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Senate passes bill to end scalping
Reselling of entertainment, amusement tickets becomes crime
AUSTIN (AP) — The Senate approved bills
Monday that would make it a crime to scalp tick
ets to entertainment events, including athletic
contests, and would tighten regulations against
certain telephone solicitations.
Another bill sent to the House with Senate ap
proval would provide unpaid parental leave for
state employees.
Sen. J.E. “Buster” Brown said his scalping bill
would make it a crime to resell or offer to resell a
ticket to a public entertainment or amusement
event for more than the original cost set by the
event sponsor.
An amendment specified that the bill would
cover sports events, because “there was some
question whether ‘amusements’ fully covered
some of our athletic contests,” Brown, R-Lake
Jackson, said.
The measure — providing penalties of up to
Odays in jail and a $1,000 fine — was sent to
the House on voice vote.
Sen. Chet Edwards, D-Duncanville, described
as a “multimillion-dollar sham” certain telephone
solicitations on behalf of law enforcement orga
nizations.
“Literally millions of dollars in supposedly
charitable contributions are being collected in the
name of police organizations and law enforce
ment organizations, and many of these organiza
tions have nothing to do with active police or law
enforcement groups,” Edwards said.
He said the solicitations are “more to take ad
vantage of people’s good will to raise money.”
Edwards’ bill would require a law enforcement
group to report annually to the state attorney
general regarding solicited contributions and
prohibit the use of false or misleading statements
about the use of the proceeds.
Violators could be sentenced to a maximum of
180 days in jail and fined up to $ 1,000.
The bill also was sent to the House on voice
vote.
Another measure advanced on voice vote
would make available up to 24 weeks of unpaid
leave time for parents who are state employees
upon the birth or adoption of a child, or upon a
child’s serious illness.
The employee’s job would be protected in his
or her absence, but if that was impossible or un
reasonable, the employee would be given an op
portunity for the next similar position.
Senators on Monday also approved and sent to
the House bills that would:
• Raise the monetary penalty for untimely
payment of insurance claims.
• Provide penalties for a physician who refers
patients to health care facilities in which the phy
sician has a financial interest if the physician fails
to disclose that interest.
• Make it a crime for a hospital to pay a physi
cian for soliciting patients for the hospital.
• Raise from $20,000 to $50,000 the amount
paid to survivors of certain law officers killed in
the line of duty.
• Give the attorney general authority to mod
ify child support orders.
• Create a college savings bond program
within certain state agencies.
Bush approves
declaration of
disaster areas
AUSTIN (AP) — President
Bush has approved Gov. Bill
Clements’ request to declare six
East Texas counties state disaster
areas as a result of damage
caused by March floods, the gov
ernor said Monday.
The counties — Cass, Chero
kee, Gregg, Harrison, Marion
and Rusk — sustained heavy
flooding between March 28-29.
"1 am delighted that President
Bush acted quickly on this re
quest,” Clements said in a
statement.
“People who suffered losses in
this disaster can expect federal as
sistance in just a matter of days,”
he said.
Clements called for disaster re
lief on April 12, when he re-
auested federal help for resi
dents, business owners and state
and local governments.
Poll shows Bush maintains support
HOUSTON (AP) — President
Bush still maintains strong support
among voters in the city he calls
home, according to results published
Monday from a Houston Chronicle
poll.
Bush, who is nearing the 100-day
milestone of his administration, re
ceived a 67 percent job approval rat
ing from a April 12-19 survey of 672
registered voters who live in Hous
ton, a copyright story in theChroni-
cie said.
Nine percent disapproved of the
job Bush is doing as president and
the rest were unsure or didn’t an
swer.
But Bush didn’t get quite as high
marks as the other 1988 national
candidate who calls Houston home
— Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, who was vice
presidential running mate to Demo
cratic nominee Michael Dukakis.
Asked to rate the job Bentsen is
doing as senator, 82 percent ap
proved, 10 percent disapproved and
the rest were unsure or didn’t re
spond.
The margin of error of the sur
vey, conducted through the Univer
sity of Houston Center for Public
Policy, is plus or minus 4 percentage
points.
Bentsen won re-election handily
in the 1988 general election, while
Texas voters rejected his simulta
neous race for the vice presidency,
giving a big victory to Bush and his
running mate Dan Quayle.
Republican Sen. Phil Gramm,
who will run for re-election in 1990,
also got high marks from Houston
voters.
A&M students win
marketing awards
in Houston contest
By Fiona Soltes
STAFF WRITER
Twelve marketing students re
ceived more than just good
grades for class projects April 13-
14 when they won awards at the
Houston Advertising Federation
Student Competition.
Denise Smart, assistant profes
sor of Marketing 447, Advertis
ing Campaigns and Procedures,
said she encouraged her entire
class to enter the competition and
all but one of the 66 students fol
lowed her advice.
Sheryl Bonney received first
place in the marketing and media
division; Paige Crawford, second
place; and Todd Gilbert, third.
Nine students received honorable
mentions. The conference, at the
Westin Oaks Hotel, included
roundtable discussions and lec
tures with representatives from
various ad agencies.
Most of the students competed
in the marketing and media cat
egory, which meant designing a
complete campaign. This in
cludes market analysis, devel
opment of a media plan, devel
opment of ads, a creative
strategy, an evaluation of media
usage and a budget, she said. The
topic was KUHT-TV, a public
broadcasting station in Houston.
Of the others, two students re
ceived honorable mentions in the
newspaper divisions and one in
radio.
“It’s a positive thing for stu
dents, getting the experience of
going through a competition and
evaluations,” Smart said. “It’s
something to add to a resume,
and I would hope it would help in
finding a job in avertising later
on.”
Smart said last year A&M took
first, second and third place, but
no honorable mentions were
awarded at the conference.
This is the only contest in
which the class participates.
“Right now, this is all we can
manage,” Smart said. “The stu
dents have to do ad campaigns lo
cally, and they keep pretty busy
with that.”
Texas House tentatively adopts $46.5 billion state budget
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas House on Mon
day tentatively adopted a $46.5 billion state bud
get on a 144-2 vote, which House Speaker Gib
Lewis called the largest margin of victory he
could recall on a spending bill.
“It doesn’t do a lot of the things that we would
like to have seen done as far as having more
money for education, more money for health
care, some of those areas," Lewis said. “But I
think with the available revenue that we have . . .
it’s a very good budget.”
The bill, which faces one more House vote,
will wind up in a conference committee to iron
out differences between the House plan and the
Senate’s $46.75 billion proposal.
Lewis, D-Fort Worth, described the budget,
which represents a nearly 10 percent increase
above current spending, as well-balanced.
The bill “passed today by the largest majority
that I can recall in the history of any appropria
tions bill,” the speaker said as he congratulated
members after nearly six hours of debate.
Lewis and other budget leaders said the bill
would require no increase in taxes.
“We will do it without a tax increase. There’s
no question about that,” he said.
The biggest fights occurred over minority hir
ing, funding state Capitol restoration and a high
speed rail study, and a proposal to cut the budget
by $2.5 billion.
The proposed state budget is 9.8 percent more
than current spending levels, or about $4.15 bil
lion. Of that amount, $3.3 billion represents in
creases in general revenue fund spending. The
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