{"id":40844,"date":"2026-04-09T14:08:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40844"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:08:54","slug":"ded-minimum-grant-requirement-clears-final-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=40844","title":{"rendered":"DED minimum grant requirement clears final round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A program aimed at benefitting Nebraska\u2019s small businesses is required to award a minimum dollar amount of grant funds under a bill passed April 9.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37085\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37085\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"37085\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=37085\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenClouse_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;Stanley Clouse, District 37. Nebraska Legislature - 2025 Incoming Senators. November 20, 2024. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1732107891&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;163&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=\"SenClouse_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Stan Clouse&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Stan Clouse&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenClouse_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37085\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SenClouse_inline.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Stan Clouse\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Stan Clouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Currently, the state Department of Economic Development has the option to distribute up to $3 million in grants annually through the Microenterprise Assistance Program under the Business Innovation Act. LB1205, sponsored by Kearney Sen. Stan Clouse, requires DED to do so beginning in fiscal year 2027-28.<\/p>\n<p>LB1205 passed on a 49-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A program aimed at benefitting Nebraska\u2019s small businesses is required to award a minimum dollar amount of grant funds under a bill passed April 9.<\/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_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":[6],"tags":[308],"class_list":["post-40844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-commerce-and-insurance","tag-sen-stan-clouse"],"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\/40844","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=40844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40846,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40844\/revisions\/40846"}],"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=40844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}