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Thursdav. March 24. 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Bill would be tough on drunken drivers First-time offenders could face license suspension with Hayden plan
Bv Iill less
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - The Kansas Department of Revenue will be able to suspend a drunken driver's license if a bill heard yesterday in the state Senate Transportation and Utilities Committee is enacted.
The bill already has passed the state House of Representatives. It would allow the Department of Revenue to suspend the driver's license of a person who was convicted of drunken driving or who refused to take a blood-alcohol test after being stopped under suspicion of drunken driving. Under Kansas law, the blood-alcohol level for intoxication in 0.10.
Now, only a court can suspend a driver's license. The bill is part of Gov. Mike Hayden's plan for reducing the number of drunken drive incidents. Hayden pre-
Galen Davis, Hayden's special assistant for drug and alcohol abuse, told the committee that the bill would establish Kansas as a forerunner in drunken-driving enforcement.
enforcement.
"We really do stand at a crossroads that could make Kansas one of the most progressive states in the nation," Davis said.
The Rev. Richard Taylor of Kansas for Life at Its Best! a temperance lobbying group, agreed with Davis. He showed the committee a chart that ranked all the states by their drunken driving laws. Kansas had nine of the 17 laws that were listed.
Taylor said he would like to see the state listed under all 12 laws, and Hayden's plan would accomplish that.
But Gene Johnson of the Kansas Alcohol Safety Action Projects said he thought the legislation might actually reduce the time of license suspension.
The bill would allow the Department of Revenue to suspend a license for 90 days for first-offense drunken driving. The law now allows courts to suspend a license for as long as one year for first-time offenders.
"The majority of that percentage are school bus drivers or the like," Davis said.
Davis told the committee that license suspension had been proved an effective deterrent for drunken drivers. He also said studies had shown that suspension did not affect a person's employability. He said that only about 1.5 percent of people whose licenses had been suspended for drunken driving lost their jobs as a result.
State Sen. Bill Morris, R-Wichita, chairman of the committee, said he had received word from the governor's office that the wording of the bill was poor and that corrections would be addressed at yesterday's hearing. However, no corrections were suggested yesterday.
Hayden includes Margin plan in warning on budget
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Gov. Mike Hayden yesterday warned legislators not to overspend his budget, estimating that so far this session they have added about $2 million to appropriations bills for next fiscal year.
Hayden renewed his pledge to veto the excesses.
Hayden renewed his pledge to veto the excesses.
He cited as overspending by lawmakers:
$27 million added for elementary and secondary schools.
$5.3 million added for universities, including full funding of the Margin of Excellence program, and
$2 million for community mental health centers and Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp.
Hayden said he was particularly opposed to a House amendment to the school finance bill that gives school districts an additional $20 million in state aid next year, and the addition by the Senate Ways and Means Committee of $4.5 million for the Board of Regents'
Margin of Excellence program.
Margaret E. Barrett said he would veto the school finance money — because it overspends his budget in a big way and also would damage the equalization level Kansas has achieved — and that he continued to believe his Margin funding level was fair.
funging level was 14.8.
The state also faces the prospect of spending millions on prison expansion when a federal judge decides what must be done to reduce inmate populations, possible replacement of $1 million in federal funding for Topeka State Hospital and other contingencies.
"It is crucial that legislators not lose sight of the goal to hold the line on spending and enact a balanced budget." Hayden said in his weekly news conference. "While the legislative process is one of debate and negotiation, a balanced budget for Kansas is simply not a negotiable item."
Hayden's warning came with $2^{1 / 2}$ weeks remaining
before the Legislature takes first adjournment April 9. The lawmakers will recess for two weeks, before concluding with a wrap-up session starting April 27.
The governor called it a critical stage in the session as far as spending money.
The $25 million added to his budget so far, Hayden said,
didn't tell the whole story.
"The rest of the story is the impact these decisions have in years to come," he said. "If these initial actions were not to be altered, either by the Legislature or through vetoes, in 1990 our state's budget reserve would be cut from its present responsible level by more than two-thirds, or to an estimated $21 million."
And, the governor added, that doesn't take into account large expenditures the state is facing in education, prison expansion to alleviate overcrowding and shortages in funding for state hospitals, which have led to continuing threats of decertification for federal aid.
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