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Monday, May 1, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Legislature exceeds Bennett's '79 budget
By TIM SHEEHY Staff Writer
The Kansas Legislature adjourned late Thursday, but not until they had increased the state budget for next year by $23 million more than Gov. Robert F. Bennett's.
Bennett said during the weekend that he would not hesitate to exercise his line item veto if it appears that the increases would necessitate a tax increase.
A provision included in the omnibus appropriations bill that expands retirement benefits for state employees was responsible for most of the increase. The session was set to end Wednesday but work on the legislation has not been completed by legislators an extra day at work without pay.
The session will be remembered mostly for its bill establishing liquor by the drink in
The bill required numerous changes after Bennett and Attorney General Curt Schneider questioned whether the bill required that the state constitutional ban on食 salenals.
BENNETT ALSO complained of the way in which the bill was passed in the late hours of the session without what Bennett said was full consideration.
During the wrapup session the Legislature passed a cleanup version designed to clarify the liquor bill for its expected examination by a court.
The bill, which is still awaiting Bennett's signature, allows restaurants that derive 50 percent of their revenue from the sale of food to sell liquor by the drink.
The bill stipulates that its measures must be approved by an affirmative county vote.
Besides having the intention of clearing up the open saloon controversy the bill also provides that restaurants can serve liqueur only in which the wine is only in the which the food is served.
On the whole, the Legislature looked favorably upon education across the state.
A TOTAL OF $53.16 million was appropriated from state general funds for the University of Kansas. Included in the bill is a 7 percent increase in salaries for faculty members and capital improvement funds for several buildings on campus.
The bill also establishes a 60 percent tuition fee waiver for those graduate students.
In a bill separate from the general budget the Legislature appropriated $6.2 million for the renovation and improvement of Watson Library.
The main disappointment in the budget came in the areas of women's athletics and basketball.
FUNDING FOR WOMEN'S athletics at KU will increase by $21,000, far short of the request made by KU. The Legislature voted not to let student salaries increase along with wages and agreed to a wage of $2.65 an hour when the minimum wage reached $2.90.
A bill designed to relieve the shortage of doctors in Kansas won the approval of the Legislature. The bill allows a total tution waiver for those students at the University of Kansas Medical Center's School of Medicine who agree to take part in an additional monthly stipend for those who agree to work in areas designated as underserved.
In action taken during the final week of the session the Legislature appropriated $100,000 for the attorney general's office to conduct an investigation of the expansion project at the Med Center. The study will conclude whether alleged defects in workmanship on the project are grounds for the state to file suit.
The Regents school budget was signed into law by Bennett earlier this month.
OTHER BILLS PASSED by the Leutlause this session included:
- A bill that establishes a two-year pilot program in competency-based education on the high school level, directs on a volunteer basis the first year. The program would be statewide in the second year. Students will be tested in competency in mathematics and reading.
- Legalization of the use of Laetrile as a treatment for cancer. The bill allows the manufacture and dispensation of the drug in the state. There is a stipulation that patients sign a release that states that the medical company acknowledges that and does not recognize its medicinal value.
- An appropriation of $5 million to cities for the repair of pot holes, and a bill that extends for one year city immunity from suits resulting from employer negligence.
- Sunset laws designed to curb the growth of state government. The bill requires that several state agencies periodically justify their existence or be phased out.
- A bill that establishes fides of as much as $100 dollars a day for nursing homes that fail to correct deficiencies and a $20 food tax credit for the elderly.
- A $1.66 million appropriation to settle claims against the state resulting from the crash in 1970 of a plane carrying members of the U.S. military football team as well as coaches and fans.
- Several controversial bills were rejected by the Legislature, including;
- Funds totalling $10,000 to expand the number of employees at the Kansas Energy Center.
- A bill to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. The bill, proposed for the second consecutive year, would establish a federal Federal and State Affairs Committee.
- A bill that would have established use-value appraisal, by which farm land would have been appraised on the basis of its productivity.
- Legislation to reinstate the death penalty for some crimes.
- Planning funds for a new medium
security prison requested by Bernett. The funds went instead to community corrections.
The University of Kansas won a concrete cone race this weekend at Tattle Creek
Concrete canoe wins
Students and faculty of the department of civil engineering have been working on the concrete canoe since March, Dave Underwood, chairman of the race, said last
The canoe, which weighs 175 pounds, floats because the rules allow two feet of floatation devices in the bow and prow of the canoe. Underwood said.
KU took the traveling team trophy, with a first in the faculty and men's divisions and a third in the women's divisions. KU also had two other victories and 16 seconds in the men's competition.
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