Description
"Change method and procedure for inflicting the death penalty
Summary Points:
1) Supreme court to affirm death sentence and issue the warrant of death
2) Lethal injection NOT electric chair
3) Execution team identity protections
4) No death sentence voided on basis that the method is unconstitutional "
"Adopt the Lindsay Ann Burke Act and provide duties for the State Department of Education and school districts with respect to dating violence
Summary Points:
1) Schools must have policies (education / responses / reporting) regarding dating violence starting June 1, 2010
2) School districts to provide training to all staff; education to students
3) Dating violence= threats of or uses of physical, sexual, verbal, emotional abuse to control partner"
"Require notification of change in a juvenile's case manager under the Nebraska Juvenile Code
Summary Points:
1) Within 7 days after
Change provisions for eligibility for medical assistance To change provisions relating to the eligibility for medical assistance. The guidelines would be changed from 185% -- 200% of poverty guideline.
Require accreditation of the Division of Children and Family Services of the Department of Health and Human Services
• Raises the EITC from 10% to 13%
• Changes the tax credit for low income daycare recipients
• Currently:
• Families with adjusted gross incomes of $29,000.00 or less receive a refundable tax credit
• Those over $29,000.00 receive a nonrefundable tax credit
• Per Senator Duba’s office and confirmed by the Department of Revenue:
• in 2007, nearly 13,000 returns received the refundable credit, approximately $6,900,000.00
• in 2007, 43,000 returns received the nonrefundable credit, averaging $120 or $5,300,000.00
• in 2007, nearly 113,000 received the EITC or $21,400,000.00
• LB 248 is revenue neutral
• LB 248 would make all the daycare credits nonrefundable
• LB 248 would raise the EITC from 10% to 13%
• If the federal EITC goes up then the so does Nebraska’s because we are a percentage of the federal
Require crisis, information, and referral services relating to behavioral health
Adopt the Short-Term Lenders Act and eliminate the Delayed Deposit Services Licensing Act
"Repeal the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without possibility of parole
Summary:
1) Maximum penalty is life without possibility of parole
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"Change sentencing requirements with respect to certain minors
Summary Points:
1) C lass I or class IA felony by 16-18 year old shall be sentenced 50 to life
2) Class I or class IA felony by under 16 year old 40 yrs. to life
3) Minimum sentence of any person convicted of IB felony under 18 yrs. Shall not exceed 40 yrs. Imprisonment.
Comments: puts caps on sentences
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Change juvenile court jurisdiction to exclude school truancy
"Require the Department of Health and Human Services to provide services relating to children's behavioral health and adoption and guardianship families
Summary Points:
1) Children and Family Support Hotline 24/7
a. Staffed by licensed mental health practitioners or
b. Provide screening and assessment
c. Provide referrals
2) Est. a Family Navigator Program to respond to children’s behavioral health needs
a. Provide peer support
b. Connect to existing services
3) DHHS shall provide post-adoption and post guardianship case management services for the families
4) Annual report of hotline, Family Navigator Program, and the voluntary adoption and guardianship case management services.
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Provide behavioral health services for children without parental relinquishment of custody
Require a medicaid waiver application for family planning services
Require verification of lawful presence in the United States to receive public benefits as prescribed
"Delayed Deposit Services Licensing Act Bill will revise certain sections of the Delayed Deposit Services Licensing Act; and will:
• provide for certain prohibited acts;
• provide fees
• provide penalties
• create a data base
• provide powers and duties for the Director of Banking and Finance
• change provisions relating to fines
Some features include:
No licensee shall:
• At any one time hold from any one maker more than two checks;
• At any one time hold from any one maker a check or checks in an aggregate face amount of more than five hundred dollars;
• Hold or agree to hold a check for more than 24 thirty-four days.
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Provide for vocational training for public assistance recipients
Provide for rate increased for behavioral health care providers and create the Provider Reimbursement Rate Commission
Adopt the Behavioral Health Workforce Act and Provide for funding
Provide for child-care contracts as prescribed and provide duties for the Department of Health and Human Services
Change mental health board membership provisions
Adopt the Health Care Accessibility and Affordability Act
Change preferred drug list provisions under the Medicaid Prescription Drug Act
Provide for additional voluntary and informed consents from a woman prior to abortion
Provide for additional voluntary and informed consents from a woman prior to abortion
Urge members of the Nebraska Congressional delegation to support worker freedom by opposing the Employee Free Choice Act
Bill Introducer
Flood
Howard
Howard
Avery
Dubas
Dubas
McGill
Nantkes
Council
Council
Gay
Gay
Dubas
Nantkes
Karpisek
McGill
Harms
McGill
HHS Committee
Mello
Howard
Harms
Gay
Fulton
Fulton
Price
Committee
Judiciary
Education
Judiciary
HHS
HHS
Revenue
HHS
Banking
Judiciary
Judiciary
Judiciary
HHS
Judiciary
HHS
Judiciary
Banking
HHS
HHS
HHS
HHS
HHS
HHS
HHS
Judiciary
Judiciary
Bus. & Labor
NASW-NE Position
Oppose
Support
Support
Support
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Monitor
Monitor
Support
Support
Oppose
Monitor
Support
Support
Oppose
Support
Support
Support
Support
Support
Support
Support
Oppose
Oppose
Oppose
Oppose
