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Jussi Halla-ahoEach row shows how the selected MPs voted in the bill's decisive vote.
- HE 141/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Raising reduced VAT to 14 per cent
Value added tax (VAT) on medicines, books, passenger transport, and cultural and sports services will rise from 10 per cent to 14 per cent at the beginning of 2025. At the same time, the tax rate on menstrual products, children's nappies and incontinence products will fall from 25.5 per cent to 14 per cent.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded29 Nov 2024 · 5 votes87 jaa67 ei - HE 123/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Cutting sickness and rehabilitation allowances
Sickness allowances and rehabilitation allowances will be cut for those earning more than 27,633 euros a year, and health insurance contribution liabilities will be transferred from the central government to employers and insured persons. The changes will strengthen central and local government finances, and they will apply from 1 January 2025.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded28 Nov 2024 · 1 vote116 jaa51 ei - HE 132/2024 vpPassed
Broadening substitute social worker eligibility
A person who holds a relevant higher education degree in social services or social sciences and has completed basic and intermediate studies in social work may also serve as a substitute social worker. The reform will ease the shortage of staff in the social services sector and in child welfare in particular.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded22 Nov 2024 · 1 vote95 jaa67 ei - HE 125/2024 vpPassed
Raising minimum age for Kela benefits
The minimum age for the national pension, guarantee pension, rehabilitation allowance and sickness allowance paid by Kela will rise from 16 to 18 years. The change aligns the age limits for social security benefits with the end of compulsory education and the age at which parents' maintenance liability ends.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded22 Nov 2024 · 7 votes113 jaa47 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.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded19 Nov 2024 · 1 vote108 jaa53 ei - HE 12/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Stricter regulation of electric scooters
A blood alcohol limit of 0.5 per mille will be introduced for electric scooters and similar motorised micromobility devices, and commercial hire of them will require a municipal permit. The police will have the right to breathalyse riders, and municipalities will be able to restrict the speed, number and parking of rental scooters.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded30 May 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 14/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Safeguarding essential functions during strikes
Trade unions will be placed under an obligation to safeguard essential functions during strikes, such as human life, health, and safety. If the duty of care is breached, a court may prohibit the industrial action and employers may order employees to perform emergency work in acute emergencies.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded28 May 2025 · 6 votes83 jaa69 ei - HE 12/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Restricting political and sympathy strikes
The duration of political strikes will be limited to a maximum of 24 hours, and restrictions will be placed on sympathy industrial actions to prevent harm to third parties. At the same time, fines imposed for illegal strikes will be increased, and an employee may be ordered to pay a fee for continuing a strike found to be illegal.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded15 May 2024 · 10 votes107 jaa57 ei - HE 241/2020 vpPassed with amendments
Establishing wellbeing services counties and the health and social services reform
Responsibility for organising health and social services and rescue services will be transferred from municipalities to 21 new wellbeing services counties and the City of Helsinki. At the same time, the funding of services and taxation will be reformed.
Jussi Halla-aho: No6 Jul 2022 · 84 votes105 jaa77 ei - HE 21/2025 vpPassed
Enabling management hunting of large carnivores
The Hunting Act will be amended so that population management hunting of bears, wolves and lynxes can once again be permitted in Finland. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry will be able to define regional objectives for derogation permits and reference values for favourable conservation status by decree.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded22 May 2025 · 9 votes131 jaa20 ei - HE 104/2024 vpPassed
Updating animal damage compensation references
Technical updates will be made to the act on the compensation of damage caused by protected animals. References in the act to EU State aid rules and the Nature Conservation Act will be corrected to correspond to current legislation.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded6 Nov 2024 · passed without a vote - HE 172/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming Finnish Customs administration and management
The internal management and organisational structure of Finnish Customs will be reformed to streamline decision-making and cooperation. The amendment transfers decisions regarding internal organisation from a government decree to Finnish Customs' own rules of procedure.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded19 Dec 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 139/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming fund operations and supervision
New liquidity management tools will be introduced for mutual funds and alternative investment funds, and rules on granting loans will be clarified. At the same time, reporting obligations for fund management companies and fund managers, as well as the supervision of outsourcing, will be harmonised with EU regulation.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded19 Dec 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 133/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Digital education and career planning service
A new national digital service, Osaamispolku, will be established in Finland to support citizens in their education and career choices and in developing their competence. The service will bring together education and labour market data and offer AI-based suggestions according to the user's interests and skills.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded19 Dec 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 116/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Cutting social assistance and tightening conditions
The basic amount of social assistance will be reduced for adults, and recipients will face a stricter obligation to apply for full-time work and primary benefits. Neglecting obligations or facing unemployment security sanctions will lead to social assistance being cut more readily than before.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded19 Dec 2025 · 8 votes91 jaa79 ei - HE 64/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming Finnvera's operations and supervision
Fragmented legislation concerning the state specialised financing company Finnvera will be consolidated into a single new act, and the company's financial supervision will be transferred to the Financial Supervisory Authority. The reform clarifies the rules for corporate export and domestic financing and makes state financing activities more efficient.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded19 Dec 2025 · 5 votesClosest vote · Dissenting opinion 1
143 jaa31 ei - HE 53/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Tightening prison security and prisoner supervision
Supervision of prisoners will be tightened and the conditions for admission to open prisons will be specified to prevent crime and prison security risks. Remand prisoners could also be placed in strictly supervised high-security wards.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded19 Dec 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 11/2025 vpPassed
Tightening conditions for family reunification
Conditions for family reunification will be tightened by setting an age limit of 21 years for residence permits for spouses and requiring beneficiaries of international protection to have resided in Finland for two years before bringing their family to the country. In addition, secured means of support will, as a rule, be required for the entry of a guardian of a minor who has received subsidiary protection.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded15 May 2025 · 7 votes103 jaa51 ei - HE 180/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Easier financing for student housing
State interest-subsidy loans of up to 100 per cent of project costs may be granted for the construction and renovation of student housing. The amendment safeguards the completion of new student housing in a situation where direct state investment grants are no longer awarded for it.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded18 Dec 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 153/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Allowing debt conversions in corporate restructuring
Debts of a company undergoing corporate restructuring could be converted into the company's shares directly under the restructuring programme. Under certain conditions, the arrangement could also be carried out against the will of the shareholders.
Jussi Halla-aho: No vote recorded18 Dec 2025 · passed without a vote