University Daily Kansan, April 22, 1983
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House passes compromise severance tax
The severance tax bill that the Kansas Legislature has taken three years to work out was approved by the House in record time yesterday.
"If this bill sounds familiar, it's because it is," said State Rep. James Braden. R-Clay Center.
THE HOUSE had approved an almost identical severance tax bill before they adjourned April 9. A conference committee of House and
Senate members had worked out that compromise version of the severance tax, after the two chambers had come up with different tax plans.
But Attorney General Robert Stephan told Gov. John Carlin that the compromise bill had some constitutional flaws.
So the Senate passed a similar severance tax bill Wednesday with technical changes. recommended by
Stephan and the Department of Revenue.
The Senate had taken 2 minutes to approve the bill, but the House eclipsed their record by approving it in 1 minute and 15 seconds.
THE HOUSE later voted 88-36 to pass the bill, which will now go to the governor. Carlin is expected to sign it into law.
$104 million to the state's general fund.
$104 million to the state's general tubi oil and natural gas would be taxed at 8 percent, with a 1 percent property tax at 3.67 percent credit for oil producers. Coal would be taxed at $1 a ton, and salt at 4 cents a ton.
Seven percent of the severance tax revenue would be returned to mineral-producing counties to offset the loss in property tax.
Senate votes to reduce medical scholarships
TOPEKA — The Senate agreed with a House plan yesterday to gradually reduce the number of state medical facilities and eliminate the program by 1987.
During the next three years, 100 scholarships now available to medical students at the University of Kansas Medical Center will be eliminated.
BECAUSE 100 scholarshipss had already been guaranteed for the 1983-84 school year, the Legislature decided to finance the program.
Federal judge issues stay of execution for Evans
hearing before retiring to consider the issue, based on alleged constitutional violations in Evans' trial and sentencing. "I" do not have time to make a decision before midnight tonight. What would happen if I did not issue a stay, but a temporary stay?"
bom chambers rejected Governor John Carlson's proposal to fully eliminate the program during the 1983-84 school year.
By United Press International
ATMORE, Ala. — A federal judge stayed the execution of John Lewis Evans III last night only three hours before the confessed killer — already administered the last rites by a priest
after graduation in a part of the state that needs doctors. Otherwise, students must begin repaying the scholarship six months after graduating.
Only 75 scholarships will be available in fiscal 2018, while 50 scholarships will be available in fiscal 2019.
was the second time he was saved by a last-minute reprieve — in 1979 he was six hours from death when the Supreme Court granted a stay.
The Supreme Court denied a stay at 5.03 p.m., yesterday and Evans' law
However, Cox did not set a time limit on the temporary stay.
Originally, the scholarship program was developed to keep medical school graduates in the state.
was to die in the electric chair.
U. S. DISTRICT Judge Emmett Cox, who got the case in Mobile, Al., only moments after the Supreme Court denied Evans a stay late yesterday, announced at 8:55 p.m. "I need at least six hours and I don't have that tonight I'm going to issue a temporary stay."
"THIS MATTER was given to me at 5:23," said Cox, who held a 15-minute
THE SCHOLARSHIP package will be sent to Carlin for his signature.
Under the scholarship program,
students agree to work for two years
Evans, 33, of Beaumont, Texas, was to have died at 12:01 a.m. Friday. It
In a separate issue, the Senate approved part of a $15 million 'sin tax' package supported by Carlin as a way to raise revenue and state's revenues through users fees.
Nobody Delivers Like . . . BALFOUR
Senate members voted to increase the sales tax on liquor and wine from 4 to 8 percent.
THE SANCTUARY
A proposed increase in the cigarette tax will be considered in the Senate today. The cigarette tax, approved by 14 states, increased from 1 to 10 cents a package.
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