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Bill: Nurseries for the People Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Luthori Christian Women's Association
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: April 2410
Description[?]:
| Child-care is impossible to access for millions of Luthorian women. The provision of pre-school education would be a great step forward, both enabling women to go out to work and helping to improve our educational standards. Belinda Braithwaite (Leader of the LCWA) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government leaves development of nurseries to the private sector.
Current: The government leaves the pre-school education policy to local governments.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:22:37, May 26, 2007 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Nurseries for the People Act |
| Message | Again, we're not keen on government regulation of private companies. |
| Date | 01:03:05, May 26, 2007 CET | From | Luthori Christian Women's Association | To | Debating the Nurseries for the People Act |
| Message | Would your party, and other parties, be more sympathetic to an alternative proposal which involved private nurseries being subsidised? Belinda Braithwaite (Leader of the LCWA) |
| Date | 20:49:19, May 26, 2007 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Nurseries for the People Act |
| Message | So long as the subsidies did not exclude hard working (i.e. "high earning") families and did not involve government interference in the running of the businesses, we could support such a proposal. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 72 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 28 |
| Random fact: The players in a nation have a collective responsibility to prevent confusion by ensuring unofficial or outdated bills labelled as "Cultural Protocols" are removed from their nation page. |
| Random quote: "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to defend minorities." - Ayn Rand |