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-LEGISLATURE OF NEBRASKA
-ONE HUNDRED NINTH LEGISLATURE
-FIRST SESSION
-LEGISLATIVE BILL 73
+One Hundred Ninth Legislature - First Session - 2025
+Introducer's Statement of Intent
+LB73
 
-Introduced by DeKay, 40; Brandt, 32; Dorn, 30; Hallstrom, 1; Ibach, 44;
-Lonowski, 33; McKeon, 41; Meyer, 17; Murman, 38; Strommen,
-47.
-Read first time January 09, 2025
+Chairperson: Senator Carolyn Bosn
 Committee: Judiciary
-A BILL FOR AN ACT relating to law enforcement; to amend section1
-81-1414.07, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska; to eliminate2
-obsolete provisions; to change the number of hours of annual3
-continuing education courses required for law enforcement officers;4
-to provide an operative date; and to repeal the original section.5
-Be it enacted by the people of the State of Nebraska,6
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-Section 1. Section 81-1414.07, Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska,1
-is amended to read: 2
-81-1414.07 (1)(a) In order to maintain his or her professional3
-status and serve the law enforcement profession, the community, and the4
-residents of Nebraska, each law enforcement officer, other than a5
-noncertified conditional officer, shall attend continuing education6
-courses for the number of hours required in subdivision (1)(b) of this7
-section in the areas of criminal justice and law enforcement during each8
-calendar year beginning on January 1 and ending on December 31. A law9
-enforcement officer is not required to meet the continuing education10
-requirements in the year in which he or she first becomes fully11
-certified. A law enforcement officer may retire from service in good12
-standing without meeting the continuing education requirements in the13
-calendar year of the officer's retirement. 14
-(b) The number of continuing education hours required under this15
-subsection shall be  the greater of: 16
-(i) Until January 1, 2022, twenty hours; 17
-(ii) Beginning January 1, 2022, and until January 1, 2023, twenty-18
-eight hours; and 19
-(i) For a law enforcement officer serving in a county with a20
-population of forty thousand or more inhabitants as determined by the21
-most recent federal decennial census or the most recent revised certified22
-count by the United States Bureau of the Census, (iii) Beginning January23
-1, 2023, thirty-two hours ; or . 24
-(ii) For a law enforcement officer serving in a county with a25
-population of less than forty thousand inhabitants as determined by the26
-most recent federal decennial census or the most recent revised certified27
-count by the United States Bureau of the Census, twenty hours.28
-(c) For a law enforcement officer who is not employed but who wishes29
-to maintain such officer's professional status, the officer shall be30
-considered to serve in the county of the officer's residence for purposes31
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-of subdivision (1)(b) of this section. 1
-(2) The annual continuing education required by this section shall2
-include: 3
-(a) Refresher courses on de-escalation, mental health, and substance4
-abuse issues; 5
-(b) A minimum of two hours of anti-bias and implicit bias training;6
-(c) Firearms; 7
-(d) Officer wellness; 8
-(e) Legal updates, including, but not limited to, legislative9
-changes and First Amendment and Fourth Amendment issues;10
-(f) Vehicular pursuit policy review; and 11
-(g) Any other training as determined by a law enforcement agency.12
-(3) Continuing education courses may be offered in the form of13
-seminars, advanced education which may include college or university14
-classes, conferences, instruction conducted within the law enforcement15
-officer's law enforcement agency, or instruction conducted over the16
-Internet. Continuing education shall be of a type which has application17
-to and seeks to maintain and improve the skills of the law enforcement18
-officer in carrying out his or her duties and responsibilities.19
-Sec. 2.  This act becomes operative on January 1, 2026.20
-Sec. 3.  Original section 81-1414.07, Reissue Revised Statutes of21
-Nebraska, is repealed. 22
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+Date of Hearing: March 20, 2025
+
+The following constitutes the reasons for this bill and the purposes which are sought to be
+accomplished thereby:
+LB73 would reduce the number of hours of annual training required for law enforcement
+officers serving in counties with populations under 40,000.
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+Principal Introducer:   ________________________________
+Senator Barry DeKay
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