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Bill: Sekowo Federalization Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Normand Pluralist 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: December 2515
Description[?]:
| We believe that Sekowo should be decentralized as much as possible. Local and regional governments are better aware of their own needs and capabilities, as well as how best to address and support the local traditions and heritage of Sekowo's population in their area. We propose further supporting them to this end. In addition, localized government reduces bureacracy and consequently reduces government spending. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Civil defence is the government's policy on providing shelters to be used in the event of attacks on major cities, mainly nuclear attacks and bombing.
Old value:: The government builds and maintains a network of shelters across the nation.
Current: Local authorities are responsible for building and maintaining shelters.
Proposed: Local authorities are responsible for building and maintaining shelters.
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: The state actively protects scenery, localities, cultural, and historical sites; it maintains an agency to preserve them untouched if public interest so requires.
Proposed: This matter is left up to the local governments.
Article 3
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 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning forest protection.
Old value:: Forests are protected. Logging is allowed by licence only.
Current: Forests have strictly enforced protection. Felling is limited to fire breaks.
Proposed: Forest protection is left to local governments.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government regulation of hunting.
Old value:: Hunting and fishing activities are restricted to designated areas and periods.
Current: Private hunting and fishing practices are banned.
Proposed: The matters of hunting and fishing are handled by local governments.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Policy concerning industrial hemp.
Old value:: There are no regulations on industrial hemp.
Current: There are no regulations on industrial hemp.
Proposed: Industrial hemp regulations are left up to local governments.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Government policy regarding a national park system.
Old value:: The government funds and maintains a network of national parks and/or marine protected areas.
Current: The government funds and maintains a network of national parks and/or marine protected areas.
Proposed: The government devolves park policy to local governments.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change Positive discrimination.
Old value:: No form of positive discrimination is permitted.
Current: The government encourages positive discrimination and enforces it for government hiring.
Proposed: Hiring policies are regulated by local governments.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change Sexual education in schools.
Old value:: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty.
Current: Schools have an obligation to give sexual education at some point in puberty.
Proposed: This decision is up to the schools themselves without government regulation.
Article 10
Proposal[?] to change The teacher's right to discipline children.
Old value:: Teachers are forbidden from striking children and may only use non-contact discipline (detention, expulsion etc).
Current: No forms of direct discipline are allowed.
Proposed: Discipline levels are set by local governments.
Article 11
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on tree plantation.
Old value:: The government requires tree plantation at higher than replacement levels for all logging or clearance operations.
Current: The government requires tree plantation at higher than replacement levels for all logging or clearance operations.
Proposed: Local governments may set plantation policy.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:25:25, January 09, 2008 CET | From | Communist Party of Sekowo | To | Debating the Sekowo Federalization Bill |
| Message | Agree with 4 and 5 but not 1 2 and 3. Defense is not just a local issue its a Federal Issue. Food safety should be uniform across the country, no reason to have unsafe food in one region as oppose to another. Worker Safety as well should be uniform across the country, why should some areas be unsafe to work on the merit of profits over people's lives? |
| Date | 19:26:25, January 09, 2008 CET | From | Communist Party of Sekowo | To | Debating the Sekowo Federalization Bill |
| Message | With the passing of this bill as it stands will not support the Normand Party in coming elections. |
| Date | 20:41:45, January 09, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Sekowo Federalization Bill |
| Message | We are going to add and remove provisions to this bill over time as we see responses to the various articles. We hope that we can get a 7-point Federalization bill to pass; we are not too particular about what the 7 points are. |
| Date | 23:53:21, January 09, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the Sekowo Federalization Bill |
| Message | No to everything. These are all the progress we just made last term, and are all vital issues. |
| Date | 00:48:44, January 10, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Sekowo Federalization Bill |
| Message | We disagree on all apart from the sports club thing, since we don't care whether the Federal or state government funds them, so long as one of them does. |
| Date | 06:37:28, January 10, 2008 CET | From | Communist Party of Sekowo | To | Debating the Sekowo Federalization Bill |
| Message | No to everything but 4 and 5 |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 254 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 389 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 107 |
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