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Vol. 2 No. 1 January 27, 1975 House Information Office/Official Newsletter
All 134 members of the Minnesota House of Representatives were sworn into office January 7. For 52 members, it was the first official day in office as state representatives.
Members-elect of the Minnesota House of Representatives assembled in the House Chambers January 7 for the opening day of the 69th session of the Legislature. At 12 noon, Secretary of State Joan Growe called the House to order and appointed Rep. Bernard Brinkman of Richmond as Clerk pro tem pore. A call of the roll by district was taken and all l 34 districts were represented. The Honorable Raymond Pavlak, judge in the First Judicial District, then administered the oath of office to the 134 members of the 1975-76 House of Representatives. The first business of the day was to officially choose a speaker for the House. Traditionally, each caucus nominates a person for the position of speaker. With the Democratic majority of 103 to 31 for the Independent Republican caucus, the DFL candidate was assured of the job. After several nominating speeches, including supportive speeches by the minority leadership, Rep. Martin Olav Sabo of Minneapolis, was elected Speaker of the House by a vote of 134 to 0. The unanimous elec Former state representative Raymond Pavlak, now tion is believed to be unprecedented in the state's history. a judge in the First Judicial District, administered The House adopted temporary rules and resolutions regarding business the oath of office to the House members as Betty Hayenga, first assistant chief clerk for the House, of the House. Chief Clerk Edward Burdick was again chosen to be chief looks on. Justice Pavlak served in the House from administrative officer for the House. Permanent rules were adopted by 1964 to 1974 and was appointed judge by the gover the House January 20. nor last fall. Martin Olav Sabo, 36, Minneapolis, served as Speaker of the House during the 1973-74 session, and was House DFl Minority leader for the 1969 and 1971 sessions. He has served continuously in the House since 1961, and his district 578, is in south Minneapolis. Sabo is also chairman of the House Steering Committee and is currently chairman of the Joint Coordinating Committee.
Irvin Anderson, 52, International Falls, was reelected by the DFl majority caucus to be their chief spokesman on the House floor. He is leader of the 103 member DFl caucus, and also chairman of the Rules and legislative Administra tion Committee. Anderson was first elected to the House in 1964 and represents District 3A, which includes Koochiching, and parts of Beltrami, and Itasca counties.
Henry Savelkoul, 34, Albert lea, was elected Minority Leader by the 31 member Independent-Republi can caucus. He replaces Aubrey Dirlam who did not seek reelection last fall. Savelkoul acts as chief spokesman for the caucus on the House floor. He was first elected to the House in 1968, and represents District 31A, which includes parts of Freeborn and Mower counties.
Ron Rainey, executive secretary of the property taxes. If their property taxes (which $425 for those under 65 and $625 for those Tax Study Commission, presented in are determined by the value of their over 65 years of age. formation on the Governor's proposed property and mill levies) are in excess of Renters will also get relief in rent credit circuit breaker for property taxes to the l.5 percent of their income, the state will under the proposed circuit breaker plan, ac House Tax Committee at its January 23 refund the homeowner to a maximum of cording to Rainey. meeting. According to Rainey, the circuit breaker plan will give help to lower income un u homeowners who have been hurt by rising Establishing new community based When questioned as to the change from property taxes. Rainey said, the property tax fac'ilities for the mentally retarded and ill was state hospitals, McAllister told the members, is a regressive tax and those with lower in one of the recommendations the State "we believe that a community based system comes pay a greater percentage of their in Department of Welfare brought before the of care is superior to an institutional system comes than those with higher incomes. This House Appropriations Committee at its of care. It is a better way to care for people." is especially true with the elderly with some January 20 meeting. According to McAllister, other recom paying as much as 50 percent of their in Loring McAllister, assistant com- mendations included: developing a firm comes for property taxes. missioner, told the lawmakers that the policy i?. _establishing the community Rainey told the lawmak.ers that under Welfare Department would like to establish b.a~e? fac1ht1es; carefully assessing and sub the proposed circuit breaker plan, all home a minimum population base so there are s1d1~mg the Human Services Act; making owners will pay at least 1.5 percent of less people in each facility than are now available up to $51 million for the care of the their federally adjusted gross income for in state institutions. mentally retarded. The House Crime Prevention and Cor states around the nation in making territory) designed to assist the state in rections Committee met January 20, and reparations to victims of violent crime. reducing crime. He said the commission is received testimony from the Bureau of After six months of operation, the board not a law enforcement agency, nor does it Criminal Apprehension (BCA), the Gover has received 92 claims for reparations, have authority to make demands on any nor's Crime Commission and the Minne 66 of which were accepted. A total of group or individual. sota Crime Victims Reparation Board. $I 26, 915 was paid to the accepted claims. The commission's success is based on Chairman Donald M. Moe (D-St. Paul) Victims of rape, arson, assault, and research and identification of problems in asked Harold Higgins of the BCA to give an mugging were some of the recipients of the criminal justice system, Crew said. The overview of the operations of his agency. reparations, as were dependents of homi commission can also award monies to en The BCA is a state agency designed to cide victims. courage improvements in local crime coordinate and assist law enforcement Any innocent victim of a violent crime prevention and justice facilities. across the state. Higgins said the bureau against his or her person, or the dependent The commission receives money from the operates in two main areas, investigative or legal representative of a victim 1s federal government based on the state's service and special scientific assistance. eligible for reparations under the act. population. The money is allocated to two In the area of investigative service, the The maximum reparation available 1s areas: $1. l million in planning funds, bureau assists in criminal apprehension, $10,000, with $100 deductible. designed to implement the overall operation provides evidential material to attorneys The board stressed that claimants must of the commission and nine criminal justice and assists in drug-related crimes. report the crime to proper law enforce coordinating councils around the state, and Chairman Moe asked Higgins to make ment agencies within five days of the $9.9 million in "action funds" to be spent by available to the committee written state offense. To be eligible for the program, local governments to upgrade their criminal ments making clear what authority evalu all claimants must cooperate fully with justice operations. ates the BCA and what connection the the enforcement agencies. To receive an action grant, local bureau has with the CIA. 1 he committee also heard Robert Crew governments (or citizens with backing of A representative of the Minnesota from the Governor's Commission on Crime their local governments) must apply to the Crime Victims Reparations Board testi Prevention and Control report on the nature commission in the summer or early fall, fied on the progress and developments and developments in the commission. enabling the commission to include the made in the recently formed board. Crew stated that the commission is one of proposals in the yearly budgetary plan. Last July, Minnesota joined 12 other 55 across the nation (one in each state and u r
Richard Connor, chairperson of the Select Hospital should be transferred to the State Committee, reported ~he Select Committee's Dept. of Corrections from the Dept. of n u findings to the House Appropriations Com Public Welfare. *Dept. of Corrections should close the Members of the House Appropriations mittee January 21. present State Security Hospital (St. Peter) Committee will have to scrutinize every re The Select Committee, established by the and determine a new location; quest for money that comes before them, ac 1973-74 Legislature to review the roles of all *Institutio!1 closings should take into careful cording to Chairman Fred Norton (D-St. , Minnesota correctional institutions and consideration the economic impact on the Paul). determine which of these institutions should affected communities, especially affected Appropriation committee members met be retained, cited in their report: employees. for the first time January 13 to hear Norton *The Dept. of Corrections should develop a Kenneth F. Schoen, commissioner of urge them to carefully examine any and all plan that will lead toward a goal of small the Dept. of Corrections, also speaking requests because the $400 million surplus in specialized secure State facilities (five or six) to the committee, told the lawmakers that the state treasury will not last forever. for a total of 500 to 600 inmates; he has not commented on the proposal Members also heard from former state *transition to these institutions will allow the to close the (Stillwater) prison but will representative E. W. Quirin, now an as closing of most institutions as they now exist do so next month. However, he said the sistant state highway commissioner, who by the 1980' s; needed repairs to the prison would be told the lawmakers that they should prob *Stillwater prison would be shut down first; about $9 million and added that the ably consider a gasoline tax increase, hopefully by June 30, 1977; department will continue, in any case, to perhaps two cents a gallon. Quirin said *authority for operating the State Security operate a maximum security facility. it is estimated that each penny of gasoline tax increases raises about $20 million a year, with $12.5 million for the state and the balance for other levels of govern ment. Henry Tweeten of the State Board of Institutes (A VTis) in the state, their funding Inadequate bonding power, inflation, Education spoke to the committee on a patterns and annual reports. reduced gasoline tax revenues because of proposal to construct a new vocational The proposed A VTI would join 34 others reduced gasoline consumption, an increased school in Minneapolis, with special em now in operation around the state with a work load, and improved maintenance have phasis on programs for the disabled. total enrollment of 25,000. A VTis are all contributed to an unhappy financial pic funded by the federal government and ture for the Highway Department, Quirin The assistant commissioner presented a governed by the school districts in which told the committee. history of Area Vocational Technical they are located. Members of the newly created Local and Minnesota Regional Development Com option for individual differences for each Urban A ffairs Committee heard from a missions. county. number of speakers on the history of local Dr. Robert Barrett, who spoke to the The Local Urban Affairs Committee was and urban governmental entities in the com members about counties, told the committee formed from the Metropolitan and Urban mittee's first meeting of the 1975-76 session. that the legislature should develop a stan Affairs, City Government, and Local Govern Chairman Tom Berg (D-Mpls.) told the, dard plan for county governmen~ with the ment Committees of the 1973-74 session. members that a brief history of local and urban governmental units would give them the background they need to evaluate up coming legislation concerning those units. Gary Currie, research analyst from House Research, gave a brief history of township government and the Joint Powers Act. Municipalities and how they function was next discussed by Orville Peterson, former Doug Kelm, Metropolitan Transit Com on fares which goes into effect, by action of director of the Minnesota League of mission Director, speaking to the House the 1974 legislature, Jan. 30; repeal the free Municipalities. Local and Urban Affairs Committee, far provision during off peak hours for Another speaker was Howard Kaibel of reviewed alternatives for raising an es persons under 18, which also will take effect the Minnesota Municipal Commission who timated $6.5 million in new revenue for 1975 Jan. 30; increase bus surcharge by five cents. spoke about the Municipal Commission, a and $11. 9 million for 1976. Four major tax sources could be used to comm1ss1on created in 1959 by the The committee, meeting January 22, fund MTC operations, according to Kelm. Legislature to decide whether an area should heard a number of alternatives, which, ac These include: establishing a 0.2 percent be allowed to incorporate as a municipality cording to Kelm, are needed to cover in sales tax in the Metropolitan area; imple and to provide for the adjustment of flationary increases in operating costs and to menting a one mill tax on a kilowatt hour municipal boundaries. finance proposed bus service expansion. six of seven dollars a year for an average Other speakers included Tom Todd, Kelm told the lawmakers that much of the household; implementing a income surtax research analyst from House Research, who extra money needed is for a $109-million a "surtax" of two percent in the Metro discussed the Metropolitan Council and program of service expansions authorized by politan area would yield approximately Special Districts; John J oyt, Professor in the I 974 legislature. $8. l million; establishing a payroll tax School of Agriculture and Applied Some of the transit revenue alternatives 0.5 percent on employers' payrolls Economics, and Jim Solem, Minn. State include: increase the base fare by five cents, would raise $8.2 million in the seven Planning Agency, who spoke about the from 30 to 35 cents; repeal the 50-cent ceiling county area.
The Minnesota Horizons Seminar, held January 14, 15, and 16, pro vided legislators with a unique opportunity. to look at where Minnesota has been, where it is now, and where it is heading. Members of the House and Senate and their staff were given expert information about such crucial areas as population, natural resources, energy, agriculture, and industry. The three day conference was sponsored by the House of Repre sentatives, the Senate, the State Planning Agency, and the Commis sion on Minnesota's Future. Public television stations throughout the state carried the seminars with live and delayed broadcasts.
House Speaker Martin Sabo gives closing remarks to The series of lectures were well attended by legislators each day. Here, seminar participants. Other speakers included, seated, House Republicans listen to one of the many speakers. They are left left to right, Ray Lappegard, former commissioner of to right, Reps. Joe T. Niehaus (Sauk Centre), Ralph Jopp (Mayer}, Don Highways, Gerald Christianson, director of State Friedrich (Rochester), J. R. "Dick" Kaley (Rochester), and Ken Zubay Planning, and Jim Solem, director of local and Urban (Rochester). Affairs for State Planning. A computerized index system that will provide legislators, . staff, and the public with instant bill status is ready for use in the House of Representatives Index Department. By using one of 11 computer terminals in the Capitol or State Office Building, a person can find out with the push of a button the status of any House bill at any stage of the legislative process. Two terminals for public use are located in the Index Department in Room 210 of the Capitol. Bill status information stored in · the computer can be retrieved through four Index Clerk Steve Fischer, right, explains the computerized index system to Lowell categories, the House File number, Malcolm, Hennepin Legislative Liaison. There are two computer terminals author's index, topical index, and com for public use in the Index Room 210 of the Capitol. mittee index. we can enter current information into the used weekly printouts to provide a cross The computerized index system is being memory bank 10 seconds after it is index of all bills. The paper printouts used in several states, but, according to official." were costly and often outdated within a Steve Fischer, index clerk, Minnesota is In addition to saving time and pro week, Fischer said. While providing the only state to provide information viding a convenient method for finding immediate electronic retrieval of specific equipment directly to the public. a bill's status, the computer system is information, the news system will still Fischer said the computer not only already saving over $1,600 a month in allow for a printout of any information offers immediate retrieval of information printing costs. and the department will print a status of stored, but "under optimum conditions~ Until this year the Index Department all bills at the end of the session.
A new way of presenting ideas for possible Unlike House Files, which are drafted legislation has been adopted by the by the Revisor of Statutes Office, a House Former state representative Fred Cina Minnesota House of Representatives. . Advisory Bill is written up by the repre was honored by the Minnesota House with Under the experimental system, a member sentative presenting" the idea. It is typed the designation of January 25, 1975, as Fred can draft an informal bill, called a House on peach colored stock to distinguish it A. Cina Recognition Day. Advisory Bill (H.A.B.), which is essentiallya from other official House papers. Each House Resolution No. I was adopted by suggestion to a committee for a proposed ·member of the House can introduce or the House January 20 and cited Cina for his bill. co-author no more than five H.A.B.s dur service as a state legislator from 1947 to Each H.A.B. is introduced in the same ing the 69th session. This limits the pos 1967. During his 20 years of service in the manner as a House File, given a H.A.B. sible number of H.A.B.s that can be House, Cina was Minority Leader and number, and assigned to a committee for introduced during the 1975-76 biennium Majority Leader, and was chairman of study. If the committee feels the idea to 670. There is no limit on the number the Rules Committee for four sessions. merits legislative consideration, a formal of House Files one member can introduce House File will be drawn up. each session. The H.A.B. may be referred to another As of January 27, one House Advisory committee at the request of·the committee Bill had been introduced. Rep. Neil receiving the bill. If the committee does have Haugerud authored H.A. 1, which pro a formal bill drawn up, the resulting House vides. an idea for regulating interagency House Education Committee Chairman File will be considered as a committee bill. land· transfers. Carl Johnson has named members tq the School Aids Division of the committee. Rep. Joseph Graba (D-Wadena) was ap n s pointed chairman of the division by Speaker The House Committee on Environment Munger said the committee will take lip Martin Sabo. The newly created division will and Natural Resources met January 21 to environmental rights for labor, legisla study legislation dealing with school aids discuss major considerations of the com tion dealing with solid waste, fish & wild formulas throughout the state. mittee for the legislative session. life, a comprehensive land use bill, con Members of the School Aids Division are On the development of copper nickel min servation of energy, commenting that Reps. Salisbury Adams (R-Wayzata), Tom ing in northeast Minnesota, Chairman "The committee deals with everything Berg (D-Mpls.), Gilbert Esau CR-Mountain WiUard Munger (D-Duluth) said, "We must from wolf tracks to nuclear power." Lake), Carl Johnson (D-St. Peter), Richard see to it that we have a clean operation. We Kostohryz (D-North St. Paul), Bob can't afford a second mistake in Minnesota Munger appointed subcommittees on. cMcEachern (D-St. Michael), Bruce Vento - first mistake was dumping 67,000 tons of environmental protection, conservation, (D-St. Paul), and RussellStanton(D-Arco), taconite into Lake Superior." recreation and open space. vice-chairman. Chairman Stanley Enebo (D-Mpls.) Department of Employer Services stated his opened the January 21 meeting listing operations and offered a proposal to im several goals of the committee, including prove the benefit level for unemployment help for the unemployed, elimination ofage and workmen's compensation. The first meeting of the Health and discrimination, investigation of lost em Dave Rose, president of the Minnesota Welfare committee opened January 21 with ployee benefits due to company mergers AFL-CIO, said he hopes to see the state's an in-depth presentation by Health and a review and improvement of laws minimum wage increase to the level of that of Department officials. Rep. James Swan passed last year. the federal government. Harry Peterson, son (D-Richfield), chairman of the 27- from the Minnesota· Association of Com member committee indicated that some Bud Malone, commissioner of the merce and Industry, told the lawmakers basic insights would be necessary, as two Department of Labor and Industry, des he would like to see legislation which thirds of the members were new to the cribed the operations of the department and will maintain a good job climate for Min committee. added that no major legislation will be in nesota. Dr. Warren Lawson, executive director of troduced unless they receive adequate staff -Representatives of the MEA and FTA the Minnesota Department of Health, ad and funds to make the laws work. stated concerns over Minnesota's present dressed the committee and said he saw Commissioner Emmet Cushing of the arbitration policies. overseeing the quality of health care throughout the state as the main duty of the department. Lawson drew a distinction between health care and medical care, stating that medical care is really treatment of sickness. Health Members of the Education Division of James Brinkerhoff, University Vice-Presi care, he said, is not synonymous to disease Appropriations metJ anuary 15 to review the dent for Finance, Planning, and Opera treatment, it is preventative. schematic plans for the new law school tions. He added that of the $100 billion spent in building at the University of Minnesota the U.S. annually for "health care" less than Minneapolis campus. Chairman Howard Smith (D-Crosby) five percent is spent on preventive medicine. According to Minnesota law, the told members of the committee and officials Lawson challenged the committee to seek Legislature must approve the schematic of the University that before the division can major changes in the department of health plans before the University can develop approve the schematic plans, it must know by developing a strong local structure for working drawings and bid documents for the who will pay for this additional cost of $1 health services, and transferring locally law school building. million. oriented duties to those units. The 1973-74 Legislature approved a $10 The division will meet again with the million appropriation for a new building, University officials on the new law school but this figure has escalated to over $11 building, but no meeting has yet been million because of inflation according to scheduled.
High school students from throughout The model youth governor Joan Peter Minnesota gathered at the state Capitol son signed bills passed by both Houses. January 10 and 11 for the 21st annual The bills would: Youth in Government Model Legislature. *require the registration of pistols; pro More than 300 students from various hibit the sale or transfer to or carrying of YMCA regions acted as legislators and by certain persons; legislative leaders and elected statewide *ban copper-nickel mining in Minne officers, such as governor. For the first sota until environmental impact state time in the YMCA program, this year 18 ments have been completed. youths acted as Justices and officials of *maintains personal privacy of a victim the Supreme Court. of a sexual assault by making prior sexual experience not admissable as evidence The model legislators met in commit until approval of judge. tees, and held session in the House and *repeal state law governing sexual Senate Chambers. They prepared and intercourse between consenting adults. debated bills much like the way they are *establish two mobile health units which presented through formal procedures of will regularly serve the smaller Indian reser the House and Senate. vations of the state. House members who acted as advisors *require all bills brought before the for the Youth in Government legislative Legislature to contain a fiscal impact committees were Reps. Bruce Vento statement. (D-St. Paul), Arne Carlson (R-Mpls.), *Introduction of high pressure sodium Joan Peterson, a Winona High School Donald Moe (D-St. Paul) .Linda Berglin lamps to Minnesota highways. senior, was elected Youth Governor by the YMCA Youth in Government oartic:ip Opening day of the Minne sota Legislature is not for members only. Family, friends, press, and digni taries joined members for the crowded and official first day ceremony January 7. Rep. Linda Berglin (D-Mpls.), at left, used the desk in the House Chambers to her advantage to shoot tu res of the opening scenes. At right, Rep. James Pehler (D-St. Cloud), is joined at his desk by his sons Karl and Jamey. House Judiciary Committee Chairman *Revisor's subcommittee, Rep. Frank Richard Parish (D-Golden Valley), has an Knoll, (D-M pls. ), Chairman. nounced subcommittees for the 1975 session. They are: In addition, Rep. Parish will chair a Sub Campaign reform, implications of the *Subcommittee on Commercial and committee on Courts. Chairman Parish dis .change in Veterans Day, reform in voters Family Law, Rep. Neil Dieterich (D-St. cussed procedural rules for the committee registration, recodifying Minnesota election Paul), Chairman. and said the committee will work on the laws, and establishing a presidential *Subcommittee on Probate and Real Es problems with the probate bill that became preference primary in Minnesota are just a tate, Rep. John C. Lindstrom (D-Willmar), law during the 1973-74 session to make it a few of the subjects that the committee on chairman. useable piece of legislation. General Legislation and Veterans Affairs will consider this session, according to its chairman, Rep. Bruce Vento (D-St. Paul). The committee met ] anuary 15, for the first time this session to hear Chairman The Governmental Operations Com Private Employees; Government Structures; Vento briefly discuss what the commit mittee, chaired by Harry Sieben, Jr., (D Government Administration; and Pensions tee plans to consider this session and also Hastings) discussed the objectives of their and Retirements. to decide on subcommittee assignments. committee for 1975-76 at a January 9 Sieben said there may be some changes in Chairman Vento told members that they organizational meeting. will have a choice of three subject areas; Sieben announced that during the coming titles and duties, but responsibilities will be substantially the same in 1975, with each elections, veterans affairs, and general legislative session, the committee will legislation, to concentrate on within the probably have a similar division structure to committee member serving on at least one division. committee. that of the 1973-74 session: Public and Fl St. Paul, MN. 55155 Phone 296-2146 Thirteen high school students from all parts of Minnesota took part in the first week of the House of Representatives High School Page Program, January 13-17. "When you visit the State Capitol for a week, you learn that passing a bill is much more complicated than the seven steps we learned in our civics classes," a student from a farm community said. Students met with Speaker of the House Martin 0. Sabo, leaders of the Republican caucus, and with their state representative during their first week with the House of Representatives. The High School Pages met Secretary of State Joan Growe and Attorney General Warren Spannaus, and toured their offices. They also attended a House committee meeting, toured the state government com Rep. Carl Johnson (D-St. Peter} discusses local issues with Dieter Schmitz, a junior plex, visited the State Historical Society, and at St. Peter Sr. High School. Dieter served as a page in the House Chamber as a acted as pages during a House session. High School Page Program participants. Sec. of State Joan A. Growe chats with Paul Students were in the House Chamber Bruhn, High. School Page from Frazee. High School Pages visited with the Secretary when Governor Wendell R. Anderson of State during their first week at the House of Representatives. Paul also met with delivered his annual Budget Address to a his representative Frank DeGroat (R-Lake Park), while at the Capitol. joint convention of the House and Senate on Thursday, January 16. High School Pages also attended the Minnesota Horizons seminar, a series oflec tures on Minnesota's future, sponsored by the House of Representatives and Senate, The Agriculture Committee of the million for the biennium. the Commission on Minnesota's Future, and Minnesota House of Representatives, Jack -Flint, executive of the state Live the State Planning Agency. chaired by Rep. George Mann (D-Windom), stock Sanitary Board, described for the At an evaluation session at the end of the met for the first time January 22 to hear committee some of the duties and respon week, students commented on the program. reports from the Department of Agricul §ibilities of the Board. "I liked working in the House Chamber ture and the Livestock Sanitation Board. Basically, he said, the job of the board is to best," said one student, adding "I was Jon W efald, commissioner of agriculture, protect the health of domestic animals across surprised at all the activity on the House stressed to the committee that the num the state. Duties include supervision oflives floor during session." A sixteen-year-old ber, of farmers in the state is steadily tock exhibitions and sales, projects involving from the metropolitan· area said she had decreasing due to loss of farm profits. disease eradication, licensing of rendering not expected state representatives, to be He said farmers have a right to the cost of plants and the supervision of all interstate so acQessible or so friendly. production plus a reasonable profit. "There livestock movements. is no substitute for a fair return on the Each high school page will serve two one products of rural America," he said. "That is week terms at the Capitol. One high school the number one goal that we all must work or high school district per house district was for and address ourselves to." selected to participate in the program during Agribusiness affects everyone in the state, the 1975 legislative session. The process by Wefald said and great n.umbers of non which students were selected was determined David Bieging, executive secretary to Ma Minnesotans as well. Forty-five percent of by the school, and the selection made on jority Leader Irvin Anderson, has resigned the gainfully employed workers in the state a non-partisan basis. Children of legis to return to law school on a full time basis. work in agriculture or related areas, he said. lators and legislative staff are ineligible Bieging has been top aide to the Wefald concluded his remarks, saying he to take part in the program. majority leader since late 1972. No replace would ask the legislature for a little over $16 ment has yet been named.