{"id":40800,"date":"2026-04-09T09:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40800"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:07:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:07:24","slug":"school-access-for-professional-organizations-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40800","title":{"rendered":"School access for professional organizations approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 9 aimed at ensuring that Nebraska school districts provide professional employees\u2019 organizations equal access to the district\u2019s employees.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24411\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"24411\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=24411\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMurman_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;16&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1542114181&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenMurman_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dave Murman&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Dave Murman&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMurman_inline-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMurman_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24411\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMurman_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Dave Murman\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMurman_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SenMurman_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Dave Murman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB429, introduced by Glenvil Sen. Dave Murman, requires school boards to provide equal access to certified employees\u2019 physical or electronic mailboxes, meetings and events when such access is granted to any qualified professional employees\u2019 organization.<\/p>\n<p>A professional employees\u2019 organization is defined as any organization that exists for the purpose of providing liability protection or collective bargaining on behalf of certified employees.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also requires equal treatment with respect to signage and informational materials displayed on school property and prohibits school boards from naming or referring to any day or break in the school calendar using the name of a professional employees\u2019 organization.<\/p>\n<p>The bill does not apply to, modify or supersede the provisions of the Industrial Relations Act or any matters relating to collective bargaining.<\/p>\n<p>LB429 passed on a 47-2 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 9 aimed at ensuring that Nebraska school districts provide professional employees\u2019 organizations equal access to the district\u2019s employees.<\/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":[8],"tags":[255],"class_list":["post-40800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-sen-dave-murman"],"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\/40800","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=40800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40800\/revisions\/40802"}],"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=40800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}