{"id":40806,"date":"2026-04-09T09:22:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40806"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:22:41","slug":"optional-police-retirement-form-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40806","title":{"rendered":"Optional police retirement form approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 9 that changes optional benefit form requirements under the Police Officers Retirement Act.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37088\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37088\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=37088\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenJuarez_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"SenJuarez_inline\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Margo Juarez&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenJuarez_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37088\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenJuarez_inline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Margo Juarez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB743, sponsored by Sen. Margo Juarez of Omaha, requires that benefit forms include the option of partial payments in an amount and frequency elected by the police officer.<\/p>\n<p>The bill passed on a 49-0 vote and takes effect Oct. 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill April 9 that changes optional benefit form requirements under the Police Officers Retirement Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36724,"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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[300],"class_list":["post-40806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retirement-systems","tag-sen-margo-juarez"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40806","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=40806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40808,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40806\/revisions\/40808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}