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Heikki AuttoEach row shows how the selected MPs voted in the bill's decisive vote.
- HE 136/2024 vpPassed
Abolishing Ara
The Housing Finance and Development Centre of Finland (Ara) will be abolished as an independent agency from 1 January 2025. The agency's duties and personnel will be transferred to a centre for state-subsidised housing construction to be established within the Ministry of the Environment.
Heikki Autto: Yes18 Dec 2024 · 1 vote97 jaa72 ei - HE 122/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Restricting access to disability services
The scope of application of the Act on Disability Services is specified so that special services will be granted only if basic social services are insufficient and the need for assistance differs from what is typical for the person's stage of life. Whether a service is free of charge will no longer affect the act under which assistance is granted.
Heikki Autto: Yes18 Dec 2024 · 6 votes130 jaa67 ei - HE 85/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Expanding local bargaining
Opportunities for local bargaining will be expanded so that companies that do not belong to employer associations can also make use of the flexibility provisions in generally applicable collective agreements. If there is no shop steward at the workplace, a local agreement can be concluded with an elected representative chosen by the employees.
Heikki Autto: Yes18 Dec 2024 · 2 votes112 jaa53 ei - HE 160/2026 vpIn progress
Streamlining the recognition of foreign qualifications
Recognition of professional qualifications and eligibility for public posts in Finland for people who have studied abroad will be streamlined and sped up. Gaps in education can also be bridged through work experience, an adaptation period, or an aptitude test instead of supplementary studies alone.
Heikki Autto: No vote recorded2 Oct 2026 · no votes yet - HE 53/2024 vpPassed
Preventing instrumentalised migration at the border
In exceptional situations, Finland could prevent the entry of asylum seekers and turn them away immediately at the border if a foreign state uses them as an instrument of pressure. However, applications could still be accepted, for example, from children or persons in a particularly vulnerable position.
Heikki Autto: Yes15 Jul 2024 · 2 votes167 jaa31 ei - HE 164/2024 vpPassed
Linking agricultural subsidies to working conditions
Receipt of agricultural subsidies will be linked to compliance with employees' working conditions and occupational safety from the beginning of 2025. In addition, national aid for crop production can be paid in advance earlier than at present.
Heikki Autto: Yes13 Dec 2024 · 1 vote155 jaa14 ei - HE 126/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Tightening housing allowance and asset limits
Asset limits and restrictions will be introduced for the general housing allowance and the housing allowance for pensioners, reducing or terminating support for households with assets. In addition, housing allowance will decrease in six cities due to a reduction in the maximum limits for housing costs.
Heikki Autto: Yes13 Dec 2024 · 2 votes112 jaa56 ei - HE 107/2024 vpPassed
Raising vehicle tax on electric cars
Vehicle tax on all-electric cars and plug-in hybrids will increase. The new tax rates will apply from the beginning of 2026.
Heikki Autto: Yes10 Dec 2024 · 4 votes162 jaa19 ei - HE 298/2022 vpPassed
Postponing tighter elderly care staffing ratios
The full entry into force of the minimum staffing ratio of 0.7 employees in 24-hour care for older people will be postponed until December 2023. From the beginning of April 2023, however, the staffing requirement will rise temporarily to 0.65 employees per client.
Heikki Autto: Yes26 Jan 2023 · 16 votes119 jaa38 ei - HE 237/2026 vpIn progress
Expanding trade register details and processing
Ownership details for limited liability companies owned by a single person will begin to be entered in the Trade Register, and deadlines backed by a fine will be set for company notifications of changes. At the same time, an EU company certificate will be introduced alongside the option to request a paid advance check for a register notification.
Heikki Autto: No vote recorded15 Oct 2026 · no votes yet - HE 162/2026 vpIn progress
Allowing pension fund and foundation outsourcing
Pension foundations and pension funds would be given the legal right to purchase auxiliary tasks related to the processing of pension applications from external service companies. Actual pension decision-making and responsibility for pension provision would remain with the pension institutions themselves.
Heikki Autto: No vote recorded15 Oct 2026 · no votes yet - HE 113/2024 vpPassed
Cutting state funding for churches
The state will cut funding received by the Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Orthodox Church by a total of 20 million euros from 2025 onwards. The saving will balance central government finances in a situation where the tax revenues of the churches are estimated to increase correspondingly due to other tax changes.
Heikki Autto: Yes28 Nov 2024 · 2 votes117 jaa40 ei - HE 30/2024 vpPassed
Introducing an asylum border procedure
A rapid border procedure will be introduced in Finland for processing unfounded asylum applications lodged at the external border. Applicants will not be allowed to move freely within Finland during the procedure, but must remain within the designated reception centre area.
Heikki Autto: Yes24 Jun 2024 · 6 votes158 jaa13 ei - HE 112/2024 vpPassed
Cutting vocational education and training funding
Funding for vocational education and training will be cut by 120 million euros from 2025 onwards, reducing study places for adults who already hold a qualification. At the same time, administrative obligations for upper secondary institutions will be eased, and an additional 10 million euros will be allocated to support for learning in general upper secondary schools.
Heikki Autto: Yes22 Nov 2024 · 3 votes96 jaa66 ei - HE 105/2024 vpPassed
Abolishing daycare-specific equality plans
Daycare centres and other early childhood education and care units will no longer be required to draw up their own separate equality plans. A municipality or private early childhood education and care provider will be able to draw up a single joint plan for all its units.
Heikki Autto: Absent19 Nov 2024 · 1 vote108 jaa53 ei - HE 66/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Enabling regional passenger train procurement
Municipalities and regional actors will be able to organise and tender subsidised passenger train services in their area. Responsibility for procuring state rail transport will transfer to Traficom (the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency), and the regulatory body supervising the market to the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority (KKV).
Heikki Autto: No vote recorded24 Oct 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 150/2026 vpIn progress
Clarifying guidance on municipal preparedness
The Ministry of Finance will be tasked with guiding and monitoring municipal preparedness for disruptions and crisis situations. In addition, the right of youth councils to submit initiatives will be enshrined directly in law, and the preparedness of municipal subsidiaries will be strengthened through group guidelines.
Heikki Autto: No vote recorded1 Oct 2026 · no votes yet - HE 9/2025 vpPassed
Enhancing the protection of international waters
Finland approves the UN agreement on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction. The national Marine Protection Act will be supplemented so that high seas projects are brought within the scope of environmental impact assessments and permit procedures.
Heikki Autto: No vote recorded23 Apr 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 37/2025 vpPassed
Tightening sustainability requirements for renewable fuels
Sustainability requirements for renewable fuels would be tightened and extended to cover smaller heating and power plants than before, as well as electricity-based renewable fuels. An increasing number of energy producers would have to verify the sustainability of their fuels and report on them to the authorities.
Heikki Autto: Yes19 Jun 2025 · 4 votesClosest vote · Proposed statement 2
101 jaa84 ei - HE 35/2025 vpPassed
Improving pandemic preparedness
Finland will approve the updates to the World Health Organization's International Health Regulations, which improve preparedness for pandemics and other cross-border health threats. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health will be designated as the national coordinator for the implementation of the regulations.
Heikki Autto: Yes19 Jun 2025 · 1 vote