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Griffin Daily News Wednesday, March 3,1976
Committee settles budget differences
By KAY BROWN
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
House-Senate budget conference
committee lifted the $32 limit
on welfare payments altogether
late Tuesday, then approved its
final ver - ion of the $1,922 billion
state budget for fiscal 1977.
After five days of discussion
and an impasse on welfare
payments that threatened to
delay adjournment past the
midnight Friday deadline, the
committee authorized Aid to
Families with Dependent Chil-
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dren (AFDC) payments to be
continued at their current level
through the coming fiscal year,
provided state money is availa
ble.
Both chambers are expected
to consider the committee’s
recommendation late Thursday
or early Friday. Adjournment
is expected Friday.
Sen. Al Holloway of Albany
said the Senate conferees got
everything they wanted on the
AFDC payments, and more.
“I’m really happy,” he said.
The full House voted seven
times during its consideration
of the budget to hold the $32
average limit per welfare
participant per month at its
current level, but the Senate
raised the limit to $33 so that
more recipients would not have
to be cut from the rolls.
Gov. George Busbee interv
ened in the dispute Tuesday
morning and suggested a
compromise raising the limit to
$32.37. He said that unless the
$32 limit was lifted, he would
be forced to cut 2,000 persons
from the welfare rolls in
August.
The conference committee
position authorizes the Depart
ment of Human resources to
spend no more than $31.7
million for AFDC payments
next year, which would work
out to Busbee’s proposed $32.37
cap.
The budget, which takes
effect July 1, includes a 7 per
cent salary increase for public
school teachers, effective Sept.
1, a 4 per cent increase for
state employes, effective July
1, and continues raises given
under court order this year to
Regents personnel.
The committee also included
$1 million to increase the
benefits for retired teachers.
The budget sets aside S2O
million to increase the state’s
working reserve to SSO million.
On items in dispute between
the House and Senate versions,
the committee took these
actions:
— Appropriated $500,000 to
continue 16 of 18 federally
funded drug centers that will
lose their funds next year.
— Included $840,000 to in
crease student subsidies at
DeKalb Junior College from
SSOO to S6OO per student per
year.
— Deleted $700,000 of $750,000
requested by the Senate to
begin merit system increases
for Board of Regents personnel.
The $50,000 that was included
will go to begin an in-step pay
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raise plan for non-academic
personnel.
— Decided to give state
employes a 4 per cent cost-of
living increase with a. S4OO
minimum and SBOO maximum.
— Appropriated $2.5 million
for state employes’ health
insurance. The House had
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Gov. George Busbee served as a mediator with the House
and Senate Budget conferees as they moved toward
compromise on the main issue in dispute-the $32 million
cap on welfare payments for mothers of needy children.
(UPI)
Freeport bill up
for vote in Senate
ATLANTA (UPI) - The long
debated "freeport” tax exemp
tion for manufactured goods,
which Gov. George Busbee
considers vital to spur Geor
gia’s industrial development, is
up for a vote today in the
Georgia Senate.
The proposal, which has
already passed the House, is a
constitutional amendment al
lowing cities and counties to
exempt raw materials, goods in
transit and warehoused mer
chandise from property taxa
tion — provided local voters
agree in a referendum to pay a
bit higher property taxes in
order to give new industry a
tax incentive.
Supporters of the plan con
tend the new paychecks
brought into a community by
expanding industry will gener
ate sales taxes to more than
offset the cost of exempting
Georgia-made products from
personal property taxation.
The House bill includes a
protective provision to keep
counties from offering the tax
break to lure new industry —
then jerking it away once a
multi-million-dollar plant is
constructed. It provides that,
once a community adopts the
“freeport” status, it cannot
vote again on the matter for
five years — and if the
exemption is then repealed, the
repealer will not take effect for
five more years.
In another tax matter on the
other side of the Capitol, Lt.
Gov. Zell Miller’s plan for
taxing all property on the basis
of its actual use, rather than
development potential, has run
afoul of ways and means
committee chief Marcus Col
lins, D-Pelham, in the House.
Miller sought to avoid taxing
homesteads and small farms at
the same level as neighboring
golf courses and shopping
centers, but Collins substituted
a system under which only
elderly homeowners, farmers
and foresters would be given
special property tax break —
provided they promise to keep
their land undeveloped five
years.
Savannah Mayor John Rousa
kis, the head of the Georgia
Municipal Association, objected
strongly to Miller’s approach,
which is a constitutional
amendment that would need
implementing in future sessions
ifFith
the
\legislature
proposed beginning a health
insurance plan for public school
teachers with the money.
— Decided to distribute
compensatory education funds
to local school systems on the
basis of average daily attendan
ce.
of the General Assembly.
“Let us see in advance what
we are buying before we put
our taxable proprty on the
line,” said Rousakis.
On another point of conten
tion between the House and
Senate, Sen. Pierre Howard, D-
Decatur, is undecided whether
to accept House changes in his
rape bill, with which both sides
intend to encourage women to
report attacks. The bill forbids
defense attorneys to bring up a
woman’s past sex life, unless a
trial judge rules it relevant to
the case at trial.
The Senate bill provided for
judges to hear arguments in
private, but the House changed
the bill Tuesday to provide
simply that the jury would be
excused while attorneys argue
whether the victim’s past
sexual activity has any influ
ence on the pending case.
Howard said he likes the Senate
version better, but might
accept the House change
because time is running out on
the 1976 session, which is due to
adjourn Friday.
Similarly, Lt. Gov. Miller
said a House proposal on
regulation of lobbyists may be
too pourous to really get at
abuses, but may also be the
best the General Assembly can
come up with in the waning
days of the session.
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