{"id":39200,"date":"2025-05-30T09:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=39200"},"modified":"2025-05-30T09:32:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:32:24","slug":"nameplate-capacity-tax-distribution-to-community-colleges-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=39200","title":{"rendered":"Nameplate capacity tax distribution to community colleges approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill May 30 meant to address an unintended consequence of a recent change in the way community colleges are funded.<\/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-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>Owners of private renewable energy generation facilities pay a nameplate capacity tax in lieu of personal property taxes on equipment used to generate electricity. Counties where the infrastructure is located distribute the revenue to local political subdivisions based on the amount of property taxes they levy.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, lawmakers eliminated most of community colleges\u2019 property tax levy authority and replaced the lost revenue with state funding. In doing so, however, they inadvertently reduced nameplate capacity tax revenue to community colleges.<\/p>\n<p>LB50, sponsored by Niobrara Sen. Barry DeKay, requires counties to allocate 5% of nameplate capacity tax revenue to the community college area in which the renewable energy generation facility is located before distributing the rest to other political subdivisions.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on a vote of 45-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill May 30 meant to address an unintended consequence of a recent change in the way community colleges are funded.<\/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":[17],"tags":[276],"class_list":["post-39200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-revenue","tag-sen-barry-dekay"],"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\/39200","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=39200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39211,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39200\/revisions\/39211"}],"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=39200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}