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Bill: The People's Reforms
Details
Submitted by[?]: Sekowan Communist 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: September 2453
Description[?]:
| A bill that seeks to reform the legislation of Sekowo to support the will of the people. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning forest protection.
Old value:: Forest protection is left to local governments.
Current: Forests have strictly enforced protection. Felling is limited to fire breaks.
Proposed: Forests are protected. Logging is allowed by licence only.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Current: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Proposed: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The right for a person to prostitute himself or herself.
Old value:: Prostitution regulation decisions are left up to local governments.
Current: Prostitution regulation decisions are left up to local governments.
Proposed: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Regulation of the quality of drinking water.
Old value:: Local government is responsible for drinking water quality regulation.
Current: The government sets a single standard to ensure all tap water is drinkable.
Proposed: The government sets a single standard to ensure all tap water is drinkable.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:16:17, September 09, 2007 CET | From | Plato's Republican Party | To | Debating the The People's Reforms |
| Message | Plato's Republicans support a great deal of this bill, but there are a few points which will prevent us from endorsing it as a whole. The greatest of these is the proposal to do away with what is truly equal representation. The algorithm is used to ensure that those regions with few people do not dictate matters that affect those regions with many people. We may be more willing to accept a proposal to use a different algorithm skewed in favor of smaller regions, but the proposal as it stands is unacceptable. |
| Date | 06:31:14, September 09, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the The People's Reforms |
| Message | The DSP will support this, though we would prefer regions with a larger populace have more representatives than those that don't. |
| Date | 07:28:37, September 09, 2007 CET | From |  Chattes en Chaleur | To | Debating the The People's Reforms |
| Message | CeC would vote no if the final bill includes any changes to how seats are awarded. |
| Date | 08:34:32, September 09, 2007 CET | From | Pan-Sekowan Fascist Front | To | Debating the The People's Reforms |
| Message | PSFF supports this totally, save for article 4 that is not a big concern for us. Democracy will be abolished sooner or later. |
| Date | 08:35:13, September 09, 2007 CET | From | Pan-Sekowan Fascist Front | To | Debating the The People's Reforms |
| Message | OOC: me agreeing with Communists? What have I become? ;) |
| Date | 18:32:24, September 09, 2007 CET | From | Sekowan Communist Party | To | Debating the The People's Reforms |
| Message | Article 4 has been removed. |
| Date | 18:33:43, September 09, 2007 CET | From | Sekowan Communist Party | To | Debating the The People's Reforms |
| Message | OOC: Not quite sure what I was thinking last night when I made that bill. I /think/ that I figured "Oh, equal representation, regardless of region" with x votes garnering y seats no matter where the votes are. My bad. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 237 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 242 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 120 |
| Random fact: Don't put "the" as the first word in your party name, because when parties are referred to in news reports, their names are preceded with "the", e.g. the [Socialist Party] has lost. |
| Random quote: "Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word." Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970) |