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Sen. Mike Jacobson proposes updates to Nebraska Geologists Regulation Act in public hearing on LB38
Summary
Senator Mike Jacobson introduced LB38 to amend the Geologists Regulation Act, reducing required experience for licensure, adding voluntary pathways for academics and exempt-field geologists, and modernizing administrative requirements; the Nebraska Board of Geologists testified in support.
Senator Mike Jacobson, state senator for District 42, introduced LB38 to the Natural Resources Committee as a modernization and cleanup of the Geologists Regulation Act.
Jacobson said LB38 would “streamline processes, modernize provisions and cut unnecessary red tape,” including reducing the required geologic experience for licensure from five years to four, adding a voluntary licensure pathway for individuals in exempt fields such as academics, permitting qualified non‑licensed geologists to serve on the licensing board (including university faculty), and removing outdated requirements such as printed licensure rosters and language that assumes paper‑based examinations.
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