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Bill: Exotic Animals Protection Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kanjoran People's 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: December 2100
Description[?]:
| Zoological institutions should be allowed to keep exotic animals. Private households, less so. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of exotic animals.
Old value:: Everyone may keep exotic animals, the trade in exotic animals is unregulated.
Current: Only zoos or zoological institutions are allowed to keep exotic animals.
Proposed: Everyone may keep exotic animals, but the trade in exotic animals is regulated by the government.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:06:28, August 22, 2005 CET | From | Secular Humanist Party | To | Debating the Exotic Animals Protection Bill |
| Message | I agree. |
| Date | 16:26:39, August 22, 2005 CET | From | Nationalist Freedom Party | To | Debating the Exotic Animals Protection Bill |
| Message | I am against this. now you're trying to stop people from owning Parrots. I think if you two vote for this bill, then you should take @people@ and @hummanist@ out of your party names. |
| Date | 22:44:05, August 22, 2005 CET | From | Kanjoran People's Party | To | Debating the Exotic Animals Protection Bill |
| Message | I'm not sure restricting a person's right to own a parrot is is anti-people or anti-humanist. I will check however to see if this would restrict parrots as pets. |
| Date | 22:58:36, August 22, 2005 CET | From | Kanjoran People's Party | To | Debating the Exotic Animals Protection Bill |
| Message | Y'know what? The phrase "exotic animals" includes many more species than I had first suspected. I've altered the bill's proposal to only regulate the trade. This way everyone can own chinchillas. If you don't think the government should regulate this trade, consider this: exotic animals can bring with them diseases and plant life foriegn to our soil. This could mess with the ecosystem and such. If you don't believe this is possible I can look up some examples. In Louisiana for instance, "nutria" have overpopulated and now police and hunters have* to kill them to protect the nature. Somewhere, I believe in Maine, fishes were released in a lake/river that began populating and puting that ecosystem in jeopardy as well. Here's the list I'm referencing for exotic pets: http://exoticpets.about.com/cs/resourcesgeneral/a/exoticpetsatoz.htm |
| Date | 22:27:43, August 23, 2005 CET | From | Kanjoran People's Party | To | Debating the Exotic Animals Protection Bill |
| Message | Does anyone have objections to the current proposal? |
| Date | 00:57:22, August 24, 2005 CET | From | Nationalist Freedom Party | To | Debating the Exotic Animals Protection Bill |
| Message | I don't like all this big government, centrally controlled regulation. I'll still vote against this bill, I don't see the need for it in this category. |
| Date | 02:15:43, August 24, 2005 CET | From | Kanjoran People's Party | To | Debating the Exotic Animals Protection Bill |
| Message | Well, I hope I convinced KNP. I'll put it to a vote since its been up here for a while. |
| Date | 05:22:47, August 24, 2005 CET | From | Kanjoran National Party | To | Debating the Exotic Animals Protection Bill |
| Message | I would consider this a common sense bill, as all trade is regulated to some degree otherwise it is harmful. Even "free trade" is regulated. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 331 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 108 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 1 |
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