Legislature could give health boost
■ Proposed bill would support statewide
health services by providing strategies and
conducting research.
BY GEORGE GREEN
Community health centers across the
state may get some extra help from the
University of Nebraska Medical Center if a bill
proposed by Sen. Nancy Thompson of
Papillion passes.
LB623, introduced by Thompson on
Hiesday, would create the Nebraska Center
for Education and Applied Research in Public
Health on the University of Nebraska Medical
Center campus in Omaha
The center would provide Nebraska com
munities with health planning strategies, per
sonnel training and technical assistance.
In addition, the center would be charged
with conducting research and measuring,
recording and evaluating public health statis
tics.
“This will take Nebraska healthcare to
another level,” Thompson said.
Tom O’Connor, a spokesman for UNMC,
said the university is willing to do whatever it
can to improve the health of Nebraskans.
“Public health is an important issue for
Nebraska,” he said.
But, he said, UNMC had not fully reviewed
the project and wants to learn more about it
Legislature
eral states and tobacco companies would fuel
the project
Thompson earmarked $550,000 for the
center, which she estimated would employ
about six people.
The initial investment will lower health
care costs in the long run, she said, because
gradually, Nebraskans will be learning how to
live healthier lives.
And, she said, the research group will bol
ster Nebraska’s health care system by identify
ing areas where the state has failed to meet
health care needs.
A spokeswoman for the Nebraska
Department of Health and Human Services
said she could not comment on the bill
because the department had not yet reviewed
it
The new center and the dollars behind it
will also make Nebraska eligible for more fed
eral research grants, Thompson said.
Nebraska would receive extra federal
money because the center would allow the
state to conduct research projects on more
complicated and expensive issues.
“Right now, we’re not strong enough to
manage these initiatives,’’ she said.
Thompson said the center might tackle
research topics dealing with new ways to pre
vent people from smoking or better ways to
keep new mothers informed about the dan
gers of allowing babies to sleep on their backs,
which can cause Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome.
The center would put extra emphasis on
anti-smoking projects because of its ties to
tobacco setdement money, she said.
The benefits of these projects and grants
would not just fall upon Omaha, but spill over
into die rest of the state, she said.
When the center learns about new ways to
improve community health, it will be able to
distribute the information to local health care
centers, she said.
The process of diffusing information
would involve peer training, data trading and
seminars about health issues, Thompson
said.
LB623 proposes more than a new health
center at UNMC.
The bill also suggests throwing $26.5 mil
lion of tobacco setdement money into com
munity-based mental health services and
mental health treatment programs for
inmates, parolees and juveniles.
Beyond these programs, LB623 would
send another $200,000 to UNMC to sustain its
Public Health Program, one of the university's
masters degree programs.
Thompson said the masters program adds
valuable healthcare professionals to the state.
“It gives them the skills to assess, monitor
and implement health programs,” she said.
Oil tax bill killed, schools won't lose out
■ The tax on stripper oil is eliminated
allowing funding to go toward education.
BYOWENTIETGEN
State senators killed a bill Wednesday that
would have lowered oil and gas tax rates and
resulted in a half-million dollar loss to public
schools.
The bill introduced by Sen. Thomas Baker
of Trenton, would have lowered the severance
taxon properties producing more than 10 bar
rels of oil per day to 2 percent
It also would have eliminated the 2 percent
taxon properties producing less than 10 bands
per day. Producers call such oil "stripper oil”.
All the oil properties in Nebraska produce
stripper oil
Oil production in Nebraska has continued
Legislature
said the continuation of die severance tax con
tinues this downward trend.
But revenue from the severance tax goes to
funding Nebraska's schools. Because of the
continuing decrease in oil production, propo
nents said schools will suffer revenue loss.
Bill Sydow from the Nebraska Oil and Gas
Conversion Commission said eliminating the
tax on stripper oil properties sends a friendly
message to oil companies.
"This is an industry that nobody likes in
general anyway,” Sydow said.
“Getting rid of the severance tax would
invite people to come into the state through a
favorable tax system”
Jim Go hi, a land owner from Culbertson,
said getting rid of the tax would be good for die
economy.
"With the tax, less money is spent by land
owners in the community, hurting the commu
nity,” Gohl said
The Revenue Committee heard die bill and
indefinitely postponed it - effectively killing it
for this session.
Sen. Bob Wickersham of Harrison and
chairman of the Revenue Committee, said the
bill had very few benefits.
“The bill reduces revenue to the permanent
school fund and would call for raising property
taxes to compensate that revenue,"
Wickersham said.
“We’re unwilling to shift taxes from one tax
payer to another when these taxes are already
lower than neighboring states."
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