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Bill: Repeal Market Deregulation Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive Liberal Party
Status[?]: passed
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 4191
Description[?]:
Observing the negative effects the formerly passed legislation titled "Market Deregulation" has on the overall society and especially on consumers, the Progressive Liberal Party proposes legislation to repeal previously passed legislation. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding regulation of video games.
Old value:: The government does not regulate video games.
Current: The government does not maintain laws as to age limitation for purchasing video games, although it does require a content rating to be clearly displayed on the box.
Proposed: The government does not maintain laws as to age limitation for purchasing video games, although it does require a content rating to be clearly displayed on the box.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards the cloning of human beings.
Old value:: Research in cloning technologies is not regulated.
Current: The cloning of human beings is illegal.
Proposed: Research in cloning technologies is legal, but regulated.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Food and beverage labeling regulations.
Old value:: There are no laws concerning food and beverage labeling.
Current: Companies must clearly label food and beverage products, in a manner that can be easily understood.
Proposed: Companies must clearly label food and beverage products, in a manner that can be easily understood.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards alcoholic beverages.
Old value:: Alcoholic beverage regulations are not imposed by the government.
Current: Alcoholic beverages may be purchased only from licensed sales outlets, and can only be available to adults.
Proposed: Alcoholic beverages may be purchased and consumed anywhere, but only by adults.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The research and development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Old value:: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs but does not regulate their prices.
Current: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Proposed: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards daily working hours.
Old value:: The government has no policy concerning daily working hours.
Current: Daily working hours are regulated by the government.
Proposed: The government obligates trade unions and employers to negotiate the daily number of working hours.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change National, cultural and historic sites and monuments.
Old value:: This matter is left up to the local governments.
Current: The state actively protects scenery, localities, cultural, and historical sites; it maintains an agency to preserve them untouched if public interest so requires.
Proposed: The state actively protects scenery, localities, cultural, and historical sites; it maintains an agency to preserve them untouched if public interest so requires.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 03:19:14, April 05, 2017 CET | From | Demokratische Allianz | To | Debating the Repeal Market Deregulation Bill |
Message | The PLP are trying to dress this Bill up as a simple repeal of legislation passed by this Senate that they were too 'busy' to vote on themselves! This is not a simple repeal Bill however. The PLP have elected to repeal only certain articles, in some cases imposing even further regulation than existed under previous law. This is an underhanded attempt to impose unnecessary red-tape on government and industry while stripping further powers from local government. Accordingly the DA vote no. |
Date | 21:25:16, April 05, 2017 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Repeal Market Deregulation Bill |
Message | Be sure that the Progressive Liberal Party would have opposed the Market Deregulation Bill in the first place unless bureaucratic errors occured. Of course it's not a simple repeal bill, because we do admit that some changes should be enacted for the good of Aloria. Take Article 5 for example. Let's just imagine that some breakthrough research discovers some treatment for a disease that affects a consistent number of people, attention, research conducted using governmental subsidies. If the government regulates not the prices, given the high demand this treatment would receive, the prices would become completely unaffordable for every day citizens, and it would become even a chain reaction adding pressure to the state budget considering that as normal, the government subsidises the cost of certain pharmaceutical drugs. Thus, it's impediment that the government shall have a say in this matter. Characterising the bill as stripping powers from local governments is plainly wrong. These are not matters that should be decided by local governments: every company should label the ingredients they used for creating their products because every citizen of Aloria deserves to know what he/she eats. There is nothing abusive in that, as there is nothing abusing in protecting the cultural heritage of our great nation. Otherwise, it would mean that somewhere in Aloria a building hundreds of years old could be taken down and destroyed because "local governments" decided so, which is irrefutably wrong. Hereby, we advise both parties to review their decision and perhaps change their vote. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||
yes | Total Seats: 216 | |||||
no | Total Seats: 161 | |||||
abstain |
Total Seats: 168 |
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