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Bill: Legislative Harmony Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Partido do Centro
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: January 3674
Description[?]:
| Too much devolution has led to inconsistencies. Elders are being forced to move because of restrictive inheritance laws in one state, but not the other. Industries in the same sector have difficulty competing with others in different states because of regulation. Farmers planting soyabeans in one state receive massive subsidies, while they receive none in another, even if they are only a few kilometers across the border. This makes no sense. It is time to harmonize legislation. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards daily working hours.
Old value:: Local governments regulates the daily working hours.
Current: Daily working hours are regulated by the government.
Proposed: Daily working hours are regulated by the government.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government agricultural and farming subsidies policy.
Old value:: The government allows local governments to craft agricultural subsidy policy.
Current: The government subsidises agriculture based on market demand for the crop being grown.
Proposed: The government denies subsidy assistance to farmers.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on inheritance
Old value:: Local governments establish inheritance laws.
Current: There is a regulated inheritance law, but private regulation of inheritance is allowed and not regulated.
Proposed: There is a regulated inheritance law, private regulation of inheritance is allowed but also regulated.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Positive discrimination.
Old value:: Hiring policies are regulated by local governments.
Current: Hiring policies are regulated by local governments.
Proposed: The government does not regulate hiring policies.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:35:30, May 31, 2014 CET | From | Partido do Centro | To | Debating the Legislative Harmony Act |
| Message | União Democrática Tukarêse, we urge you to reconsider. These laws, as they currently stand, are distorting markets and making lives harder, for no good purpose. |
| Date | 13:56:47, May 31, 2014 CET | From | União Democrática do Tukarali | To | Debating the Legislative Harmony Act |
| Message | "The Tukarese Democratic Union sees no need to reconsider its long-standing commitment to pro-devolution policies. The claims made by the PdoC in the opening statement are greatly exaggerated, if not downright false The regions and localities are in a contest with each other for people and businesses and therefore have a vital interest in providing them with the best economic and social environment and services. Accordingly, the regions and localities are intrinsically motivated to refrain from the excesses in regulation and taxation that the PdoC purports to describe, while at the same time they do implement in their respective areas the regulation and taxation that is locally necessary to enable them to provide the good living environment and services that are is required according to local needs and keeps them in competition with other regions." Pherick Santana, UDT/TDU spokesperson for Trade and Commerce |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 57 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 61 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 7 |
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