University Daily Kansan, June 29, 1984
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Tax amnesty, tuition raise, superfund, among new laws
By United Press International
TOPEKA — Laws passed during the Kansas Legislature's last session will go into effect this Sunday.
New laws will give classified state employees a salary increase of 5 percent, will raise the tuition at community colleges and will establish a state superfund to clean up hazardous waste.
A three-month tax amnesty program will allow people who owed taxes prior to Jan 1, 1983, to come clean with the state. They can pay back taxes without fear of prosecution or penalty.
A NEW CONSUMER protection law makes it illegal for food sellers to use "bait and switch" tactics.
Several of the new laws taking effect Sunday relate to families.
The Child Passenger Safety Act requires parents and guardians who are residents of Kansas to have their children under 4 in an approved child safety restraining system whenever the youngster is a passenger in the front seat.
Failure to comply will result in a $10 fine.
Beginning Sunday, police officers will be able to arrest people when they believe the person has intentionally inflicted bodily harm on
another. Previously, the injured party would have had to file charges.
SUPPORTERS OF the bill said that in many domestic fights, the wives did not want to press charges against abusive husbands.
Another new law increases the marriage license fee from $17 to $25, with the additional money going to a new "protection from abuse" fund to provide shelters for battered wives and their children. It is expected to raise $267,000 a year.
Laws affecting the custody of children and visitation rights also change Sunday.
One requires parents with custody to notify the other parent at least 21
RAYMOND BRECHEISEN/KANSAN
Roger Rumpf, associate director of the Southeast Asia Resource Center in New York, answers a question addressed to him from a member of the audience. Moderator Warner Morse, seated on table, assistant professor of philosophy and faculty advisor for Amnesty International, looks on. Rumpf spoke Wednesday in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union on the topic of the political freedom of the Taiwanese people.
suspected child abuse or neglect should not to wear their uniforms "to the extent that safety and practical considerations allow."
A researcher of human rights violations in Southeast Asia said Wednesday that martial law in Taiwan was restricting the political freedoms of the Taiwanese people, and making political prisoners of many who opposed the government.
Speaker denounces Taiwan
Roger Rumpf, associate director of the Southeast Asia Resource Center in New York, urged an audience of about 70 people in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union to write their representatives in support of pending congressional resolutions denouncing the presence of martial law in Taiwan.
Staff Reporter
By JOHN SIMONSON
Several Taiwanese people in the audience loudly disagreed with Rumpf's assessment of their country's political climate during a question and answer session. Many claimed that Rumpf presented a biased viewpoint of the situation.
RUMPF SAID HE thought the Congress should "have some responsibility to know about the situation in Taiwan. People in Taiwan are calling for an end to martial law in order to return the country to civil government, where people can get a fair and legal trial." Rumpf said.
Much of the disagreement centered on Rumpf's credentials as an authority on human rights in Taiwan. Rumpf admitted that he did not speak Chinese, and a few in the audience said that Rumpf could not have learned enough about the situation in his three weeks there to speak with authority on the subject.
BUT RUMFE MAINTAINED that his time spent in Southeast Asia and extensive research in human rights issues led to a more accurate picture of the situation.
Rumpf, who visited Taiwan in November and December of last year, said that Taiwan's one-party political system had been in place since martial law was established 35 years ago upon Chiang Kai-shek's flight from mainland China.
The Taiwanese government, known as the Kuointong, does allow other candidates to run for office as independents.
However, opposing political parties are outlawed and independent candidates have just 15 days to campaign, he said, which makes it very difficult for independent candidates to gain office, except at the local level.
Rumpf said that opposition to the Kuomintang centered its political thought on self-determination of government by the Taiwanese people, as well as basic human rights. Among these are freedom of religious activity, free assembly and
free speech, including the use of Taiwanese as a language.
Rumpf said that he had met a member of the opposition who had held a local office for many years. The man had been a political prisoner before being released following international pressure.
TAIWANESE IS now outlawed in the schools, he said. Only Chinese can be spoken in Taiwan's schools.
"He said, 'To be an opposition candidate.'" Rumpf said, "you must work very hard, you must be unselfish, and you must be willing to go to jail."
Rumpf's speech was sponsored by the Lawrence chapter of Amnesty International, an organization that corresponds with government officials on behalf of political prisoners worldwide.
Sponsors said the change was needed because the visit by a police officer to a school is noticed and can put an added pressure — from fellow students — on a child who may be abused by parents.
Rumpf asked that the group "adopt" a political prisoner in Taiwan, Kao Chun-ming, general secretary of the Taiwan Presbyterian Church. Kao was imprisoned, Rumpf said, for harboring the organizer of a human rights rally.
"I encourage you to do this for Rev. Kao's benefit, he said, as well as for the people on Taiwan who may be political prisoners. And I might say, some of them have been in prison for over 30 years."
days before moving out of the state.
In a measure affecting both police and children, officers who visit schools to investigate reports of
visitation rights when the court finds that a substantial relationship between the child and the grandparent has been established and that the visits would be in the child's best interests.
ANOTHER CHANGE REQUIRES courts to make any parent who unreasonably denies or interferes with the other parent's visitation rights pay attorney fees and costs of any proceeding to enforce those visitation rights.
Grandparents also may be granted
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