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Bill: Decentralization Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Defender 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: June 2504
Description[?]:
| By James Housemate. The First Minister and temporary Leader of National Coalition Party. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Charter school policy (free, privately run, publicly funded schools).
Old value:: Only non-profit organizations may establish charter schools.
Current: Charter school funding, regulation, and development is left up to local governments.
Proposed: Charter school funding, regulation, and development is left up to local governments.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change National, cultural and historic sites and monuments.
Old value:: The state actively protects scenery, localities, cultural, and historical sites; it maintains an agency to preserve them untouched if public interest so requires.
Current: This matter is left up to the local governments.
Proposed: This matter is left up to the local governments.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards fireworks.
Old value:: Only adults are allowed to purchase fireworks
Current: Local governments determine fireworks laws.
Proposed: Local governments determine fireworks laws.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Food safety policy.
Old value:: The government introduces, and actively enforces, food standards provisions.
Current: The government introduces, and actively enforces, food standards provisions.
Proposed: Local governments determine food safety standards.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Licensing of food sales.
Old value:: Food may be sold by licensed vendors only, and shelf lives of foods are enforced.
Current: The licensing of food sale is left for local governments to decide.
Proposed: The licensing of food sale is left for local governments to decide.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Forest management.
Old value:: There is a national agency which owns and manages all forest land.
Current: There is a national agency which owns and manages all forest land.
Proposed: Local governments may set up forestry agencies. Where they do not, forestry is on a commercial basis.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning forest protection.
Old value:: Forests are protected. Logging is allowed by licence only.
Current: Forests are protected. Logging is allowed by licence only.
Proposed: Forest protection is left to local governments.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change The right to gamble.
Old value:: Gambling is legal across the nation, no regulation whatsoever.
Current: Gambling is illegal unless taking place in a licensed casino.
Proposed: The legality of gambling is a matter of local governments.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change Government regulation of hunting.
Old value:: Hunting and fishing activities are restricted to designated areas and periods.
Current: Hunting and fishing activities are restricted to designated areas and periods.
Proposed: The matters of hunting and fishing are handled by local governments.
Article 10
Proposal[?] to change The right for a person to prostitute himself or herself.
Old value:: Prostitution is illegal.
Current: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Proposed: Prostitution regulation decisions are left up to local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:32:06, December 20, 2007 CET | From |  Fatherland Salvation Movement | To | Debating the Decentralization Reform |
| Message | We would have supported more competences for the local governments but we cannot support a reduction of national minimal standards and regulations. |
| Date | 16:14:09, December 20, 2007 CET | From | New Endralonian Reformer's Party | To | Debating the Decentralization Reform |
| Message | for 1, 8, 9 articles 2 through 7 and 10 need to stay |
| Date | 18:58:57, December 20, 2007 CET | From | Libertarian Socialists of Endralon | To | Debating the Decentralization Reform |
| Message | The LSE, having long championed the cause of decentralisation in New Endralon, is willing to support this. However there are some areas, such as article 10, where we think current legislation is superior to that proposed and we will be happy to overturn these changes at a later date. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 287 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 184 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 28 |
| Random fact: The players in a nation have a collective responsibility to ensure their "Bills under debate" section is kept in good order. Bills which are irrelevant or have become irrelevant should be deleted. Deletion can be requested for bills proposed by inactive parties on the Bill Clearout Requests thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4363 |
| Random quote: "Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason." - Abraham Joshua Heschel |