CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, April 6, 1984
Page 9
Senate puts off drinking-age vote
By ROB KARWATH Staff Represented
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Since Prohibition was lifted 47 years ago, the Kansas Legislature has not changed the drinking age for 3.2 percent beer. The state voted to wait at least two more weeks before deciding whether to raise it.
The Senate voted 21-19 to postpone voting on a bill that would raise the drinking age for 3.2 beer from 18 to 19. The final vote may be taken April 28. The Senate is scheduled to return from a two-week vacation that begins today.
STATE SEN. Edward Reilly Jr., R Leavenhower and chairman of the State and Federal Affairs Committee, distributed a letter yesterday morning that said his committee would hear opinions on all sides of the
dispute on April 25.
Really said the committee would discuss keeping the drinking age for 3.2 beer at 18, raising it to 19, or allowing the legal age to consume all liquor to 21.
Although the committee is powerless to amend the bill, Reilly said the hearing would shed light on the hearings and left the Senate in the dark all week.
State Rep. Robert Miller, R-Wellington, said yesterday that he and other representatives who supported raising the drinking age would push for a vote in their chamber on a second bill that would raise the drinking age to 19 if the Senate rejected the bill it was considering.
THE DRINKING-AGE bill was one of the first measures the Senate considered shortly after convening at 9 a.m.
But Miller said that because the Senate had only postponed the vote and had not killed the bill, he would vote for the House to decide on the second bill.
As expected, one of the Republican senators who yesterday voted to send the bill to the Federal and State boards, it was said, will lift the Senate reconsider that decision.
State Sen. Ed Rottz, R Pittsburg,
offered the motion, which passed
25-15.
State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, then suggested that the Senate approve the bill to raise the drinking age to 19. Debate began, with Hess and colleagues arguing over the desk of Senate Vice President Charlie Angell, R-Plaims.
Reilly slowed debate when he took the floor and spoke for almost an hour. But his attempted filibuster ended when he yielded to State Sen. Richard Gannon. D-Goodland.
Staff Reporter
By LORI DODGE
Regents budget goes to Carlin
TOPEKA — Another step toward finalizing the Board of Regents (fiscal 1985 budget was made yesterday when the board approved the budget, which approved the board's final draft.
The last stop for the budget bill is Gov. John Cartin's desk. The governor must sign the measure within 10 days for it to be finalized.
The measure remained in the same form as it was when it came out of a conference committee earlier in the week, including systemwide 7 percent increases in both faculty salaries and billing expenses. OOE funds are used for minor building costs, maintenance and equipment purchases.
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
share of the budget emerged from the
1968 reorganization.
Senate-approved money for the salary support of 10 new graduate teaching fellows.
However, some local legislators are optimistic that the money could be restored in an omnibus bill that would be passed at the end of the session.
It’s never over until it’s completely
over. It’s State Rep John Subscha
D Lawrences
State Sen. Wint Winter, R Lawrence,
said that it was possible that all or part
of the new bill would be approved.
Both said that they would continue working for KU's budget interests during the next two weeks when legislators were recessed. The Legislature will meet again April 25 for its final wrap up session.
The final budget also provides a 5 percent increase for student workers and a 7 percent increase for utility expenses.
THE GENEROUS BUDGET. legis
laws have now, represents an attemp
to make up for a substantial budget cut that Regents schools suffered during a fiscal crisis in 1982. That summer, the budget grew to $14.2 million from the system's budget.
"The Regents did take a $1.2 million cut, I can't not apologize for that," said Michael Cohen.
"This is an attempt to put a little bit back."
Hess said that this was the best year the Regents had ever had.
"The Regents got everything they wanted." he said
Under the bill, KU would be allotted $153.3 million, and the University of Kansas Medical Center would receive $159.4 million.
Salaries for classified employees, such as secretaries and maintenance workers, will be decided in a separate bill.
The final draft represents $4.7 million more for the Regents schools than the governor had recommended.
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