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Bill: Higher Education Bill the Fourth
Details
Submitted by[?]: Vuloch Ca Korzia
Status[?]: passed
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: July 2085
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor.
Current: The government introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
Proposed: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:51:31, July 22, 2005 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill the Fourth |
| Message | Erm... |
| Date | 22:28:17, July 22, 2005 CET | From | Social Democratic Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill the Fourth |
| Message | I wish you'd stop harrassing us with this bill |
| Date | 11:25:56, July 23, 2005 CET | From | Vuloch Ca Korzia | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill the Fourth |
| Message | Why? It's obvious that the people like/want it. After all, isn't Darnussia supposed to be a democracy? |
| Date | 19:08:30, July 23, 2005 CET | From | Social Libertarian party | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill the Fourth |
| Message | It's not the point to represent them, it's the point to represent your party and they can elect who they want. |
| Date | 20:23:03, July 23, 2005 CET | From | Vuloch Ca Korzia | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill the Fourth |
| Message | ...then you can hardly have any complaints if I raise this? |
| Date | 01:24:07, July 24, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill the Fourth |
| Message | i support it! |
| Date | 14:39:54, July 24, 2005 CET | From | Social Democratic Party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill the Fourth |
| Message | Very Un-Socialist bill and discriminitive against the poor. |
| Date | 16:43:05, July 24, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill the Fourth |
| Message | hows that? the poor still get free education. |
| Date | 20:22:17, July 24, 2005 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill the Fourth |
| Message | *chuckles* No. |
| Date | 20:54:25, July 24, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill the Fourth |
| Message | Percentage Choice 12.36% The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor. 12.28% The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs. 51.04% The government fully subsidizes tuition. 24.33% The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs. |
| Date | 21:24:26, July 24, 2005 CET | From | Social Libertarian party | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill the Fourth |
| Message | Forget what the people choose, there's a communist wind blowing through Darnussia at the time, it'll pass. |
| Date | 21:36:17, July 24, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian party of Darnussia | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill the Fourth |
| Message | it's been blowing for the last 50 years but hey you hadn't been around that long... so it's not that easy to analyse this communist wind :P |
| Date | 16:34:55, July 25, 2005 CET | From | Vuloch Ca Korzia | To | Debating the Higher Education Bill the Fourth |
| Message | Yay! It passed! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 357 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 345 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 48 |
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