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Bill: Act Encouraging Sports in Deltaria
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social-Liberal Party
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: November 2088
Description[?]:
| The Parliament of Deltaria RECOGNISING the need for Deltarians to engage in sports activities; AWARE that the national national government needs to limit its finances to fund core tasks; ENDORSING the diversity of local democracy REPEALS the ban on public sports clubs, and authorises provincial and municipal governments to set-up, subsidise, or otherwise promote Deltarian sports, but remains convinced that funding sports is not a job for the national government. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The funding of sports clubs.
Old value:: The government does not fund sports clubs; only private ones are allowed.
Current: The government does not fund sports clubs; only private ones are allowed.
Proposed: Local governments decide the funding policy of sports clubs.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:34:24, July 30, 2005 CET | From |  Deltarian Labor Party | To | Debating the Act Encouraging Sports in Deltaria |
| Message | Labor does not object in principle to local governments being able to fund sports clubs, but certainly doesn't endorse the idea of the national government spending tax payer's money on such clubs. We therefore have no particular objections to the bill, however, we note with some distress the somewhat trivial nature of the SLP's bill, given all the important work still to be done in Deltaria. |
| Date | 17:16:24, July 30, 2005 CET | From | Deltarian Liberal Democracy Party | To | Debating the Act Encouraging Sports in Deltaria |
| Message | The Liberal Democrats support this bill for a reason that the Labor Party has apparently missed. If local sports are encouraged by local governments, the likelihood of our children becoming involved in extracurricular activities is heavily increased. Schools will no doubt benefit from such an allowance, for local governments and local school boards are likely to divert funds to improving school sports activities. In short, the passing of this bill will allow a safer, more fit, and happier Deltaria. |
| Date | 01:55:00, July 31, 2005 CET | From | Deltarian Liberal Democracy Party | To | Debating the Act Encouraging Sports in Deltaria |
| Message | OOC: Knoot, could you please wait until other people get a chance to say something? Siri did the same thing by moving her National Animal Act to vote too quickly, and it was defeated because nobody got a say in anything. I support this, but I don't know how popular it will be. Just a friendly request. :) |
| Date | 02:53:55, July 31, 2005 CET | From | Deltarian Labor Party | To | Debating the Act Encouraging Sports in Deltaria |
| Message | Labor will vote for this bill because we feel it will be of some small benefit to national fitness in the coming years, but we do not feel that it will be of as significant a benefit as the Medical Standards Act would be. Labor encourages the Social Liberal Party to support the Medical Standards Act. |
| Date | 13:31:42, July 31, 2005 CET | From | Social-Liberal Party | To | Debating the Act Encouraging Sports in Deltaria |
| Message | OOC: Sorry. I waited a bit for people to respond and there was no response despite the fact that other issues (immigration etc. *were*, in fact, being discussed. Maybe I was a bit too fast this time, but I figured that - given your initial responses - sports were quite an innocent subject. You are right though, and I will wait a bit longer with other proposals. IC: We will duly consider the Medical Standards Act pending positive responses to our suggested amendements. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 87 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 13 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "OOC", "IC" and "IG" are commonly-used acronyms in Particracy. "OOC" refers to comments, discussions and actions which are out-of-character, meaning they are done player-to-player rather than party-to-party. "IC" refers to in-character interactions (ie. party-to-party). Similarly, "IG" means in-game, although this term may also simply refer to what happens in the actual game interface, as opposed to on the forum or elsewhere. "RP" just means "role-play". |
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