Topeka ? Lawmakers today will get a peek at a plan to capture taxes and plow them into bioscience research.

Sen. Nick Jordan, R-Shawnee, and Rep. Kenny Wilk, R-Lansing, will outline their proposal before the Senate Commerce Committee.

“We’re letting the committee know what’s coming,” Wilk said Monday. “We have visited personally with some of them, but not all.”

He said financial details — specifically how much the proposal would cost — probably would be completed later in the week.

Under the plan, the state would establish a “virtual benefit district” to increase bioscience research at universities, medical centers and nonprofit groups.

The state would borrow funds to increase research and then pay off the loan by recapturing income taxes on wages from new bioscience jobs created throughout the state.

House Speaker Doug Mays, R-Topeka, and Senate President Dave Kerr, R-Hutchinson, have touted the plan as one of the most important economic development initiatives of the 2004 legislative session. Mays said getting the proposal approved would be one of his top goals this year.

Wilk said Kansas could reap countless economic and medical benefits by trying to get to the forefront of biomedical research.

“This just makes a whole lot of sense,” he said.