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16 A fefnttitrt fttar 1 (Mud FloreU Thursday, May 13, 1978 Single-Member Districts Proposal Passes House The Legislature for redistricting after the 1980 census. The districts would not be affected until 1982. Rep. William James, R-Delray Beach, said the single-member i ricts would give better representation to blacks and other minorities, put legislators more closely in touch with their districts and reduce the cost of All Resort Tax Bills Killed By House Panel area would have only one house and one senate representative who would have to live in the district. Orange County's delegation was split on the resolution.

Reps. Dick Batchelor, D-Orlando; Fred and Bob Hat-taway, D-Altamonte Springs, voted in favor of the resolution. Reps. William Fulford, D-Orlando; William Gorman, R-Tangerine, and Harvey Matthews, R-Orlando, voted against it. going to get our fair share of entation," Rep.

Cherry said. Claiming the resolution would create "120 super city council-men," Rep. Tom Hazouri, a nville, said it was synonymous with "political expediency." HOUSE. AND senate districts now overlap, so that gome areas are represented by as many as six representatives. Under the single district plan, voters in a given By JULIE WILSON Sanlmal Star Stall TALLAHASSEE The house Wednesday gave resounding approval for a voter referendum calling for single-member districts for legislators.

After receiving a 38 to 33 vote, 1 the resolution was sent to the senate where its chances are uncertain. THE RESOLUTION calls for a referendum in November, asking for a constitutional amendment people relief bill." ONE OF only three blacks in the 120-member house, Rep. Cherry said that although blacks constitute 19 per cent of the state's population, i they constitute only 2.5 per cent of the house. There are no blacks in the 40-member senate. campaigning.

Rep. John Hill, D-Miami Lakes, had called the bill "a Republican relief bill." But Rep. Gwen Cherry, D-Miami, called it "a "This is the only way we're Barron Defends Senate's Budget For Education Barron said there was no truth to a charge by Board of Regents Chairman Marshall Criser that the cuts' were Barron's way of retaliating for university officials fighting his graduate student lottery admissions bill. "I suspect Criser would like to have all the state money, but the legislature must consider other people in need as well as university, professors, who are well paid and work. short hours," Barron said.

"This cushion will insure that we will be appropriating real dollars that people can count on instead of just an empty promise," Barron said. HOWEVER, LOCAL school and university officials have complained that the cuts which provided the surplus hit them the hardest with $11.7 million coming from universities and $31.4 million from kindergarten through 12th grade funds. and leaders predicted it would win passage during daylong debate today and be ready for conference committee next week. Sanford Crime Lab Needed, Editorial, Pg. 18-A The committee sliced its original $5,113 billion bill by $185 million to provide the $30 million surplus Barron had sought to insure that if state revenue does not meet expectations.

lantinal llir Buruu TALLAHASSEE A finance and taxation subcommittee Wednesday decisively killed all resort tax bills introduced in the house. The action came 24 hours after the house appropriations committee emasculated the optional sales tax bill, which would have accomplished the same objective providing funds for convention and cultural centers in cities and counties. The senate bill now applies only to Dade County mass transit financing. ONLY ONCE in the last decade has a resort tax bill reached the house floor and it was killed then. Rep.

John Clark, D-Lakeland, subcommittee committee chairman, delayed the hearing for more than an hour awaiting the arrival of the Orlando Area Chamber of Commerce "fly in" party. First to be killed, 4 to 2, was Rep. Dick Batchelor's proposal for a 2 per cent levy on hotel and motel accommodations, to be adopted only after a favorable ref erendum. Under the bill proceeds would have gone to finance convention and cultural centers and for tourism and industrial development promotion. TWO SIMILAR bills by Rep.

Helen Davis Brown, D-Tampa, which would not require a referendum, and a fourth by Rep. George Heiber, R-St. Petersburg, for a one per cent tax to finance a Florida tourist commission were defeated unanimously. The Day In The Legislature By Tha Associated Prass Wednesday, May 12, 1976 THE SENATE Bills Passed: Sunset Requires that all state agencies unable to justify their existence at eight-year intervals go out of business. Wilson and others.

To house. Economic Requires state agencies and the -legislature to prepare economic impact statements on proposed rules and legislation. Myers and others. To house. THE HOUSE Bills Passed: Acupuncture Provides for state regulation of acupuncture.

Rude. To senate. Resolutions passed: Legislature Proposes a i tutional amendment requiring single member legislative districts. James. To senate.

THE GOVERNOR Took no action relating to legislation. Criser, Millican Blast University Funds TALLAHASSEE The Senate's proposed $4.93 billion budget is $26 million under the house version in general revenue spending and still provides' substantial increases in overall state spending, Senate President Demp-sey Barron boasted Wednesday. Barron issued a fact sheet on the budget on the eve of the floor debate Thursday. He said the senate measure, which has been strongly criticized by educators, actually increases local school funding by $54 million next year. BARRON SAID the senate measure would boost state spending per pupil from the current $733 to $751.

However, Sen. Robert Graham, D-Miami, charged those figures were "fictitious." He said the senate bill would actually decrease the state contribution to local schools from this year's $500 per child to $495. He said the increase was being funded by requiring school districts to pump in more local property taxes. The senate voted to increase the required local millage from 6.3 to 6.5. THE SENATE ways and means committee approved the budget Tuesday after two days of debate, Florida Regents Chairman Marshall M.

Criser and Dr. Charles N. president of Florida Technological University, teed off Wednesday on a $12.8 million cut in state university appropriations for the coming year. Crisler accused Senate President Dempsey Barron of engineering the reduction, voted Tuesday by the senate ways and means committee. who apparently engineered these new cuts, had served notice earlier that he below the amount available this year," he said.

"I feel very strongly that such an unfortunate move must not be permitted to pass the full senate. "FTU has tried to serve more than 1,500 unfunded students this year under a very restrictive budget, and I am increasingly concerned about the quality of higher' education this latest action by the senate engenders. "WE JUST cannot continue to take more students than we are funded for it is not fair to the students, the faculty or the staff of this university." would retaliate against the university system in the appropriations bill if the universities persisted in opposition to his bill to admit graduate students by lottery," Criser said. "We are surprised that this threat was actually carried out." Millican called the action "extremely unfortunate and ill-advised." "I AM deeply disappointed in jthe budget recommendation by the o'm i 1 1 which places general revenue funding for the state university system at a level OF TOQI tOKE TMESE VWUG. COTE 7ME SWWIq) re ranees? LP STK LED ZEPPELIN "PRESENCE" COC79104 SSR416 "THE OBJECT" 1976 SWAN SONG INC.

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