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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1965
Budget, Revenue Problems Face Legislature
By Suzy Tichacek
Balancing the state budget and producing additional revenue for new legislative programs will be the primary problems facing the 1965 Kansas Legislature.
The 44th regular session of the Kansas Legislature will convene in Topeka on Jan. 12. Once again the lawmakers will be confronted with the budgetary prospect of the state spending more than its income.
IN ORDER TO meet the monetary demands, Prof. Nehring felt it was almost inevitable for the Legislature to increase taxes.
"The Legislature doesn't have much choice in taking a positive action along the lines to produce more revenue to underwrite existing and new programs — especially in education," Earl Nehring, associate professor of political science, said.
"The increases will be in sales and income tax," Prof. Nehring said. "1-3"
cause the governor said there will be no new sources of revenue."
According to a study made by the Governmental Research Center the balancing of the budget will be difficult to attain for two reasons. First, the 1964 Budget Session postponed an acute fiscal problem by resorting to bookkeeping devices. Also several of the programs of the new Legislature will require additional revenue, if they are adopted.
THE TWO MAJOR issues which face the legislature, besides the budget problem, include a comprehensive financial foundation plan for Kansas public schools and the problems of reapportionment.
The school foundation finance plan, the most important program in terms of financial magnitude, is a proposal by the state superintendent of public instruction. This proposal would allocate more state aid to primary and secondary schools by a revised method.
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The problem of reapportionment also must be discussed after a ruling was handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court last year stating that the seats in both houses of state legislatures must be apportioned on a population basis. Previously the urban centers had more voting strength but control still remained with rural areas. This was caused when the 1961 special session reapportioned the Kansas Senate on the basis of population and the House on geography.
"A new governor and new presiding officers in both houses makes the legislative action more unpredictable also." Prof. Nehring said.
lature will be dealing with are an expanded system of community junior colleges in Kansas, to increase the state gasoline tax by one cent and a new Sunday closing law to replace the one declared unconstitutional by the Kansas Supreme Court. Also modification of the state's workmen's compensation laws will be proposed.
mercial transactions. This code has been adopted in 29 other states.
"This code." James K. Logan, dean of the Law School said, "would be of aid to the industrial development in the state if people knew the laws would be uniform."
Prof. Nehring said, along with other legislative programs and several highly political problems, the outcome of the session would be hard to predict.
OTHER PROBLEMS THE legis-
The Kansas Legislative Council Judiciary Committee has also recommended the adoption of a Uniform Commercial Code for the regulation of a great variety of com-
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