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Bill: Preventing Suffering Act 4274
Details
Submitted by[?]: New People's Party of Rutania
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: May 4275
Description[?]:
| Pacifism has been a core value of the NPPR, and the PPR before it. We will continure to make sure nobody suffers. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning biological and chemical weaponry.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to develop, construct and store biological and chemical weapons.
Current: The nation shall never purchase, produce, or store biological or chemical weaponry, for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Proposed: The nation shall never purchase, produce, or store biological or chemical weaponry, for military purposes. Research and development of the technology is permitted.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the use of chemical and biological weaponry in warfare.
Old value:: The nation reserves the right to use chemical or biological weapons in warfare for any reason.
Current: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Proposed: The nation shall never use chemical or biological weaponry in warfare.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards the use of land mines by the army.
Old value:: The Government leaves this to the army to decide upon.
Current: The use of land mines is prohibited.
Proposed: The use of land mines is prohibited.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:44:15, September 19, 2017 CET | From | New People's Party of Rutania | To | Debating the Preventing Suffering Act 4274 |
| Message | Open to debate. Nuclear policy will be covered in a different bill. |
| Date | 00:54:01, September 19, 2017 CET | From |  Liberal Party | To | Debating the Preventing Suffering Act 4274 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, We believe it is a silent rule that we never use landmines or chemical weapons unless it is for dire circumstances; we should have them, but its obvious not to use them. |
| Date | 03:01:19, September 19, 2017 CET | From | New People's Party of Rutania | To | Debating the Preventing Suffering Act 4274 |
| Message | Why have silent rules when we can have spoken ones, to avoid anyone needlessly suffering? When is a circumstance dire enough to warrant landmines or chemical weapons? |
| Date | 04:52:33, September 19, 2017 CET | From | Liberal Party | To | Debating the Preventing Suffering Act 4274 |
| Message | Mr Speaker, The only reason I would not want it to be a spoken rule is because we should have some stockpile to counter countries that use such terrible weapons first. |
| Date | 06:58:52, September 19, 2017 CET | From | Whig Party | To | Debating the Preventing Suffering Act 4274 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker we shall oppose this bill |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 346 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 404 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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