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Bill: Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Imperial Pluralism Party
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 2446
Description[?]:
| For Sekowo |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Current: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Proposed: Education is entirely voluntary.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning farm size.
Old value:: Farms that grow too large are broken up and the land redistributed.
Current: Farm size is not regulated.
Proposed: Farm size regulations are determined by local governments.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The right to gamble.
Old value:: Gambling is illegal unless taking place in a licensed casino.
Current: Gambling is illegal.
Proposed: The legality of gambling is a matter of local governments.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Current: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Proposed: Health care is entirely public and free; private clinics are banned.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Nation's policy with regards to an intelligence agency.
Old value:: The nation has an intelligence agency, but it is limited to counter-intelligence and surveillance of other countries.
Current: The nation has an intelligence agency that is permitted by law to undertake all types of covert operations in other countries.
Proposed: The nation maintains no intelligence agency.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of media content.
Old value:: There are laws against the publication of false information and hate speech.
Current: There are laws against the publication of false information, hate speech, and subversive anti-government material.
Proposed: There are laws against the publication of false information; everything else may be published freely.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Government policy regarding a national park system.
Old value:: The government funds and maintains a network of national parks and/or marine protected areas.
Current: The government funds and maintains a network of national parks and/or marine protected areas.
Proposed: The government devolves park policy to local governments.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change The policy with respect to nuclear weaponry.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to develop, produce and store nuclear arms.
Current: The nation shall never produce or store nuclear weaponry for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Proposed: The nation shall never produce or store nuclear weaponry for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change Weapons allowed to private citizens.
Old value:: Citizens may own any type of weapons, but certain types are restricted to designated places.
Current: Only certain types of weapons may be owned by the general public, but these may be carried anywhere except as determined by the property owner.
Proposed: Citizens may own any type of weapon. They may be carried anywhere except as determined by the property owner.
Article 10
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the export of weapons to other nations.
Old value:: The government must approve all arms sales on a case by case basis.
Current: The government does not allow arms to be exported.
Proposed: The government does not allow arms to be exported.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:03:44, August 22, 2007 CET | From |   Chattes en Chaleur | To | Debating the Reform Act |
| Message | And this is why allowing the accumulation of 10 proposals is idiotic. |
| Date | 22:19:58, August 22, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Reform Act |
| Message | The DSP is against many parts of this bill. Article 1 While the DSP believes in the freedom to bear arms, it does not believe in allowing anyone to bring anything anywhere. Article 2 While we believe in universal public healthcare, we also believe in letting private clinics exist, since not only does it add to our economy, but it gives the taxpayers a break by having private places where unnecessary plastic surgery and the like can be done off the peoples dime. Article 4 Education is one of the single most important things to our nation,and therefore it must be compulsory. Article 6 The DSP believes the national park system is better handled by the federal government than local governments. Article 7 To protect the people from corporations and greedy profiteers the DSP believes that the breaking up of farms must remain a federal obligation, though we do believe the local government should be able to petition the federal government to break-up a farm. Article 8 The DSP does not have a problem with selling arms to free and democratic countries that have been checked before sales are made, in fact by not allowing arms to be exported at all Sekowo's economy will be damaged. Article 9 Anyone who wants to get rid of the Intelligence agency is a fool if they think Sekowo can exist in todays world without one. Article 10 While the DSP believe in getting rid of nuclear weapons throughout the world eventually, it is not the time to do so at home. |
| Date | 07:53:58, August 23, 2007 CET | From | Aristocracy United | To | Debating the Reform Act |
| Message | He's not actually intending for us to vote it through, he wants to establish visibility. |
| Date | 07:57:28, August 23, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Reform Act |
| Message | We/I still like to make our stance known though. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 193 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 311 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 95 |
| Random fact: Moderation will not approve a Cultural Protocol request within the first 48 hours of it being requested. This is in order to give other players a chance to query the proposed changes, if they wish to do so. Moderation may be approached for advice on a proposed change, but any advice proffered should always be understood under the provisio that no final decision will be made until at least 48 hours after the request has been formally submitted for approval. |
| Random quote: "Unlike the world of free-markets, in political government when some individuals win, other individuals lose." - Robert Klassen |