{"id":40113,"date":"2026-02-20T13:23:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40113"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:23:59","slug":"virtual-inspections-authorized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40113","title":{"rendered":"Virtual inspections authorized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill authorizing virtual inspections of certain residential buildings received final approval from lawmakers Feb. 20.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37096\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37096\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37096\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=37096\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenSpivey_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communication&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Ashlei Spivey District 13. Legislature - 2025 Incoming Senators. November 20, 2024. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1729275381&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2019, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;135&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Mark Wilkins Lab&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenSpivey_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Ashlei Spivey&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Ashlei Spivey&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenSpivey_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37096\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenSpivey_inline.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Ashlei Spivey\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Ashlei Spivey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Under LB441, introduced last session by Omaha Sen. Ashlei Spivey, any state agency, county, city or village that requires an inspection as part of a building permit may allow for virtual inspection by an authorized inspector under certain conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The inspection must be of an area of a single-family or two-family residential building that is less than three stories in height and under 10,000 square feet.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also requires the individual requesting or holding the permit to provide the name of the licensed or registered contractor who is completing the work to be virtually inspected.<\/p>\n<p>In most cases, the inspection must be conducted live with both the individual requesting or holding the permit and the inspector. Inspections required for building permits of a nonstructural nature may be conducted using video or photo documentation for any reinspection.<\/p>\n<p>LB441 passed on a vote of 47-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill authorizing virtual inspections of certain residential buildings received final approval from lawmakers Feb. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36725,"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":[23],"tags":[302],"class_list":["post-40113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-urban-affairs","tag-sen-ashlei-spivey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40113","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=40113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40120,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40113\/revisions\/40120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}