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- HE 161/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming vocational education funding and steering
Funding and steering for vocational education and training will be reformed, and a pilot project will be launched giving some educational institutions greater leeway to decide on the qualifications they offer. At the same time, the learning support and special needs education received by students will be clarified and strengthened.
Pia Kauma: Yes18 Dec 2024 · 7 votes150 jaa47 ei - HE 149/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Centralising hospitals and emergency services
Finland's hospital network and round-the-clock emergency services will be concentrated into fewer units to ensure adequate staffing and funding. Each wellbeing services county will as a rule have only one hospital with a multidisciplinary round-the-clock emergency department and round-the-clock operating theatre readiness.
Pia Kauma: Yes18 Dec 2024 · 18 votes101 jaa96 ei - HE 101/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Easing construction regulations
Permit procedures and requirements for construction will be eased in order to speed up construction and reduce the administrative burden. For example, the mandatory climate report will be removed for builders of detached and semi-detached houses, and binding deadlines will be set for municipal building supervision authorities to process permit applications.
Pia Kauma: Yes18 Dec 2024 · 13 votes130 jaa67 ei - HE 82/2023 vpPassed with amendments
Expanding Defence Forces crime prevention powers
Defence Command will be tasked with the prevention and detection of military offences and granted powers to independently use secret intelligence gathering methods. At the same time, crime prevention powers will be clarified and their external oversight strengthened.
Pia Kauma: No vote recorded26 Feb 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 160/2024 vpPassed
Moving students to housing supplement
Students without children will be transferred from the general housing allowance to the housing supplement of student financial aid from 1 August 2025. The housing supplement is an individual benefit paid as a rule only for months of study.
Pia Kauma: Yes16 Dec 2024 · 1 vote112 jaa56 ei - HE 196/2024 vpPassed
Accelerating permit procedures for critical raw materials
Raw material projects deemed strategic by the EU will be given priority in the processing of environmental and water permits and before the courts. In addition, the Regional State Administrative Agency for Northern Finland will become a nationwide single point of contact that coordinates permit procedures and monitors their time limits.
Pia Kauma: No vote recorded11 Dec 2024 · passed without a vote - HE 142/2024 vpPassed
Compensating forest damage from private reserves
The state will compensate damage if forest damage spreads from a private nature reserve to a neighbouring commercial forest. The amendment corrects an error that had previously entered the act.
Pia Kauma: No vote recorded11 Dec 2024 · passed without a vote - HE 135/2024 vpPassed
Abolishing increased unemployment benefit components
The increased components of unemployment benefits paid for participation in employment-promoting services and the increase to the mobility allowance will be abolished. At the same time, the partial labour market subsidy received by an unemployed person living with their parents will be cut.
Pia Kauma: Absent9 Dec 2024 · 1 vote122 jaa58 ei - HE 212/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Banning mobile phones during lessons
The use of mobile phones and other mobile devices during lessons will be prohibited by law, and their use will be permitted only with a teacher's permission for learning or for health care purposes. Schools must issue rules of conduct regarding the use and storage of phones for the entire school day.
Pia Kauma: Yes30 Apr 2025 · 1 voteOnly vote · Dissenting opinion
133 jaa28 ei - HE 27/2022 vpPassed
Enshrining climate targets in law
Finland will commit to achieving carbon neutrality by 2035 and set binding interim targets for reducing emissions. Official climate policy planning will be expanded to cover land use and carbon sinks as well.
Pia Kauma: Yes7 Jun 2022 · 4 votes121 jaa42 ei - HE 145/2024 vpPassed
Raising seafarers' service charges and ending state funding
The state will cease funding the Seamen's Service Bureau, as a result of which the service charges levied on seafarers and shipping companies will be temporarily increased for three years. At the same time, state representatives will leave the administration of the service bureau and responsibility will transfer to the labour market organisations.
Pia Kauma: Absent29 Nov 2024 · 1 vote107 jaa49 ei - HE 73/2023 vpPassed with amendments
Tightening unemployment benefit conditions
The work requirement needed to qualify for unemployment allowance will be extended by six months and will begin to accrue based on paid wage income rather than hours worked. In addition, the child increases to unemployment benefits and the exempt amount for part-time work income will be abolished, the waiting period at the start of unemployment will be extended, and holiday compensation will postpone the start of the benefit.
Pia Kauma: Yes20 Dec 2023 · 9 votes99 jaa47 ei - HE 2/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Banning property purchases on security grounds
Citizens and companies from a country that threatens Finland or other states will not be allowed to buy real estate in Finland without a permanent residence permit. The ban will prevent the use of properties for activities that endanger national security and for hybrid influence.
Pia Kauma: No vote recorded23 Apr 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 219/2024 vpPassed
Tougher penalties for street gang crime
More severe penalties will be imposed for offences linked to the activities of street gangs and for humiliating violence. In addition, using a child under 15 years of age to commit an offence will be made a distinct punishable offence.
Pia Kauma: No vote recorded23 Apr 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 209/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming Academy of Finland administration
Administrative structures of the Academy of Finland would be clarified, and a requirement to take national security into account would be added to research funding. Funding could be denied to a project that endangers Finland's security or conflicts with foreign policy.
Pia Kauma: No vote recorded23 Apr 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.
Pia Kauma: No vote recorded18 Dec 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 52/2025 vpPassed
Improving criminal data exchange in Eurojust
Information exchange between Finnish authorities and Eurojust, the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation, will be enhanced, especially regarding terrorist offences. At the same time, the term of office of the Assistant to the National Member of Finland will be made more flexible.
Pia Kauma: No vote recorded25 Sep 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 108/2024 vpPassed
Easing labour taxation and cutting deductions
Income taxation for 2025 will be amended by easing the taxation of labour and cutting several deductions. Taxation for low-income wage earners and families with children will ease, whereas taxation for pensioners with middle-tier incomes will tighten and the amount of the household expenses tax credit will decrease.
Pia Kauma: Yes22 Nov 2024 · 9 votesClosest vote · Valiokunnan ehdotus / Krista Mikkonen
96 jaa68 ei - HE 69/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Streamlining guardianship and powers of attorney
The work of attorneys under continuing powers of attorney and guardians will be made easier in managing everyday matters and property. At the same time, permit requirements from the guardianship authority will be reduced and the property registration thresholds for minors will be raised.
Pia Kauma: No vote recorded16 Dec 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 173/2024 vpWithdrawn
Allowing home delivery of alcohol
Alko and alcohol retailers will be permitted to deliver alcoholic beverages directly to customers. The age of the person ordering and the recipient must be verified both during online ordering and upon delivery.
Pia Kauma: No vote recorded23 Sep 2025 · no votes