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Bill: Culture Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Workers' Solidarity Movement
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: October 3502
Description[?]:
| A BILL to fund libraries and museums, to better record, teach and preserve Rutanian culture; and for connected purposes. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards the funding of libraries.
Old value:: Funding and operation of libraries is left entirely to local governments.
Current: Funding and operation of libraries is left entirely to local governments.
Proposed: The national government controls a vast and comprehensive system of public libraries.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning museum funding.
Old value:: The government leaves funding and operation of museums to local governments.
Current: The national government provides local governments with the funding to operate museums.
Proposed: The national government maintains a system of museums nationwide.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:52:09, June 16, 2013 CET | From | Capitalist Working Families | To | Debating the Culture Bill |
| Message | We support. |
| Date | 17:09:36, June 16, 2013 CET | From | Democratic Union | To | Debating the Culture Bill |
| Message | Mr Speaker, We've got hundreds of public libraries and museums, even if we don't control them. Local governments do. This bill is unuseful. David Lee Harris, DU Education and Culture responsible. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 246 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 220 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: When you join the game, you will find yourself with only zero seats. That's because your party's representatives haven't been elected yet. You need to establish your party's position on issues by proposing several bills that your party wants passed and sending them to vote. This raises your visibility and if you do it enough, you will win seats at the next election. |
| Random quote: "Religion, like capitalism, will perish in the end. We estimate the complete Terra-wide extinction of Hosianism as a religious belief by the year 4409, and in Dorvik by 4398." - Friedrich Pfeiffer, former Dorvish politician |