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NE Code § 84-929 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-929 - Negotiated rulemaking committee; powers and duties; consensus; procedure; report; contents.

84-929.  Negotiated rulemaking committee; powers and duties; consensus; procedure; report; contents.(1) A negotiated rulemaking committee shall consider the matter proposed by the agency for consideration and shall attempt to reach consensus concerning a proposed rule and any other matter the committee determines is relevant to the proposed rule.(2) The person representing the agency on a negotiated rulemaking committee shall participate in the deliberations of the committee with the same rights and responsibilities of other members of the committee and shall be authorized to fully represent the agency in the discussions and negotiations of the committee.(3) A negotiated rulemaking committee may adopt procedures or ground rules for the operation of the committee.(4) If a negotiated rulemaking committee achieves consensus on a proposed rule at the conclusion of the negotiations, the committee shall transmit to the agency that established the committee a report containing the proposed rule.(5) If a negotiated rulemaking committee does not reach a consensus on the proposed rule, the committee shall transmit to the agency a report specifying areas in which the committee reached consensus and the issues that remain unresolved. The committee may include in the report any other information, recommendations, or materials that the committee considers appropriate. Any member of the committee may include as an addendum to the report additional information, recommendations, or materials.Source  Laws 1994, LB 446, § 9.
NE Code § 84-930 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-930 - Facilitator; selection; duties.

84-930.  Facilitator; selection; duties.(1) An agency may nominate a person to serve as a facilitator for the negotiations of the negotiated rulemaking committee, subject to the approval of the committee by consensus. If the committee does not approve the agency's nomination for facilitator, the agency shall submit a substitute nomination. If the committee does not approve the substitute nomination of the agency for facilitator, the committee shall select by consensus a person to serve as facilitator. A person designated to represent the agency in substantive issues may not serve as facilitator or presiding officer for the committee.(2) A facilitator approved or selected by a negotiated rulemaking committee shall:(a) Preside at the meetings of the committee in an impartial manner;(b) Impartially assist the members of the committee in conducting discussions and negotiations and achieving consensus; and(c) Manage the keeping of minutes and records.Source  Laws 1994, LB 446, § 10.
NE Code § 84-931 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-931 - Convenor or facilitator; contract authorized; state employee; disqualification; members of negotiated rulemaking committee; expenses; per diem; grants or gifts.

84-931.  Convenor or facilitator; contract authorized; state employee; disqualification; members of negotiated rulemaking committee; expenses; per diem; grants or gifts.(1) An agency may employ or enter into a contract for the services of an organization or individual to serve as a convenor or facilitator for a negotiated rulemaking committee or may use the services of a state employee to act as a convenor or facilitator for a committee.(2) An agency shall determine whether a person under consideration as a convenor or facilitator of a negotiated rulemaking committee has any financial or other interest that would preclude the person from serving in an impartial and independent manner. A person disqualified under this criterion shall be dropped from further consideration.(3) Members of a negotiated rulemaking committee shall be responsible for their own expenses of participation. However, an agency may reimburse a committee member for expenses incurred in serving on the committee as provided in sections 81-1174 to 81-1177 and a reasonable per diem rate of compensation if:(a) The committee member certifies a lack of adequate financial resources to participate in the committee; and(b) The agency determines that the committee member's participation in the committee is necessary to ensure an adequate representation of the interests of the members.(4) An agency may accept grants or gifts from any source to fund the negotiated rulemaking process if:(a) Information on the name of the person giving the grant or gift and the amount of the grant or gift is available to the public;(b) The grant or gift is given to and accepted by the agency without placing any condition on the membership of a negotiated rulemaking committee or the outcome of the negotiated rulemaking process; and(c) There is consensus among the members of the negotiated rulemaking committee that the acceptance of the grant or gift will not diminish the integrity of the negotiated rulemaking process.Source   Laws 1994, LB 446, § 11;  Laws 2020, LB381, § 133.
NE Code § 84-932 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-932 - Agency action; judicial review; limitation; negotiated rule; judicial review; treatment.

84-932.  Agency action; judicial review; limitation; negotiated rule; judicial review; treatment.Any agency action relating to establishing, assisting, or terminating a negotiated rulemaking committee under the Negotiated Rulemaking Act shall not be subject to judicial review. Nothing in this section shall bar judicial review if such judicial review is otherwise provided by law. A rule which is the product of negotiated rulemaking prior to formal adoption pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act and is later subject to judicial review shall not be accorded greater deference by a court than a rule which is the product of the rulemaking procedure of the Administrative Procedure Act alone.Source  Laws 1994, LB 446, § 12. Cross References  Administrative Procedure Act, see section 84-920.
NE Code § 84-933 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-933 - Act, how cited.

84-933.  Act, how cited.Sections 84-933 to 84-948 shall be known and may be cited as the Occupational Board Reform Act.Source Laws 2018, LB299, § 1.
NE Code § 84-934 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-934 - Definitions, where found.

84-934.  Definitions, where found.For purposes of the Occupational Board Reform Act, the definitions in sections 84-935 to 84-944 apply.Source Laws 2018, LB299, § 2.
NE Code § 84-935 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-935 - Government certification, defined.

84-935.  Government certification, defined.Government certification means a nontransferable recognition granted to an individual by an occupational board through a voluntary program in which the individual meets personal qualifications established by the Legislature. Government certification allows the certified individual to use a designated title. For purposes of the Occupational Board Reform Act, in analyzing health professions which are subject to the Nebraska Regulation of Health Professions Act, the definition of certification in section 71-6206 applies.Source Laws 2018, LB299, § 3. Cross References  Nebraska Regulation of Health Professions Act, see section 71-6201.
NE Code § 84-936 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-936 - Lawful occupation, defined.

84-936.  Lawful occupation, defined.Lawful occupation means a course of conduct, a pursuit, or a profession that includes the sale of goods or services that are not themselves illegal to sell irrespective of whether the individual selling them is subject to an occupational regulation.Source Laws 2018, LB299, § 4.
NE Code § 84-937 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-937 - Least restrictive regulation, defined.

84-937.  Least restrictive regulation, defined.Least restrictive regulation means one of the following types of regulation, listed from least restrictive to most restrictive, consistent with the health, safety, and welfare of the public:(1) Market competition;(2) Third-party or consumer-created ratings and reviews;(3) Private certification;(4) Specific private civil cause of action to remedy consumer harm;(5) Deceptive trade practices under the Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act;(6) Mandatory disclosure of attributes of the specific goods or services;(7) Regulation of the process of providing the specific goods or services to consumers;(8) Inspection;(9) Bonding or insurance;(10) Registration;(11) Government certification; and(12) Occupational license.Source Laws 2018, LB299, § 5. Cross References  Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act, see section 87-306.
NE Code § 84-938 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-938 - Occupational board, defined.

84-938.  Occupational board, defined.Occupational board means a board, commission, department, or other entity created by state law which regulates providers through occupational regulations.Source Laws 2018, LB299, § 6.
NE Code § 84-939 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-939 - Occupational license, defined.

84-939.  Occupational license, defined.Occupational license means a nontransferable authorization in law (1) for an individual to perform exclusively a lawful occupation for compensation based on meeting personal qualifications established by the Legislature and (2) which is required in order to legally perform the lawful occupation for compensation.Source Laws 2018, LB299, § 7.
NE Code § 84-940 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-940 - Occupational regulation, defined.

84-940.  Occupational regulation, defined.(1) Occupational regulation means a statute, rule, regulation, practice, policy, or other state law requiring an individual to possess certain personal qualifications or to comply with registration requirements to use an occupational title or work in a lawful occupation.(2) Occupational regulation includes any government certification, registration, and occupational license.(3) Occupational regulation does not include (a) business licensure, facility licensure, building permit requirements, or zoning and land-use regulation except to the extent that the same state laws that require a business license, a facility license, a building permit, or zoning and land-use regulation also regulate an individual's personal qualifications to perform a lawful occupation or (b) an occupational license administered by the Supreme Court.Source Laws 2018, LB299, § 8.
NE Code § 84-941 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-941 - Personal qualifications, defined.

84-941.  Personal qualifications, defined.Personal qualifications means criteria related to an individual's personal background and characteristics, including completion of an approved educational program, satisfactory performance on an examination, work experience, other evidence of attainment of requisite skills or knowledge, moral standing, criminal history, and completion of continuing education.Source Laws 2018, LB299, § 9.
NE Code § 84-942 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-942 - Private certification, defined.

84-942.  Private certification, defined.Private certification means a nontransferable recognition granted to an individual by a private organization through a voluntary program in which the individual meets personal qualifications established by the private organization.Source Laws 2018, LB299, § 10.
NE Code § 84-943 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-943 - Provider, defined.

84-943.  Provider, defined.Provider means an individual provider of goods or services engaged in a lawful occupation.Source Laws 2018, LB299, § 11.
NE Code § 84-944 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-944 - Registration, defined.

84-944.  Registration, defined.(1) Registration means a nontransferable registration granted to an individual under which (a) the individual is required to give notice to the government that may include the individual's name and address, the individual's agent for service of process, the location of the activity to be performed, and a description of the service the individual provides, (b) upon receipt of the notice by the government, the individual may use the term registered as a designated title to engage in a lawful occupation, and (c) such notice is required to engage in the lawful occupation for compensation and is required in order to use the term registered as a designated title to engage in the lawful occupation.(2) Registration may require a bond or insurance.(3) For purposes of the Occupational Board Reform Act, in analyzing health professions which are subject to the Nebraska Regulation of Health Professions Act, the definition of registration in section 71-6217 applies.Source Laws 2018, LB299, § 12. Cross References  Nebraska Regulation of Health Professions Act, see section 71-6201.
NE Code § 84-945 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-945 - Use of terms certification, certified, registration, and registered; how construed.

84-945.  Use of terms certification, certified, registration, and registered; how construed.For purposes of the Occupational Board Reform Act:(1) Government certification and registration are not synonymous with occupational license;(2) Except as provided in section 84-935, when the terms certification and certified are used outside of the Occupational Board Reform Act to mean a requirement that an individual meet certain personal qualifications to work legally, those terms in that context shall be interpreted for purposes of the Occupational Board Reform Act as requiring an individual to meet the requirements for an occupational license; and(3) Except as provided in section 84-944, when the terms registration and registered are used outside of the Occupational Board Reform Act to mean a requirement that an individual meet certain personal qualifications to work legally, those terms in that context shall be interpreted for purposes of the Occupational Board Reform Act as requiring an individual to meet the requirements for an occupational license.Source Laws 2018, LB299, § 13.
NE Code § 84-946 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-946 - Statement of policy.

84-946.  Statement of policy.It is the policy of the State of Nebraska:(1) To protect the fundamental right of an individual to pursue a lawful occupation;(2) To use the least restrictive regulation which is necessary to protect consumers from undue risk of present, significant, and substantiated harms that clearly threaten or endanger the health, safety, or welfare of the public when competition alone is not sufficient and which is consistent with the public interest;(3) To enforce an occupational regulation against an individual only to the extent that the individual sells goods or services that are included explicitly in the statutes that govern the occupation;(4) To construe and apply occupational regulations to increase opportunities, promote competition, and encourage innovation;(5) To use the least restrictive method of regulation as set out in section 71-6222 for lawful occupations subject to the Nebraska Regulation of Health Professions Act; and(6) To provide ongoing legislative review of occupational regulations.Source Laws 2018, LB299, § 14. Cross References  Nebraska Regulation of Health Professions Act, see section 71-6201.
NE Code § 84-1001 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-1001 - Basic workweek; state officers; departments; hours required; exceptions; holidays; payment; rules and regulations.

84-1001.  Basic workweek; state officers; departments; hours required; exceptions; holidays; payment; rules and regulations.(1) All state officers and heads of departments and their deputies, assistants, and employees, except permanent part-time employees, temporary employees, and members of any board or commission not required to render full-time service, shall render not less than forty hours of labor each week except any week in which a paid holiday may occur.(2) Regular work by such employees shall not be performed on paid holidays, Saturdays, or Sundays except in case of an emergency or when otherwise ordered or deemed essential by the Governor.(3) For purposes of this section, paid holidays shall include all of the days enumerated in section 25-2221 and all days declared by law or proclamation of the President or Governor to be holidays.(4) All such holidays shall be paid holidays except as provided in subsection (5) of this section. For purposes of this section, employees shall include permanent and temporary employees. A permanent employee shall mean an employee in a regular full-time or part-time position who works a full-time or part-time schedule on an ongoing basis, and a temporary employee shall mean an employee appointed to a full-time or part-time position for a limited period of time to accomplish a specific task. If any such holiday falls on Sunday, the following Monday shall be a holiday. If any such holiday falls on Saturday, the preceding Friday shall be a holiday.(5) Employees who are required to work on any holiday shall be granted either a workday of compensatory time off or be paid for the time worked in accordance with existing state and federal statutes, except that temporary employees shall not be eligible for paid holidays and if required to work on a holiday shall be paid for the time worked at their normal rate of pay. Permanent part-time employees shall be eligible for paid holidays on a pro rata basis. In order to receive pay for such holiday an employee, whether part time or full time, must not have been absent without pay on the workday immediately preceding or immediately following the holiday unless excused by his or her supervisor. The Director of Personnel shall adopt and promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to administer this section.Source   Laws 1957, c. 398, § 1, p. 1364;   Laws 1969, c. 839, § 1, p. 3164;   Laws 1974, LB 1001, § 1;   Laws 1992, Third Spec. Sess., LB 14, § 30.
NE Code § 84-1002 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-1002 - Basic workweek; state institutions; hours required.

84-1002.  Basic workweek; state institutions; hours required.All heads of institutions and their deputies, assistants, and employees, except part-time employees, shall render not less than forty hours of labor each week.Source  Laws 1957, c. 398, § 2, p. 1364.
NE Code § 84-1003 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-1003 - Basic workweek; staggering of hours.

84-1003.  Basic workweek; staggering of hours.To effectuate the purposes of sections 84-1001 and 84-1002, any state officer or the head of a department or institution may stagger the hours and days of work of the employees supervised by him except where the salary is set as provided by law.Source  Laws 1957, c. 398, § 3, p. 1364.
NE Code § 84-1004 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-1004 - Basic workweek; authority of Governor; time when effective.

84-1004.  Basic workweek; authority of Governor; time when effective.The Governor shall have authority, after conferring with the employing officers concerned and with the employees, to make sections 84-1001 to 84-1005 effective to employments in any board, commission, department, or institution at any time on or after January 1, 1958.Source  Laws 1957, c. 398, § 4, p. 1364. Annotations Sections 84-1001 to 84-1005, R.R.S.1943, have not been made applicable to members of the State Patrol. Roth v. Lieske, 189 Neb. 216, 201 N.W.2d 846 (1972).
NE Code § 84-1005 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-1005 - Basic workweek; persons excepted.

84-1005.  Basic workweek; persons excepted.Subsection (2) of section 84-1001 shall not apply to (1) employees of the University of Nebraska, the state colleges, the Nebraska Brand Committee, or the Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, (2) the Superintendent of Law Enforcement and Public Safety, his or her deputies and assistants, members of the Nebraska State Patrol, or carrier enforcement officers designated under section 60-1303, or (3) the employees of the Division of Motor Fuels of the office of the Tax Commissioner who render service on such days and maintain such hours as the Governor may designate, except that when employees are required to work on any day designated as a paid holiday, subsections (4) and (5) of section 84-1001 shall apply.Source   Laws 1957, c. 398, § 5, p. 1365;   Laws 1965, c. 572, § 1, p. 1860;   Laws 1967, c. 617, § 2, p. 2070;   Laws 1969, c. 840, § 1, p. 3166;   Laws 1969, c. 839, § 2, p. 3165;   Laws 1985, LB 395, § 14;   Laws 1989, LB 247, § 17.
NE Code § 84-1101 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-1101 - Act, how cited.

84-1101.  Act, how cited.Sections 84-1101 to 84-1116 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska General Emergency Succession Act.Source  Laws 1959, c. 457, § 1, p. 1515.
NE Code § 84-1102 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-1102 - Declaration of policy.

84-1102.  Declaration of policy.Because of the existing possibility of an attack of unprecedented size and destructiveness upon the United States; and in order, in the event of such an attack, to assure continuity of government through legally constituted leadership, authority, and responsibility in offices of government of the state and in the governments of all political subdivisions in the state; to provide for the effective operation of governments during an emergency; and to facilitate the early resumption of functions temporarily suspended; the Legislature finds and declares it to be necessary to provide for emergency interim succession to governmental offices of all types of this state and of its various political subdivisions in the event the incumbents thereof are or become unavailable to perform the functions and duties of such offices; and to enable the governing bodies or the electors of political subdivisions in the state to invoke the provisions of sections 84-1101 to 84-1116 therein.Source  Laws 1959, c. 457, § 2, p. 1515.
NE Code § 84-1104 (2021)
2021 Nebraska Revised Statutes|Chapter 84 - State Officers|84-1104 - Sections; applicability.

84-1104.  Sections; applicability.From and after the passage, approval, and taking effect of sections 84-1101 to 84-1116, their provisions shall apply to and shall be binding upon all state offices and officers.Source  Laws 1959, c. 457, § 4, p. 1518.