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- HE 264/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Clean vehicle obligations for wellbeing services counties
Regionally graduated minimum quotas will be set for wellbeing services counties for the procurement of low- and zero-emission vehicles and transport services. At the same time, procurement obligations for joint municipal authorities and municipally owned companies will be clarified.
25 Jan 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 197/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Improving mental health and substance abuse services
Mental health and substance abuse services will be brought more closely into ordinary health and social services, and help will also become easier to access for other addictions. The reform will improve continuity of care and increase home-based services and low-threshold support, such as outreach work and substance abuse day centres.
19 Dec 2022 · 2 votesClosest vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Arja Juvonen
78 jaa63 ei - HE 209/2022 vpPassed
Municipal waste sales limit and transition
The maximum limit for market-based sales by municipal waste companies will be maintained at 10 per cent after 2030 as well. In addition, municipalities will look after waste management for health and social services and rescue services properties during a transition period until the end of 2025.
16 Dec 2022 · 1 voteOnly vote · 145 a §, mietintö / Saara-Sofia Sirén
134 jaa32 ei - HE 190/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Transferring communicable disease control
Responsibility for the prevention of communicable diseases and for control decisions will be transferred from municipalities and hospital districts to the new wellbeing services counties and the HUS Group. The change aligns the Communicable Diseases Act with the health and social services reform.
16 Dec 2022 · passed without a vote - HE 312/2022 vpPassed
Securing intellectual disability services during reform
Wellbeing services counties will be able to procure morning and afternoon activities for disabled children directly from municipalities without tendering. In addition, involuntary special care and necessary restrictive measures can continue to be implemented in intellectual disability psychiatry wards.
15 Dec 2022 · passed without a vote - HE 305/2022 vpPassed
Strengthening duties of university hospitals
The duties of university hospitals as providers of specialised medical care, research, and education in the field are clearly defined in law as the new wellbeing services counties begin their operations. At the same time, the opportunity for university teachers and professors to hold secondary posts at university hospitals is ensured.
15 Dec 2022 · passed without a vote - HE 223/2022 vpPassed
Transferring call-up health examinations
Advance health examinations for call-ups and physician arrangements will be transferred from municipalities to wellbeing services counties. At the same time, paternity leave for conscripts will be updated to parental leave in line with the family leave reform.
8 Dec 2022 · passed without a vote - HE 219/2022 vpPassed
Reconciling Emergency Powers Act amendments
Previously approved amendments to the Emergency Powers Act are reconciled through a technical correction. This ensures that the provisions on hybrid threats that entered into force in summer 2022 remain in force at the beginning of 2023 as well.
8 Dec 2022 · passed without a vote - HE 153/2022 vpPassed
Changes to earned income taxation for 2023
The earned income taxation for 2023 will undergo the adjustments required by the health and social services reform and inflation, and the earned income tax credit for persons over 60 will be increased. In addition, the temporary increase in the deduction for commuting expenses will be extended and science and arts recognition awards will be made entirely tax-exempt.
7 Dec 2022 · 14 votesClosest vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Sari Essayah 4
78 jaa63 ei - HE 178/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Transferring training compensation to the state
The state will begin compensating units providing practical training places for the costs incurred from practical training included in universities of applied sciences degrees in health and social services. Universities of applied sciences will be exempted from paying compensation, which will improve the availability of training placements and the quality of supervision.
24 Nov 2022 · passed without a vote - HE 74/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Speeding up access to primary healthcare
Patients will be able to access non-urgent primary medical care within seven days and dental care within three months of an assessment of the need for care. Health centres will have to be contactable and provide an individual assessment of the need for care during the same working day.
24 Nov 2022 · 11 votesClosest vote · 27 § , mietintö / Arja Juvonen
92 jaa67 ei - HE 136/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Expanding social lending nationwide
Social lending will become a mandatory service in all wellbeing services counties. Low-income and indebted people will be able to apply for social credit regardless of where they live.
17 Nov 2022 · passed without a vote - HE 56/2021 vpPassed with amendments
Aligning legislation with wellbeing services counties
The necessary amendments are made to legislation on health and social services and rescue services as responsibility for organising services transfers from municipalities to the new wellbeing services counties. New responsibilities, authorities and concepts will be updated across more than a hundred different acts from the beginning of 2023.
22 Jun 2022 · passed without a vote - HE 18/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Securing patient data sharing in Uusimaa
Healthcare authorities in Uusimaa will be permitted during a transition period to disclose data needed for patient care to each other, unless the patient has specifically prohibited it. The arrangement will safeguard the availability of patient data and smooth care as the health and social services reform begins.
21 Jun 2022 · passed without a vote - HE 10/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Clarifying health and social services reform
Amendments to facilitate implementation will be made to the legislation on the reform of health and social services and rescue services. Wellbeing services counties will be granted the right to client information essential for starting operations, and municipalities will be given additional time to organise support services.
13 May 2022 · 1 voteOnly vote · 1. lakiehdotus, 69 a §, mietintö / Arja Juvonen
103 jaa36 ei - HE 19/2022 vpPassed with amendments
Safeguarding student welfare services
Curator, psychologist and healthcare services in schools and educational institutions will be transferred from municipalities to the responsibility of wellbeing services counties. School staff will be able to refer pupils in need of support to any student welfare service with a low threshold.
11 May 2022 · passed without a vote - HE 7/2022 vpPassed
Making wellbeing services county salaries public
Salaries and pay components paid by wellbeing services counties and joint county authorities to their staff will become public information. The practice corresponds to the current publicity of salary information in municipalities and central government.
23 Mar 2022 · passed without a vote - HE 125/2021 vpPassed
Earlier wellbeing services counties' VAT refunds
Wellbeing services counties and comparable public entities will receive the right to value added tax (VAT) refunds already during their preparatory phase. This will make procurements equal in terms of taxation before the health and social services reform enters into force.
5 Oct 2021 · passed without a vote