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Thursday, October 31, 1985AThe Battalion/Page 3 State and Local ^Proposals Prop 4 would affect Permanent School Fund By MARYBETH ROHSNER Staff Writer If Proposition 4 is approved by voters Nov. 5, the Texas school land board will be allowed to use proceeds from the sale of land in the Permanent Schpol Fund to buy more land for the fund. Currently, the revenues gener ated through the fund can be in vested only in certain bonds and securities. The proposition was spon sored in the T exas Legislature by Sen. Kent Caperton of Bryan and Rep. Charles Evans of Hurst. The Permanent School Fund, unrelated to the Permanent Uni versity Fund, provides a perpet ual trust for the support of the state’s public elementary and sec ondary schools. Leasing the graz ing and mineral rights to land generates income for the fund. Deputy Land Commissioner June Middlebrooks said Brazos County holds only 45 of the 1 mil lion acres allotted to the fund by the state. She added that none of the Brazos County acreage will be affected by the proposed consti tutional amendment because the land board will not sell any of the land used for minerals. Most of the affected lands are in West Texas, Middlebrooks said. Supporters of Proposition 4 say tne measure will allow the state to sell small tracts of land that are too small and scattered to benefit the state and use the funds to buy land in larger blocks which may be more profitable. Opponents of the proposition argue that if more land is pur chased for the Permanent School Fund, the fund will lose liquidity. Also, the land brought into the fund might not earn money for the fund. The Texas General Land Of fice will administer the land sales and purchases. The state’s Sunset Board rec ommended the change. The board reviews legislation approxi mately every 12 years and makes suggestions to the Texas Legis lature. B-CS hospitals won't be affected by Prop 5 By MEG CADIGAN Staff Writer Proposition 5, a hospital dis trict regulation, will not affect lo cal hospitals because both St. Jo seph and Humana hospitals are private institutions, a St. Joseph official said Wednesday. Walter Godfrey, associate ad ministrator at the hospital, said the proposed amendment will af fect public hospitals only, and the closest public hospital to Bryan- College Station is located in Cald well. P a . Texas Legislature will gain con trol of hospital districts. A hospital district is a govern mental unit which, through the approval of voters in the district, can create special taxes for build ing and operating expenses. The constitution says the more-than-100 hospital districts in Texas, “must assume responsi bility for providing medical and hospital care for their needy in habitants.” Due to the very general lan guage of the constitution, there is no uniform plan for indigent health care. If Proposition 5 is approved, the Legislature will be able to cre ate a plan to establish health care in county and public hospitals for those who cannot afford it. The Legislature will be able to decide what services a hospital district must provide and the qualifications a resident must have to receive the hospital’s serv ices. Vhai aboil ot right Ml sn't want I )hnnyCi"I aking dim hoping ti (continued from page 1) fer expenditures. Environmentalists ay the plan does not adequately rotect bays and estuaries or guar- ntee instream uses. Ford says, “When these oppo- :hev coni nents of any w er resources pro ram find themselves without ad equate drinking water, or even water to bathe in, I think they’ll forget STl about the environment as a whole/’ 3 House Bill 2 is a comprehensive water plan dealing with conserva tion, development, flood control and quality protection of the surface and imenl Tori underground water resources in Phil DoJ® 1 exas - /orite, T't» agent t hat other: lev will Mi but he ik es.” Tell ik ird Coselil I said. I like it is’" Kruscht'j d itonM ’t agree nil he does ^ ilumnist ndicM Proposition 1 would authorize the sale of $980 million in state bonds to finance water projects (including dams and reservoirs, wastewater treatment plants, desalinization plants and flood management pro jects), establish a $250 million insur ance program for bonds issued by local governments and allow the Legislature to create special appro priations for water assistance pro grams. 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