The Auditor of Public Accounts (“Auditor”) recently audited a number of Tax Increment Financing (“TIF”) projects and issued this report. The Auditor concluded a number of municipalities violated the Community Development Law (the “Act”) that authorizes TIF. TIF allows municipalities to use property taxes from the improvement of blighted and […]
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Committee Releases Final Report to Create a Framework for a Nebraska Climate Action Plan
The 2016 Legislature adopted LR 455, which created a special committee to begin to formulate a plan to address climate change on Nebraska. The committee issued its final report on December 28, 2016. The committee’s recommendations include: • authorizing a planning committee to create a data-driven climate action plan; • […]
Landowners Have the Right to Appeal an Approved Jurisdictional Determination Under the Clean Water Act
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers v. Hawkes Co., 136 S. Ct. 1807 (2016). The U.S. Supreme Court held an “Approved Jurisdictional Determination” (“AJD”) is a “final agency action” because it is a definitive statement by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) as to its jurisdiction over a property, and […]
Congress Extends Moratorium on Enforcement of Supervision Requirements for CAHs (Again)
It’s déjà vu all over again. For the third time in as many years, Congress passed an enforcement moratorium on physician supervision requirements for critical access and small rural hospitals. Section 16004 of the 21st Century Cures Act—signed by outgoing President Barack Obama on December 13, 2016—extends the Centers for […]
HIPAA Breach Log: 2016 Breach Reports Due March 1, 2017
With the end of 2016, covered entities must remember to file all breach reports with OCR. If a covered entity experienced a breach (as defined in the data breach notification rule) during 2016, the deadline for reporting the breach to OCR is March 1, 2017. Covered entities have 60 days […]