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Bill: New Citizenship Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Beiteynu Beytenu
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: October 2261
Description[?]:
| Only Jews should gain citizenship and nationality in our homeland. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning granting citizenship.
Old value:: Citizenship is granted to all nationals.
Current: Citizenship is granted to all nationals.
Proposed: Citizenship is granted based on race/religion/gender.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy concerning granting nationality (national of this state without implication of having citizenship rights).
Old value:: Anyone receives nationality but immigrants must pass a test to gain nationality.
Current: Anyone is able to claim nationality.
Proposed: Only those born to nationals become nationals.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:41:38, July 27, 2006 CET | From | Habonim Dror | To | Debating the New Citizenship Bill |
| Message | I concur. |
| Date | 18:42:04, July 27, 2006 CET | From | Habonim Dror | To | Debating the New Citizenship Bill |
| Message | My only concern is Article 2, which may prevent those Jews fleeing persecution to be denied citizenship. |
| Date | 10:05:35, July 28, 2006 CET | From | Beiteynu Beytenu | To | Debating the New Citizenship Bill |
| Message | We were thinking along the lines that nationality and the Jewish faith were the same, that any Jewish person coming here would automatically be a national. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 14 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 86 |
| Random fact: Moderation reserves the discretion to declare RP laws invalid if the players supporting them are doing so in an excessively confrontational way. |
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