University Daily Kansan, March 30, 1983
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Legislative Roundup
Open records bill
Richard von Ende, executive
retary of the University, testified
yesterday against a provision in
a open records bill passed by the House
that would allow public access to
grants and preliminary policy drafts.
Bill Kauffman, counsel to the Board of Regents, also testified before the Senate Governmental Organization Committee against the provision.
Kauffman said that in the remote event the Regents were considering closing a school, dismissing a group of teachers or eliminating certain programs, the mere consideration of the action would have to be made public if at least three members of the nine member board were informed.
The bill would require that all public records be open for inspection by anyone unless the record was required to be held. The lists 29 exemptions, including some medical, personnel and police investigation records.
Food bill OK'd
The House gave final approval yesterday to a Senate bill known as the "Good Samaritan" food bill.
Under the bill, people donating canned or perishable food to charitable or nonprofit groups for free distribution would not be held criminally or civilly liable for injury, illness or death caused by the food.
The food would have to be fit for consumption at the time it was donated. The immunity from liability of the workers in the groups that distributed the food.
However, in order for the immunity to apply, any injury or death must not be a direct result of negligence, but rather intentional misconduct of the donor.
The bill was supported by nonprofit groups that give assistance to the needy in Kansas.
Water bill passed
The Kansas House voted to pass a bill that would require anyone desiring to transfer large amounts of water within the state to prove that the transfer would benefit the whole state.
A water transfer hearing panel would have authority over transfers of 1,000 acre-feet or more of water a year over distances of 10 miles or
Matters the panel would consider in their decisions about transfers would include:
- the economic, environmental and other impacts of approving or denying the transfer.
- alternative sources of water available to the applicant.
- conservation plans and practices of the applicant for water now available as well as the water proposed for transfer.
The Senate must approve the changes made by the House before the bill would go to the governor.
Severance bill amended
The amended bill would put a 4 percent tax on oil and a 7 percent tax on natural gas. It would not tax salt and coal.
The House Assessment and Taxation Committee amended a Senate severance tax bill Monday and sent it to the full House.
The committee also prohibited oil and gas producers from deducting property taxes from the severance taxes they owed.
Oil and gas industry spokesmen strongly favored the Senate credit for property taxes, but Gov. John Carlin opened it.
The amended bill, which would continue to tax royalty owners, a move Carlin opposed, would raise an annual $5.5 million for the state's general fund.
If the House passes the bill, the Senate must approve the changes made before the bill would go to the governor.
The Kansas Senate gave tentative approval Monday to a bill that would tighten bingo regulations.
Bingo regulations
The bill would prohibit bingo parlor, which rent space to nonprofit groups to conduct bingo games, from having rental costs on the proceeds of the game.
Now bingo parlers are allowed to charge up to 50 percent of the take from a group's bingo games as rent. But some legislators said that practice violated the intent of the bingo law, which allows only nonprofit groups to make money by conducting bingo games.
Instead, the bill would give the secretary of the Kansas Department of Revenue the authority to judge whether a charged was "fair and reasonable."
The bill would also require any group that takes in $1,000 or more a month from bingo games to deposit all money received into a bingo trust bank account, from which any price of $100 or more would be paid by check.
will do or there would be part by check.
The bill will now go to the House for
study.
Property valuation
The House Assessment and Taxation Committee revised a Senate bill yesterday to update property valuation and sent the bill to the full House.
The House-amended bill would require the state Property Valuation Division to begin collecting information this year on real estate values. The information from each county would be stored in a central computer beginning next year, and the state would supervise the progress made by county appraisers in reevaluating property.
The new values would not be used for property tax purposes until after the Legislature adopted them in 1887. The laws were originally called for in the Senate bill.
The last statewide reappraisal was conducted in 1964.
Classification would allow the state to assess different types of property at different rates. It would prevent the tax shift from business and commercial agricultural properties that resuppraisal is expected to cause.
Govern John Carlson said he would veto a reappraisal bill this year unless classification was also approved.
On campus
TODAY
THE UNIVERSITY FORUM will feature a presentation by Jan Roskam on "How Safe is Safe Enough?" at noon at the Christian Ministries Ministry, 2040 Owens Road.
KU GERMAN CLUB will meet at 4:30 p.m. in 4060 Wescote.
THE STUDENT SENATE ad hoc committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Library.
THE STUDENT SENATE Finance and Auditing Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union.
KU COMMITTEE TO SOUTH AF-
RICA will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the
Jayhawk Room of the Union to see a
film, "Six Days in Soweto."
*CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST*
will present College Life, "What 14,000
College Women are Looking for in the
morning," at 9 p.m. in Woodruff
Auditorium.
CARP will show a film, "World Hunger and its Implications" at 12:30 p.m. in the Regionalist Room in the Union.
THE STUDENT SENATE Finance and Auditing Committee will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union.
A CONCERT by the KU Concert Choir and Concert Chorale will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Reverial Hall in Murphy Hall tomorrow.
ECKANCAR will discuss "What Lies Beyond Death?" at 8 p.m. in the Governor's Room of the Union.
KU to rename theatre, lounge
fine arts school that it does," she said.
The University Theatre will be renamed the Crafton-Preyer Theatre during the April 9 performance of the "Magic Flute." Charla Jenkins, director of public relations for the theatre, said this week.
The theatre will be renamed to honor J. Allen Crafton, a pioneer in theatre education, and Chail A. Prover, professor of drama at The University Department for 56 years. Jonkins said.
In addition, the faculty lounge on the fourth floor of Murphy Hall will be renamed the Charles Sanford Skilton School and will be the former dean of the School of Fine Arts.
BECAUSE OF CREATON'S work, the University of Kansas had a theatre department long before many other schools, she said.
"Without the influences of these three men, the University would not have the high quality theatre department and
Crafton directed the University Theatre for 28 years and oversaw the production of about 260 plays during his 33 years as department chairman.
Preyer was born in Germany and studied at the Stuttgart Conservatory of Music before coming to Lawrence in 1888.
Skilton was dean of the School of Fine Arts for 12 years.
He was a noted composer of music with American Indian themes and he started the first University radio broadcast of classical music.
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