{"id":40204,"date":"2026-02-27T10:42:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40204"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:42:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:42:44","slug":"municipal-natural-gas-sales-authorized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40204","title":{"rendered":"Municipal natural gas sales authorized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Certain Nebraska cities and villages may make tax-exempt natural gas sales to industrial-scale users under a measure approved by lawmakers Feb. 27.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32956\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32956\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32956\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=32956\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenLippincott_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 Loren Lippincott, District 34. November 14, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1668446466&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;115&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=\"SenLippincott_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Loren Lippincott&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Loren Lippincott&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenLippincott_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32956\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenLippincott_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Loren Lippincott\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenLippincott_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenLippincott_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Loren Lippincott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB548, introduced last session by Central City Sen. Loren Lippincott, allows first or second class cities or villages that own natural gas systems to enter into a contract to sell natural gas to certain large industrial consumers whose facilities are located in Nebraska and within 100 miles of the city or village.<\/p>\n<p>The industrial consumer may not be a consumer of any competitive natural gas provider and may not have received gas service from any investor-owned or governmentally owned gas system within five years prior to the contract\u2019s execution.<\/p>\n<p>Before entering into a contract with an industrial consumer, the governing body of a city or village must adopt a resolution stating that the contract does not pose an unreasonable financial risk to the city or village or its taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>The bill allows parties to enter into a contract on or before Jan. 1, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>LB548 passed on a vote of 47-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain Nebraska cities and villages may make tax-exempt natural gas sales to industrial-scale users under a measure approved by lawmakers Feb. 27.<\/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":[15],"tags":[286],"class_list":["post-40204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-resources","tag-sen-loren-lippincott"],"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\/40204","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=40204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40214,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40204\/revisions\/40214"}],"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=40204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}