Monday, May 1, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Prison bill back in House after 4th Senate approval
by Rias Mohamed
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — A prison construction proposal similar to previously rejected plans will go today to the House for the fourth time, a day after the Senate approved it for the fourth time.
A conference committee on prison overcrowding gave in to a House proposal by agreeing to reduce the cost but still maintained its position on building a $73.2 million, 760-bed prison.
The proposal was approved by the Senate 33-6 last night.
The decision came in response to the House rejection, 73-51, of the second conference committee's plan yesterday afternoon.
milieu's plan years ago. The new board, which would probably be headed by Dorado, would be funded under the house's borrowing proposal from the general tax revenues and from a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Board, a three-member panel that idles insate state funds.
"We cannot reduce the size. We will, however, agree to reduce the cost of this facility by utilizing a portion of the idea of the house." said State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence
and Senate chairman of the prison conference committee.
The committee also agreed to the House's proposal to issue 15-year bonds, which would cut the amount of interest the state would pay.
The proposal is an effort to improve services for mentally ill inmates and to comply with U.S. District Court Judge Richard Rogers' recommendation to improve state prison conditions by July 1, 1991.
Both House and Senate members said they supported construction of a 256-bed facility for mentally ill inmates.
State Rep. Phil Kiline, R-Overland Park and House chairman of the conference committee, said he was not optimistic that the committee's plan would pass in the House.
State Rep. David Miller, R-Eudora, urged House members to send the conference committee's report because the committee had made no changes in its report.
"This is the third time in which we see an identical plan," he said. "I know a middle ground exists."
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Bill would take burden off bars liquor stores in fake I.D. cases
Bar and liquor store owners in Lawrence are waiting for Gov. Hayden to take a load off their shoulders.
Kansan staff writer
by Brett Brenner
On Friday, the Kansas Legislature approved a bill that would relieve some of the heavy penalties for bars and liquor stores that sell alcohol to minors using fake L.D.s. The legislation, which is now before Hayden, puts the burden of guilt on the minor.
If the bill is approved, the bartender or iqrour store clerk would not be responsible for selling alcohol to a minor using a fake I.D. Currently, the person on the payroll for alcohol at the store in 21 possibly is liable.
"I think its an obvious acknowledgment that there is a problem with minors having very good fake I.D.s," he said. "We try hard to find the fake I.D.s, but ultimately the penalty should fall on the perpetrator of the fraudulent act."
Wallace also said he thought that it would be a white before those involved knew the ramifi-
to someone under 21 is prohibited.
Ken Wallace, owner of the Jayhawk Cafe,
1340 Ohio St., said he was pleased with the
legislation.
cations of the legislation.
"I really don't know where it's going to lead," he said. "It may be some time before the police, the bars and the liquor stores know what it means."
He said that the policy of checking I.D.s at the Jayhawk Cafe would not change.
"We'll continue to do exactly what we have been doing, as well as any additional change that is needed."
this may be wrong.
John Webb, owner of Webb's Fine Wines, 800
W. 23rd St., said the legislation would put the
responsibility where it should be.
"The old law was written, 'knowingly or unknowingly sells to a minor,'" he said.
He said many fake I.D.s could easily pass as real because they were made by the state, such as when a minor used someone else's birth certificate or other identification to get a driver license or identification card. He said he because of that he didn't feel it was the retailer's fault.
Retainer's State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said she did not think it was fair to penalize the bar and liquor store owners only.
"I think that using the fake LD, should come with some consequences," she said.
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