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University Daily Kansan, April 1, 1983
Senate approves spousal rape bill, 39-1
By DIANE LUBER Staff Reporter
TOFEKA — The Kansas Senate did not even discuss a bill yesterday that had been hotly debated in the House before voting 39-1 to pass the bill that would make rape within a marriage a felony.
"This bill does contain some changes (from our traditional words.)" said State Sen. Elwaine Pomeroy, R-Topeka.
Pomeroy is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which completely eliminated the partial spousal
protection from rape charges that the House had put into the bill.
Houses and put them on the
THE BILL now makes no distinction
between the crimes of rape within or
outside of a marriage.
outside conversation.
"If someone holds you up and demands your money, you don't have to prove you resisted," Pomeroy said.
The bill would also eliminate the rape victim's need to prove resistance to obtain conviction.
prove you respect. 4. Intervene with the House will have to agree with the Senate's changes before the bill goes to the governor.
Women as well as men could be charged with rape under the provisions of the bill.
"The bill de-sexes rape," Pomeroy said. "Rape is not a crime of sex or passion. It's a crime of violence."
THE BILL expands the definition of rape to include rape with an object, creates the crimes of sexual battery and aggravated sexual battery, and makes other sex-related crimes fall under the rape shield statute. A victim's previous sexual conduct would be inadmissible as evidence in court.
Proponents of the bill in the Legislature were surprised and pleased when they heard about the Senate's overwhelming approval.
State top. Wanda Fuller, R-Wichita,
had offered the amendment to eliminate spousal protection to both Senate and House committees that had been working on the bill.
"NOW I HAVE my work cut out for me," she said. "If the members of the House don't vote to concur, I'll be ashamed of them."
State Rep. Joan Wagnon, D-Topeka, who had worked on the bill in the House committee, said, "I am very pleased that the Senate passed the bill in the form it did. It sends a strong message to the women of the state.
"And I'm glad the House will have an opportunity to concur."
House Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, said the state needed to update property appraisals, a move that will generate more revenue for the state.
TOPEKA — The House approved a plan yesterday that would require statewide reappraisal of property values for the first time since 1963.
House OKs reappraisal of property
Democratic leaders have warned that reappraisal could shift the tax burden from businesses to farmers and homeowners.
HOWEVER, HE said the plan would probably not survive a final vote Monday because House Democrats were divided on the issue.
Gov. John Carlin has said he would revert waishim, unless the Legislature also passed a plan that would classify different kinds of drugs.
Debate on a classification measure is scheduled in the House for Monday.
CLASSIFICATION WOULD require a two-thirds majority in the Legislature and would have to be approved by voters because it would alter the state constitution.
Classification of property would prevent the tax load from shifting onto farmers and homeowners, Carlin has said.
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TOPERA — Sen. Robert Dole, R-kan, urged the Renai administration yesterday to negotiate a new agreement with sale agreement with the Soviet Union.
"I just believe they would like to do business with us," Dole said at a news conference in Topeka "They can't if we're not knocking on the door trying."
Dole, who is the ranking Republican member on the Senate Agriculture Committee, said the United States had not been aggressive enough in seeking trade agreements with the Soviet Union since Reagan lifted the grain embargo two years ago. President Jimmy Carter included the embargo in 1980.
"Farmers should be willing to contribute toward the establishment of a permanent source of financing like the revolving fund," he said.
In addition to a long-term agreement with the Soviet Union, Dole advocated creation of a $1 billion fund for export credits.
THE U.S. SHARE of Soviet grain purchases dropped from 75 percent to 25 percent since the embargo began, he said.
The House yesterday gave first-round approval to an appropriations bill that would pump $26.3 million in government funds, family planning clinics in Kansas.
The House also defeated an amendment that would have eliminated $1 million in federal funding for the clinics. State Rep. Charles Laired, D-Topeka, proposed the amendment because of concern that they were prescribing contraceptives to minors without parental consent.
Dole also called Gov. John Carlin's proposal to limit the state income tax credits available to individuals and businesses "a mistake."
The House changed a portion of the appropriations bill to give Social and Rehabilitation Services $5.5 million to the Senate version had approved.
Foreign policy should not be considered as a reason for trade restrictions in the Export Administration Act, which is up for reauthorization this year, he said.
The House met Carlin halfway and allotted $3.5 million for General Assistance to the able-bodied group, half of what we originally allotted
Gov. John Carlin had proposed eliminating welfare to all abledied recipients between the ages of 18 and 51.
State Rep. Theo Cribs, D-Wichita, that teenagers were more sexually active now and if the money was not available for birth control, the state would spend more money supporting illegitimate children of teenagers
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Dole denied that the federal government's five-cent-a-gallon increase in the gas tax, in light of income tax cuts proposed by Reagan, shifted the tax burden to those least able to pay.
"As long as we provide money for free birth ciliation pills for teenagers without parental consent, they are going to continue to need it," Lardar said.
The House eliminated medical benefits that the group would have received but added $1.1 million to pay for alcohol and drug abuse treatment for recipients of General Assistance.
"But I don't quarrel with the governor," he said. "He has a job to do, and I don't have a vote over there that I know of."
State Sen. Paul Fleeciano, D-Wichita, said that the panel had voted irresponsibly and in complete bad faith to justify utility burden carried by consumers.
"I VIEW IT as a user fee," he said. "I think it is a pretty fair tax."
The bill would have set a maximum price on natural gas produced in Kansas.
Gas bill killed
A bill that could have saved Kansans $100 million on intrastate natural gas in 1984 and 1985 was killed by a Senate panel yesterday.
Democratic members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee accused Republicans of bowing to pressure from oil and gas
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However, State Sen. Merrill Werts, R Junction City, said that the bill would have only diverted water to interstate gas to the interstate system
State proposes to cut number of KU graduate degree programs
Bv DIANE LUBER
TOPEKA — The number of graduate degree programs offered at the University of Kansas could be reduced if the Kansas lawmakers find they duplicate the programs offered at other Regents institutions.
The House Ways and Means Committee adopted a resolution yesterday that would direct the Board of Regents to study the duplication and to develop a plan to eliminate unnecessary degree programs.
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"MOST OF US are aware that major structural change is needed in our state's educational system if our state is to remain solvent during the 1980s and 1990s," said State Rep. Robert Vancrum, R-Overland Park.
"In the face of the sacrifices we are requiring of other state programs, it is ridiculous to continue allowing each of our six state Regents universities to offer any graduate degree they can justify to themselves."
The resolution states that the Regents' study and plan for eliminating unnecessary duplication would be presented to the Legislative Educational Planning Committee on or before June 1, 1984.
THE REGENTS last fall called for a review of all degree programs at Regents institutions over a five-year period.
Stanley Koplik, executive officer of the Board of Regents, told the committee that the Regents had already instituted a program to carry data on the condition of the resolution.
The first review of degree programs in physical sciences and in engineering will be presented to the Regents in June. Konik said.
"We'll use that review to identify
AND STATE Rep. David Louis, R-Shawnee, said, "We're concerned about studies where nothing ever materialized."
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Kopik urged the committee to give the Regents a chance to deal with program duplication as the Regents saw fit.
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"But we will continue to have programs where only a handful of degrees are awarded."
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