{"id":8800,"date":"2013-02-11T12:53:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=8800"},"modified":"2013-03-11T12:24:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T18:24:12","slug":"new-licensure-requirements-for-geologists-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=8800","title":{"rendered":"New licensure requirements for geologists passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill Feb. 11 that establishes stronger licensure requirements for geologists practicing in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Under LB91, introduced by Malcolm Sen. Ken Haar, the state Board of Geologists can:<br \/>\n\u2022 deny a license to any applicant deemed to have an issue of moral turpitude, a felony conviction, or suspension or revocation of an existing license;<br \/>\n\u2022 grant licensure to any out of state geologist with at least 15 years of relevant experience under a reciprocity agreement;<br \/>\n\u2022 require continuing education of all license-holders; and<br \/>\n\u2022 admit members to the board from any Nebraska college or university.<\/p>\n<p>Senators passed the bill on a 49-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers passed a bill Feb. 11 that establishes stronger licensure requirements for geologists practicing in the state. Under LB91, introduced<\/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":[15],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-8800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natural-resources","tag-sen-ken-haar"],"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\/8800","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=8800"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12244,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8800\/revisions\/12244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}