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Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1587 Regional housing agency; become local housing agency or dissolve; when.
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If only one city or county remains as a participant in any regional housing agency, such regional housing agency shall become the local housing agency of the remaining city or county at the discretion of its governing body, or such regional housing agency shall be dissolved and i…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1588 Area of operation; effect on jurisdiction.
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(1) The area of operation of a local housing agency shall be, depending upon the classification of the political subdivision establishing the agency, one of the following: (a) In the case of a local housing agency established by a city, the agency's area of operation shall be the…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1589 Debts and liability; responsibility.
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Except to the extent such city or county or this state may expressly elect to undertake such liability, neither any city or county with respect to which a local housing agency is established, nor any city or county participating in a regional housing agency, nor the state, nor an…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1590 Taxation of property; Indian housing authorities; payments in lieu of taxes.
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(1) The real and personal property of a local housing agency and any controlled affiliate thereof used solely (a) for the administrative offices of the housing agency or controlled affiliate thereof, (b) to provide housing for persons of eligible income and qualifying tenants, an…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1591 Property; exempt from judicial process.
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Except to the extent a local housing agency or its controlled affiliates may otherwise expressly agree, all real and personal property of a local housing agency and its controlled affiliates shall be exempt from execution, levy, and sale for the payment of debt or otherwise pursu…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1592 Agency representatives; exempt from licensing requirements; when.
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All representatives of a local housing agency, acting within the scope of carrying out the business and conducting the affairs of a local housing agency, shall be exempt from all licensing requirements imposed by any law with respect to the sale, rental, or management of real pro…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1593 Applicability of Administrative Procedure Act and procurement, operation, and disposition of property provisions.
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The following provisions of law, and any regulations relating thereto, shall not apply to a local housing agency unless the legislation imposing such requirements is expressly and specifically applicable to local housing agencies or the local housing agency expressly elects to be…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1594 Local housing agency; commissioners; appointment.
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(1) When the governing body of any city or county, as the case may be, has determined by resolution or ordinance as set forth in section 71-1578 that it is expedient to establish a local housing agency: (a) In the case of cities other than cities of the metropolitan class, the ch…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1595 Commissioners; powers; quorum; executive committee.
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(1) The powers of each local housing agency shall be vested in its commissioners in office. A majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum of the agency for the purpose of conducting its business and exercising its powers and for all other purposes. Except for any matt…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1596 Commissioners; appointment; procedure.
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When commissioners are appointed or reappointed by the chief elected official of a city or county, such appointments or reappointments shall be referred to the governing body of such city or county for confirmation or denial by such governing body, and such governing body shall c…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1597 Regional housing agency; commissioners; appointment.
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When the governing bodies of two or more political subdivisions have determined by resolution or ordinance pursuant to section 71-1581 to establish and participate in a regional housing agency, the chief elected officials of such political subdivisions or, if no such official exi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1598 Commissioners; terms.
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(1) In the case of local housing agencies, the commissioners who are first appointed shall be designated to serve for terms of one, two, three, four, and five years, respectively, from the date of their appointment, but thereafter commissioners shall be appointed for terms of fiv…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1599 Commissioners; vacancies.
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All vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired terms. A vacancy shall be filled not later than six months after the date of such vacancy by the same authority and in the same manner as the previous commissioner whose position has become vacant was appointed.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1626 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of sections 71-1626 to 71-1636: (1) Community-wide directed health measure means a public health action or intervention by a local public health department involving the total population of the jurisdiction of such local public health department when there are no kno…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1626.01 Legislative intent.
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It is the intent of the Legislature that all persons residing in the State of Nebraska have access to public health services. It is the intent of the Legislature that local public health departments be established statewide and work collaboratively with local providers and commun…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1627 Local public health department; health director; other personnel.
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A local public health department shall have a health director at its head who is required to give his or her entire time to the duties of the office and such other necessary qualified full or part-time health officers, environmental health specialists, public health nurses, healt…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1628 County board; powers.
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The county board of any county may (1) make an agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services relative to the expenditure of local, state, federal, and other funds or any combination thereof, available for public health in such county; (2) after notice and public hear…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1628.01 County or district health department; termination; procedure.
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A county or district health department established under sections 71-1626 to 71-1636 may be terminated, following a public hearing, by a majority vote of the county board members for any county having a health department or of the majority of county boards having a district healt…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1628.04 Core public health functions; contract authorized.
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(1) Each local public health department shall carry out the core public health functions within its geographically defined community. (2) Each local public health department shall include the essential elements in carrying out the core public health functions to the extent applic…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1628.05 Report.
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Each local public health department shall prepare an annual report regarding the core public health functions carried out by the department in the prior fiscal year. The report shall be submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services by October 1. The Department of Healt…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1628.06 Core public health functions; personnel.
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The Department of Health and Human Services shall employ two full-time persons with expertise in the public health field to provide technical expertise in carrying out core public health functions and essential elements and coordinate the dissemination of materials to the local p…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1628.07 Satellite office of minority health; duties.
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(1) The Department of Health and Human Services shall establish a satellite office of minority health in each congressional district to coordinate and administer state policy relating to minority health. Each office shall implement a minority health initiative in counties with a …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1628.08 County Public Health Aid Program; created; funds; distribution.
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(1) The County Public Health Aid Program is created. Aid as appropriated by the Legislature from the Nebraska Health Care Cash Fund shall be distributed in each fiscal year as provided in this section. (2) Of funds appropriated by the Legislature under subsection (1) of this sect…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1629 County or city-county health department; county board; powers; tax; election; when required.
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(1) The county board of a county which has established a county or city-county health department may (a) incur the expenses necessary for the establishment and maintenance of such health department and (b) appropriate and use any unused funds in the general fund belonging to the …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1629.01 District health department; county board; levy; limitation.
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The county boards of the counties which have established a district health department may levy and collect an annual tax of not to exceed eight-tenths of one cent on each one hundred dollars upon the taxable value of all the taxable property in such county as may be necessary to …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1629.02 Municipalities; powers; levy.
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Municipalities located within counties which have established health departments or which join in the establishment of a city-county health department may (1) cooperate in the maintenance of such health departments as health departments for such municipalities, (2) incur the nece…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1630 Local boards of health; membership; terms; vacancies; duties.
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(1) When a health department has been established by the county board of a county and approved by the Department of Health and Human Services as a county health department, the county board of such county shall appoint a board of health which shall consist of the following member…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1631 Local boards of health; meetings; expenses; powers and duties; rules and regulations; pension and retirement plans.
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Except as provided in subsection (4) of section 71-1630, the board of health of each county, district, or city-county health department organized under sections 71-1626 to 71-1636 shall, immediately after appointment, meet and organize by the election of one of its own members as…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1631.01 Local boards of health; rules and regulations; violations; penalty.
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Any person violating any rule or regulation, authorized by the provisions of either subdivision (7) or (9) of section 71-1631, shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor, and each day's violation shall be considered a separate offense.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1631.02 Local boards of health; retirement plan; reports.
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(1) Beginning December 31, 1998, through December 31, 2017, the health director of a board of health with an independent retirement plan established pursuant to section 71-1631 and section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code shall file with the Public Employees Retirement Board a…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1632 Health director; powers; duties.
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The health director of a county, district, or city-county health department shall have the power and duty to (1) be the executive officer of the local boards of health; (2) appoint, subject to any applicable county or city civil service laws, rules, or regulations, a properly fun…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1632.01 Community-wide directed health measure; approval; expiration; reauthorization.
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A community-wide directed health measure (1) shall be subject to approval as provided in sections 71-1630 and 71-1632, (2) shall expire seven days after the date of issuance, and (3) may be reauthorized subject to approval as provided in sections 71-1630 and 71-1632.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1633 Local boards of health; records required.
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The health department of such county, district or city-county, as provided in sections 71-1626 to 71-1636, shall keep minutes of all the meetings of the health boards, and shall retain the records of everything pertaining to expenses, income, complaints, work done, meetings had, …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1634 Health department; funds; how disbursed.
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(1) No funds shall be disbursed except upon vouchers approved by the director of health and the president of the board of health of a county or district health department. In the absence of the health director, the president and the vice president or, in his or her absence, the s…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1635 Health department; establishment; other health agencies abolished; exception; city-county health department; control by department.
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When the county board of any county or counties creates a health department as provided by sections 71-1626 to 71-1636, every other local, municipal, or county public health agency or department, except city or county hospitals, may be abolished, and such county or district healt…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1636 Sections not applicable to school district; exception.
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Sections 71-1626 to 71-1636 do not apply to any school district in the State of Nebraska, except that any school district, upon application to a county, district, or city-county health department formed under such sections, may accept in whole or in part any of the provisions of …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1637 Political subdivision; employment and contracts authorized; duties; tax to support; limitation; section, how construed.
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(1) Any city by its mayor and council or by its commission, any village by its village board, any county by its board of supervisors or commissioners, or any township by its electors shall have power to employ a visiting community nurse, a home health nurse, or a home health agen…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1638 Political subdivision; tax levy; limitation; election; procedure.
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Whenever petitions signed by twenty-five percent of the electors of a city, county, or village shall be presented to the city council or board of supervisors, commissioners, or trustees praying for the submission of the question of making a levy to provide for salary and expenses…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1639 Political subdivision; tax levy; resubmission; procedure.
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Whenever a petition signed by twenty-five percent of the electors, as required in section 71-1638, shall be presented to the city council, county board or village trustees praying for the resubmission of the question of making a levy under sections 71-1637 to 71-1639, it shall be…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1640 Community Health Worker Training Endorsement Act, how cited.
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Sections 71-1640 to 71-1644 shall be known and may be cited as the Community Health Worker Training Endorsement Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1641 Legislative intent.
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(1) The Legislature finds that establishing certification of training programs for community health workers will strengthen Nebraska's public health and health care workforce, promote consistent standards of practice, and support improved access to preventive and primary care ser…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1642 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Community Health Worker Training Endorsement Act: (1) Community health worker means an individual who has successfully completed an endorsed community health worker training program and has a close understanding of the community served and who acts as a liaiso…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1643 Community health worker; training; endorsement; department; powers and duties.
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On or before July 1, 2027, the department may adopt and promulgate rules and regulations that: (1) Identify and maintain the core competencies required for community health worker training programs using the department's expertise in public health, behavioral health, workforce de…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-1644 Act; how construed.
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(1) Nothing in the Community Health Worker Training Endorsement Act shall be construed to: (a) Create a licensure or certification requirement for a community health worker; (b) authorize a community health worker to perform tasks that require professional licensure; or (c) limit…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-17,101 Act, how cited.
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Sections 71-17,101 to 71-17,107 shall be known and may be cited as the Nursing Student Loan Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-17,102 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Nursing Student Loan Act: (1) Approved nursing program means a program offered by a public or private institution in this state (a) which consists of courses of instruction in regularly scheduled classes leading to a master of science degree, a bachelor of sci…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-17,103 Department; duties.
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The department shall administer a student loan program under the Nursing Student Loan Act which shall make loans directly to qualified students enrolled in approved nursing programs in the State of Nebraska as provided in section 71-17,106. The number of loans made to qualified s…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-17,104 Student loan; eligibility.
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(1) To qualify for a loan under the Nursing Student Loan Act, a student shall be a resident of Nebraska, intend to practice in Nebraska, be motivated to practice in Nebraska, and have substantial financial need. For purposes of this section, substantial financial need means the d…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-17,105 Loans; restrictions; repayment; when.
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(1) Loans received under the Nursing Student Loan Act shall be used only for educational expenses for an approved nursing program. The use of such loan funds by a student is subject to review by the department. (2) Each loan shall be for one academic year. Each student shall not …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-17,106 Rules and regulations.
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The department, in conjunction with approved nursing programs, shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the Nursing Student Loan Act. In conformance with such rules and regulations, institutions with approved nursing programs may act as agents of the departme…