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Senate expands First Responder Recruitment and Retention Act to include correctional and juvenile detention officers
Summary
Lawmakers adopted a committee amendment and advanced LB 608, which extends tuition waivers and related benefits to correctional and juvenile detention officers and authorizes a capped marketing set‑aside for creative districts tied to related tourism legislation in the session.
The Nebraska Legislature adopted a committee amendment and advanced LB 608 to enrollment and review, expanding the First Responder Recruitment and Retention Act to include correctional officers and juvenile detention officers and clarifying eligibility language for dependents.
What the bill does: LB 608 extends already-existing tuition remission and related benefits for full-time law enforcement officers and firefighters to correctional officers and juvenile detention officers. The bill also corrects a drafting omission that had excluded civilian firefighters stationed at Offutt Air Force Base. The committee amendment (AM904) narrowed part of the expansion so…
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