Topeka ? Legislative negotiators reached a compromise on a bill to increase education funding by up to $127 million annually in an attempt to satisfy an April 12 Kansas Supreme Court deadline.

• Responding to Terri Schiavo’s case in Florida, House members gave first-round approval to a proposal that would make it more difficult for guardians to withhold food and water from incapacitated people in their care.
• A bill strengthening regulation of abortion clinics advanced in the Senate after anti-abortion members narrowly thwarted an effort to rewrite the measure to satisfy Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.
• With the family of slain Greenwood County Sheriff Matt Samuels watching from the floor, the House gave first-round approval to a bill restricting the sale of a key ingredient in manufacturing methamphetamine.
• Any public employee’s total compensation would be fully disclosed under legislation given first-round approval by the House.

Also:

• The Senate approved a proposed $11.2 billion budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, largely mirroring the spending plan Gov. Kathleen Sebelius proposed.
• Sunday liquor sales would be allowed anywhere in the state when approved by local voters under a bill advanced by the Senate, which rejected a bid to ban such sales statewide.
• Responding to perceived abuses by Wyandotte County officials in building the area around Kansas Speedway, the House took a step to restrict the use of bonds for economic development.
• An effort to ease the way for woman who want to breast-feed in public appeared to be a dead issue this year in the Legislature.

Clock is ticking:

Thursday was the 74th calendar day of the session, out of 90 scheduled.