Chapter 71 — PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
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Transferred to section 38-155.
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Repealed. Laws 2024, LB1143, § 5.
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Repealed. Laws 2024, LB1143, § 5.
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Repealed. Laws 2024, LB1143, § 5.
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Repealed. Laws 2024, LB1143, § 5.
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Repealed. Laws 2024, LB1143, § 5.
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Repealed. Laws 2024, LB1143, § 5.
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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…
Repealed. Laws 2003, LB 412, § 12.
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Repealed. Laws 2003, LB 412, § 12.
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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…
Transferred to section 38-157.
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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…
Repealed. Laws 1979, LB 198, § 4.
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Repealed. Laws 1979, LB 198, § 4.
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Repealed. Laws 1979, LB 198, § 4.
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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…
Transferred to section 38-1,114.
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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…
Repealed. Laws 2007, LB 463, § 1319.
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Transferred to section 38-1,117.
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Transferred to section 38-1,118.
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