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Bill: Localization Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federal Green Party (FGP)
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: September 3815
Description[?]:
| Let's make our government more efficient! This is best done by giving more power to the state and local governments. There's no reason that the national government should be involved in any of these areas. States can do a better job because every state is unique. What works for one state does not necessarily work for another. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards the funding of libraries.
Old value:: The national government controls a vast and comprehensive system of public libraries.
Current: Funding and operation of libraries is left entirely to local governments.
Proposed: Funding and operation of libraries is left entirely to local governments.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Public works initiatives
Old value:: The government funds a program to build public works.
Current: The government funds a program to build public works.
Proposed: Public works projects are left to local governments.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning the use of pesticides.
Old value:: The government approves and regulates agricultural chemical use.
Current: There is no government oversight or regulation of pesticides.
Proposed: Local governments may choose to regulate pesticides certification programs.
Article 4
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 government leaves funding and operation of museums to local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:38:24, March 13, 2015 CET | From |  Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the Localization Reform |
| Message | "We definitely accept this, but the Unionists are gonna be ticked about this bill." ~Ted Johnson, Head chairman of the LPS |
| Date | 18:44:06, March 13, 2015 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the Localization Reform |
| Message | Please remove the public works article. We already have a bill dealing with that. |
| Date | 18:45:21, March 13, 2015 CET | From | Federal Green Party (FGP) | To | Debating the Localization Reform |
| Message | Wouldn't it be even better to leave that with the local governments to decide though? I agree that it would be better to have companies bidding over public works, but local government should be free to decide if they want to do it that way. |
| Date | 19:50:01, March 13, 2015 CET | From | Coalition for National Unity [CNU] | To | Debating the Localization Reform |
| Message | "A random bunch of policies thrown together for partisan means. You could have seen parts of this through the Senate with bipartisan support. Instead, you opted to create bigger dividing lines by melding policies together in an eclectic mix. How disappointing for your self-styled moderate, bipartisan "compromise" agenda." Ala-ad-Din ibn Haroun al-Fulan |
| Date | 20:09:14, March 13, 2015 CET | From | SUN | To | Debating the Localization Reform |
| Message | Random articles thrown together haphazardly and lazily |
| Date | 21:55:52, March 13, 2015 CET | From | Federal Green Party (FGP) | To | Debating the Localization Reform |
| Message | How are they random? These are all related in that they seek to bring us greater localization and decentralization. |
| Date | 23:36:52, March 13, 2015 CET | From | SUN | To | Debating the Localization Reform |
| Message | ROS may have just as well included any legislation that included the word, "the." |
| Date | 01:46:57, March 14, 2015 CET | From | Coalition for National Unity [CNU] | To | Debating the Localization Reform |
| Message | "A nonsense argument from a party desperate to justify what they have clearly realised is a failing coalition." Ala-ad-Din ibn Haroun al-Fulan, Supreme President |
| Date | 20:02:42, March 14, 2015 CET | From | Federal Green Party (FGP) | To | Debating the Localization Reform |
| Message | How is the coalition failing? We have made more improvements in the lives of Solentians in the past few years than the Unionists have done in the span of a thousand years. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 164 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 261 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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