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Bill: Visas (Foreign Missionaries) Amendment 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: March 2539
Description[?]:
| An act to remove regulations on foreign missionaries. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Old value:: The government requires foreign missionaries to register with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Current: The government selectively screens which religions are permitted to send missionaries to the nation. Certain religions are approved and travel is unregulated.
Proposed: The government has no policy concerning the visitation of foreign missionaries.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:23:49, February 26, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Visas (Foreign Missionaries) Amendment Act |
| Message | There is no reason to regulate missionaries over ordinary visitors. It doesn't look like the other bill is moving, so we have this one. |
| Date | 23:54:43, February 26, 2008 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Visas (Foreign Missionaries) Amendment Act |
| Message | Then you'ld probably want to add a proposal to this bill.. |
| Date | 23:57:07, February 26, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Visas (Foreign Missionaries) Amendment Act |
| Message | Your revolutionary legislative ideas are confusing to us. |
| Date | 02:53:41, February 27, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Visas (Foreign Missionaries) Amendment Act |
| Message | We'll oppose this bill. This will allow extremists free reign in our nation and we will not tolerate that. |
| Date | 03:33:33, February 27, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Visas (Foreign Missionaries) Amendment Act |
| Message | No, it wouldn't. All people, regardless of whether they are missionaries or not are, for better or worse, subject to the laws on expression. They cannot peddle hate speech, for instance. |
| Date | 09:20:59, February 27, 2008 CET | From | JDW Tukarali Greens Party | To | Debating the Visas (Foreign Missionaries) Amendment Act |
| Message | support so why weren't you voting for this before??? |
| Date | 11:56:30, February 27, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Visas (Foreign Missionaries) Amendment Act |
| Message | We have always supported this law, except when it is in a badly drafted bill. Indeed, we have introduced it a number of times. We were in fact the only party apart from yours that has voted for it. You could put in a little effort and check the history. |
| Date | 14:43:02, February 27, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Visas (Foreign Missionaries) Amendment Act |
| Message | There are many ways to peddle extremism JUP. |
| Date | 22:41:10, February 27, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Visas (Foreign Missionaries) Amendment Act |
| Message | It doesn't matter what a person says. That is the whole "right to freedom of speech". |
| Date | 23:28:45, February 27, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Visas (Foreign Missionaries) Amendment Act |
| Message | Then lets do away with slander and libel laws. As well as laws dealing with falsification and hate speech. |
| Date | 23:49:42, February 27, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Visas (Foreign Missionaries) Amendment Act |
| Message | We entirely agree. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 212 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 245 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 43 |
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