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Bill: Reform Package
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Radical 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: January 2688
Description[?]:
| We wish to implement the following reforms. Article I: It is wasteful for the government to spend money on lawyers of everybody who gets accused of a crime. The middle class, and the rich are completely capable of paying for their own lawyers. Article III: The logic is the same as for Article II. We would be willing to change to a different option available, such as "The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low income" or "The government does not subsidise the cost of pharmaceutical drugs at all." Article IV: Many other areas of government have been left up to the local governments, we believe that this should as well. This takes the burden of funding such program off of the federal government. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding child benefit.
Old value:: The state guarantees child benefit to all families.
Current: The state guarantees child benefit to both low-income families and large families.
Proposed: Child benefit policies are left to local governments.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards daily working hours.
Old value:: The government has no policy concerning daily working hours.
Current: The government obligates trade unions and employers to negotiate the daily number of working hours.
Proposed: The government obligates trade unions and employers to negotiate the daily number of working hours.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government provision of legal aid to the accused.
Old value:: Legal representation for defendants in criminal trials is paid for by the state.
Current: Legal representation for defendants in criminal trials is paid for by the state for defendants with low incomes.
Proposed: Legal representation for defendants in criminal trials is paid for by the state for defendants with low incomes.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Current: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Proposed: The government supplies free pharmaceutical drugs to those on low incomes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:58:28, December 16, 2008 CET | From | Selucian Party of Social Democrats | To | Debating the Reform Package |
| Message | We are opposed. |
| Date | 05:20:18, December 16, 2008 CET | From | Imperial Democratic Coalition | To | Debating the Reform Package |
| Message | Article I - Contrary to the FRP's opinion, the RSA firmyl hold that the government should not allow the ill-qualified to reproduce simply because they want to. Only citizens who've shown they can raise a child capably and intelligently should be able to contribute to the next generation of Selucians. Article II - We oppose per SHH's arguments in the previous attempt (http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=226966) Article III - This seems fairly reasonable. We can support this in a separate bill. Article IV - Whilst we believe the current child benefit is excessive, and would support other reductions, we cannot support devolution of policy-making to the provinces. In a separate bill, and with a different policy-change, we could support. |
| Date | 23:28:13, December 16, 2008 CET | From | Social Republican Alliance | To | Debating the Reform Package |
| Message | We are opposed. |
| Date | 06:30:01, December 17, 2008 CET | From | Selucian Home and Hearth | To | Debating the Reform Package |
| Message | We are opposed to all four articles, though we might support a bill where "The government does not subsidise the cost of pharmaceutical drugs at all." |
| Date | 17:50:07, December 17, 2008 CET | From | Free Radical Party | To | Debating the Reform Package |
| Message | We changed the proposal around a little bit. Adding a working hour proposal. |
| Date | 16:26:36, December 23, 2008 CET | From | Social Republican Alliance | To | Debating the Reform Package |
| Message | We don't want to vote for article one or article four, we're opposed. |
| Date | 19:20:31, December 23, 2008 CET | From | Minarchist Party | To | Debating the Reform Package |
| Message | We are opposed to the part regarding the government obligating daily working hours to be negotiated between the unions and the companies. We did support, in private channels, another bill taking this bill as a compromise and are disappointed this did not happen. We will only abstain in our show of disagreement. |
| Date | 15:49:26, December 27, 2008 CET | From | Imperial Democratic Coalition | To | Debating the Reform Package |
| Message | We are in support. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 398 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 162 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 190 |
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