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Tuesday, January 22, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Key Docking Proposals Are Introduced
TOPEKA (AP)—Democrats rushed yesterday to getay河 Robert Docking's key legislative proposals introduced as the deadline fell on submission of individual
The Senate and House received bills sponsored by Democrats on homestead property tax relief, campaign and election reform, restoration of the budget lid on local units of government and workmen's compensation.
They were among a deluge of 253 bills introduced ahead of the deadline. The inflow brought to 645 the number of bills offered this session. Counting more than 400 bills meant that some 1,110 members would come some 1,110 weeks to go in the 60-day session.
With only introduction of committee-sponsored bills allowed the rest of the session, the Democratic governor was sentenced to three months' sentence submitted after the individual bill cutoff.
Republicans control both houses of the legislature and have majority representation.
An alternative workman's compensation bill introduced in the Senate carried bipartisan sponsorship, Sen. Norman Gaur, R-Westwood, joined Senate minority leader Bock Steinem, D-Kansas City, and Sen. Rick Durkheim, D-Hutchinson, in submitting that proposal.
Gair wasn't say the bill was Docking's workmen's compensation proposal, but he said he thought it was the only one of the measures introduced to improve benefits to workers injured on the job that the governor would accept.
Rep. John Hayes, R-Hutchinson, and others worked a women's compensation bill in the House similar to the one submitted in the Senate.
A third version was introduced opening day of the session. It was drafted by an interim committee headed by Rep. Wendell Gates, who was supported by the Republican leadership.
Bills introduced yesterday in both houses would increase weekly benefits from the federal tax, which was average weekly wage in Kansas, which now would put the payments at about $88 a week.
That's the same as the Lady bill.
However, the new versions exempt agricultural workers hired by an employer with less than a $1,000 annual payroll, and defines an accident-related injury far less stringent than the interim committee's bill.
It would also limit contributions to $300 for each election compared with the interim
State to Study KU Work Load
TOPEKA (AP)—A bill providing for refunds to anyone who paid state income taxes for 1973 was introduced yesterday by a pair of Republican senators.
The bill, sponsored by Sens. Charles Angell, Plains, and Ross Deyon, Concordia, provides a full refund for those paying less than $10, a $10 refund for anyone paying $10 to $125 and an 8 per cent refund to those paying more than $125.
It was estimated the bill would refund about $25 million to Kansas taxpayers.
State treasurer Tom R. Van Sick called it a "sound proposal," and said current state tax revenues are running nearly 25 per cent ahead of the same period last year.
Van Sickle said the result is Kansas has more tax revenue at the moment than it needs and some of the money should be sent back to the people.
"Governments usually tend to balance revenues and expenditures by raising expenditures to the level of revenues that governments can afford, so that government can and should operate more like a business and for that reason I am advocating an immediate refund of tax."
Van Stickle proposed the bill introduced by the two senators.
Both houses also received bills restoring the budget lion on local governments, which was advocated by Docking in his legislative message.
committee's proposal of $1,000, and establish a state elections commission to
The 1973 legislature retained the property tax law lid, but stripped it of the budget lid that had restricted local units since 1970 from increasing their budgets more than 5
Bilfers lower the eligible age for receiving homestead property tax relief from 60 to 50 for heads of households also were introduced by Democrats. That was another key Docking proposal to expand the law under which the elderly and disabled can receive fines on the property taxes they pay if their income is below a certain level.
Debate on the two constitutional amendments on gambling is scheduled Thursday with a final vote Friday. House leaders said yesterday.
The two amendments, which slipped through the Senate with ease last week, will go directly to the floor of the House for consideration by its entire membership.
One amendment would throw the door open to any form of gambling the legislature would choose to legalize and regulate. That would be done by a vote of the people to remove the constitutional ban on lotteries.
The other would keep in effect the prohibition against all firms of gambling except bingo when operated by certain nonbingo organizations such as churches, fraternal organizations and veterans groups.
A bus for students commuting from the Kansas City area will be sponsored by the Student Senate for a two week trial period beginning Monday, according to Cindy Steineger, Kansas City, Kan., senior and chair of the senate's transportation committee.
Commuter Bus Gets Trial Run
The cost to commuters for the bus service will be $15 for ten round trip rides, $10 for six rides and $7 for four rides. Passes are on sale in the Student Senate offices.
If the bus is filled, Steinger said, the ticket money will pay for the price of the service. If the bus system does not break even in the trial period, the senate will cover any additional cost and the service will be discontinued.
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Judge to Rule on No-Fault Enforcement
A Siwanew County district court judge is expected to rule this afternoon whether the Kansas no-fault automobile insurance law was overturned by a case Court, upon appeal, decides its fate.
District Judge William Randolph Carpenter declared the law unconstitutional Jan. 4, ruling that two sections and the title of *Judge* violated state and national constitutions.
He heard a request yesterday afternoon from state officials to delay enforcement of his decision until the Kansas Supreme Court could hear an appeal.
Carpenter's ruling will become effective at noon tomorrow unless he grants the
A spokesman for Kansas Insurance Commissioner Fletcher Bell said yesterday that most Kansas drivers who previously bad medical benefits insurance wouldn't pay higher rates under the new law. He said that most Kansas drivers had adequate insurance.
The legislation, approved by the Kansas Legislature April 11, 1973, was intended to provide more uniform insurance coverage and simplify handling of insurance claims. But not everyone is satisfied with the result
Wing Chow, Hong Kong senior, said that with no-laptop insurance his rates dropped only slightly but that his coverage was substantially reduced.
Kansas Tax Refunds Proposed As State Enjoys Surplus Revenue
By LYN WALLIN
Kaman Staff Reporter
State officials plan an intensive study of the work load of faculty members at the University of Kansas before they approve new faculty positions. Faculty salary increases, for fiscal year 1978,
Gov. Robert Dockinger's proposed budget for 1975 would authorize $33,842,034 for KU in 1975. The Kansas Board of Regents had approved $60,100 for general funding for the University.
The regents' budget includes a 10 per cent increase in faculty salaries, a figure Docking reduced to 8.5 per cent. The regents had put salary increases at the top of their priority list in the budget this year. The governor called his proposed 8.5 salary increase to offset the state now can make" in view of the resources currently available.
"I think there will probably be a compromise between the two figures," Sen. Ross Doyen, R-Conservative, said yesterday. "I think the final figure will be between 8.5 and 10 per cent, but no lower than 8.5." he said.
Doyen, chairman of the Senate ways and means committee, said the legislature is planning to study how faculty members can act on the budget proposals.
"We need a comprehensive inventory of everyone's duty on campus on an hour-wise basis. It's hard for us to visualize without that breakdown," he said.
He said KU Chancellor Archie Dykes had been cooperative in providing the team with the data.
"The legislature is very pleased with Dykes' efforts," Doyen said. "His outreach program has been very good. We think he is a fine man."
"Owen also said there was "rather a unique problem" in the debate over faculty salary increases. He said that the salaries of KU Medical Center personnel were low and that same adjustment might be better when the increases at KU and at the Medical Center.
In an open letter to KU faculty and staff on Jan. 10, Dykes said that although the governor's recommendations weren't responsive to all KU needs and didn't request fullity, they represented a substantial improvement over previous years.
A number of the governor's recommendations are lower than the regents had requested, including overall operating and general tax revenue expenditures.
The reponsals had asked for a 10 per cent increase in overall operating expenses, calling it another top priority. Docking of shipments and per cent increase for those expenditures.
The governor also suggests spending $29,871,327 from general revenue funds compared with the regents' request of $30,604,380.
Crisis ...
—President Nixon conferred with officials of the Federal Energy Office and Internal Revenue Service, urging them to make sure the oil industry refrans from price gouging or realizing windfall profits from the energy crisis. Nixon told the IRS, which entitles federal energy policy, that it should treat all of the personnel needed for the job
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petroleum allocation program. The program went into effect Jan. 15. It includes provisions for equalizing oil supplies available to the nation's refiners. Not all refineries have been equally affected by the oil embargo.
The Energy Office, meanwhile, listed 43 oil refineries required to share crude oil with U.S. suppliers.
-Dixie Ray Ray, the chairman of the Atomic energy Commission, said preoccupation with immediate energy problems must not be allowed to impede quick initiation of a long term energy research and development effort.
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Chew said his liability coverage declined by more than a third.
"My coverage dropped to a tenth of what it was, but the rate was lower only $8 a year out of $200 I was paying," he said.
"The company dropped my medical benefits coverage from $25,000 to the minimum required $2,000 without telling me ahead of time," he said.
The debate over the legality of the Kansas law may mean bad luck for other state's laws, the Kansas insurance department spokesman said.
"We've heard from persons outside Kansas that our law is considered the most clearly defined of any now in effect," he also compares favorably in coverage.
"if our law is ruled unconstitutional, there may not be a single no-fault insurance law in the country that can be enforced," he said.
If enforced, the law would require Kansas motors to buy the following minimum
- Medical benefits of $2,000 per person.
- Loss of earnings benefits of $650 a month.
- —Rehabilitation benefits up to $2,000.
- Survivors benefits of $600 a month for lost earnings and substitution benefits of $12
- Subsidies from the National Disability Insurance Scheme
- Funeral benefits of $1,000 per person.
- Substitute service benefits of $12 a day for up to a year. (Substitute service benefits are reimbursements for services ordinarily performed by an injured non-wearer age, as for housework and child care.)
The law would also require liability coverage with limits of $15,000 per person and $30,000 per accident for injuries and $5,000 per accident for property damage.
Persons injured in accidents could sue to obtain damages only if their medical expenses exceeded $300 or in cases of permanent injury, disgustment or specific injuries. Survivors in a person called in an accident accident could sue for damages.
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