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Bill: Progress and Reform Act of 2697
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Socialist Alliance
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: May 2698
Description[?]:
| Progress and Reform Act of 2697 |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the legality of abortions
Old value:: Abortion policies are established by local governments
Current: All abortions are illegal.
Proposed: Abortion is allowed during the first and second trimesters.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The banking system.
Old value:: All banks are privately owned.
Current: The government operates a central bank and all other banks are private.
Proposed: The government operates large, national banks, but small community based private banks are allowed.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards hunting endangered animals.
Old value:: Local governments decide about this.
Current: Hunting endangered animals is illegal.
Proposed: Hunting endangered animals is illegal.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on industry and subsidies to industrial operations.
Old value:: The government acts as an investor of last resort, by nationalizing failing industries that provide vital goods or services.
Current: All industry is owned and operated by the state.
Proposed: Certain industries are owned by the state, all others are under private ownership.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government policy toward marriage.
Old value:: Civil marriages are defined by local governments.
Current: The government allows all consenting adults to obtain civil marriage contracts.
Proposed: The government allows all consenting adults to obtain civil marriage contracts.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change National service.
Old value:: All adults upon completion of schooling must serve a term of civilian national service.
Current: All adults upon completion of schooling can be required in times of war to serve a term in the military.
Proposed: There shall be no mandatory military or civilian national service.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on population control.
Old value:: Population control is left to local governments.
Current: The government does not engage in population control.
Proposed: The government does not engage in population control.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on sexual relations.
Old value:: Sexual relation laws are set by local governments.
Current: Sexual relations of all types are legal for consenting adults.
Proposed: Sexual relations of all types are legal for consenting adults.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:50:24, January 17, 2009 CET | From | Communist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Progress and Reform Act of 2697 |
| Message | Abstain, whatever way we vote screws up our positions. |
| Date | 19:28:58, January 17, 2009 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Progress and Reform Act of 2697 |
| Message | The only thing we would support is article six, so our's isn't screwed up that much. |
| Date | 19:29:34, January 17, 2009 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Progress and Reform Act of 2697 |
| Message | Next time just put them in sperate bills. It's easier, omnibuses are stupid but we are all guilty of them. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 136 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 546 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 68 |
| Random fact: It is forbidden to impersonate a player or Moderator. |
| Random quote: "Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war." - Tony Blair |