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NE Code § 81-2513 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2513 - State assistance to political subdivision or nonprofit corporation; commission; approval of application; failure to approve applications; effect; quorum.

81-2513.  State assistance to political subdivision or nonprofit corporation; commission; approval of application; failure to approve applications; effect; quorum.(1) After consideration of the application, the commission shall issue a finding of whether the use described in the application is eligible for state assistance.(2) If the commission finds that the use described in the application is a legitimate use and that state assistance is in the best interest of the state, the application shall be approved.(3) If no applications are approved, the commission may use the funds in the Designated Collection Fund directly for the needs listed in section 81-2510.(4) A majority of the commission members constitutes a quorum for the purpose of conducting business. All actions of the commission shall be made by a majority vote of the voting members.Source  Laws 2010, LB1002, § 5;  Laws 2013, LB199, § 37.  Termination Date: June 30, 2018
NE Code § 81-2514 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2514 - State assistance to political subdivisions and nonprofit corporations; Designated Collection Fund; created; use; investment; commission; seek and accept funds.

81-2514.  State assistance to political subdivisions and nonprofit corporations; Designated Collection Fund; created; use; investment; commission; seek and accept funds.(1) The State Treasurer shall for FY2010-11 transfer on July 15, 2010, twenty-five thousand dollars from the General Fund to the Designated Collection Fund which is hereby created. Any money in the fund available for investment shall be invested by the state investment officer pursuant to the Nebraska Capital Expansion Act and the Nebraska State Funds Investment Act.(2) The commission may accept and shall actively seek, for the needs listed in section 81-2510, any and all grants, donations, gifts, or contributions from public or private sources. Any such grants, donations, gifts, or contributions shall be deposited in the Designated Collection Fund and shall only be expended as provided in sections 81-2509 to 81-2515.Source  Laws 2010, LB1002, § 6.  Termination Date: June 30, 2018  Cross References   Nebraska Capital Expansion Act, see section 72-1269.  Nebraska State Funds Investment Act, see section 72-1260.
NE Code § 81-2515 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2515 - State assistance to political subdivisions and nonprofit corporations; sections; termination.

81-2515.  State assistance to political subdivisions and nonprofit corporations; sections; termination.Sections 81-2509 to 81-2515 terminate on June 30, 2018.Source  Laws 2010, LB1002, § 7.  Termination Date: June 30, 2018
NE Code § 81-2516 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2516 - Commission on Indian Affairs Cash Fund; created; use; investment.

81-2516.  Commission on Indian Affairs Cash Fund; created; use; investment.The Commission on Indian Affairs Cash Fund is created. The fund shall be administered by the Commission on Indian Affairs. The fund shall consist of money from contracts, fees, grants, or gifts from nonfederal sources received by the state and any investment income earned on the fund. The fund may be used to support the commission's operations pursuant to sections 81-2501 to 81-2508. The Department of Administrative Services may for accounting purposes create subfunds of the fund to segregate awards or allocations received. Any money in the fund available for investment shall be invested by the state investment officer pursuant to the Nebraska Capital Expansion Act and the Nebraska State Funds Investment Act.Source  Laws 2013, LB199, § 15;  Laws 2014, LB906, § 21. Cross References   Nebraska Capital Expansion Act, see section 72-1269.  Nebraska State Funds Investment Act, see section 72-1260.
NE Code § 81-2517 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2517 - Native American Scholarship and Leadership Fund; created; use; investment.

81-2517.  Native American Scholarship and Leadership Fund; created; use; investment.The Native American Scholarship and Leadership Fund is created. The fund shall be administered by the Commission on Indian Affairs and shall consist of money credited to the fund pursuant to section 60-3,235. The commission shall use the fund to provide scholarships to Native Americans to attend a postsecondary educational institution in this state and to provide other leadership opportunities to Native Americans as determined by the commission. Any money in the fund available for investment shall be invested by the state investment officer pursuant to the Nebraska Capital Expansion Act and the Nebraska State Funds Investment Act.Source Laws 2017, LB263, § 100. Cross References   Nebraska Capital Expansion Act, see section 72-1269.  Nebraska State Funds Investment Act, see section 72-1260.
NE Code § 81-2601 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2601 - Commission; members; qualifications; appointment; terms.

81-2601.  Commission; members; qualifications; appointment; terms.(1) There is hereby established the Commission on African American Affairs. For purposes of sections 81-2601 to 81-2607, commission means the Commission on African American Affairs.(2) The commission shall consist of fourteen members who shall be of African ancestry. Members of the commission shall be appointed by the Governor. The commission may have such nonvoting, ex officio members as shall be appointed by the commission and who need not be of African ancestry. The commission shall elect one of its members as chairperson.(3) Members of the commission shall serve four-year terms or for the unexpired term in the event of a vacancy. As the terms of the voting members expire, their successors shall be appointed by the Governor from a panel of nominees submitted by the public. An appointment for an unexpired term shall follow the same procedure as for initial and subsequent appointments. Voting members shall be eligible for reappointment.Source Laws 2020, LB918, § 1.
NE Code § 81-2602 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2602 - Commission; purpose.

81-2602.  Commission; purpose.The purpose of the commission is to join representatives of African Americans in Nebraska to do all things which the commission may determine to enhance the cause of African American rights and to develop solutions to problems common to all Nebraska African Americans.Source Laws 2020, LB918, § 2.
NE Code § 81-2603 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2603 - Commission; funds; executive director; qualifications; office.

81-2603.  Commission; funds; executive director; qualifications; office.The commission may receive and administer funds from state, federal, and other sources and may employ and fix the compensation of an executive director of its own choosing who shall be an African American person and a legal resident of the State of Nebraska. An office for the executive director shall be provided.Source Laws 2020, LB918, § 3.
NE Code § 81-2604 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2604 - Commission; functions.

81-2604.  Commission; functions.The functions of the commission are to:(1) Promote state and federal legislation beneficial to the African American community in Nebraska;(2) Coordinate programs relating to the African American community in Nebraska regarding housing, education, welfare, medical and dental care, employment, economic development, law and order, and related problems;(3) Work with other state and federal government agencies and federal and state elected officials in the development of programs in areas mentioned in subdivision (2) of this section;(4) Keep the Governor's office apprised of the situation in the African American community in Nebraska;(5) Administer sections 81-2601 to 81-2607;(6) Provide the public with information and education relevant to African American affairs in Nebraska; and(7) Develop programs to encourage the total involvement of African American people in activities for the common benefit of the African American community.Source Laws 2020, LB918, § 4.
NE Code § 81-2605 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2605 - Commission; members; compensation; expenses.

81-2605.  Commission; members; compensation; expenses.The members of the commission shall each receive fifty dollars for each day spent in the performance of their duties and shall receive reimbursement for any actual and necessary expenses as provided in sections 81-1174 to 81-1177.Source Laws 2020, LB918, § 5.
NE Code § 81-2606 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2606 - Commission; meetings; quorum; attendance required; exception.

81-2606.  Commission; meetings; quorum; attendance required; exception.(1) The commission shall meet at least once every calendar quarter. Meetings shall be held in January, April, July, and October. Special meetings may be called at the request of eight voting members. Eight voting members of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.(2) The office of any member of the commission who, without a valid excuse, fails to attend quarterly or special meetings shall be vacant.Source Laws 2020, LB918, § 6.
NE Code § 81-2607 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2607 - Commission; executive board; purpose; members; powers.

81-2607.  Commission; executive board; purpose; members; powers.(1) For purposes of administration of the commission during the interim between regular quarterly meetings, there is hereby established an executive board of the Commission on African American Affairs consisting of the chairperson of the commission and four members of the commission.(2) The executive board may enter into contracts for consultation services, supplies, and equipment, if the amount contracted for does not exceed two thousand dollars in any one contract, and may supervise all programs relating to the affairs of African American people instituted and authorized by the commission.Source Laws 2020, LB918, § 7.
NE Code § 81-2701 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2701 - Act, how cited.

81-2701.  Act, how cited.Sections 81-2701 to 81-2711 shall be known and may be cited as the State Government Effectiveness Act.Source   Laws 1993, LB 44, § 1;  Laws 2005, LB 475, § 2.
NE Code § 81-2702 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2702 - Purpose of act.

81-2702.  Purpose of act.The primary purpose of the State Government Effectiveness Act is to encourage public officials and employees to disclose information concerning possible violations of law and fiscal waste or mismanagement in state government to elected state officials or the Public Counsel and to prohibit reprisals for such disclosures by state employees.The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the vital interest of the people of this state that their government operate in accordance with the law and without fraud, waste, or mismanagement. If this interest is to be protected, public officials and employees must work in a climate where conscientious service is encouraged and disclosures of illegalities or improprieties may be made without reprisal or fear of reprisal.Source  Laws 1993, LB 44, § 2.
NE Code § 81-2703 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2703 - Terms, defined.

81-2703.  Terms, defined.For purposes of the State Government Effectiveness Act:(1) Agency shall mean any agency, department, board, commission, or other governmental unit of the State of Nebraska acting or purporting to act by reason of connection with the State of Nebraska but shall not include (a) any court, (b) any member or employee of the Legislature or the Legislative Council, (c) the Governor or his or her personal staff, (d) any political subdivision or entity thereof, (e) any instrumentality formed pursuant to an interstate compact and answerable to more than one state, or (f) any entity of the federal government;(2) Employee shall mean any person employed by an agency, regardless of rank;(3) Official shall mean any elected state official;(4) Personnel action shall include dismissing, demoting, transferring, reassigning, suspending, reprimanding, admonishing, reducing in rank, or reclassifying an employee, withholding work from an employee of an agency, requiring an employee to submit to a fitness-for-duty examination or take disability retirement, any other involuntary action taken against an employee, or any threat thereof made against an employee; and(5) Wrongdoing shall include any action by an agency or employee which (a) is a violation of any law, (b) results in gross mismanagement or gross waste of funds, or (c) creates a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety.Source  Laws 1993, LB 44, § 3.
NE Code § 81-2705 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2705 - Employee protections.

81-2705.  Employee protections.Any person who has authority to recommend, approve, direct, or otherwise take or affect personnel action shall not, with respect to such authority:(1) Take personnel action against an employee because of the disclosure of information by the employee to the Public Counsel or an official which the employee reasonably believes evidences wrongdoing;(2) Take personnel action against an employee as a reprisal for the submission of an allegation of wrongdoing or a violation of this section to the Public Counsel or official by such employee; or(3) Take personnel action against an employee as a reprisal for providing information or testimony, pursuant to an investigation or hearing held under the State Government Effectiveness Act, to the Public Counsel, an official, the State Personnel Board, a corresponding personnel appeals board, or the director or chief operating officer of an agency.Source  Laws 1993, LB 44, § 5.
NE Code § 81-2706 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2706 - Employee protections; Public Counsel; powers and duties.

81-2706.  Employee protections; Public Counsel; powers and duties.(1) The Public Counsel shall receive any allegation of a violation of section 81-2705 and investigate to determine whether there are grounds to believe that a violation has occurred or is about to occur.(2) When investigating an allegation of a violation of section 81-2705, the Public Counsel shall have access to all information maintained by any agency or employee directly or indirectly involved.(3) If the Public Counsel terminates the investigation of an alleged violation of section 81-2705, the Public Counsel shall, in writing, promptly inform the employee who raised the allegation.(4) If the Public Counsel finds that there are grounds to believe by a preponderance of the evidence that a violation of section 81-2705 has occurred or is about to occur, he or she shall transmit his or her finding in writing to the employee who raised the allegation. The Public Counsel shall also transmit his or her finding in writing to the Governor and (a) the State Personnel Board if the employee is employed by an agency that is subject to the State Personnel System or (b) the personnel appeals board of the employee's agency if the employee is employed by an agency that is not subject to the state personnel system. If no such personnel appeals board exists, the Public Counsel shall transmit his or her finding to the director or chief operating officer of the agency, or if the director or chief operating officer has committed or is about to commit the violation of section 81-2705, the finding shall be transmitted to the Governor or his or her authorized representative.(5) Any finding that is made and transmitted by the Public Counsel pursuant to subsection (4) of this section shall include a finding regarding whether an alleged violation of section 81-2705 has occurred or will occur within two years after the date the employee engaged in an action for which he or she is protected from retaliation pursuant to section 81-2705.Source   Laws 1993, LB 44, § 6;   Laws 1995, LB 856, § 2;   Laws 1997, LB 15, § 1.
NE Code § 81-2708 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2708 - Allegation of wrongdoing or violation of employee protection; official; powers.

81-2708.  Allegation of wrongdoing or violation of employee protection; official; powers.An official who receives an allegation of wrongdoing or of a violation of section 81-2705 may conduct a preliminary investigation of such allegation or submit such allegation to the Public Counsel for investigation pursuant to section 81-2704 or 81-2706. A copy of any written findings issued by the Public Counsel pursuant to such an investigation shall be transmitted to the official submitting the allegation.Source  Laws 1993, LB 44, § 8.
NE Code § 81-2709 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2709 - Employee; cause of action authorized; attorney's fees; presumption.

81-2709.  Employee; cause of action authorized; attorney's fees; presumption.(1) An employee aggrieved by the decision rendered pursuant to subsection (1) of section 81-2707 who has been or is about to be injured by a violation of section 81-2705 shall be entitled to maintain a cause of action pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act for damages, reinstatement, backpay, and such other relief, including preliminary relief, as the court may deem appropriate. An employee who prevails in an action under this subsection shall receive reasonable attorney's fees incurred during the action.(2) In an action brought pursuant to subsection (1) of this section by an employee who establishes that a personnel action was taken against him or her after he or she submitted an allegation of wrongdoing or provided information to the Public Counsel, his or her investigators, employees, or agents, or an official in conjunction with a preliminary or formal investigation undertaken pursuant to section 81-2704, the personnel action shall be presumed to have been taken against such employee because of such allegation. Such presumption may be rebutted by appropriate evidence.Source  Laws 1993, LB 44, § 9. Cross References  Administrative Procedure Act, see section 84-920.
NE Code § 81-2710 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2710 - Intentional misuse of act; disciplinary action.

81-2710.  Intentional misuse of act; disciplinary action.No employee shall intentionally misuse the State Government Effectiveness Act. Intentional misuse shall include frivolous use, attempts to treat a personnel grievance as an allegation of wrongdoing, and repeated attempts to use such procedures to obtain a resolution of views that do not satisfy the criteria prescribed in subdivision (5) of section 81-2703 for allegations of wrongdoing. The Public Counsel or official may report to the agency any employee found by the Public Counsel or official to have intentionally misused the act, and such employee may be subject to such disciplinary action as is deemed appropriate by the director or chief operating officer of the employee's agency.Source  Laws 1993, LB 44, § 10.
NE Code § 81-2711 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2711 - Employee rights and responsibilities; notice required.

81-2711.  Employee rights and responsibilities; notice required.(1) By December 31, 2005, the Public Counsel shall prepare for agencies a written notice of the rights and responsibilities of employees under the State Government Effectiveness Act. By January 31, 2006, the Public Counsel shall distribute the written notice to each agency.(2) Beginning January 31, 2006, each agency shall post the notice in a conspicuous manner at the place of employment. Each agency shall inform its employees of their rights and responsibilities under the State Government Effectiveness Act by distributing the notice to each employee in print or electronic format.Source Laws 2005, LB 475, § 1.
NE Code § 81-2801 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2801 - Railroad right-of-way; acquisition by state agency; approval of Legislature; exception.

81-2801.  Railroad right-of-way; acquisition by state agency; approval of Legislature; exception.No agency of this state shall purchase, lease, or acquire real estate from any railroad over a right-of-way outside of incorporated cities and villages which has been permitted to be abandoned by a federal agency without prior approval by the Legislature of such purchase, lease, or acquisition, except that (1) the Game and Parks Commission may acquire all or any part of a railroad right-of-way proposed to be abandoned for interim trail use pursuant to sections 37-303 and 37-914 and (2) the Department of Transportation may acquire such real estate solely for the purpose of highway construction or improvements when such right-of-way is adjacent to an existing state highway or when such right-of-way is needed to maintain existing improvements that have previously been located upon such right-of-way through agreements, easements, or leases. Real estate acquired by the department pursuant to this section which is in excess of that needed or is deemed no longer necessary shall be disposed of as provided for in section 39-1325.Source   Laws 1971, LB 662, § 2;   Laws 1983, LB 119, § 1;   R.S.1943, (1990), § 74-424;   Laws 1994, LB 414, § 4;   Laws 1996, LB 584, § 21;   Laws 1998, LB 922, § 410;  Laws 2017, LB339, § 290.
NE Code § 81-2901 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-2901 - State civil offices; vacancy; how filled.

81-2901.  State civil offices; vacancy; how filled.Every state civil office filled by appointment shall be vacant upon the happening of any one of the events listed in section 32-560 except as provided in section 32-561. The resignation of the incumbent of such a civil office may be made as provided in section 32-562. Vacancies in such a civil office shall be filled as provided in sections 32-567 and 32-574 and shall be subject to section 32-563.Source   Laws 1994, LB 76, § 609;  Laws 2015, LB575, § 30.
NE Code § 81-3110 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 81 - State Administrative Departments|81-3110 - Act, how cited.

81-3110.  Act, how cited.Sections 81-3110 to 81-3124 and 81-3133.01 to 81-3133.03 shall be known and may be cited as the Health and Human Services Act.Source  Laws 2007, LB296, § 1;  Laws 2014, LB974, § 11.