The hearing date for the Midwife Bills has been announced: Thursday, March 5, at 1:00pm in Room 1510.
Entries Tagged as ‘Health & Human Service Committee’
January 28, 2009
More Options in Childbirth
Currently, Nebraska has fairly strict regulations on midwife-assisted birth. There are a few bills this session that would change that…
LB406 would prevent hospitals from denying privileges to a CNM (certified nurse midwife) simply because they are a CNM.
LB457 would change the requirement that prevents a CNM from practicing without working under a doctor. Currently, CNMs [...]
January 14, 2009
Kids, Love, and Money
LB91 seeks to make subsidies for foster children continue once they are adopted. Adoption is a great thing…when the parents are being motivated by love for the child.
I can understand that there are situations where the subsidies would be a good thing, especially for children with high-cost special needs that would present a great financial [...]
January 7, 2009
The Unicameral Begins Session Today
Today’s Lincoln Journal Star discusses a few things related to the beginning of the session. Since the session begins in a little over an hour, and looks to be largely a pro-forma meeting to formally assign committees and elect officers, I thought I might just toss the Journal Star’s items out there for consideration. Obviously, [...]
