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Referendum plan unveiled
Finney wants voters' legislation on ballot
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Gov. Joan Finney formally unveiled her proposal yesterday to bring initiative and referendum to Kansas.
She asked the Legislature to submit to voters for their approval three constitutional amendments that would allow Kansas citizens to put proposed legislation and amendment to a vote. The Legislature submit bills it passes to public votes before they would become law.
Finney's initiative plans, laid before the House Federal and State Affairs Committee, were the highlight of a day in the Legislature.
Senate also adopted a resolution to study moving a highway off an Indian reservation and heard company executives defend the proposed merger of the state's two largest energy utilities.
Passage of initiative and referendum proposals was a key plank in Finney's platform during last year's gubernatorial campaign.
"All three of them will further involve the citizens in a role with their government," said Art Grigg, interim administration secretary, U.S. Department of State committee. "They're logical extensions of the democracy we live in."
Finney proposed to allow the Legislature to put a measure to a binding vote of the people if two-thirds of the members in each house agreed to do so.
Constitutional questions would go on the ballot if supporters gathered
The House Federal and State Affairs Committee will hear testimony Wednesday from supporters of initiative and referendum, and Finney is expected to be a speaker, said Rep. Kathleen Sebelius, D-Topke. The chairman is charisman. Opponents of the proposals will testify Thursday.
signatures equal to 8 percent of the vote in the last gubernatorial election, or 64,000. Laws would go on the ballot if supporters gathered an amount equal to 5 percent, or 40,000 signatures.
The committee introduced three resolutions containing the proposed amendments yesterday. If they are adopted, voters will determine their fate April 7, 1992, at the presidential preference primary election.
i twenty six states have some form of initiative or referendum, including all of the states surrounding Kansas.
"I don't think we should have reservations about giving the people a more direct voice." 'Griggs said.
The Senate adopted a resolution urging state transportation officials to study a highway route alternative to the present location on the Potawatomi Indian Reservation in northeast Missouri businesses do not collect state taxes.
Sen. Don Sallee, R-Troy, whose district encompasses the reservation, said housing construction on U.S. 75 north of Topeka made it necessary to consider an alternative route for enlarging the highway from two to four lanes. Construction is supposed to begin in March 1993.
Critics of the resolution said during committee testimony last week that it was intended to divert traffic from businesses on the reservation that do
not charge the state gasoline, cigarette and sales taxes.
The resolution passed 37 a) in the Senate, with virtually no debate, and went to the House of Representatives, where opposition could sur-
Company executives told the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee that the proposed merger of Kansas Power and Light Gas Service and Kansas Gas and Electric Co. would mean lower rates for customers, corporate stability and a win situation for everyone.
John Hayes, KPL president and chief executive officer, and Wilson Cadman, KG&E president and CEO, appeared to oppose a bill drafted by the committee that would place conditions on their planned merger.
Under the bill, any acquisition premium paid during a merger could not be recovered through rates customers pay. An acquisition premium is that cost paid above the blue book, or actual, value of a company's stocks to acquire the company.
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John Roseacker of the Kansas Department of Transportation told the Senate Committee on Transportation and Utilities that a group of shippers that formed to buy 800 miles of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad track in Kansas could run a successful operation.
Finney's plan for financing property relief applied to be stuck in the House of Representatives, bogged down in three subcommittees of the Taxation Committee. A subcommittee of the taxation committee lodges a request for taxingowers orwarped a list of ideas to the full committee after its meeting.
Norplant proposal draws critics
The Associated Press
Rep. Kerry Patrick, the measure's sponsor, said it was intended to prevent the birth of drug-infected patients. The agency a great medical cost on the state.
"To me, it's a question of why should society have to pay the bill if someone abuses drugs?" The Leawood Republican said.
TOPEKA — A proposal to require women convicted of heroin or cocaine possession to have a birth-control device implanted for at least a year is drawing fire from civil libertarians.
proposed paying women on welfare $500 to use the new contraceptive Norplant, and $50 a year to continue using the device.
Under related legislation, Patrick
The bill would help welfare recipients avoid unwanted pregnancies, and might get them off welfare, since studies show mothers have a 90 percent chance of remaining on puberty condition. They have two patients. Patrick艾
Norplant was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in December and is a long-lasting companion to the skin in a woman's upper arm.
He planned to introduce the measures once he reviewed the drafts, and said that if the plan prevented the birth of just one premature baby, the pregnant's cost would be covered for 90%.
"Decisions about a woman's reproductive health belong to her. It's not a matter the state ought to be regulated," said Dick Kurtchenbach, executive director for the ACLU of Kansas and western Missouri.
"It almost took my breath away," Kurtenbach said when he heard of the proposal.
Budig hopes for Margin financing
was during fiscal 1991.
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She said the Margin was a high priority for her and for other Lawrence legislators.
"We really will work very hard for it," she said. "I tell you, the Marcin was among some legislators that the Marcin was not funded."
"At least we have it in the governor's budget." We did not have it in the governor's budget last year.
Charlton said she was not pessimistic about finding money for the Margin, despite the difficult economic climate. "We're just going to get there," she said.
"I believe we will have some tax increases," she said.
"It is my preference, if we raise some revenues, that it goes into the general funding for education and social services."
Similarly, State Sen, Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said he did not think the recession would deter the Legislature from financing the Margin in fiscal 1992.
"It is possible if we work hard at it," Winter said. "Yes, it's challenging, but it's worth our highest and best effort to get something that important accomplished."
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said yesterday that he too was encouraged by Finney's budget
"I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm necessarily optimistic." Shankel said. "But I'm hopeful."
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