{"id":37204,"date":"2025-01-30T13:22:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=37204"},"modified":"2025-01-30T13:22:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T19:22:34","slug":"geologist-regulation-changes-clear-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=37204","title":{"rendered":"Geologist regulation changes clear first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would update state law governing the licensure and regulation of professional geologists working in Nebraska received first-round approval from lawmakers Jan. 30.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32954\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32954\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=32954\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenJacobson2023_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;Nebraska Senator Mike Jacobson, District 42. November 14, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1668446961&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;120&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenJacobson2023_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Mike Jacobson&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Mike Jacobson&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenJacobson2023_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32954\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenJacobson2023_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Mike Jacobson\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenJacobson2023_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenJacobson2023_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Mike Jacobson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>North Platte Sen. Mike Jacobson, sponsor of LB38, said the measure would \u201cstreamline\u201d licensure requirements, improve administrative practices and modernize terms in the Geologists Regulation Act.<\/p>\n<p>Among other changes, the bill would:<br \/>\n\u2022 reduce the minimum number of years of geologic work experience required for licensure from five to four;<br \/>\n\u2022 allow individuals who practice any combination of certain geology-related activities for at least 15 years to apply for licensure; and<br \/>\n\u2022 require that one member of the state Board of Geologists be a professional geologist who also is a faculty member of a geology or related geosciences department of a Nebraska college or university.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese changes provide straightforward updates to align the act with current times, improving efficiency and reducing unnecessary barriers,\u201d Jacobson said.<\/p>\n<p>A Natural Resources Committee amendment, adopted 39-0, would, among other technical changes, clarify that board members would serve five-year terms ending on the last day of February.<\/p>\n<p>LB38 advanced to select file on a vote of 42-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would update state law governing the licensure and regulation of professional geologists working in Nebraska received first-round approval from lawmakers Jan. 30.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36723,"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":[15],"tags":[284],"class_list":["post-37204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-resources","tag-sen-mike-jacobson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37204","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=37204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37205,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37204\/revisions\/37205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}