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Bill: Public Transport Act 2218
Details
Submitted by[?]: Jelbék Zemojad Lofrkad Prta
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: July 2219
Description[?]:
| Whereas, public transport must entirely be paid for by the user. Whereas, this creates huge problems for low income families, old age pensioners, students, younger people and the general public transport using population, and the environment. Therefore, to encourage fairness and greater uptake of public transport usage, the government should provide aid in the form of subsidies to ensure low income groups can afford to use it. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Funding of public transport (where applicable).
Old value:: Public transport is fully user-pays.
Current: Local governments decide upon the funding policy.
Proposed: Public transport is fully subsidised for people with low-income, with the remainder "user-pays".
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:22:06, April 24, 2006 CET | From |  Jelbék Zemojad Lofrkad Prta | To | Debating the Public Transport Act 2218 |
| Message | We believe it is time to provide for the poorest citizens of Jelbania. A government that does not do that, is no government at all. |
| Date | 04:00:32, April 24, 2006 CET | From | BigBoss Party | To | Debating the Public Transport Act 2218 |
| Message | HEAR HEAR now this is something that should be subsidized. it was not free to begin with so therefore it should be changed.(talking about the education bill). good job DLP |
| Date | 20:04:36, April 24, 2006 CET | From | Free Conservative Party | To | Debating the Public Transport Act 2218 |
| Message | No. If people want to give so the poor can get transport, they can. |
| Date | 05:03:51, April 25, 2006 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Public Transport Act 2218 |
| Message | Jelbania provides a generous social service system, so we do not feel too bad charging for public transportation. We might be in support of a partial subsidy. |
| Date | 20:24:14, April 25, 2006 CET | From | Jelbék Zemojad Lofrkad Prta | To | Debating the Public Transport Act 2218 |
| Message | Citizens Party, this is a partial subsidy, for low-income families (the most common users of public transport) only. It is not proposing completely free public transport. However, if this bill fails, there is the option of partial subsidies to keep prices reasonable across Jelbania. The DLP will propose that in that case, as we cannot amend a bill in vote. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 211 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 350 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 64 |
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