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Tax overhaul proposed
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Two Democratic state senators yesterday proposed the most comprehensive overhaul of Kansas' tax system in modern times, suggesting a giant expansion of the sales tax base, a modest increase in personal income taxes and a 30 percent reduction in property taxes.
Sens, Richard Rock of Arkansas City and Phil Martin of Pittsburgh told a Statehouse news conference that they realized their proposals were complex and difficult for the public to understand but that it was time someone had the guts to offer a tax revision package this revolutionary.
"Perhaps there is enough concern among the citizenry and perhaps there is enough uncertainty today that perhaps something can be done."
"Sure, we worry that it's too complicated to explain to people," Rock said. "We've been warned that the sky will fall and that we will be the victim of a war of criticism. But so be it. This has to be done."
"I am absolutely convinced this will be done; maybe not this year, but it has to be done. We have to have guts enough to face up to the fact that
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we've compacted our tax base to the point that the property tax can't bear any more."
Martin said that the proposal was more complete than any of the others and that it didn't ask people to vote now and pay later.
The Rock-Martin plan includes a constitutional amendment to place merchant, manufacturer, livestock and farm machinery inventories back on the tax rolls at a 15 percent assessment rate instead of 30 percent as before. It would reduce the assessment rate on commercial property from 30 percent to 20 percent and raise apartment complexes from 12 percent to 18 percent.
It is the 10th proposed constitutional amendment on property taxes
The new plan also would eliminate 15 present sales tax exemptions and apply the state's 4.25 percent sales tax to 33 other services. However, the senators did not include medical services and advertising in the things to which they would expand the sales tax.
submitted this session.
Rock said that medical services already were experiencing runaway inflation and that they did not want to add to those costs.
Their plan also includes increasing individual income tax rates to the 1987 levels before legislation is approved to stop collection of an income tax windfall that the state derived from federal tax changes in 1986.
Obscene bumper sticker bill faces more Senate discussion
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A Senate committee Wednesday decided to reconsider a bill that would require seven "dirty" words on bumper stickers to be so tiny that people would not be able to read them from any distance.
The Senate Transportation and Utilities Committee decided to give the bill a second discussion because the seven words apparently would have to be placed in the state statute books.
The bill, introduced by Sen. James Francisco, D-Wichita, would require the seven words banned by the Federal Communication Commission to be no larger than an inch on a bumper sticker. Violators could be fined $25.
Franciso said he introduced the bill because he was
However, Sen. Bill Morris, R-Wichita, committee chairman, said the Legislature cannot simply refer to the words as those banned by the FCC. After all, he said, people have to know what seven words are illegal.
tired of seeing obscenities on bumper stickers.
On Tuesday, the committee endorsed the bill and sent it to the Senate for debate.
As the bill originally was introduced, it banned obscene bumpers stickers but did not define what obscene was.
"They don't want to put the seven words in the statutes, but they're already on bumper stickers," Francisco told the committee. "The only people who read statutes are lawyers and judges."
He said he might introduce the bill without defining obscenity and then let the courts decide.
Senate approves party shack bill Houses could be closed, owners fined
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The Senate adopted a conference committee report yesterday that made only minor changes in a bill designed to help law enforcement officials close down so-called party shacks.
The Senate passed a compromise version of the measure, 35-3, and sent it to the House for its approval.
The Senate approved the bill at the urging of State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A party shack is a house where liquor is sold illegally after hours.
The bill provides for a judge to fine operators of party shacks $25,000. It also clarified the power a court has to padlock houses used for such purposes.
The bill would declare party shacks public nuisances and give authorities greater latitude to close them down.
A judge could padlock a house for up to two years if the owner knew or should have known that it was used as a party shack.
A landlord who cooperated with police would not have his house padlocked, though, if the person leasing it was running a party shack.
House sorts out ethics law proposals
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A House Elections subcommittee began putting together Wednesday what some representatives hope will be a c:m-prehensive package of reforms of state ethics laws.
The seven-member panel began sifting through proposals in several bills before it and proposals from outside the Legislature, including a proposed bill by Common Cause of Kansas, a political watchdog organization.
The chairman of the Elections Committee, Rep. Kenneth King, R-Rean, said he hoped his committee on the legislation within three weeks.
The subcommittee's chairman, Rep. Tim Shallenburger, R-Baxter Springs, said the panel should finish its work Monday, after which it will hold hearings to take more suggestions.
Subcommittee members said they were generally pleased with what they saw as the relative agreement in the committee's discussions.
"We're dealing with more than House and Senate ethics," Shallen-burger said. "We're dealing with governmental ethics."
"I think we're proceeding along very productive lines," said Rep. Napier Sader, D-Prairie Village. "I'm pleased with what the subcommittee is doing."
The subcommittee's deliberations will decide which topics are included in a bill. Its members plan to ask for a study of more complex topics this summer and fall, such as public financing of campaigns.
"We want to take care of a lot of things," said Rep. Tom Sawyer, D-Wichita.
The subcommittee agreed Wednesday to include provisions in the bill that
■ Prevent elected state officials, cabinet officials, lobbyists or people with state contracts from serving on the commission or from being appointed to the commission within three years of leaving their positions.
- Change the name of the Public Disclosure Commission, which enforces ethics laws, to the Governmental Ethics Commission.
- Increase annual registration fees for lobbyists and political committees to increase financing for the commission.
Prohibit legislators from taking campaign donations from lobbyists or political action committees during a legislative session.
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