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Bill: Hunting and Environmental Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Dranland First Party (CC)
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: July 2599
Description[?]:
| The Reform Party proposes that hunting and environmental policy be devolved to local governments, and that regulations on the sport of hunting be reduced. Hunters should of course still be discouraged from shooting endangered animals, but we propose that this not be made illegal on a federal level. NOTE: local governments under this legislation would still be able to impose laws and penalties on the killing of endangered species - this legislation only reduces regulations on the killing of endangered animals at a federal level. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards hunting endangered animals.
Old value:: Hunting endangered animals is illegal.
Current: Hunting endangered animals is illegal.
Proposed: The government maintains a list of endangered and threatened species, which it encourages hunters not to shoot.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government regulation of hunting.
Old value:: Hunting and fishing is not regulated.
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 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on tree plantation.
Old value:: The government requires tree plantation at replacement level 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 | 08:20:00, June 29, 2008 CET | From | Sons of Liberty | To | Debating the Hunting and Environmental Reform Act |
| Message | We can agree to article one, but two and three worry us. |
| Date | 02:15:47, June 30, 2008 CET | From | Dranland First Party (CC) | To | Debating the Hunting and Environmental Reform Act |
| Message | Why is this? Articles 2 and 3 aren't necessarily advocating that local govrnments make plantation policy or regulate hunting. They are merely giving local governments the decision making power in these areas - they are simply deconstructing the centralized bureaucracy and devolving local policy issues to local governments, where they should be. We thought that the Libertarian Party may sympathise with these policies of devolution, as a party that is surely anti-big government. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 105 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 160 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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