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Volume 126 Issue 95
kansan.com
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
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the student voice since 1904
GOVERNMENT
STATE LEGISLATURE WEEKLY RECAP
Liquor production, public consumption, renewable energy repeal bills in legislation
TOM DEHART news@kansan.com
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While University students took a vacation away from school, legislators in Topeka remained at work.
Some legislation that students may have missed while on break include bills that double the amount of alcohol local microbreweries can produce in a calendar year, designate areas of alcohol consumption in public, designate state fossils
and a Senate Substitute that repeals the current Renewable Portfolio Standards for energy providers in the Kansas.
A piece of legislation that drew critical attention over break was the creation of the Senate Substitute for House Bill 2014. This substitute would repeal the Renewable Portfolio Standards that required Kansas utilities to have 20 percent of their required energy come from renewable resources by 2020.
KEY BILLS AT A GLANCE
Senate Bill 433
The Senate Substitute for House Bill 2014 contains the contents of Senate Bill 433, and has replaced the original contents of House Bill 2014 in its form when it passed through the House of Representatives in the 2013 session. Originally, House Bill 2014 was a bill concerning inheritance rights related to a divorce.
Senate Bill 346
Senate Bill 446
Senate Bill 346 has the potential to increase the production rates of local breweries in the state to 30,000 barrels of alcohol instead of the state's current limit of 15,000 barrels. This piece of legislation could increase Lawrence's Free State Brewing Co.'s production rates.
Senate Bill 446 would allow the designation of areas for public alcohol consumption, as the bill states in Section 1. "A city may by ordinance establish a designated area located wholly within the boundaries of such city where alcoholic liquor may be consumed on public streets, alleys, roads, sidewalks, highways, parks and such other open public lands located within such designated areas."
House Bill 2595
House Bill 2595 would designate two state fossils, the tylosaurus and the pteranodon, as the official fossils of the State of Kansas. Currently, the bill was placed on the Senate's General Orders.
Edited by Austin Fisher
STATE LEGISLATURE SUMMARY
Senate Bill 346 would double microbreweries production limit
Senate Substitute for House Bill 2014 repeals the current Renewable Portfolio Standards for energy providers in Kansas.
Senate Bill 446 would allow consumption of alcohol in designated public areas.
House Bill 2595 would designate two fossils, the pteranodon and the tylosaurus, as Kansas' official fossils.
ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback talks during a news conference in Topeka on March 7. The Supreme Court ruled this month that the state's current public school funding levels are unconstitutional. Currently, the Kansas Legislature is hearing bills from the Senate and House regarding liquor laws, the possibility of state fossils and the repeal of renewable energy legislation.
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