UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, January 14. 1993
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Legislators eye health care
By Ben Grove
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence legislators are bracing to take on what should become some of the significant issues of 1993.
Two of those legislators, first-term State Rep. Forrest Swall, D-Lawrence, and State Sen. Sandy Paeager, DLawrence, are preparing the most critical issue Fine has called the most critical issue of the 1983 Legislature — health care.
Both legislators serve on the Public Health and Welfare committee in their houses, which will consider most of the health-care legislation.
The Legislative session, which began Monday, marks the first time Praeger has been chairperson of the committee.
"We're going to have to be taking a look at moving toward a more efficient system," Praeager said.
Praeger said one of the first issues that her committee would address was the creation of a statewide data base of all available health-care information.
The data base would help legislators make informed decisions as they enacted health-care policy, Praeger said. Access to more information would allow the state to seek federal aid it had not sought before.
Swall, a committee member in the House, said an estimated 400,000 to 500,000 people in the state did not have access to adequate health care. Most of them are children, he said.
Swall said many of the decisions concerning health care in the state would be made toward the end of the legislative session.
A KU assistant professor of social welfare, Swall is also on the House's agriculture committee, which meets today for the first time. He said the
committee's attention would first turn toward reviewing the state's corporate farming law. Swall said the law did not allow for corporate hog farming in the state, a law that farm groups say protects the family farmer.
State Rep. Barbara Ballard, D-Lawrence, is also serving her first term. Like Swall, she has found herself deep in committee meeting memos. She and fellow House education committee members yesterday heard a report on educational reform in the state from Max Heim, professor of education policy and administration.
Heim was director of a commission formed by the 1992 Legislature to develop goals for primary and secondary education in the state.
"In a sense, it's a kind of map for the next couple of decades." Helt said.
He said one of the seven main commission goals was to prepare children
Heim said Gov. Finney seemed very supportive of the commission's find-
Panel OKs new parking permits
SenEx recommends hang tags as replacements for stickers
By Dan England
Kansan staff writer
Senate Executive Committee passed a proposal yesterday recommending that parking zone stickers be replaced with tags students would hang from the rear view mirrors of their cars.
Permits would be renewed each year by placing new validation stickers on the hang tags, according to the proposal, which was created by the University Parking Board. The hang tags could be used on any vehicle its owner wished.
Faculty would be able to use the hang tags for five years, but they still would have to validate the permit every year, a process students and faculty could complete through the mail.
"For me, to not have to go to the parking garage and fight the crowd would be an advantage," SenEx chairperson Nancy Dahl said at the meeting.
Lynn Nelson, professor of history, said he planned to oppose the recommendations when they come up at University Council, which will consider the proposal next.
"I don't think the parking officers will be able to see those tags," Nelson said.
Nelson also said he was worried about the possibility of
counterfeit tags.
"That could be a very lucrative business for someone with a Canon color copier," he said. "This is a proposal that's asking for abuse."
Sandy Zindars-Swartz, associate professor of religious studies, said she was worried that the new tags would encourage car break-ins.
"I have enough scratches on my car already," Zimdars-Swartz said.
SenExMember Jason McIntosh, who is also on the parking board, said that each tag would have a bar code that parking officers could check with a scanner through the car's window.
If a stolen tag were reported to the department, the tag would show up as stolen on the scanner, and the owner of the car would be reported. That would discourage thefts, McIntosh said.
Robert Thompson, SenEx member, said students would be able to get parking stickers if they did not want hang tags.
Because this is a new system, the Parking Department would hand out three grace passes with each hang tag. A permit holder can forget to hang their permit three times, the report said.
If the holder gets a ticket, and the car is parked in the lot for which the holder purchased the tag, the holder may send back the ticket with a grace pass to cancel it.
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