{"id":8821,"date":"2013-02-12T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T17:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=8821"},"modified":"2013-03-11T12:23:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T18:23:52","slug":"extension-of-small-business-pilot-program-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=8821","title":{"rendered":"Extension of small business pilot program advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators gave first-round approval Feb. 12 to a bill that would alter and extend the Small Business Innovation Act pilot program.<\/p>\n<p>LB628, introduced by Lincoln Sen. Danielle Conrad, would reduce the number of full-time equivalent employees required to qualify for the pilot program from five to two. The bill also would extend the sunset date for one year to Dec. 31, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Conrad said the bill would make a good program more user friendly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmall businesses are the engine in a vibrant economy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The bill advanced to select file on a 32-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators gave first-round approval Feb. 12 to a bill that would alter and extend the Small Business Innovation Act pilot<\/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":[6],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-8821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking-commerce-and-insurance","tag-sen-danielle-conrad"],"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\/8821","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=8821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9585,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821\/revisions\/9585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}