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Bill: National Education Act
Details
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: February 4133
Description[?]:
| Listed below are the non-existent programs and regulations that normally would be worth spending 35,000,000,000 SOL. These programs and regulations were once in existence until most parties in the Senate decided to slash programs BUT make no change to the budget. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government allows public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Current: The government does not fund any public higher education institutions, permitting only private higher education institutions to exist.
Proposed: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Pre-school education.
Old value:: Pre-school education is private, but the government covers the schoolcosts of poor families.
Current: The government leaves development of nurseries to the private sector.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of free publically owned nurseries alongside heavily regulated private establishments.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
Current: The government introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
Proposed: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:28:47, December 08, 2016 CET | From | SUN | To | Debating the National Education Act |
| Message | 35 billion is 6.5% of the budget. We might as well push massive pallets of cash by the thousands into the ocean everyday. We either make the necessary cuts or we put back into place pre-existing programs. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 238 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 262 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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