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Bill: Orange Act XXV
Details
Submitted by[?]: Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: November 2362
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Eminent Domain.
Old value:: The government may not seize private property.
Current: The government may seize private property for vital government works and for corporate use.
Proposed: The government may seize private property for vital government works.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on energy generation.
Old value:: Private and public power stations exist side-by-side.
Current: All power stations are publicly owned.
Proposed: Private power stations provide energy for the entire power grid.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: Agricultural crops which are considered beneficial to the enviroment or to the continued ecological safety of the state are subsidized.
Current: The government subsidises the operations of low-income farming families.
Proposed: The government denies subsidy assistance to farmers.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change
The government's policy regarding foreign investments.
Old value:: Foreign investors may invest in national companies, but may not get a majority share.
Current: Foreign investors may freely invest in national companies.
Proposed: Foreign investors may freely invest in national companies.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of nuclear weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation shall never use nuclear weapons in warfare.
Current: The nation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in warfare for any reason.
Proposed: The nation reserves the right to nuclear weapons in retaliation to a nuclear, chemical or biological attack.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The policy with respect to nuclear weaponry.
Old value:: The nation shall never produce or store nuclear weaponry for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Current: The nation reserves the right to develop, produce and store nuclear arms.
Proposed: The nation reserves the right to develop, produce and store nuclear arms.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the pension system.
Old value:: The state operates a compulsory public system combined with an optional private pension.
Current: There is a compulsory private pension system.
Proposed: The state does not operate a pension system. Individuals must save up for retirement on their own.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding sexually explicit material on broadcast television.
Old value:: Sexually explicit material is allowed, but violent or hard core pornography is banned.
Current: All sexually explicit material is allowed on television.
Proposed: All sexually explicit material is allowed on television.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:57:21, February 19, 2007 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Orange Act XXV |
| Message | OOC: Just some information that's worth having about Baltusia's military. It was established in the wiki (and therefore, more or less canon), so don't get at me for making it up now: *Baltusia has four wings to its armed forces: the Air Corps Baltusia (the air force), the Sea Corps Baltusia (navy), the Land Corps Baltusia (army) and, depending on the national laws regarding nuclear weapons, the Nuclear Corps Baltusia. *The armed forces operate according to colour-coded alert levels, ranging from green for everything's cool, through yellow (elite units recalled for duty), orange (elite units recalled and rest on stand-by), red (full recall) and black for war. By the Powers of Praetor Act, the Praetor can set the alert levels at will, though it can only go to black with the consent of the Senate. *Because of Baltusia's long-standing agreements with its land neighbours and the logisitics of transporting a large army to an engagement overseas, the LCB numbers roughly a million troops who are strictly used for self-defence. *Because Baltusia has only a tiny part of the world's sea under its direct control, the SCB is tiny and really only focussed on defending our three aircraft carriers (can't remember what they were called off the top of my head). *Because of the relative impracticality of the SCB and LCB, most of Baltusia's funding goes to the ACB. Our ACB is powerful and well-funded and maintains a decent arsenal of bombers, fighters, etc including several bombers fitted for nuclear weapons. *As established by the Nuclear Rearmament Act of 2093 (http://80.237.164.51/particracy/main/viewbill.php?billid=12534), the NCB may only construct weapons during wartime. We reserve the right to construct at any time but it would be illegal by this (and its assumed, subsequent) laws to do so outside of war. However, as war may be declared at the drop of a hat, we establised Fortress Baltusia, a secret lab/bunker somewhere in Gevaro where a bunch of soldiers, engineers and scientists hang out, bored, waiting for the fateful day when they're told to build a nuke. Such a day has not come. As time would be of the essence, the nukes are crude gravity bombs designed to be dropped from one of our bombers, though we do maintain some ICBMs. The NCB run drills from time to time to keep their skills sharp but don't place active warheads in such practice weapons. I've realised that most of the current parties weren't around when most of that the stuff about the NCB was established, so its worthwhile running through it again. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 44 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 104 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 42 |
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