{"id":40790,"date":"2026-04-09T08:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40790"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:38:23","slug":"olmstead-joint-hearing-requirement-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40790","title":{"rendered":"Olmstead joint hearing requirement passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 9 that requires an annual joint legislative hearing to review the progress of community integration for individuals with disabilities in Nebraska.<\/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-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;Victor Rountree, District 3. Legislature - 2025 Incoming Senators. November 20, 2024. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1729274933&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;147&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=\"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-medium-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenRountree_inline.jpg\" 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=\"Sen. Victor Rountree\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Victor Rountree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB737, introduced by Bellevue Sen. Victor Rountree, requires the Legislature\u2019s Health and Human Services and Urban Affairs committees to conduct a joint hearing to review progress on the state Olmstead Plan. The plan is mandated by a 1999 U.S. Supreme Court decision and requires states to ensure that people with disabilities are integrated into their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, the joint hearing will assess plan progress from the previous calendar year in the areas of housing, employment, education, community support and transportation and recommend legislative solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The committees are required to meet annually on or before Oct. 1 and submit an annual report of findings to the Clerk of the Legislature no later than Dec. 31 of each year.<\/p>\n<p>LB737 passed on a 47-1 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 9 that requires an annual joint legislative hearing to review the progress of community integration for individuals with disabilities in Nebraska. <\/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":[12],"tags":[299],"class_list":["post-40790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-victor-rountree"],"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\/40790","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=40790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40792,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40790\/revisions\/40792"}],"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=40790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}