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University Daily Kansan, April 3, 1984
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Senate delays drinking-age action
By ROB KARWATH
Staff Reporter
TGPEKA — Instead of debating a controversial bill that would raise the drinking age for 3.2 percent beer, the Senate yesterday acted on several major issues and sent three of the more controversial measures to Gov John Carlin.
Senate Majority Leader Robert Talkington, R-Iola, said the Senate Republican leadership decided to wait until this afternoon to decide whether the drinking age for 3.2 beer should be raised from 18 to 19.
Talkington said that Senate leaders decided to act on minor issues rather than spend all afternoon debating the controversial bill.
But State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., RLawrence, who favors keeping the drinking age at 18, said the stall was designed to give supporters of the bill more time to gather votes in favor of the measure.
A majority vote in the Senate would send the drinking-age bill back to the House where final approval is almost certain, and then to Carlin. The governor said last week that he would sign the bill.
During the all-day session, the Sepate sent Carlin a bill that would finance multi-year building projects
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KU also would get $85,000 in fiscal 1986 to plan the science library.
KU will get $170,000 for fiscal 1985 to plan a new science library. That money will be transferred from the fiscal 1985 budget for the construction of the Haworth Hall addition. But that money will be returned to the Haworth construction budget in fiscal 1986.
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Carlin also will receive a bill that would strengthen the law against dog fights.
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The Senate also approved and sent to the governor a bill that would toughen the law prohibiting parents from driving in the state by the front seats of passenger cars
The out, which must go back to the House for final approval, was introduced by Rep. James Lowther, R-Emporia. In a committee meeting earlier this month, Lowther said he had introduced the bill because several of his constituents told him that they were worried that jacked-up cars and trucks could cause serious damage if they collided with cars of normal height. Cars and trucks commonly are elevated with lift kits that raise the vehicle's body off the frame or with oversized tires.
The plan, which would allocate money for fiscal years 1955-1988, includes $420,000 for the University of Iowa and $320,000 for the Illinois University of Kansas Medical Center.
The Senate unanimously approved the bill that would increase the penalty for violating the law from a Class C to a Class B misdemeanor.
The bill also would allow police to confiscate dogs from owners suspected of training them to fight or dogs during police raids on dog fights.
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Sen. Richard Gannon, D-Goodland and father of a young daughter, said the bill would place a hardship on him because of the long hours he must spend on the road between Goodland and Topeka.
In defending the bill, Senate Majority Leader Robert Talkington, Rola, said young children were too young to wear safety belts. Children who
Under current law children 2 years old and under are required to be placed in safety seats when they are five months old. If the bill would raise age that age to 4 years.
weigh under 50 or 60 pounds become flying projectiles if they are unrestrained in a vehicle involved in an accident, he said.
"Jessica cannot stand to be buckled into that seat for that length of time," he said.
A motion by Hess to kill the bill failed 15-17.
Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita and father of two children under 4 years of age, led the protest against the bill. Hess asked whether the Legislature would return each year to push up the age until even the elderly were required to restrain themselves in some fashion.
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Parents or guardians caught breaking the law would be fines $10 under the bill. Currently, they are given only a warning. However, the bill provides that if parents prove they have obtained a restraining seat after being cited, the fine will be withdrawn.
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The bill, which won unanimous approval, would instruct the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Kansas Department of Revenue to change the background color in the photograph on driver's licenses of people who obtain their licenses before turning 21.
The bill passed 25-15 after lengthy debate on whether the state was overstepping its bounds in telling children to care for their children.
TOPEKA — With some lawmasters calling it an infringement on the rights of parents, the Senate yesterday approved and sent to Gov. Scott Ritter to toughen a law requiring parents to ensure their children in safety seats.
The background color is blue on all Kansas drivers's licenses. Blue probably would remain the background color on driver's license photographs for people who are 21 and older when they receive their licenses.
TOPEKA — People who make fake driver's licenses may have their work cut out for them if a bill that passed the Senate yesterday becomes law.
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