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Bill: Various ecological issues
Details
Submitted by[?]: Pan-Sekowan Fascist Front
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: January 2457
Description[?]:
| Currently the local goverments have too much power in these issues. Especially the drinking water must have a single standard that must be followed around the country. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Forest management.
Old value:: Local governments are required to operate forestry agencies, which own and manage all forest land.
Current: Local governments are required to operate forestry agencies, which own and manage all forest land.
Proposed: There is a national agency which owns and manages all forest land.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on tree plantation.
Old value:: Local governments may set plantation policy.
Current: The government requires tree plantation at higher than replacement levels for all logging or clearance operations.
Proposed: The government requires tree plantation at replacement level for all logging or clearance operations.
Article 3
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.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of wild animals as pets.
Old value:: This matter is left up to the local governments.
Current: The ownership of wild animals as pets is banned.
Proposed: The ownership of wild animals as pets is banned.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:05:25, September 16, 2007 CET | From |  帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Various ecological issues |
| Message | The DSP agree with all but article 4. But we'll just deal with that one later, so we vote yes. |
| Date | 10:40:04, September 16, 2007 CET | From | Plato's Republican Party | To | Debating the Various ecological issues |
| Message | Plato's Republicans agree to all articles of this bill. We are greatly pleased to find such common ground with the new majority party, and are additionally pleased to put more power back in the hands of a strong central government. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 371 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 228 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| 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: "It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual" - Jeremy Bentham |