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Matt Unger, St. Louis fourth-year architecture student, worked on a class project for his studio architecture class last night in Marvin Hall. He braved the cold weather to walk from Pearson Scholarship Hall to Marvin Hall.
Liquor debate moves to Senate
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Legislation permitting local decisions on Sunday liquor sales and sharply raising the state's tax on alcohol cleared a committee yesterday and headed to the full Senate for debate.
The increase in the gallonage tax would raise an estimated $11 million a year, senators said.
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee endorsed the heavily amended bill after rejecting a larger tax proposal and an attempt to allow liquor sales on Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day.
Day and Labor Other sections of the bill would allow cities to pass liquor ordinances more restrictive than the state's laws and would require a quarterly compliance check of businesses that sell alcohol.
In addition, the bill clarifies that the state's liquor control act applies uniformly throughout Kansas, forbidding local governments from exempting themselves from parts of it and creating their own alcohol statutes.
Several cities — mostly along the border with Missouri, where Sunday sales are legal — have passed Sunday sales ordinances in the 16 months since a Wyandotte County district judge ruled that the liquor law act was not uniform. The state's appeal of that ruling is before the Kansas Supreme Court.
Under the bill endorsed yesterday, local governments would decide whether they wanted Sunday sales. But voters could have
their say if at least 10 percent of those who voted in the previous general election signed a petition opposing Sunday sales.
The tax increases, proposed by Sen. John Vratil, would raise the tax on beer to 30 cents a gallon from 18 cents; on fortified wine, to $1.50 from 75 cents a gallon; on light wine, to 60 cents from 30 cents a gallon; and on alcohol and spirits, to $4 a gallon from $2.50.
For a six-pack of beer, the increase would be about 7 cents.
increase would be so low "Gallonage taxes have not been increased in 27 years," Vratil (R-Leawood) told the committee. "These increases would put us in the middle of the four surrounding states."
Vratil said the increase on beer would raise $6.7 million, and the increase on alcohol and spirits would bring in an additional $3.6 million.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said she had not seen the details of Vratil's tax increase yesterday afternoon but was not surprised the hike was tied to Sunday sales
"I think there was some theory at least that was talked about last year where if there are going to be additional sales days, the trade-off should be that we raised a little more money." Sebelius said.
The committee rejected an amendment by Sen. Jim Barnett (E- Emporia) to raise alcohol taxes by even greater amounts — $56 million in the first year and a total $301 million through five years. He suggested raising the 18-cent beer tax to 98 cents per gallon, or about 50 cents on a six-pack.
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