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Bill: Decentralisation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Christian Social People's 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: February 2823
Description[?]:
| Believing the best form of government to be the most local one the EPP proposes devolving the following policy areas to local government. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Charter school policy (free, privately run, publicly funded schools).
Old value:: Only non-profit organizations may establish charter schools.
Current: Only non-profit organizations may establish charter schools.
Proposed: Charter school funding, regulation, and development is left up to local governments.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government position in respect to crossdressing policy.
Old value:: The government has no policy concerning crossdressing.
Current: The government has no policy concerning crossdressing.
Proposed: Local governments determine the legality of crossdressing.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning museum funding.
Old value:: The government does not fund or manage museums. This is left to the private sector.
Current: The government gives monetary grants to organizations which have established or are looking to establish museums.
Proposed: The national government provides local governments with the funding to operate museums.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on public nudity.
Old value:: There are no laws with regards to public nudity, it is allowed.
Current: Public nudity is illegal, but private nudist colonies and beaches are permitted.
Proposed: Public nudity laws are left to local governments.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy with respect to polygamy.
Old value:: There is no explicit government policy on polygamy.
Current: The government does not recognise polygamous relationships.
Proposed: Local governments establish policies on polygamy.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:13:52, September 23, 2009 CET | From | Free Reform Party | To | Debating the Decentralisation Act |
| Message | FRP supports your proposed charter school policy, and museum funding proposal. cross-dressing, nudity and polygamy stances belong in a separate bill. And although we are libertarian, polygamy is expensive to governments who have to pay 4,5 or 6 military spouse checks etc for one husband/wife and we do not support it if we are forced to choose. |
| Date | 16:59:20, September 23, 2009 CET | From | Christian Social People's Party | To | Debating the Decentralisation Act |
| Message | The EPP sees the last 3 articles as essentially a devolution of public morality issues. In our views such things should be judged by the cultural standards of individual areas, as abortion law currently is (thanks to an EPP constructed bill). |
| Date | 17:42:35, September 23, 2009 CET | From | SDLP/ Caillea Vinstri Bandalag | To | Debating the Decentralisation Act |
| Message | While the UP strongly believes in federalism (despite the official position given to us), we are also firm believers that the government has no place decided what goes on among consenting adults. We will give our restricted support to this bill, but we will have to fully debate this issue among our caucus. Hopefully we can give a more concrete decision before the bill goes to vote |
| Date | 22:39:01, September 23, 2009 CET | From | Free Reform Party | To | Debating the Decentralisation Act |
| Message | EPP, regardless of the fact, education and polygamy laws do not belong in the same bill except in attempts force parties to vote against their own positions or to prevent a real debate on the subject. Will you separate the education/museum proposals into another bill? |
| Date | 01:16:03, September 24, 2009 CET | From | Christian Social People's Party | To | Debating the Decentralisation Act |
| Message | No, this is a bill regarding devolution of power. Either you are in favour or you are against. If the proposal fails we may seperate it into two, but we will see then. |
| Date | 01:38:26, September 24, 2009 CET | From | SDLP/ Caillea Vinstri Bandalag | To | Debating the Decentralisation Act |
| Message | The UP moves to put this bill up for a vote then so we can proceed with a possible seperation of articles on a subsequent vote. As the bill is now written, our party has decided to vote against due to Articles 2, 4, and 5 |
| Date | 03:57:13, September 24, 2009 CET | From | SDLP/ Caillea Vinstri Bandalag | To | Debating the Decentralisation Act |
| Message | correction, Articles 3, 4 and 5 |
| Date | 10:22:01, September 24, 2009 CET | From | Christian Social People's Party | To | Debating the Decentralisation Act |
| Message | Moving this to a vote. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 181 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 135 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 284 |
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