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Bill: Reforms Reforms Reforms
Details
Submitted by[?]: Parti Imperial du Peuple (IA)
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: April 2650
Description[?]:
| For the greater good. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to adultery.
Old value:: Adultery is legal.
Current: There is no explicit government policy on adultery.
Proposed: Adultery is illegal, but not prosecuted.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The banking system.
Old value:: The government operates large, national banks, but small community based private banks are allowed.
Current: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Proposed: The government operates and owns all banks.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Education for children under adult age.
Old value:: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Current: Education is compulsory and has to happen at school.
Proposed: Education is compulsory, but home schooling is permitted.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards daily working hours.
Old value:: Local governments regulates the daily working hours.
Current: The government obligates trade unions and employers to negotiate the daily number of working hours.
Proposed: Daily working hours are regulated by the government.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Employer's rights in regards to firing striking workers.
Old value:: Employers can fire workers who are deemed to have gone on strike without reasonable reasons.
Current: Employers cannot fire workers who have gone on strike.
Proposed: Government approval is needed before strikers can be fired.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change
The government's policy regarding foreign embassies.
Old value:: The government does not allow foreign embassies.
Current: Foreign countries may establish an embassy after obtaining approval from the Foreign Office.
Proposed: Any other country may establish an embassy on national soil.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change The right to gamble.
Old value:: The legality of gambling is a matter of local governments.
Current: Gambling is legal, but only in private homes and casinos with special licences.
Proposed: Only small-scale gambling is allowed, involving limited amounts of money; casinos are illegal.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change Policy concerning industrial hemp.
Old value:: Industrial hemp regulations are left up to local governments.
Current: Only regulated agribusinesses may produce industrial hemp.
Proposed: Only regulated agribusinesses may produce industrial hemp.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change The weapons used by police forces.
Old value:: Police officers may only carry non-lethal weapons.
Current: Police officers may only carry non-lethal weapons apart from specially trained firearms units.
Proposed: Police officers may only carry standard firearms apart from specially trained firearms units.
Article 10
Proposal[?] to change Education in prisons.
Old value:: Prisoners are not given any form of education.
Current: An education plan for prisoners is provided to improve rehabilitation.
Proposed: An education plan for prisoners is provided to improve rehabilitation.
Article 11
Proposal[?] to change The right for a person to prostitute himself or herself.
Old value:: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Current: Prostitution is legal and a recognized profession.
Proposed: There is a state monopoly on prostitution.
Article 12
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: There are no laws regulating what citizens can put into their bodies.
Current: The use of cannabis is legal.
Proposed: Recreational drug use is forbidden.
Article 13
Proposal[?] to change Secondary strike action.
Old value:: Secondary strike action is illegal. Workers and unions can only go on strike for their own pay and conditions.
Current: Any trade union can go on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Proposed: Only closely related trade unions can walk out on a sympathy strike in support of other striking workers.
Article 14
Proposal[?] to change The government's position towards the stock exchange(s).
Old value:: Stock exchanges are allowed but are regulated.
Current: The government owns the stock exchange(s).
Proposed: The government owns the stock exchange(s).
Article 15
Proposal[?] to change Sale of tobacco products.
Old value:: There are no regulations on the sale of tobacco.
Current: The sale of tobacco products is prohibited.
Proposed: Only adults may purchase tobacco.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:54:02, October 09, 2008 CET | From | Aldurian Green Party | To | Debating the Reforms Reforms Reforms |
| Message | We'll support #12 prisoner rehab and #13 permitting home schooling, but the rest gets a no from us. Also, please don't make anymore mega bills, there was a general agreement some time ago to limit bills to 5 articles. |
| Date | 02:13:45, October 10, 2008 CET | From | Mouvement Pour Confederation | To | Debating the Reforms Reforms Reforms |
| Message | What the fuck, douchebag HOAF. |
| Date | 02:13:52, October 10, 2008 CET | From | Mouvement Pour Confederation | To | Debating the Reforms Reforms Reforms |
| Message | *HAOF |
| Date | 03:11:01, October 10, 2008 CET | From | Paix et Progrès pour la Pays | To | Debating the Reforms Reforms Reforms |
| Message | MPC, control your tongue. HAOF, stand by the agreements which you helped bring into play. |
| Date | 19:28:10, October 11, 2008 CET | From | Parti Imperial du Peuple (IA) | To | Debating the Reforms Reforms Reforms |
| Message | I find it somewhat entertaining that you only support that rule when it helps you PPPP. Furthermore the law is stupid. I would just have to create a hell of a lot of small bills, when all I want can be said in here. If you agree with the majority vote yes, if tied abstain, and if not then vote no. I supported it during a time when the Republic was gaining strength, now it is a pile of shit. I will not waste space with many bills when all of this right here has the same effect big government. Now if it was just a mess of bills going any direction, I agree many bills, but these have the same effect. Also let the man speak, better for him to give his opinion and show how lacking in facts he is than to have him read off scripted stuff that you and your side approve of first. I never told my supporters what to say and I still don't, I don’t even tell them how to vote. That is why I have so many, and why my government was unified, strong, and hell ruled by the people. Instead of this shit hole of a government that can't even learn like every other nation on in this world the word "COMPROMISE". |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 224 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 180 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 97 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: "You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money." - P. J. O'Rourke |