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Bill: Public Transportation Act.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Rightist Party
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: July 2169
Description[?]:
| This act will allow for the local governments to set user fees. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Funding of public transport (where applicable).
Old value:: Public transport is fully user-pays.
Current: Public transport is fully subsidised for people with low-income, with the remainder "user-pays".
Proposed: Local governments decide upon the funding policy.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:41:04, January 02, 2006 CET | From | Redneck Party | To | Debating the Public Transportation Act. |
| Message | Opposed. Why should the local govt set the regulations? |
| Date | 04:42:32, January 02, 2006 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Public Transportation Act. |
| Message | Why should the national government set it? |
| Date | 04:47:00, January 02, 2006 CET | From | Redneck Party | To | Debating the Public Transportation Act. |
| Message | The national govt shouldn't. It should be based on what the people need for it so therefore it should be user pays. |
| Date | 10:14:58, January 02, 2006 CET | From | Social-Conservative party | To | Debating the Public Transportation Act. |
| Message | Centralisation, less power to local authorities is a point of our party. We oppose. |
| Date | 16:02:35, January 02, 2006 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Public Transportation Act. |
| Message | And that is why we are proposing that the local governments set the prices. They'll know better than we do in regards to the people. We should let them use their expertise in this matter and let them set the prices. |
| Date | 04:43:11, January 03, 2006 CET | From | Patriot Party | To | Debating the Public Transportation Act. |
| Message | We shall support. |
| Date | 10:25:16, January 06, 2006 CET | From | One Nation Socialist Party | To | Debating the Public Transportation Act. |
| Message | further devolution will weaken our country further. is shall set about reversing devolution as a new policy. |
| Date | 15:07:35, January 06, 2006 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Public Transportation Act. |
| Message | This is what the people want. |
| Date | 15:10:09, January 06, 2006 CET | From | Redneck Party | To | Debating the Public Transportation Act. |
| Message | After debating the issue, we support this proposal as well. |
| Date | 15:55:52, January 06, 2006 CET | From | One Nation Socialist Party | To | Debating the Public Transportation Act. |
| Message | whilst in favour for centralisaion we feel that on this issue local governments should decide on the policy. |
| Date | 23:31:31, January 08, 2006 CET | From | One Nation Socialist Party | To | Debating the Public Transportation Act. |
| Message | the rightis party shouldn't pretend to care about what the people want. After seing what the right honourable gentleman said when debating over the election of mayors about it being bad enough they can elect governments. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 97 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 160 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 42 |
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