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenBHansen_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24400\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Ben Hansen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Under LB1004, sponsored by Blair Sen. Ben Hansen, a Nebraska resident who is 21 or older and received a Class M license prior to May 1, 2024, may operate a motorcycle or moped on Nebraska highways without a helmet if they complete a three-hour online motorcycle safety course and submit proof of completion to the state Department of Motor Vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Riders who are 21 or older and receive a license after May 1, 2024, are not required to wear a helmet if they complete the full basic motorcycle safety course and submit proof of completion to the department.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, nonresidents who are 21 or older and ride without a helmet no longer are required to show proof of motorcycle rider course completion to a law enforcement officer upon request. They are required to have a motorcycle license issued by another state.<\/p>\n<p>LB1004 also eliminates the requirement that motorcycle or moped passengers complete a safety course before riding without a helmet. A passenger who is 21 or older may ride without a helmet if the person operating the motorcycle is not required to wear a helmet.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on a vote of 39-4 and took effect immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill March 28 modifying Nebraska\u2019s motorcycle helmet law. <\/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":[22],"tags":[252],"class_list":["post-36185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation-and-telecommunications","tag-sen-ben-hansen"],"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\/36185","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=36185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36187,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36185\/revisions\/36187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}