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Bill: Governmental Agencies Act of 4335
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social 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: April 4336
Description[?]:
| After successfully relaunching LEG, LiPIP, LNTS, public nurseries and our crown Jewel, the LNHS, we are to move forward and claim back two other governmental agencies: - The Department of Education's NPHEIL, the Network of Public Higher Education Institutions of Likatonia. · Claiming back the 12 Public Universities sold by the unfortunate Education Bill of 4331, compensating the investors with the price paid plus interests minus profits. · Creating 18 new Public Colleges and 8 new Vocational Schools to form part of that Network. · Enrollment in all these Institutions would be achieved by academic merit · Higher Education in the NPHEIL will be free for all students accepted [OOC: There is no actual in-game variable to make only public high-ed free] - The Department of Defence's BMI, Bureau of Military Industry This means claiming back the 6 pieces in which our defence industries were divided, sold by the unfortunate Defence Innovation Act of 4331, compensating the investors with the price paid plus interests minus profits. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The nation's defence industry.
Old value:: Defence industries are privately owned and not subsidised.
Current: The state owns all defence industries.
Proposed: The state owns all defence industries.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Higher education institutions.
Old value:: The government does not maintain any forms of higher education.
Current: The government maintains a system of universities nationwide.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
Current: The government fully subsidizes tuition.
Proposed: The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:04:06, January 19, 2018 CET | From | Republican Centrist Alliance | To | Debating the Governmental Agencies Act of 4335 |
| Message | This is nothing less then mass nationalization of private industry. |
| Date | 13:20:49, January 19, 2018 CET | From | Social Liberal Party | To | Debating the Governmental Agencies Act of 4335 |
| Message | That we wouldn't have to do hadn't the Reagan administration performed mass privatization of national industry. |
| Date | 01:56:50, January 20, 2018 CET | From | Democratic Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Governmental Agencies Act of 4335 |
| Message | The actions of the Reagan administration were terrible, meant only to meet the interests of the 1% of the top 10% of the population. We must work for the people, not our donors and endorsers. Margaret Delossantos House Party Speaker |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 251 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 174 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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