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Bill: VSLA Bill #2
Details
Submitted by[?]: Vanuku Socialist Left Alliance
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: October 2229
Description[?]:
| Our Second Bill Bring Brought Into Parliament |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on subsidising contraception.
Old value:: The government does not supply free or discounted contraceptives.
Current: The government does not supply free or discounted contraceptives.
Proposed: The government subsidises a considerable discount for contraceptives.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Funding of public transport (where applicable).
Old value:: Public transport is fully user-pays.
Current: Public transport is fully subsidised by the government.
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 | 11:38:25, May 18, 2006 CET | From |  dAda rEvoluTion | To | Debating the VSLA Bill #2 |
| Message | support |
| Date | 12:01:37, May 18, 2006 CET | From | Social Devolutionist | To | Debating the VSLA Bill #2 |
| Message | The SD will support this bill. I will also challenge the CRF to support this bill. Surely given, that party's view that abortion is innapropriately being used as contraceptive, they must support the promotion of appropriate contraception. |
| Date | 18:32:10, May 18, 2006 CET | From | Segue Democratic Alliance | To | Debating the VSLA Bill #2 |
| Message | So do we get free condoms on trains then? We don't have that much of a position on contraception: The Government surely has better things to spend its money on, but we recognise that supplies of contraception are important to family planning, especially in deprived areas. We also recognise that this could help bring abortion numbers down, an aim that we support. The real reason we vote in favour today however is the transport provision. Traffic congestion is the scourge of modern economies, and anything that encourages people to get out of their cars and into public transport will reduce congestion and so help free up some of the millions of man-hours lost to delays. this will also have positive road safety and ecological implications. We would prefer the issue to be dealt with at local level, but this provision still has our support. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 267 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 293 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "OOC", "IC" and "IG" are commonly-used acronyms in Particracy. "OOC" refers to comments, discussions and actions which are out-of-character, meaning they are done player-to-player rather than party-to-party. "IC" refers to in-character interactions (ie. party-to-party). Similarly, "IG" means in-game, although this term may also simply refer to what happens in the actual game interface, as opposed to on the forum or elsewhere. "RP" just means "role-play". |
| Random quote: "The main problem of the left is that it has been traditionally divided and unable to reach agreements between different leftist views, whilst the right has almost always moved in the same direction by giving concessions to different rightist points of view." - Aelius Celer, former Selucian politician |