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Fcdey. Apd 3, log, THE INDIANAPOLIS NtWS Gov. Orr Signs Center-Stadium Bill determine In enner ca. rwn, u- cnunru must art before June I in order for the new taxes to take fCommittee OKs ijTwo-Year State fSpending Program The General Assembly ffijl Legislation giving Indianapolis officials authority to go ahead with plans to expand the Convention Center and build a domed sports stadium has been signed into law by Gov. Robert Orr.

Under its provisions, the Gty-County Council is expected to impose a 1 percent sales tax on food and beverages sold by restaurants and taverns in Marion County possibly beginning as early as July I. It is expected to raise $3 million to $4 million annually. The council also was given authority to impose a 5 percent admissions tat on professional sporting events in existing and new Convention Center facilities, including the new domed stadium after it is completed. An ordinance to implement the special tax is scheduled to be introduced Monday night before the City-County Council, making it eligible for final adop- A two-year state spending program that shifts property taxes to help fi- effect July 1. The new law also authorizes the sale of revenue bonds by the Capital Improvements Board to help finance construction costs which have been estimated by city officials at $65 million.

Ully Endowment has agreed to donate $25 million of the cost and the Krannert Charitable Trust, $5 million. The food and beverage tax, which also is expected to apply to sales by delicatessens and caterers in the county but not to vending machine sales will expire one year aTier the new bond issue retired. The governor yesterday also signed into law a bill giving the Legislative Council more time to contract with a private organization for a juvenile services study. nance schools and envisions average if tion at the April 27 council meeting. A poll of council members conducted by The New? showed that majority of the Zmember body intends to vote for tax measure.

Administrative details, including tax brackets for the new sales tax officially called an excise tax will be left to the state Revenue Department to percent annual pay raises for teachers. 5j state and state university employes has Nbeen recommended by the Senate F1-nance Committee. i think it a good budget for the economic times we're living in, in Indite ana," Finance Chairman Lawrence Borst. R-Indianapolis, said. The revised.

House-passed budget and school finance bills expected House OKs Bill Legalizing Bingo reacn me senate noor nexi wees Sen. Morris Mills Sea. Larry Borst The resolution is sponsored by Senate President Pro university personnel who lobby would be exempt from terms of the bill. Also, lobbyists would have to spend Tern Robert Carton. R-Columbus.

and Dailey. it mandates the State Board of Health to report to the Legislature by Nov. 1. 1981. on the status of nursing homes and what changes should be made in their operation.

After it was pointed out that Rep. Robert Fort Wayne, principal sponsor of the two bills, had left the House floor to go to an eye $500 a year rather than (400 before they would be required to file reports. By a vote of SO to 35. the House passed a Senate bill that would remove the nomination of candidates for lieutenant governor from the primary election and return it to the party political conventions. Just before adjourning for the weekend.

House Speaker J. Roberts Dailey. R-Muncie. handed down a Senate resolution concerning the operation of nursing homes in Indiana which the Senate had adopted earlier yesterday. With a two-bill package of nursing home reform legislation moribund in the General Assembly, the resolution is an attempt to pacify some of its doctor, Dailey halted debate on the resolution.

Rep. James Jontz. D-Williamsport, revealed that Alderman had wanted to speak in opposition to the proposed resolution. The speaker then assigned the bill to the Rules Committee, saying. 'The chair does not want to sneak anything through." MOM also: Are designed to provide increases of more than 12 percent in some "una-voidable" operating cost increases.

I such as utility bills, while "straight-t lining" many other expenditures. Would leave the state with an estimated general fund surplus of $13.3 million by mid-1982 and $50 2 million by mid-1983, taking into consideration at least one other bill expected to become vjlaw. "Assume 12 percent fee increases for Indiana students attending state universities and Ivy Tech, with in-creases of about 65 percent for IU Medical School students. For nans' resident students, the fee increases would average about 17 percent. Would give Indiana University a green light to go ahead with plans for a $3 8 million outdoor track, athletic field and 10.000-seat stadium on the IUPUI campus in Indianapolis by authorizing i the university to bond for $1.9 million to 5 finance that part needed for physical education programs.

This, in turn, is expected to generate a matching, $1.9 million Lilly Endowment grant to upgrade the facilities to Olympic standards and also to build the stadium. Sets aside $150,000 that might be used to cover costs of assigning selected prisoners to cut grass and pick up beer cans and other trash along state highways. Adds $450,000 to help finance a new, tricounty mental health center serving Hamilton, Boone and Northern Marion County and $1.2 million for a new mental health center at Batesville. Continues the House-level of funding for the state's share of increasing Medicaid costs a level Borst says that may not be enough. Borst, however, says pending legislation providing 50 cents to $3 "copayments" for some Medicaid services and requiring prior approval to determine whether some Medicaid-financed costs can be incurred might save the state about $10 million during the two years beginning next July 1.

Some school cumulative building fund property tax levies would be shifted to school general fund operating levies to provide more operating funds for schools next year. But there would be no extra state or local property tax revenue for further increases in 1983. By BILL ROBERTS Legislation legalizing the playing of bingo in Indiana was approved by the Indiana House in a surprise move yesterday by a vote of 58 to 37. The proposal came as an amendment to a Senate bill which makes numerous changes in Indiana's criminal procedure law dealing with search warrants, venues, probable cause hearings and so forth. Author of the successful amendment was Rep.

Craig Campbell. D-Anderson. who earlier in the session introduced a bill to legalize bingo. The bill died in committee. Campbell described his amendment as a relief measure for the elderly, for churches, private schools and fraternal organizations.

"And. it is spelled B-I-N-G-O." he remarked. Under terms of his amendment, only nonprofit organizations such as churches and clubs could conduct bingo games. The most a player could win in one game would be $50 and the most in any 24-hour period would be $100. He called the fact bingo is not legal but that law enforcement officials "look the other way," a real double standard.

"Bingo is here. It goes on. It is our duty to make a decision. The message should be, either legalize it or enforce the law. You can't have it both ways." Rep.

Patrick Bauer. D-South Bend, said, "I got more letters this session on bingo than anything else. It has had a serious impact in the Fort Wayne-South Bend area on our churches." Recently, Bishop William McManus, head of the Roman Catholic Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese, ordered all churches under his jurisdiction to halt their bingo activity until it becomes legal. Social Function Rep. Chester Dobis, D-Merrillville, who has offered bingo bills in past sessions, called bingo "a social function.

Organizations need this so they can raise the money they need so they can survive." He urged fellow lawmakers to adopt the amendment and recalled seeing a bumper sticker which read "Keep Grandma off the streets, legalize bingo." Majority Caucus Chairman Richard Wathcn, R-Jeffersonville, stated, "There's bingo every night in my county. It's time to get rid of this double standard. Let's quit kidding ourselves. Don't be a bunch of hypocrites." The bill which now contains the bingo provision will be ready for final passage in the House when the lawmakers return to the Statehouse next week. The House also adopted several amendments which will water down the proposed new lobbying law considerably.

Under the amendments adopted, lobbyists would not have to reveal their salaries and state Legislative Quotes Lifestyle Acent grant, state support would be reduced. Indianapolis schools, for example, might wind up with less state aid instead of more because of the levy shift, but would still have some additional revenues in property taxes. Schools with hardship building fund needs could apply to the state Tax Board for permission to reinstate their cumulative building funds that were transferred to school operating levies. The level of state tuition support would be $963 million the first year of the biennium. $936.7 million the second year the same amount fixed by the House.

Freeze Plans Junked House plans to freeze school property tax rates instead of levies and to authorize a nickel rate increase, however, were junked by the committee. The Finance Committee also added $900,000 annually to the House-passed budget for a distressed school fund, increased House spending for adult education programs and added $165,760 requested by Gov. Robert Orr to establish an experimental education program for students in early grades. Borst said the committee took away about $24 million of the extra $39 million the House added to State Budget Committee recommendations for state universities. Increased student fees suggested by the House would have increased university revenues by more than $22 million annually.

By further increasing non-resident and some professional school fees, Borst said, the universities should be able to pick up another $7.5 million during the two years. The Finance Committee also recommended. That appropriations for the Education Employment Relations Board be reduced to only $1 during the 1982-83 fiscal year, a move apparently designed to bring about a review of the board's activities. That appropriations for a legislative "sunset" committee also be trimmed to only $1 during the second year of the new biennium, effectively "sunset-ting" the sunset committee. It also eliminated a $150,000 appropriation for the Office of Manpower Development, appropriations of $125,000 annually for the Academy for Public Service, and a $20,000 appropriation for an Indianapolis man Charles Hayden whose conviction for the robbery-murder of a teacher later was set aside by a judge.

Borst, meanwhile, said efforts to revive new local option income tax legislation will be made Monday at a Finance Committee hearing that also will include reviews of House-passed bills increasing taxes on gasoline, alcoholic beverages and trucks. Hearings previously had been scheduled today on the tax bills. The Senate yesterday also adopted a resolution to establish a legislative committee to study the Marion County public school system. Among other things, the committee would determine the amount of funds spent to operate the schools, including administrative costs, spending patterns over the last five years and review school facilities, school administration and school financing methods. It also would consider proposals to establish financial and educational "stability" to the schools in the county "in view of declining enrollments, program cancellations and school closing." Furniture! Versatile, Practical Decorator Finishing Touches That Help To Make Your House YOUR HOME! status provided in another bill for manure loaders: "The manure that ends up on the fields ends up in a better product" SAVE $198 5-Pc.

Partyand-Game Set with Oak Finish Pedestal Table and 4 Chairs on Casters Reg. $597 UnUM Pnu IMotummI Rep. CHESTER DOBIS, D-Merrillville, commenting on an amendment to legalize bingo games operated by churches and other nonprofit groups: "Bingo is probably the most violated law in Indiana next to the SS-mile-an-hour speed limit." THE SHIRLEY WAY 1 MEANS 'TRULY A'. REMEMBERED SERVICE Bac Bac Plant Holder Hanging Basket 'That Doesn't Add Up' The shift was proposed by Sen. Morris Mills.

R-Indianapolis, who said 90 percent of the state's school corporations have cumulative building funds, 90 percent are losing enrollments and that "somehow or another, that doesn't add up." The proposed new formula, Mills said, is designed to provide an extra $70 per pupil using an "equalizing" mixture of state aid and local property tax revenue. Extra money would be available for schools with increasing enrollments and less for those, such as Indianapolis, with declining enrollments. Under its provisions, there would be a permanent reduction of 30 cents per $100 assessed valuation of a school's cumulative building fund rate, if it has such a rate. All schools would be allowed to raise operating levies by a 30 cent rate, whether they have a cumulative building fund or not. But the new 30 percent general fund rate would not apply to increased valuations.

If the 30 cent levy doesn't provide enough revenue to equal the $70 flat grant, the state would make up the difference. If the 3frcent levy provides more than enough to cover the $70 flat ft" Genuine Woven Wood withteather Trim! Copper Finish Metal 4-Tier Style! Sen. MORRIS MILLS, R- Indianapolis, explaining a new school formula that takes away about $9 million in state funding from some of the wealthier schools and gives it to some of the poorer ones: "That's where I started picking up the 'no' votes." $07 $7 Reg. $10 Sftilletf I Oval Braided Rug Pecan Tone Etagere '3 3x5 -Ft. Size.

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Size Rocker Legislative Brief By United Press International A new formula adopted by the Senate Finance Committee gives many local schools more money to spend but it will be local property tax revenues, not new state tax dollars. The formula creates an additional $70 per pupil flat grant. The state is to pay the difference if the local tax levy does not raise enough money to equal the $70. But the state will be reducing state payments to some of the wealthier districts to make up the difference. THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Published daily by Indianapolis Newspapers.

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