University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 11, 1988
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Bill calls for more non-smoking areas
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The House Public Health and Welfare Committee yesterday listened to arguments about a bill that would increase the number of public areas where smoking is not allowed.
The bill would prohibit smoking in public areas where people gather to transact business, purchase tickets or gain admission.
Under a law that the Legislature approved last session, smoking is not allowed in passenger elevators,
Now, managers of restaurants and other proprietors can choose how much space to designate as nonsmoking.
school buses or public transportation vehicles. In all other public places, smoking is allowed only in designated areas.
The bill also would require the proprietor of any public place, such as a restaurant, to designate at least 50 percent of that space as non-smok
But that means that many proprietors are not providing areas for nonsmokers, representatives from the American Cancer Society and the American Lung Society told the committee.
Representatives of the anti-smoking groups said that most bars in the state did not have non-smoking areas.
But State Rep. Gary Blumenthal, D-Merriam, said that lawmakers deliberately left the decision about non-smoking areas to the discretion of the individual proprietors.
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And George Puckett, jobbist for the Kansas Restaurant Association, told the committee that setting a statewide percentage would hurt the owners of smaller restaurants if they had to turn away smoking customers because not enough smoking seating was available.
If customers don't think a restaurant has enough non-smoking seats, they should let the owner know by taking their business elsewhere, Puckett said.
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The Supreme Court bill would add two members to the seven-member bench. Also, the Kansas Court of Appeals would be reduced from 10 members to eight members. The bill would require the governor to appoint two current Appeals Court judges to the Supreme Court.
"This,coupled with the other bill, is aimed at the middle-income people," Bowden said.
Another bill would require minors who seek an abortion to obtain the consent of a parent. A minor could go to court if she could not get parental consent or her parents were not available. Some pro-choice advocates have viewed similar measures in the past as attempts to curtail legal abortion.
Two drastically different proposals to return an expected $135 million state income tax windfall were unveiled in the House. One measure is an income tax revision bill that would return the windfall over two years, plus an additional $10 million to corporations. It is sponsored by 19 Republicans and two Democrats.
The second measure is actually a bill to exempt the purchase of food from the state's 4 percent sales tax, which would cost the state up to $110 million annually. It is sponsored by 14 Democrats.
Supporters of both measures described them as alternatives to Gov. Mike Hayden's tax revision plan and his proposal for keeping about 855 million of the windfall.
Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, agreed a bill that would void any agreement made between a couple and a surrogate mother. The measure would not make the practice illegal, but it would in effect give
surrogate mothers the right to keep the babies they bear if they choose.
The bill stems from the celebrated "Baby M" case in New Jersey, in which a surrogate mother attempted break her contract with a couple after she hore the child. That case is in court for two years, Winter said.
- Senate Minority Leader Michael Johnston introduced a highway plan that would increase the state's motor vehicle fuel tax by 3 cents for roads in southeast Kansas.
- The bill does not specify where the highways in southeast Kansas would be.
- The Senate Local Government Committee killed a bill that would have allowed group homes for the mentally retarded in residential neighborhoods regardless of local zoning restrictions. It died on a 5-5 vote.
Shoplifting claims second pageant contestan
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — A second woman selected to represent Minnesota in this year's Miss USA contest has resigned over shoplifting charges.
The winner of the state pageant, Sue Bolell, resigned Monday after police accused her of stealing swimsuits, hairpieces and other items, and first runner-up Jolene Traks was named to replace her.
But Stavrakis, 20, withdrew from the Miss USA Pageant in El Paso, Texas, late tuesday after WCO-CTV reported she had pleaded guilty in a 1986 shoplifting case.
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