University Daily Kansan, February 11, 1983
Page 11
Jobless benefits would be frozen by bill
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
The Kansas House yesterday tentatively approved a bill that would freeze unemployment benefits for two years and would require state employers to pay additional money into the fund.
The bill, which was sent to the House from the Committee on Labor and Industry, was aimed at preventing the unemployment fund from going broke.
Gov. John Carlin, in his January legislative address, warned that the unemployment fund would be depleted by September unless the Legislature acted to boost the fund's money supply. Final vote on the bill is scheduled for
Final vote on the bill is scheduled for today.
Under the approved bill, unemployed workers receiving maximum unemployment benefits would be paid the amount about a week that they were paid in 1982
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Employers who last year paid less to the fund than the amount their laid-off workers drew out would be assessed an additional surcharge on their fund contributions.
The bill would force employers to pay 20 percent more into the unemployment benefits.
A group of legislators had asked that the bill be amended so that it would freeze unemployment benefits for one year, instead of two.
But a majority of Republicans voted to keep the committee's bill intact.
The amendment, proposed by State Rep. Anthony Henry, D-Topka, was approved on June 26.
HENSLEY SMD THAT an advisory board comprised of labor and industry representatives had proposed to Legislature that the bill last only one year.
THE MAXIMUM EMPLOYMENT benefit paid each week was $165, although most unemployed received an average of $123 a week last year.
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Stanwick said Loveland was working a 38-caliber pistol, which belonged to another officer, when it shot down an unidentified plane in the ceiling of Loveland's office.
"HE SAID HE double-checked to see whether the gun was loaded," Stanxin said. "But there was a cartridge in the chamber."
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"The bill is what we call 'grossed.' It will go through the Senate as they want it."
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Dawrence, said she had heard rumors in the Capitol that some Republicans had voted for the two-year plan because they did not want to deal with the issue mention next year, an election year.
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Stanwick said no suspension of Loveland was planned. However, the incident will be investigated, he said.
Also included in the bill was a provision that would allow the Department of Human Resources to assess an additional surcharge if the state's unemployment fund dropped below a $35 million balance.
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Sgt. Larry Loveland shot a hole in the ceiling of his office on the second floor of the Judicial-Law Enforcement building, 111 E. 11th st., at about 2:45 p.m., Chief R. Richard Stanwix said.
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Steve Goodman, director of employment security in the Department of Human Resources, said that 73,700 people were unemployed in Kansas in December of 1982. That was 6.2 percent of the work force.
He also said that the legislation would be dissolved if the unemployment fund reached a $100 million balance by December.
Loveland received powder burns on his face and eyes and was taken to the emergency room at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and then to his personal doctor, who treated him and sent him home. Stanwix said.
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A Lawrence police officer was slightly injured Wednesday afternoon when a gun he was working on discharged less than a foot from his face, the Lawrence chief of police said yesterday.
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What further led us to believe that he was attempting to suppress the pamphlet was the conversation he had with two members of Latin American Solidarity in which he mentioned that he personally found the pamphlet objectionable.
It was not until reading the article in the U.D.K. F. 4, page 5 entitled "Senators question political financing" that our fears were confirmed. Both the tone of the article and the statements by Terry Frederick that a lawyer from the University General Counsel's office "had told him that Senate could not do anything to prevent the group from printing the pamphlet," supported this. At this point we feel the need to express our disgust and display with this attempted suppression of free speech through this advertorial.
You can pick up a copy of the controversial pamphlet outside the Kansas Union during lunch hour this week, and form your own opinion. Or come to our meeting Feb. 11, Cork I, Kansas Union Catefederia. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
We also feel it necessary to publically criticize the unclear disclaimer which we feel is damaging to our group and pamphlet. Contrary to what the disclaimer suggests, members of Latin American Solidarity are KU students and consequently our pamphlet reflects the ideas of KU students.
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Members of Latin American Solidarity feel strongly that Terry Frederick and perhaps others in Student Senate attempted to suppress our pamphlet. It is difficult for us to believe that the Student Senate Treasurer (even if he is relatively new) was unaware of the Senate rules and regulations upon which student groups may or may not be funded. We're referring specifically to the rules concerning the definition of political. (See article VII, Section 5. Number 8, or "7.5.8" on page Vile of the RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE STUDENT SENATE, updated Jan. 1982, which were given to a LAS representative on Feb. 8, 1983). Even if he was unaware of these rules, several members pointed out the definition of political to him from the very beginning of our interaction concerning the pamphlet.
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