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Bill: Power to the states VI
Details
Submitted by[?]: Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
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: March 2094
Description[?]:
| State governments are given the power, if they wish, to build bomb shelters and take other physical internal security measures. Nothing in this bill should be construed to permit infingements on individual civil liberties enshrined in federal law. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Civil defence is the government's policy on providing shelters to be used in the event of attacks on major cities, mainly nuclear attacks and bombing.
Old value:: The government makes no provision for civil defence.
Current: No new buildings may be constructed unless they feature provisions for civil defence.
Proposed: Local authorities are responsible for building and maintaining shelters.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:38:36, August 09, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Power to the states VI |
| Message | Acceptable to us. |
| Date | 17:29:47, August 10, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Power to the states VI |
| Message | hearing no further discussion, we move this and our other decentralization bills to the voting stage. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 450 | ||||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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