{"id":38324,"date":"2025-04-03T12:25:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38324"},"modified":"2025-04-03T12:25:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T18:25:59","slug":"foreign-land-ownership-laws-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38324","title":{"rendered":"Foreign land ownership laws updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators passed a measure April 3 that updates restrictions on foreign ownership of land in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32946\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32946\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32946\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=32946\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDeKay_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 Barry DeKay, District 40. November 14, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1668447283&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;140&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=\"SenDeKay_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Barry DeKay&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Barry DeKay&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDeKay_inline-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDeKay_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32946\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDeKay_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Barry DeKay\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDeKay_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDeKay_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Barry DeKay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB7, sponsored by Niobrara Sen. Barry DeKay, clarifies that Native American tribes are not foreign governments and not subject to provisions of the state\u2019s Foreign-owned Real Estate National Security Act.<\/p>\n<p>Among other changes, the measure also:<br \/>\n\u2022 restricts foreign corporations or any nonresident alien from holding or operating leases for oil, gas or other hydrocarbon substance;<br \/>\n\u2022 clarifies that entities that do not have unresolved national security concerns as determined by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. are not considered restricted entities under the act; and<br \/>\n\u2022 requires the state attorney general to promptly notify the governor and the Legislature of real estate ordered to be divested by the court under the act.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers passed LB7 on a 47-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators passed a measure April 3 that updates restrictions on foreign ownership of land in Nebraska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36722,"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":[3],"tags":[276],"class_list":["post-38324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-sen-barry-dekay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38324","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=38324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38326,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38324\/revisions\/38326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}