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Bill: Tuition Fees Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social-Liberal Party
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: February 2099
Description[?]:
| The Parliament of the Beluzian Republic, Observing the failure of the Act regarding the installment of Fiscally Responsible Tuition Fees; Believing, nonetheless, that subsidising tuition fees for rich students is not efficient; Implements means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Current: The government subsidizes tuition only for students from families classified as low-income or poor.
Proposed: The government introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:04:07, August 19, 2005 CET | From | Social-Liberal Party | To | Debating the Tuition Fees Reform Act |
| Message | The SLP believes the current system of tuition fees needs reform. The current system subsidises the rich as well as the poor, and it does not remove barriers for the poorest of students as fees still have to be paid. The SLP suggested a system whereby the poorest students are subsidised but the wealthy students are not. This proposal was rejected by the House. Our alternative suggestion would be a system of means tested loans, but more importantly we would like a reform that we know, beforehand, will carry a parliamentary majority based on these principles. Therefore I invite all parties to state their views on how best to accomplish a fair system. |
| Date | 11:46:24, August 20, 2005 CET | From | Social-Liberal Party | To | Debating the Tuition Fees Reform Act |
| Message | Nobody has any comments? Come on, surely you care! |
| Date | 17:06:42, August 20, 2005 CET | From | Social-Liberal Party | To | Debating the Tuition Fees Reform Act |
| Message | *sigh* |
| Date | 17:38:20, August 20, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Tuition Fees Reform Act |
| Message | I don't konw whats best so I'll vote no. |
| Date | 20:09:54, August 20, 2005 CET | From | Neo-Marxist revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Tuition Fees Reform Act |
| Message | *raises eyebrow* I already had this in debate. |
| Date | 20:50:02, August 20, 2005 CET | From | Social-Liberal Party | To | Debating the Tuition Fees Reform Act |
| Message | You... did? Ah, yes, that 8 years old bill in the archives. I apologise, but I had completely forgotten about it. Why did you not bring it to vote anyway? No need having bills stay inactive that long. If you do bring it to vote I'll support it nonetheless. |
| Date | 23:42:57, August 20, 2005 CET | From | Neo-Marxist revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Tuition Fees Reform Act |
| Message | I've been waiting so that people can actually see the bills and what with the party turn around in this country it tends to be the best way of doing it. |
| Date | 03:40:02, August 21, 2005 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Tuition Fees Reform Act |
| Message | Putting students into debt is unacceptable |
| Date | 11:14:34, August 21, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Tuition Fees Reform Act |
| Message | I still don't know |
| Date | 12:18:59, August 21, 2005 CET | From | Social-Liberal Party | To | Debating the Tuition Fees Reform Act |
| Message | I suppose. I tend to only look at the more recent bills for debate though, but I apologise again. I do hope this will not dissuade your party from supporting legislation that you have in the past endorsed. At the PAL leadership i can only say... MAKE A DECISION! That is what you are paid to do! That is what you were elected to do! |
| Date | 12:19:32, August 21, 2005 CET | From | Social-Liberal Party | To | Debating the Tuition Fees Reform Act |
| Message | ((first statement was OOC; the second statement was IC. I apologise for the confusion.)) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 153 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 106 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
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