Topeka ? Significant issues still in play during the Legislature’s wrap-up session, which was entering its sixth day today:

Boeing bonds

Issue: Authorizing $500 million in bonds to attract work on Boeing Co.’s next generation of jetliners to the firm’s Wichita plant.

Status: House and Senate have both passed versions of bond authorization bill and are trying to draft final version.

Crime

Issue: Increasing penalty for a second rape conviction to 40 years in prison and strengthening other sentencing laws.

Status: House and Senate negotiators deadlocked.

Expanded gambling

Issue: Allowing slot machines and other electronic gambling machines at dog and horse tracks and at new slots parlors or casinos in other locations, particularly Dodge City and Geary County, with local voter approval.

Status: The House passed bill Friday but GOP Senate leaders have not committed to a vote in their chamber.

Sunday liquor sales

Issue: Allowing Sunday sales of liquor statewide in the wake of a Wyandotte County Court District decision in March that cities and counties could exempt themselves from the state’s longstanding ban.

Status: House and Senate negotiators deadlocked.

Taxes– computer software

Issue: Repealing the sales tax imposed last year on custom computer software. Sprint Corp. argues law is unenforceable, questions whether the tax applies when one of its affiliates buys custom software designed by another affiliate. Change could cost $18 million.

Status: Bill before Senate.

Taxes — dividends

Issue: State losing $51 million a year if Congress approves President Bush’s plan to exempt corporate dividends from federal income taxes, because the state and federal tax codes are linked.

Status: Proposal to allow the state to continue taxing dividends part of tax negotiations.

Taxes — inheritance

Issue: Repealing tax imposed last year on property inherited by people who are not blood relatives or spouses of the deceased. Department of Revenue says law is confusing and unenforceable, but repeal would cost state $10 million in fiscal 2004.

Status: Part of tax negotiations.

Taxes — internet sales

Issue: Making Kansas’ retail sales tax law more uniform with laws in other states, easing collection of taxes on Internet purchases.

Status: Part of tax negotiations.