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Elina ValtonenEach row shows how the selected MPs voted in the bill's decisive vote.
- HE 205/2016 vpPassed with amendments
Lowering early childhood education and care fees
Early childhood education and care fees for low-income families of two and three persons will be reduced, and the fee share for the second child will be lowered. An entirely new separate act will also be enacted on client fees in early childhood education and care.
Elina Valtonen: No vote recorded21 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 240/2016 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming road safety funding and steering
The funding and steering of Liikenneturva and road accident investigation will be reformed. Supervision of operations and the awarding of grants will be transferred from the ministry to agencies.
Elina Valtonen: No vote recorded20 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 142/2016 vpPassed with amendments
Country-by-country tax reporting for multinationals
Large multinational corporate groups will be required to provide the tax authorities with a country-by-country report on their income, taxes and activities in different countries. At the same time, companies' obligations to document intragroup transfer pricing will be specified in greater detail.
Elina Valtonen: Yes20 Dec 2016 · 1 voteOnly vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Anneli Kiljunen
103 jaa53 ei - HE 114/2016 vpPassed with amendments
Enhancing workplace grey economy oversight
Occupational safety and health authorities will receive broader rights to exchange confidential information with other authorities to combat the grey economy. At the same time, occupational safety and health inspectors can oblige employers to issue an employee with a missing lay-off certificate or grounds for the termination of an employment contract.
Elina Valtonen: No vote recorded20 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 243/2016 vpPassed
Increasing export financing and guarantee authorisations
The state will significantly increase the maximum limits for export credits and state export guarantees to safeguard the competitiveness of Finnish export companies. At the same time, the state's scope to lend funds to Finnvera in market disruption situations will be expanded.
Elina Valtonen: No vote recorded16 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 230/2016 vpPassed
Downsizing the pension appeal board
The number of divisions and members of the Appeal Board for Earnings-Related Pension Matters will be reduced because the number of appeals has fallen. The change will adapt the board's operations and composition to a smaller caseload.
Elina Valtonen: No vote recorded16 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 223/2016 vpPassed with amendments
Public tasks for the Forest Centre
The Finnish Forest Centre will no longer engage in business activities, focusing solely on public administrative tasks. The change ensures fair competition in the forestry sector market.
Elina Valtonen: No vote recorded16 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 212/2016 vpPassed
Postponing corporatisation of municipal occupational healthcare
The obligation on municipalities to incorporate the occupational healthcare medical treatment services they provide will be postponed by two years to the beginning of 2019. During the transitional period, municipalities must separate occupational healthcare accounting from their other healthcare services.
Elina Valtonen: No vote recorded16 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 175/2016 vpPassed with amendments
Easing inheritance and gift taxation
Inheritance and gift taxation will be eased, in particular to facilitate generational changes in businesses and farms. At the same time, the tax exemption for life insurance payouts on death will be abolished and inheritance tax deductions increased.
Elina Valtonen: Absent16 Dec 2016 · 6 votesClosest vote · 7 a §:n 2 ja 3 mom., mietintö / Timo Harakka
112 jaa58 ei - HE 248/2016 vpPassed
Centralising business subsidy administration at Tekes
The Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation Tekes will also begin administering business subsidies related to economic, energy and environmental policy. Under the change, corresponding duties and personnel will be transferred from the ELY Centres (Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment) to Tekes from the beginning of 2017.
Elina Valtonen: No vote recorded15 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 227/2016 vpPassed
Improving special-needs housing grants and rights
State support could be used to build service facilities in connection with sheltered housing for older people that will also serve other local residents. In addition, residents in sheltered housing would be guaranteed an official tenancy agreement and the tenancy rights that come with it.
Elina Valtonen: No vote recorded15 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 162/2016 vpPassed with amendments
Energy efficiency requirements for government procurement
Central government authorities will be required to procure only energy-efficient products, services and buildings. The requirement applies to public procurement exceeding the EU thresholds.
Elina Valtonen: Yes15 Dec 2016 · 1 voteOnly vote · 2 §:n 5 kohta (uusi), mietintö / Hanna Sarkkinen
130 jaa33 ei - HE 213/2016 vpPassed
Extending training compensation to universities
Universities will begin to receive state training compensation for providing specialist medical and specialist dental training. The compensation will be based on the number of graduated specialist doctors and specialist dentists.
Elina Valtonen: Absent14 Dec 2016 · 1 voteOnly vote · Perustelut, mietintö / Sari Tanus
153 jaa6 ei - HE 192/2016 vpPassed
Clarifying testing of pesticide equipment
The mandatory inspection timetables for pesticide application equipment would be amended to align with EU regulations. New equipment would only have to be inspected five years after purchase, and less frequent inspections would be permitted for low-risk equipment.
Elina Valtonen: No vote recorded14 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 164/2016 vpPassed
Repealing Nordic Project Export Fund legislation
The separate act on the Nordic Project Export Fund will be repealed, as the fund has been abolished as an independent institution. Its operations continue as part of the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation.
Elina Valtonen: No vote recorded14 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 246/2016 vpPassed
Revising the Finland–Portugal tax treaty
Finland and Portugal will introduce a new tax treaty to prevent double taxation. The reform would give Finland the right to tax, among other things, private-sector pensions received from Finland by persons resident in Portugal.
Elina Valtonen: No vote recorded13 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 120/2016 vpPassed
Clarifying pension and benefit implementation
Clarifications related to the 2017 pension reform and corrections clarifying implementation are made to the earnings-related pension acts and certain social security benefits. Among other things, the changes ensure that retroactive disability pensions can be received without being prevented by rehabilitation allowance, and harmonise the limitation periods for insurance contributions.
Elina Valtonen: No vote recorded13 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 109/2016 vpPassed
Introducing cross-border bank account preservation
Creditors will be able to freeze a debtor's bank account funds in another EU member state more easily and quickly to secure their claims. In Finland, the issuing of preservation orders will be centralised at Helsinki District Court, and enforcement will be handled by the enforcement authority.
Elina Valtonen: No vote recorded9 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 13/2016 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming communicable disease control and compensation
Legislation on the prevention and control of communicable diseases will be reformed to meet modern epidemic threats and international obligations. At the same time, decision-making on control measures will be streamlined and compensation paid to those falling ill will be clarified.
Elina Valtonen: Yes9 Dec 2016 · 2 votesClosest vote · Lausumaehdotus 2, mietintö / Anneli Kiljunen
99 jaa52 ei - HE 196/2016 vpPassed with amendments
Securing pay security in company survival agreements
Employees' pay security will remain safeguarded even in situations where postponing or reducing pay has been agreed at the workplace to save the company. Pay security authorities will also gain access to reports from the Grey Economy Information Unit to support decision-making and supervision.
Elina Valtonen: No vote recorded8 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote