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Bill: Clean Communities Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Jelbénkai Utrji Spjogad
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: March 3516
Description[?]:
| This bill seeks to strengthen our local environments by ensuring that our communities, whether urban or rural, are clean, green & where possible, sustainable. We also favour regional approaches for regional problems - as well as centralised equivalents for issues of a national scale. Our first proposal concerns forest management, which we feel should be devolved to local level and left to the people who know their areas best. We propose that local government be required to operate forestry agencies which own and manage all forested land. We also propose that these local forestry agencies decide for themselves the limitations on logging & forest protection, so that local concerns can more closely be considered. We also seek to devolve recycling programmes to local governments, to encourage collective travel (urban transit, car shares, railways and so on) & to offer tax breaks and incentives to those buying and driving environmentally friendly automobiles. Finally we seek to create a single drinking water standard across the nation. Our thinking for this is that precipitation, river courses, watersheds & acquifers are natural phenomena that do not respect man-made regional borders. If water quality in one area declines, this could easily affect neighbouring regions who will have to pay for the costs of this. We need to develop a national framework so that all regions can co-operate on this issue together. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning private cars.
Old value:: There are no regulations on the ownership of private cars.
Current: There are no regulations on the ownership of private cars.
Proposed: Private cars are allowed, but people are encouraged to travel collective and tax incentives are provided for cars using environmentally friendly fuels.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government-sponsored recycling programs.
Old value:: The government funds recycling facilities but enforces mandatory recycling for industry only.
Current: The government funds recycling facilities but enforces mandatory recycling for industry only.
Proposed: Local governments decide about this.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Regulation of the quality of drinking water.
Old value:: Local government is responsible for drinking water quality regulation.
Current: Local government is responsible for drinking water quality regulation.
Proposed: The government sets a single standard to ensure all tap water is drinkable.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:21:14, July 15, 2013 CET | From |  The Industrial Jelbanian Union | To | Debating the Clean Communities Act |
| Message | We agree with Articles 3, 4, and 5 only... |
| Date | 08:50:09, July 15, 2013 CET | From | Jelbénkai Utrji Spjogad | To | Debating the Clean Communities Act |
| Message | Items concerning forest management have been withdrawn from the bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 106 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 145 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 49 |
| Random fact: The voters enjoy active parties who take upon themselves the initiative to create laws. |
| Random quote: "The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces." - Maureen Murphy |