Highlights of Wednesday’s activities at the Kansas Legislature:

¢ House leaders are proposing a $500 million school funding increase, phased in over three years, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press.

¢ House members rewrote a bill regulating abortion clinics so that it would apply to dozens of other clinics and doctors’ offices.

¢ Everyone arrested or charged with a felony must submit DNA samples to investigators under a bill gaining first-round approval in the House.

¢ A bill to lessen state regulation of local telephone service while still protecting poor neighborhoods and some consumers from price increases won Senate approval.

Also:

¢ Fourteen miles of K-177 and U.S. 24 in Riley County would be named for former Kansas State University football coach Bill Snyder under a bill approved by the House.

¢ The Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed a bill to make sure law enforcement has up-to-date information about the looks of registered sex offenders and another to crack down on gang violence.

Clock is ticking:

Wednesday was the 45th day day of the session, out of 90 scheduled.