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Bill: Ombudsman Act

Details

Submitted by^[?]: RSDP - Democratic Front

Status^[?]: defeated

Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.

Voting deadline: November 2038

Description^[?]:

(1) An independent organ to be known as the Office of the Ombudsman is hereby established; (2) Citizens may present complaints concerning acts or omissions on the part of public bodies to the Ombudsman who shall undertake a review, without power of decision, and shall make such recommendations to the competent organs as are necessary to prevent or make good injustice; (3) The organs and personnel of the Civil Service shall co-operate with the Ombudsman in the discharge of the Ombudsman's responsibilities.

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

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From
To	Debating the Ombudsman Act
Message	I'm not sure exactly what this organisation would do, perhaps you could further explain?

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From	RSDP - Democratic Front
To	Debating the Ombudsman Act
Message	The Office of the Ombudsman would hear complaints about public bodies and the administration and investigate cases of poor or failed administration, for example: administrative delay, lack of transparency or refusal of access to information, and try to find a solution for it.

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From
To	Debating the Ombudsman Act
Message	Perhaps that should be explicitly stated in the body of the bill, in that case. We support this bill regardless.

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From	New Democrats of Rutania
To	Debating the Ombudsman Act
Message	We don't support this bill because it doesn't DO anything.

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From
To	Debating the Ombudsman Act
Message	Bills do not need legislature attached. See the bloody admin nation, nearly ALL their bills have NO legislation attached.

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From
To	Debating the Ombudsman Act
Message	gun-usage should be heavily restricted to cases of severe violence.

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From
To	Debating the Ombudsman Act
Message	Uh, oops. Sorry about that.

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From	Libertarian Alcoholic Par-tay
To	Debating the Ombudsman Act
Message	I agree with New Democrats. Doing this is just like the "renaming parliament to the communal doo-dah" debate a while ago. What's the point?

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From	RSDP - Democratic Front
To	Debating the Ombudsman Act
Message	Look at Dorvik, more than 50% of their bills have no proposal attached.

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From	RSDP - Democratic Front
To	Debating the Ombudsman Act
Message	Now, should we go to vote on this?

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From	Imperial Party
To	Debating the Ombudsman Act
Message	Although this one we do support.

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From	Libertarian Alcoholic Par-tay
To	Debating the Ombudsman Act
Message	I don't see any problem with this bill.

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From	Libertarian Alcoholic Par-tay
To	Debating the Ombudsman Act
Message	Although there's no real point in passing it, since presumably government errors will be looked into anyway.

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Voting

Vote

Seats

yes

RSDP - Democratic Front (20)
Imperial Party (0)

Total Seats: 20

Total Seats: 57

abstain

Total Seats: 0

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