{"id":7369,"date":"2012-04-04T12:39:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T18:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=7369"},"modified":"2013-03-11T12:59:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T18:59:47","slug":"senators%e2%80%99-salaries-term-limits-will-be-decided-by-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=7369","title":{"rendered":"Senators\u2019 salaries, term limits will be decided by voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two constitutional changes passed by the Legislature April 4 will be placed on the November 2012 general election ballot for voter approval.<\/p>\n<p>LR358CA, introduced by Holdrege Sen. Tom Carlson, allows voters to extend the state constitution\u2019s current limit of two consecutive four-year terms for state senators to three consecutive four-year terms.<\/p>\n<p>LR373CA, introduced by Omaha Sen. Scott Lautenbaugh, would increase each senator\u2019s salary to $22,500 with voter approval. Senators currently earn $12,000 annually.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed constitutional amendments were passed 31-14 and 31-15, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two constitutional changes passed by the Legislature April 4 will be placed on the November 2012 general election ballot for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-7369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-executive-board","tag-sen-tom-carlson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369","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=7369"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9765,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7369\/revisions\/9765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}