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Bill: Gambling (Devolution) Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Judicial Union 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: October 2482
Description[?]:
| An act to devolve to local governments the power to regulate gambling. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The right to gamble.
Old value:: Gambling is illegal unless taking place in a licensed casino.
Current: Gambling is legal, but only in private homes and casinos with special licences.
Proposed: The legality of gambling is a matter of local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:18:10, November 05, 2007 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Gambling (Devolution) Act |
| Message | As with all our parties devolution acts, we feel this isn't sufficiently important to national interests to be legislated at the national level. |
| Date | 03:18:59, November 05, 2007 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Gambling (Devolution) Act |
| Message | That is, party's. |
| Date | 04:20:07, November 05, 2007 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Gambling (Devolution) Act |
| Message | We shall oppose this measure. It is a known fact that gambling increases crime and divorce rates. |
| Date | 05:07:56, November 05, 2007 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Gambling (Devolution) Act |
| Message | Why is it you jump to assume all tribes will legalise gambling entirely? Individual tribes are in fact much more likely to ban it than this legislature. |
| Date | 05:22:41, November 05, 2007 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Gambling (Devolution) Act |
| Message | Actually...I support banning it in its entirity. |
| Date | 09:15:29, November 05, 2007 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Gambling (Devolution) Act |
| Message | We might support. |
| Date | 20:19:59, November 07, 2007 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Gambling (Devolution) Act |
| Message | failed. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 115 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 384 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people don't follow them so what good are they?" - Ammon Hennacy |