{"id":40811,"date":"2026-04-09T09:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40811"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:47:47","slug":"veterans-commission-cleanup-measure-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40811","title":{"rendered":"Veterans\u2019 commission cleanup measure approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated membership and reporting requirements for a state commission on veterans\u2019 affairs passed April 9.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28757\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28757\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=28757\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenSanders_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;11&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communicati&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D X Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Rita Sanders. District 45. Nebraska Legislature. November 9, 2020.  Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1604945405&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2020, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;115&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenSanders_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Rita Sanders&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Rita Sanders&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenSanders_inline-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenSanders_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28757\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenSanders_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Rita Sanders\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenSanders_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SenSanders_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Rita Sanders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB787, sponsored by Sen. Rita Sanders of Bellevue, updates the ex officio membership of the Commission on Military and Veteran Affairs. The bill allows the state Department of Economic Development and the director of Veterans\u2019 Affairs to specify a designee to serve in their place.<\/p>\n<p>It also adds as members the commanders of the 95th Wing, 90th Missile Wing, Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency, U.S. Department of Defense Nebraska service secretary and any wing or headquarters positioned or established in Nebraska in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, LB787 eliminates an annual reporting requirement and instead makes the commission\u2019s report due upon request of the governor or when the commission deems drafting of an updated version appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers approved the bill on a 49-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated membership and reporting requirements for a state commission on veterans\u2019 affairs passed April 9.<\/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":[11],"tags":[266],"class_list":["post-40811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-military-and-veterans-affairs","tag-sen-rita-sanders"],"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\/40811","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=40811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40813,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40811\/revisions\/40813"}],"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=40811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}