University Daily Kansan, April 2, 1981
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Panel kills mineral tax; backers regroup
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
Down for the count, but not out, supporters of the crippled mineral production severance tax have just begun to recoup their efforts after the bill was killed in the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee yesterday.
"One way in which the bill can be brought back is on a point of personal privilege, asking that the House or the Senate consider the bill as the Committee of the Whole," Charlton said last night after learning of the bill's defeat.
"There is another way that the bill can be saved. That way would be if the sentence tax were amended to indicate that bill being debated in the Legislature."
CHARLTON SAID that she had asked around yesterday to see whether anyone had a "vehicle" in mind to amend the tax onto. She said that at the time, the body had anything in mind, but that that avenue was still a possibility.
Ever since the severance tax entered the Senate, supporters of the bill, including Gov. John Carlin, had been expecting its defeat. That was made more clear when President Ross Doyen unusually assigned the bill to two Senate committees.
"The battle is by no means over yet," Carl's press secretary Bill Hoech said. "He has to do the work." He also several options that the governor is looking into for getting the tax out."
HAD THE BILL made it out of the Assessment and Taxation Committee, Hoch said that the governor's office had not anticipated that it would have made it past the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
Charlton said that although there were no caucus meetings for House supporters as of yet, there probably would be in the next couple of days.
She said she expected the governor's office had already begun strategy
meetings with the support leadership in the Senate.
Such furor over the passage of the bill has stemmed from the controversial nature of the severance tax in this session.
As presented to the Senate, the severance tax would have placed a 5 percent well-heard tax on oil and natural gas, a 2 percent tax on coal, salt and cement.
UNDER THOSE conditions the tax
was expected to raise about $140 million for use in property tax relief, highway repair and school financing.
Many people, especially from western Kansas, were opposed to the bill because they felt that it would cut into their profits on independent wells. Others were concerned that utility rates would increase because of the tax
Carlin had wanted a 5 percent tax on oil, coal and natural gas. In the House, however, that was amended to gain support in the Senate.
School finance Senate's last hurdle
Now that the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee apparently has ended Senate deliberation on the severance tax, Senate President Ross said the remainder of this session should be marked with "smooth sailing."
Doyen, R-Concordia and a strong opponent to the mineral production severance had said that since that big deal had been made, the major concern was left for the Senate.
That one remaining hurdle, is the school finance bill. Action on that bill had been delayed because of its late introduction on Monday.
"The thing with the school finance issue," Doyen said, "is that we are working on a group of ideas, and it is difficult to please everyone.
is just too difficult to make them all happy. We are mainly worried about fine tuning the bill right now."
"There are 306 school districts, and it
The school finance bill would rework the formula for deciding how state and property tax revenues would be distributed to the unified school districts. The formula includes a "wealth formula" to give more funds to poorer areas. This year's bill would eliminate that wealth formula.
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
"Once we can get over that, and it is an annual stumbling block, we should be winding down fairly well," Doyen said. "We will take our time to do what is right on the remainder of the issues and not hurry anything through."
Doyen said that one thing that the woman would attempt to do was to avoid nightmares.
"We'll do as much as we can during the day without rushing anything," he said.
Although the session originally was scheduled to last 90 days, Doyen said
that there was no strict time limitation to get work done.
"According to the 90-day calendar, we should be getting done on April 11," he said. "However, no problem in taking a few extra days to get all of the work done."
Doyen also said that extra work might include an emergency session in the summer to work out changes that affect the budget, and in the state's funding and programs.
"It is still a good possibility that we will have the emergency session," Doyen said. "If the federal government makes some severe adjustments to our tax code, it will be easier to deal with them then, when we recoup next year."
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