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Bill: Media (Funding) Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Judicial Union 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: July 2485
Description[?]:
| An act to allow a greater range of media companies to be brought under state funding. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Radio stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Current: The government subsidises a national radio station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Proposed: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised radio stations are allowed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Television stations.
Old value:: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Current: The government subsidises a national TV station for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Proposed: The government subsidises independent non-profit-making cooperatives for educational and informational purposes; other private non-subsidised TV stations are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:24:44, November 11, 2007 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Media (Funding) Act |
| Message | We must encourage education in all ways. Once a person leaves school, their formal education may stop, but they will still watch television, and listen to the radio. If a company wants to provide educational material, we should support this, for all peoples' well-being. |
| Date | 04:15:10, November 11, 2007 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Media (Funding) Act |
| Message | We believe the current laws are fine. We oppose |
| Date | 15:06:07, November 11, 2007 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Media (Funding) Act |
| Message | It seems reasonable, we'll think about it |
| Date | 10:14:14, November 12, 2007 CET | From | Flemish Liberation Front | To | Debating the Media (Funding) Act |
| Message | we oppose |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 213 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 151 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 135 |
| Random fact: Moderation will not approve a Cultural Protocol request within the first 48 hours of it being requested. This is in order to give other players a chance to query the proposed changes, if they wish to do so. Moderation may be approached for advice on a proposed change, but any advice proffered should always be understood under the provisio that no final decision will be made until at least 48 hours after the request has been formally submitted for approval. |
| Random quote: "There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." - Mahatma Gandhi |