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Bill: Transfer of authority local governments
Details
Submitted by[?]: Union of Real Politics (URP)
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: December 2156
Description[?]:
| Some cases should transfer local governments. It is better for province that. |
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 right to gamble.
Old value:: Only small-scale gambling is allowed, involving limited amounts of money; casinos are illegal.
Current: Only small-scale gambling is allowed, involving limited amounts of money; casinos are illegal.
Proposed: The legality of gambling is a matter of local governments.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning museum funding.
Old value:: The national government maintains a system of museums nationwide.
Current: The government leaves funding and operation of museums to local governments.
Proposed: The national government provides local governments with the funding to operate museums.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: Recreational drug use is forbidden.
Current: There are no laws regulating what citizens can put into their bodies.
Proposed: Recreational drug use is regulated by local governments.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards smoking.
Old value:: Smoking is only allowed in private homes and clubs.
Current: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in all places of employment.
Proposed: Smoking regulations are to be determined by local governments.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The government policy regarding housing.
Old value:: The state provides public housing to low-income families.
Current: All housing is privately-owned.
Proposed: Housing policy is to be determined by local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:58:53, December 15, 2005 CET | From | Solentian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Transfer of authority local governments |
| Message | Against. We believe child benefit is a good thing, and that it is fundamentally necessary to ensure that no one grows up deprived of opportunities because of poverty. It should therefore be given to all children. |
| Date | 05:02:01, December 15, 2005 CET | From | Solentian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Transfer of authority local governments |
| Message | In the time it took us to write that, you added three extra proposals. We still fully oppose this bill. These are right-or-wrong issues. You can't say child support / secondary smoking / gambling / drug use is acceptable for some people and not for others - that is the worst kind of discrimination. |
| Date | 05:03:25, December 15, 2005 CET | From | Solentian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Transfer of authority local governments |
| Message | Bloody hell, still more proposals. How about no. Just a general no. If you're not willing to discuss these massively diverse issues separately, then even if we agreed with this petty localism, we would still oppose this bill. |
| Date | 05:08:55, December 15, 2005 CET | From | Solentian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Transfer of authority local governments |
| Message | Bloody hell, still more proposals. How about no. Just a general no. If you're not willing to discuss these massively diverse issues separately, then even if we agreed with this petty localism, we would still oppose this bill. |
| Date | 05:09:32, December 15, 2005 CET | From | Union of Real Politics (URP) | To | Debating the Transfer of authority local governments |
| Message | We begin vote:) |
| Date | 05:20:46, December 15, 2005 CET | From | Solentian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Transfer of authority local governments |
| Message | Without letting ANYONE else discuss this first. You're being destructive on purpose, aren't you? |
| Date | 05:30:58, December 15, 2005 CET | From | Union of Real Politics (URP) | To | Debating the Transfer of authority local governments |
| Message | It suffices opinion SSP, the rest vote just the same. |
| Date | 05:53:24, December 15, 2005 CET | From | Solentian Imperialist Party | To | Debating the Transfer of authority local governments |
| Message | Yes, but you fail to realize that Solentia is a socialist republic. We LIKE power in the hands of the State. You're proposing a very decentralized government, and the reason why seems to escape me. |
| Date | 05:54:04, December 15, 2005 CET | From | Solentian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Transfer of authority local governments |
| Message | What?! We can't understand you. |
| Date | 05:54:24, December 15, 2005 CET | From | Solentian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Transfer of authority local governments |
| Message | (That was directed at the URP...) |
| Date | 10:48:59, December 15, 2005 CET | From | Communist Fascist And Anarchial Party | To | Debating the Transfer of authority local governments |
| Message | this is just a cover to get some of those bills legalised in some regions..... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 525 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 175 |
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