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Thank you for visiting the Nebraska State Volunteer Firefighters
Association website.
If you can get at least 25% of
your fire department to sign up for and be approved for the new
NSVFA ATIRACredit Master Card, your department can receive a
dues rebate check equal to $5 per credit card holding member.
For example, if you have 20 members on your roster and at least
5 of them have an NSVFA ATIRACredit Master Card you can apply
for the rebate. If 5 members have the card you would receive $25
back; if 10 members have the card you would receive $50 back!
All you have to do is make a copy of your department roster and
mark which members have the NSVFA credit card. Send the list to
the NSVFA office by mailing it to PO Box 101, York, NE 68467. It
will then be verified with the credit card company and a check
will then be sent to your department. Our members receive lots
of benefits from the NSVFA ATIRACredit Master Card including: No
Annual fee, No Balance Transfer Fee, Low Interest Rate, 24/7
Customer Service and a Great Rewards Program! Signing up for and
using the NSVFA credit card supports your NSVFA. Get you
department signed up today. Applying for the card is easy:
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Find the link to the credit
card on the left side of this home page under NSVFA member
benefit partnerships
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Click on the ATIRAcredit
card tab and arrive at the credit card page, click on the
red “Apply Now” button and begin the application process. It
only takes a few minutes.
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Or, contact the NSVFA office
and request a paper application
This is for a limited time only. Offer expires
January 31, 2010
NEBRASKA STATE SENATORS’ APPRECIATION BREAKFAST
The fourth annual Nebraska State Senators’ Appreciation
Breakfast is scheduled to be held Tuesday, January 12, 2010, at
the State Capitol in Lincoln, Room # 1023.
All NSVFA members are welcome and asked to consider
participating in the breakfast to help promote the NSVFA and
Nebraska Fire Chiefs’ Association as organizations that deem
legislative action important and to promote goodwill on behalf
of all fire and rescue personnel in the State of Nebraska.
Members who can participate in the breakfast are asked to arrive
by 7:00am for briefing. In addition, please notify the NSVFA
office of your attendance by calling 1-800-642-6024 or emailing
the office using the link to the left of this article. If
emailing, please furnish you name, postal address, and phone
number.
Membership for the term
of July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010, is ongoing. All Volunteer
Fire Departments or Companies, Combination Volunteer/Career Fire
Departments, Suburban Fire Protection Districts or Rural Fire
Protection Districts, and Industrial Fire Brigades are eligible
for membership in the NSVFA. See the new Membership Tab for
information.
New Benefits: During the
2009 year, the NSVFA has established three new benefit
partnerships. In addition to the American Income Life $4,000
accidental dismemberment insurance, the Nebraska Firefighter
newspaper, the Fire School class fee member discount, and the
availability of Nebraska Public Agency Investment Trust to
members of the NSVFA, membership now also offers the following
new benefits.
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ATIRAcredit Master Card
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Columbia Southern University online education
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Enterprise rental discounts
Visit the NSVFA Member Benefit
Partnerships tab for additional information or click the icons
to the right for more details.
The NSVFA sponsors
lobbying at state and national levels, supporting a Nebraska
State Lobbyist and two representatives to the National Volunteer
Fire Council. Each year the NSVFA and Nebraska Fire Chief’s
Association executive boards meet with their Legislative and EMS
Committees to choose legislative goals which senators may
sponsor in the upcoming session. Each January, the NSVFA and
Fire Chiefs sponsor an annual breakfast with the senators to
which all members are invited where they may visit with senators
about the importance of the fire and EMS services in Nebraska
and to ask the senators assistance with upcoming legislative
matters. Following the breakfast, a Legislative Stance meeting
is held that is open to all members of the NSVFA and Nebraska
Fire Chief’s Association where upcoming legislative bills are
discussed and stances developed by the two Associations.
These efforts have paid off. The following list of bills is a
small sample of those approved in recent years that are
important to Nebraska fire and EMS services:
APPROVED April 5,
2007, LB 160 to Change fire and rescue department
provisions relating to clothing, equipment, and donations
APPROVED March 31,
2008, LB 948, the Emergency Responders Job
Protection Act, was incorporated into LB 1096
APPROVED April 9,
2009, LB 110, Providing for Specialty License Plates
(The Department of Motor Vehicles processes and regulations
for this bill are being developed.)
APPROVED April 22,
2009, LB 206, Adopt the In the Line of Duty
Dependent Education Act This bill will provide education
benefits for surviving children of LODDs for those attending
state universities, state colleges and community colleges
located in Nebraska.
APPROVED May 13,
2009, LB 92, Move-Over Bill, Serious support was
provided by the NSVFA and the AAA.
APPROVED May 19,
2009, LB 198, Adopt the Reduced Cigarette Ignition
Propensity Act Beginning January 1, 2010, cigarette
manufacturers and cigarette retailers will be required to
produce, market and sell only cigarettes that comply with
the Fire-Safe Cigarette law.
May 21, 2009, LR 182, an interim study, to
research, review and possibly propose legislative solutions
to the growing problem in recruiting and retaining volunteer
firefighters and emergency medical care providers has been
referred to the Revenue Committee.
The Nebraska State Volunteer Firefighters
Association
Needs your membership!
Please refer to the membership tab for more information.
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