{"id":3703,"date":"2011-03-04T14:50:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T20:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2013-03-11T15:24:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T21:24:37","slug":"bill-extends-fluoridation-opt-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=3703","title":{"rendered":"Bill extends fluoridation opt-out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators passed a bill March 4 that eliminates a deadline for cities and villages to opt out of Nebraska\u2019s mandatory drinking water fluoridation provisions.<\/p>\n<p>Under a bill passed by the 2008 Legislature, cities or villages with a population of at least 1,000 were required to add fluoride to their drinking water supply unless voters approved local opt-out ordinances by June 1, 2010. The fluoridation requirement does not apply to municipalities with a population under 1,000.<\/p>\n<p>LB36, sponsored by Scottsbluff Sen. John Harms, extends the opt-out deadline for cities and villages that reach the population threshold for mandatory fluoridation after June 1, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on a 41-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators passed a bill March 4 that eliminates a deadline for cities and villages to opt out of Nebraska\u2019s mandatory<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-john-harms"],"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\/3703","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=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3705,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions\/3705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}