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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5659 Commission; powers and duties.
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The commission shall have the following powers and duties: (1) Advise the department regarding the development and implementation of a state rural health policy; (2) Advise the department and other appropriate parties in all matters relating to rural health care; (3) Serve as an …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-566 Council; considerations; findings and recommendations.
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The council shall consider and make findings and recommendations on the following topics: (1) Trends in the state's aging and Alzheimer's disease and other dementia populations and service needs, including: (a) The state's role in providing or facilitating long-term care, family …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5660 Act; how administered.
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The Rural Health Systems and Professional Incentive Act shall be administered by the office with the advice and consultation of the commission.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5661 Financial incentives; funding; Rural Health Professional Incentive Fund; created; use; investment.
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(1) The financial incentives provided by the Rural Health Systems and Professional Incentive Act shall consist of (a) student loans to eligible students for attendance at an eligible school as determined pursuant to section 71-5662, (b) the repayment of qualified educational debt…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5662 Student loan; medical resident incentive; loan repayment; eligibility.
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(1) To be eligible for a student loan under the Rural Health Systems and Professional Incentive Act, an applicant or a recipient shall be enrolled or accepted for enrollment in any of the following accredited programs in Nebraska: (a) Medical or dental education program; (b) Phys…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5663 Amount of financial assistance; limitation.
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(1) The amount of financial assistance provided through student loans pursuant to the Rural Health Systems and Professional Incentive Act shall be limited to thirty thousand dollars for each recipient for each academic year and, except as provided in subdivision (4)(a) of this se…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5664 Financial incentives; commission; considerations.
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In screening applicants for financial incentives, the commission shall consider the following factors: (1) Motivation to practice in a health profession shortage area in Nebraska; (2) Motivation and preference toward an approved specialty; and (3) Other factors that would influen…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5665 Commission; designate health profession shortage areas; factors.
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The commission shall periodically designate health profession shortage areas within the state for the following professions: Medicine and surgery, psychiatry, physician assistants' practice, nurse practitioners' practice, nurse anesthesia practice, dietitian nutritionist practice…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5666 Student loan recipient agreement; contents.
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Each student loan recipient shall execute an agreement with the state. Such agreement shall be exempt from the requirements of the State Procurement Act and shall include the following terms, as appropriate: (1) The borrower agrees to practice the equivalent of one year of full-t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5667 Agreements under prior law; renegotiation.
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Agreements executed prior to July 1, 2007, under the Rural Health Systems and Professional Incentive Act may be renegotiated and new agreements executed to reflect the terms required by section 71-5666. No funds repaid by borrowers under the terms of agreements executed prior to …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5668 Loan repayment recipient agreement; contents; funding; limitation.
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Each loan repayment recipient shall execute an agreement with the department and a local entity. Such agreement shall be exempt from the requirements of the State Procurement Act and shall include, at a minimum, the following terms: (1) The loan repayment recipient agrees to prac…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5669 Loan repayment program; office; duties.
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The office shall develop guidelines for community participation in the loan repayment program. The office shall provide consultation to potential community participants and facilitate the matching of communities and health professionals.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5669.01 Medical resident incentive recipient; agreement; contents.
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Each medical resident incentive recipient shall execute an agreement with the department. Such agreement shall be exempt from the requirements of the State Procurement Act and shall include, at a minimum, the following terms: (1) The medical resident incentive recipient agrees to…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-567 State Alzheimer's Plan.
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(1)(a) No later than December 31, 2024, the council shall compile the findings and recommendations and submit them as a State Alzheimer's Plan to the Legislature and the Governor. (b) No later than December 31, 2028, and every four years thereafter, the council shall issue an upd…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5670 Department; rules and regulations.
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The department shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations necessary to the administration of the Rural Health Systems and Professional Incentive Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-568 Dementia services coordinator; appointment; duties.
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The department shall appoint a dementia services coordinator who shall: (1) Serve as a referral point for linking families caring for individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other dementia with supportive services and resources; (2) Provide information, counseling, education, an…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5680 Rural Behavioral Health Training and Placement Program Act; act, how cited.
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Sections 71-5680 to 71-5683 shall be known and may be cited as the Rural Behavioral Health Training and Placement Program Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5681 Legislative findings and declarations.
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The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (1) Eighty-eight of Nebraska's ninety-three counties are classified as mental and behavioral health profession shortage areas by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration and the Nebraska Department of Health and Huma…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5682 Rural Behavioral Health Training and Placement Program; created.
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The Rural Behavioral Health Training and Placement Program is created and shall be administered by the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The program shall address behavioral health professional shortages in rural areas by: (1) Offering service l…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5683 Funding under act; use.
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Funding under the Rural Behavioral Health Training and Placement Program Act shall support: (1) Faculty clinical training activities; (2) Internship stipends for behavioral health interns and postdoctoral fellows; and (3) Training and service provision expenses, including, but no…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5684 Rural Health Opportunity Program; Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges; Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska; administer; students; eligibility; tuition waiver.
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(1) For purposes of this section, program means the Rural Health Opportunity Program that encourages students from rural communities to pursue health care professions and return to practice in those rural communities. (2)(a) The Board of Trustees of the Nebraska State Colleges an…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-569 Aging, Alzheimer's, and Dementia Advisory Council Fund; created; use; investment.
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The Aging, Alzheimer's, and Dementia Advisory Council Fund is created. The fund shall consist of federal funds and grants or gifts for the purposes authorized by the Aging, Alzheimer's, and Dementia Support Act. Expenditures from the fund shall be subject to any conditions agreed…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5714 Tobacco Prevention and Control Program; created.
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The Tobacco Prevention and Control Program is created as a comprehensive statewide tobacco-related public health program administered by the Department of Health and Human Services. The program includes, but is not limited to (1) community programs to reduce tobacco use, (2) chro…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5716 Act, how cited.
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Sections 71-5716 to 71-5735 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska Clean Indoor Air Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5717 Purpose of act.
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The purpose of the Nebraska Clean Indoor Air Act is to protect the public health and welfare by prohibiting smoking in public places and places of employment with limited exceptions for guestrooms and suites, research, tobacco retail outlets, electronic smoking device retail outl…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5718 Definitions, where found.
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For purposes of the Nebraska Clean Indoor Air Act, the definitions found in sections 71-5718.01 to 71-5728 apply.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5718.01 Electronic smoking device, defined.
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Electronic smoking device means an electronic nicotine delivery system as defined in section 28-1418.01. The term includes any such device regardless of whether it is manufactured, distributed, marketed, or sold as an e-cigarette, e-cigar, e-pipe, e-hookah, or vape pen or under a…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5718.02 Electronic smoking device retail outlet, defined; persons allowed to enter; employees; age restrictions.
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(1) Electronic smoking device retail outlet means a store that: (a) Is licensed as provided under sections 28-1421 and 28-1422; (b) Sells electronic smoking devices and products directly related to electronic smoking devices; (c) Does not sell alcohol or gasoline; (d) Derives no …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5719 Employed, defined.
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Employed means hired, contracted, subcontracted, or otherwise engaged to furnish goods or services.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5720 Employee, defined.
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Employee means a person who is employed by an employer in consideration for direct or indirect monetary wages, profit, or other remuneration.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5721 Employer, defined.
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Employer means a person, nonprofit entity, sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company, cooperative, firm, trust, association, organization, or other business entity, including retail establishments where goods or s…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5722 Guestroom or suite, defined.
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Guestroom or suite means a sleeping room and directly associated private areas, such as a bathroom, a living room, and a kitchen area, if any, rented to the public for their exclusive transient occupancy, including, but not limited to, a guestroom or suite in a hotel, motel, inn,…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5723 Indoor area, defined.
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Indoor area means an area enclosed by a floor, a ceiling, and walls on all sides that are continuous and solid except for closeable entry and exit doors and windows and in which less than twenty percent of the total wall area is permanently open to the outdoors. For walls in exce…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5724 Place of employment, defined.
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Place of employment means an indoor area under the control of a proprietor that an employee accesses as part of his or her employment without regard to whether the employee is present or work is occurring at any given time. The indoor area includes, but is not limited to, any wor…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5725 Proprietor, defined.
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Proprietor means any employer, owner, operator, supervisor, manager, or other person who controls, governs, or directs the activities in a place of employment or public place.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5726 Public place, defined.
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Public place means an indoor area to which the public is invited or in which the public is permitted, whether or not the public is always invited or permitted. A private residence is not a public place.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5727 Smoke or smoking, defined.
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Smoke or smoking means inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying any lighted or heated cigar, cigarette, pipe, hookah, or any other lighted or heated tobacco or plant product intended for inhalation, whether natural or synthetic, in any manner or in any form. The term includes the…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5728 Tobacco retail outlet, defined.
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Tobacco retail outlet means a store that sells only tobacco and products directly related to tobacco. Products directly related to tobacco do not include alcohol, coffee, soft drinks, candy, groceries, or gasoline.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5729 Smoking in place of employment or public place prohibited.
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Except as otherwise provided in section 71-5730, it is unlawful for any person to smoke in a place of employment or a public place.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5730 Exemptions; legislative findings; legislative intent.
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(1) The following indoor areas are exempt from section 71-5729: (a) Guestrooms and suites that are rented to guests and that are designated as smoking rooms, except that not more than twenty percent of rooms rented to guests in an establishment may be designated as smoking rooms.…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5731 Proprietor; duties.
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A proprietor of a place of employment or public place where smoking is prohibited under the Nebraska Clean Indoor Air Act shall take necessary and appropriate steps to ensure compliance with the act at such place.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5732 Department of Health and Human Services; local public health department; enjoin violations; retaliation prohibited; waiver of act.
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(1) The Department of Health and Human Services or a local public health department as defined in section 71-1626 may institute an action in any court with jurisdiction to enjoin a violation of the Nebraska Clean Indoor Air Act. Any interested party may report possible violations…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5733 Prohibited acts; penalties; act of employee or agent; how construed.
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(1) A person who smokes in a place of employment or a public place in violation of the Nebraska Clean Indoor Air Act is guilty of a Class V misdemeanor for the first offense and a Class IV misdemeanor for the second and any subsequent offenses. A person charged with such offense …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5734 Rules and regulations.
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The Department of Health and Human Services shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the Nebraska Clean Indoor Air Act. The department shall consult with interested persons and professional organizations before adopting such rules and regulations.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5735 Tobacco retail outlet; sign required; waiver signed by employee; form; owner; duties.
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(1) The owner of a tobacco retail outlet shall post a sign on all entrances to the tobacco retail outlet, on the outside of each door, in a conspicuous location slightly above or next to the door, with the following statement: SMOKING OF CIGARS AND PIPES IS ALLOWED INSIDE THIS BU…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5801 Act, how cited.
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Sections 71-5801 to 71-5870 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska Health Care Certificate of Need Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5803 Definitions, where found.
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For purposes of the Nebraska Health Care Certificate of Need Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions found in sections 71-5803.01 to 71-5803.15 shall be used.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5803.01 Acute care bed, defined.
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Acute care bed means a bed in a hospital that is or will be licensed under the Health Care Facility Licensure Act for acute care services or a bed that is part of a hospital or unit of a hospital that is excluded from the prospective payment system under Title XVIII of the federa…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5803.02 Ambulatory surgical center, defined.
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Ambulatory surgical center has the same meaning as in section 71-405.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-5803.03 Certificate of need, defined.
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Certificate of need means a written authorization by the department for a person to implement the project under review.