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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1976
Page
8
Legal notice lists measures to be voted on November 2 1876 including texts of constitutional amendments proposed by the legislature. It notes a first session in 1975 and second session in 1976 and adds italic explanations prepared by the Legislative Council executive board.
A lengthy notice describes proposed constitutional amendments for Nebraska. It covers requiring full reading of bills, governor veto procedures, annual legislative sessions starting dates, quorum rules, and authority to issue redevelopment bonds. It outlines multiple articles and sections with voting and effective dates.
The document outlines Proposed Amendment No has Legislature may vote on each vetoed or reduced item individually while preserving current practice to vote on full appropriation bills. It also discusses authorizing overrides of line item vetoes and allows item by item consideration in override votes.
The text outlines a proposed amendment to shift the Legislature's regular session start from the first Wednesday after the first Monday in January to the second Monday in December. It details the 90 day and 60 day sessions by even and odd years and states member terms would begin on the new December date. It preserves the current January start for other scenarios.
The proposal discusses removing the Lieutenant Governor as presiding officer and letting the Legislature choose its presiding officer. It also considers retaining the Speaker as presiding officer in the absence of the Lieutenant Governor and removing the Speaker’s presiding role along with provisions for signing bills. Opponents edge: 0 Against. Be if enacted by the people of.
The text describes Amendment No 5 to empower the Legislature to authorize bonds for acquiring and redeveloping blighted properties with debt repaid from tax differences. It also notes Amendments No 6 restricting or permitting contracting with non public institutions for handicapped child services and outlines aid to non public post high school students for nonsectarian purposes with limited public funding matching. Continued on Page 10.
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