{"id":7536,"date":"2012-04-11T10:37:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T16:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=7536"},"modified":"2013-03-11T12:51:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T18:51:42","slug":"changes-to-pickle-card-licensure-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=7536","title":{"rendered":"Changes to pickle card licensure passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state\u2019s Pickle Card Lottery Act was updated by a bill passed by the Legislature April 10.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, nonprofit organizations must wait five years from the date of incorporation to qualify for a pickle card license. Volunteer fire companies, as well as volunteer first aid, rescue, ambulance and emergency squads are exempted from the five-year waiting period.<\/p>\n<p>LB979, introduced by Plattsmouth Sen. Paul Lambert, extends the exemption to any nonprofit organization whose primary purpose is to support a volunteer fire company, first aid, rescue, ambulance or emergency squad.<\/p>\n<p>Senators passed the bill on a 48-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state\u2019s Pickle Card Lottery Act was updated by a bill passed by the Legislature April 10. Currently, nonprofit organizations<\/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":[10],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-7536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-affairs","tag-sen-paul-lambert"],"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\/7536","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=7536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7541,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions\/7541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}