University Daily Kansan, April 8, 1983
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Panel boosts Med Center expense budget
by JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — In the face of financial problems at the University of Kansas Medical Center, the Senate Ways and Means Committee yesterday voted to increase the hospital's fiscal 1984 budget or for other operating expenses by $267,000.
The committee approved a 6.5 percent OOE increase, the same increase approved for other Board of Regents schools.
HOUSE MEMBERS approved only a 5.5 percent OOE increase, but the Senate committee reacted favorably to testimony Wednesday from University officials. They said the Med Center could operate with the 5.5 percent
increase, but complained that money had been taken from the Med Center budget too often in the past.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig and David Waxman, executive vice chancellor at the Med Center, told the committee that he would have to ease the hospital's financial problems.
In other action, the committee deleted Med Center salary increases from the budget and decided to introduce salary increases in the omnibus appropriations bill. The omnibus bill is used to clean up financial matters in the last days of the legislative session.
The Senate committee agreed with a House recommendation to add $100,000 to the Med Center budget for biomedical research.
ALSO, THE Senate committee complied with House plans to gradually
In return for scholarships, students are required to work for two years in the state in an area that needs doctors. In some cases, the state must repay the state for the scholarships.
eliminate the State Medical Scholarship fund, which awards scholarships to medical students.
However, only 75 scholarships would be available in fiscal 1985 and then only 50 scholarships would be left for fiscal 1986.
Both committees agreed to finance 100 scholarships for fiscal 1984, because the money had already been guaranteed to prospective medical students.
Included in House and Senate plans was an additional $38,691 for the Poison Control Center at the Mesa Center. It would cost about $2 million to pharmacy so that could hire a second nurse or pharmacy
student to answer a 24-hour emergency hotline.
WITH THE MONEY, the center
will install a second 24-hour
bottle.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, helped encourage the Legislature to finance improvements for the Poison Control Center.
In other decisions, the committee restored $1.2 million that was inadvertently left out of the Med Center's fiscal 1983 budget.
Branson proposed hiring an extra person and installing an extra phone because she said the Med Center could have increased demands for emergency airfare.
The Med Center budget was sent to the full Senate for debate and must be returned to the House for approval of Senate changes.
Negotiators agree to $104 million severance tax
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Round two of Senate and House negotiations on individual severance tax proposals ended yesterday with an agreement to raise $140 million from oil, natural gas, coal and salt industries.
A conference committee will meet again today to continue discussions on rebates that both sides want to pay for the cost that would lose property tax revenues.
ALSO, THE six House and Senate negotiators said they would try to come to agreement on property tax credits or mineral producers paid on emoluments.
Both the House and Senate severance taxes include those credits.
The committee also planned to resolve differences over a Senate plan to discontinue collection of the tax in 1986.
In the agreement to raise $104 million, senators conceded to increase the revenues from their proposed $97 million tax, and House members decided-
ed to reduce their $109 million proposal.
ent to reduce debt $250 million
Charlie Angell, Senate vice president,
R-Plains, said House negotiators had
not cooperated in allowing Senate
members to introduce Senate proposals
during two days of discussion.
House Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, disagreed with Angell that the House was not cooperating and said he expected the committee would come to a compromise some time today. But he promised the committee would meet again tomorrow if it needed to.
"I think the gravity of the question before we would warrant that," he said.
State Rep. James Braden, R-Clay Center and chairman of the House Assessment and Taxation Committee, meeting the tax out of committee today.
BUT BRADEN complained that Senate negotiators were not considering the House's side of the severance tax.
In its meetings, the committee decided to assess an 8 percent tax against oil and natural gas. It would generate $78.8 million from oil producers and $33.5 million from the natural gas industry.
The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Chamber Music Series closes out its 1982-83 season with
"The World's Master of Chamber Music"
guarneri
ARNOLD STEINHARDT, Violin
JOHN DALLEY Violin MICHAEL TREE,Viola DAVID SOYER,Cello with LYDIA ARTYMIW,Pian
Quartet in G minor, op. 74, no. 3  Haydn "The Rider"
Quartet, no.11
Piano Quintet in E Flat Schumann
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office
All seats reserved/For reservations, call 913/864-3982
Public prices: $8/$7; special discounts for students and senior citizens
Partially funded by the Kansas Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the KU Student Activity Fee.
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-Legislative Roundup
Cigarette tax
The committee also passed a bill that would raise the liquor enforcement tax from 4 percent to 8 percent.
Gov. John Carlin had originally asked that the tax be raised to 6 percent.
State census proposed
The Senate Ways and Means Committee introduced a bill yesterday that, if passed, would bring back a state census for Kansas. The bill was introduced at the request of the reappointment committee.
The state's census was abolished after it was used in 1979 to determine legislative districts.
The bill would require Kansas to change the way it has taken the census and to use the methods of the U.S. Census Bureau.
State Sen. Norman Gaar, R-Westwood, sponsor of the bill, said that the federal census included military personnel and counted college students as residents of college towns. The department in the military and counted students as residents of their hometowns.
Using the federal method could intensify arguments over redrawing legislative districts because it would show higher population counts in college districts. Colleges and military bases are generally located in urban areas.
According to the federal census, present Senate districts deviate from the ideal district population of 59.106 people. Gaar said.
The committee also passed an amendment to the bill that would require the state census to be used for purposes such as distributing funds.
31st Annual
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF NATIONS
Sunday, April 10, 1983
Kansas Union Cafeteria
Exhibition Starts at 3:00 p.m., Big 8-Jayhawk Rooms,
Kansas Union
Banquet at 5:30 p.m., Kansas Union Cafeteria Cultural Show at 7:00 p.m. Kansas Auditorium, Kansas Union.
EXHIBITION
Displays of artifacts and slide shows from several countries.
Food from around the world.
CULTURAL SHOW Song and dances from different countries.
TICKETS FOR BANQUET
$5.00 Adult
$3.00 Children
Tickets are available at SUA Office, KU International Club (B115, B Kansas Union) and Office of Foreign Students Services (112 Strong Hall). For information call 864-4824.
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