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Friday, February 12, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Tax windfall battle heats up Hayden adamant in support of balanced budget
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Gov. Mike Hayden's stated refusal to accept an unbalanced budget might hurt the attempts of some opponents of his tax revision plan to fashion an alternative tax package.
That is because one proposal to return most of an expected $135 million state income tax windfall over two years depends on Hayden's acceptance of the proposed plan. The Treasury reserves by spending more than it takes in.
Several House Republicans criticized Hayden's proposal during a caucus meeting yesterday, and 19 of them joined two Democrats in sponsoring the alternative that would return $122 million of the windfall over two years.
Hayden has proposed returning about $50 million of the windfall, $28.6 million of it through revisions of the state's individual income tax and corporate tax codes.
"I think the choice the Legislature has is very clear," Hayden told editors and broadcasters yesterday at a meeting arranged by The Associated Press. "If they want to have $70 million of the windfall returned, they're going to have to find $20 million in cuts in order to do that."
During the caucus, several Republicans complained that Hayden's tax revision proposal allows the majority of a tax increase to remain in place. Johnson County Republicans have accused Hayden of breaking a 1986 campaign promise to return all of the windfall, something he later said was not economically feasible.
"This is the biggest complaint that I hear from my people," said State Art. Rep Duville, R-Overland Park, "that we don't admit we spent the first year of the windfall."
economically relevant.
The state expects to receive the windfall because of the federal tax reform in 1986. Congress generally lowered federal taxes, leaving more income for the state to tax. The state kept all of the windfall it received last year.
State Rep. Robert Vancrum, R-Overland Park, the primary sponsor of the alternative House bill, also said that Hayden's plan would increase taxes for some individuals. His remarks came after Secretary of Revenue Harley Duncan told the GOP caucus that the average effect in all tax brackets would be a state income tax decrease compared to last year.
Mike Hayden
Panel decides against recommendation that AIDS victims be reported to state
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A Senate subcommittee yesterday decided that it didn't want the state to collect the names of people who test positive for the AIDS virus, reversing a decision it had made the day before.
On Wednesday, the seven members of the Senate Public Health and Welfare Subcommittee on AIDS had voted to draft a bill to require all clinics in the state to report the names and addresses of people who test positive for the AIDS virus after two tests. The bill also would have required the state to keep those names confidential. About 43 public clinics in the state test people for the AIDS virus.
The state Department of Health and Environment had asked the committee to draft the bill to help state public health officials deal with
However, State Sen. Alicia Salisbury, R-Topeka, and State Sen. Dick Bond, R-Overland Park, the subcommittee chairman, said yesterday that after Missouri approved such a reporting law, the number of people in Missouri who took voluntary AIDS tests decreased significantly.
"If you do away with voluntary testing, we won't get high-risk groups into the system," Jerry Slaughter, lobbyist for the Kansas Medical Society, told the committee.
That's because many people, especially those with a high risk of having tuberculosis, use it.
The state's first priority should be encouraging voluntary testing, not discouraging it, Salisbury said, and on a close voice vote, the subcommittee agreed with her.
a clinic if they know their names will go to the state if they test positive, Salisbury said.
But State Sen. James Francisco.
D-Mulvane, said, "What are we going to do tomorrow - retract what
The subcommittee on AIDS was formed this session after several legislators in the Senate introduced bills dealing with mandatory AIDS testing and other legal issues concerning AIDS.
we do today?"
tary of health and environment. Those names are confidential.
Present law requires hospitals and physicians in the state to report to KDHE the names of people who have AIDS, said Gary Hulett, underscrere-
The problem occurs with people who have the virus — and thus can infect other people — but have not yet developed the disease, Huelt said.
Bond and Salisbury both said the Legislature would be dealing with AIDS issues for years to come and shouldn't try to do too much this session.
Salk's AIDS treatment being used
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Some patients infected with the AIDS virus are being injected with an inactive form of the virus that was developed by Dr. Jonas Salk using the same theories that led to his vaccine for polio.
seeking approval from the FDA.
The treatment, designed to stimulate the patients' immune systems to prevent them from developing symptoms of the fatal disease, is in an early experimental stage at the University of Southern California.
"At the moment, we are just testing an idea," Salk told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday in a telephone interview from Chicago, where he had a meeting. "We are doing very limited preliminary experiments."
Though the study does not have the approval of the federal Food and Drug Administration, it was licensed under a 1987 law that allows California researchers to test new AIDS therapies without
A spokesman at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., said Salk couldn't be reached for additional comment.
The tests have been under way for several months at USC's Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital under the supervision of physicians Brian E. Henderson, hospital director, and Alexandra Levine, an AIDS researcher and executive associate dean at USC.
"We have a very preliminary
study with no data to discuss." Levine said yesterday. "There is such a study. It has been ongoing for several months. There are a few patients who have been treated. Patients are still being accrued."
patients are injected with "killed, irradiated, whole HIV virus. It's specific immunotherapy. We are attempting to boost the immune system in a very specific sense against HIV. If we can augment the antibody response, we might be able to prevent the development of the clinical illness," she said.
The treatment is being tested on a small number of people, who, although they are infected with the disease, have yet to develop its symptoms.
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