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Bill: LITP Bill no. 606
Details
Submitted by[?]: Likaton Coalition of the Willing
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: February 2366
Description[?]:
| As part of our manifesto commitment, we present the following Bill. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning biological and chemical weaponry.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
Current: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
Proposed: The nation shall never develop, purchase or store biological or chemical weaponry.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of chemical and biological weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to use chemical or biological weapons in warfare for any reason.
Current: The nation reserves the right to use chemical or biological weapons in warfare for any reason.
Proposed: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning granting citizenship.
Old value:: Citizenship is granted to all nationals.
Current: Citizenship is granted to all nationals.
Proposed: Citizenship is gained by passing a qualifying exam.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change
The government's policy regarding foreign marriages.
Old value:: All foreign marriages are recognised, regardless of domestic policy regarding marriage.
Current: Only foreign marriages that comply with domestic policy regarding marriage are recognised.
Proposed: Only foreign marriages that comply with domestic policy regarding marriage are recognised.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Ownership of guns by private individuals.
Old value:: Adult individuals may own guns under strict license conditions.
Current: Adult individuals are allowed to own and purchase guns freely.
Proposed: Individuals are allowed to own firearms as long as they do not have a history of dangerous mental illness or a violent criminality.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The confidentiality of letters and correspondence.
Old value:: The confidentiality of letters is inviolable, but the justice dept. can violate the confidentiality of letters with grounded cause.
Current: The confidentiality of letters is inviolable, but the justice dept. can violate the confidentiality of letters with grounded cause.
Proposed: The confidentiality of letters is inviolable.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on public nudity.
Old value:: There are no laws with regards to public nudity, it is allowed.
Current: Public nudity is illegal, but private nudist colonies and beaches are permitted.
Proposed: Public nudity laws are left to local governments.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change Travel by foreigners to the nation.
Old value:: The nation imposes strict border control on visitors, with intensive security checks, to maintain law and order.
Current: The nation imposes minimal border controls on visitors, with cursory security checks, to confirm visitor identities.
Proposed: The nation imposes minimal border controls on visitors, with cursory security checks, to confirm visitor identities.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change Weapons allowed to private citizens.
Old value:: Only certain types of weapons may be owned by the general public, but these may be carried anywhere except as determined by the property owner.
Current: Citizens may own any type of weapon. They may be carried anywhere except as determined by the property owner.
Proposed: Only certain types of weapons may be owned by the general public, and there are further restrictions on places where they may be carried.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:34:25, February 26, 2007 CET | From | AM Populist Social Democrats | To | Debating the LITP Bill no. 606 |
| Message | There are certain provisions of this bill that would lead to our voting against it as a whole regardless, but portions we might support, including some that we would like further explanations of the reasons for. A key one we for which we would like explanation is Article 9. What restrictions on where legal weapons may be carried does the LITP think are desirable? We would certainly want to prohibit many legal weapons in schools, for instance; but as the government owns public schools the government can do so, as the property owner. We doubt that our current charter schools or any private schools that may someday become legal again-- despite our hopes they won't-- would have similar restrictions. We can think of other places (the gallery overlooking the Convocation, for example) where it is reasonable to prohibit nearly all weapons, but every example we can think of is either a case where the government would own the land or the property owner would see fit to ban weapons. Article 3 we would support if the qualifying exam only applied to immigrants and we also had a clause that allowed all legal immigrants to be nationals-- but to gain citizenship, they would have to pass the exam. We do not wish to deprive those born to Likatonians, but grow up disadvantaged and ignorant, of citizenship rights. We feel that the ideal is to have immigration limited by quotas based on qualifications (as current law states), with allowances for refugees escaping extreme conditions (as current law states), with nationality granted to all who immigrate legally on those conditions but a test required for such immigrants to gain citizenship rights. We may propose a bill to deal with those two provisions. We are open to discussion about Article 8, whether current law is truly needed to protect us from terrorism or not. If not, we would like to change it in the interest of promoting tourism. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 51 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 122 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 26 |
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