{"id":38362,"date":"2025-04-03T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38362"},"modified":"2025-04-03T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T21:06:00","slug":"veteran-employment-preference-expanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38362","title":{"rendered":"Veteran employment preference expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to expand the hiring preference given to veterans in Nebraska was given final approval April 3.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37094\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37094\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=37094\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenRountree_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"SenRountree_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Victor Rountree&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Victor Rountree&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenRountree_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37094\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenRountree_inline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Victor Rountree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB144, sponsored by Bellevue Sen. Victor Rountree, expands an existing hiring preference to include spouses of active-duty service members, including National Guard and reserves, and spouses of veterans who were killed in the line of duty or died as a result of their service.<\/p>\n<p>If two or more veteran-preference eligible candidates are being considered for the same position, the preference will be applied equally to all candidates. Preference also is extended beyond a veteran\u2019s initial employment to include reassignments and transfers to a new position.<\/p>\n<p>LB144 passed on a 47-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to expand the hiring preference given to veterans in Nebraska was given final approval April 3.<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[299],"class_list":["post-38362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-labor","tag-sen-victor-rountree"],"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\/38362","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=38362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38364,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38362\/revisions\/38364"}],"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=38362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}