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Bill: Centralization Act 2432
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive Liberal Party of Hulstria
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: August 2433
Description[?]:
| Let us make Hulstria a strong centralized nation once more! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Charter school policy (free, privately run, publicly funded schools).
Old value:: Charter school funding, regulation, and development is left up to local governments.
Current: Charter schools must have a specific focus.
Proposed: Charter schools must have a specific focus.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards fireworks.
Old value:: Local governments determine fireworks laws.
Current: Only adults are allowed to purchase fireworks
Proposed: Professionals may run licensed fireworks shows, small fireworks are legal to the general public.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards the funding of libraries.
Old value:: Funding and operation of libraries is left entirely to local governments.
Current: The national government provides local governments with funding to operate libraries.
Proposed: The national government contracts with private companies to maintain a system of libraries.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The appointment of mayors.
Old value:: Local governments determine the method of appointment.
Current: Citizens elect their mayor directly in a local election.
Proposed: The Head of State oversees the appointment of all mayors.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning museum funding.
Old value:: The government leaves funding and operation of museums to local governments.
Current: The national government provides local governments with the funding to operate museums.
Proposed: The government gives monetary grants to organizations which have established or are looking to establish museums.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: The government leaves the pre-school education policy to local governments.
Current: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside unregulated private establishments.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards smoking.
Old value:: Smoking regulations are to be determined by local governments.
Current: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in places of employment, with the exception of places that primarily serve liquor.
Proposed: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in places of employment, with the exception of places that primarily serve liquor.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:27:08, July 22, 2007 CET | From | Gao-Showa Imperial Party | To | Debating the Centralization Act 2432 |
| Message | the nation is Hulstria & Gao-Soto, if you want laws for Hulstria take it to the Hulstrian Diet or petition the Kaiser if you want to make laws for the entire nation, then speak in the Imperial Diet. Long live Tenno Meiji Takara and may the Meiji reign forever! |
| Date | 11:35:28, July 22, 2007 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party of Hulstria | To | Debating the Centralization Act 2432 |
| Message | Hulstria is the entire nation. Hulstria is Hulstria & Gao-Soto. We will not change our view on the country, and I believe the voters agree, that the dual monarchy is not the most beneficial thing that has occurred to Hulstria. |
| Date | 14:45:06, July 22, 2007 CET | From | Gao-Showa Imperial Party | To | Debating the Centralization Act 2432 |
| Message | The Gao-Showa are not happy to be second class citizens in a Hulstrian nation. Hulstria is where the Hulstrians live and Gao-Soto is where the Gao-Showa live, we are stronger as one united nation and I can ensure you that the Gao-Showa will not happily acquiesce to being engulfed by a hostile Hulstrian nation again. |
| Date | 18:48:22, July 22, 2007 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party of Hulstria | To | Debating the Centralization Act 2432 |
| Message | We dont want segregation again. We are only against the dual monarchy, we believe our Kaiser was sufficient enough to act in interest of the both cultures. |
| Date | 00:55:48, July 23, 2007 CET | From | Plutocratic Utopian Front | To | Debating the Centralization Act 2432 |
| Message | We support this bill. The two cultures of our nation will only fully experience equality and unity when power is concentrated in a single central government. |
| Date | 10:49:10, July 24, 2007 CET | From | Social Reform Party | To | Debating the Centralization Act 2432 |
| Message | We cannot surport this bill. It seems like making a totalirian state. Also centralization makes unhappy people. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 197 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 303 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: It is the collective responsibility of the players in a nation to ensure all currently binding RP laws are clearly outlined in an OOC reference bill in the "Bills under debate" section of the nation page. Confusion should not be created by displaying only some of the current RP laws or displaying RP laws which are no longer current. |
| Random quote: "All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development." - Friedrich Engels |