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Leena Meri

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  1. HE 105/2016 vpPassed with amendments

    Facilitating hiring and extending probation

    Employers will be able to hire a long-term unemployed person on a fixed-term contract for up to one year without a separate justification. At the same time, the probationary period in employment relationships will be extended to six months, and the re-employment period for dismissed employees will be shortened.

    Leena Meri: Yes
    21 Dec 2016 · 7 votes
    116 jaa
    56 ei
  2. HE 229/2016 vpPassed

    Reforming student aid and increasing loans

    The study grant for higher education students will be cut and the government guarantee for student loans will be increased, alongside students moving primarily under the general housing allowance. At the same time, the maximum aid period for higher education studies will be shortened and means-testing of student financial aid will be removed for some upper secondary students.

    Leena Meri: Yes
    19 Dec 2016 · 2 votes
    101 jaa
    64 ei
  3. HE 234/2016 vpPassed with amendments

    Decentralising asylum appeals to administrative courts

    The processing of appeals against asylum decisions will be decentralised from the Helsinki Administrative Court to three other administrative courts as well. The change aims to speed up processing and clear court backlogs.

    Leena Meri: No vote recorded
    16 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote
  4. HE 233/2016 vpPassed

    Enabling a state development company

    State ownership steering will be extended to cover state development companies and their direct corporate holdings. At the same time, the bill provides that Parliament's consent will always be required if the state's share of voting rights in a company falls to one third or below.

    Leena Meri: Yes
    16 Dec 2016 · 4 votes
    155 jaa
    9 ei
  5. HE 197/2016 vpPassed

    Reforming inland waterway working hours

    Rest periods for workers in inland waterway transport will be extended and the amount of permitted overtime restricted. The changes will improve workers' coping and water transport safety.

    Leena Meri: No vote recorded
    16 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote
  6. HE 195/2016 vpPassed

    Easier support for rural pilot projects

    Rural pilot projects will also be eligible for support for equipment and machinery investments that are not of public benefit. The reform makes it easier to test new products, methods and techniques in practice.

    Leena Meri: No vote recorded
    16 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote
  7. HE 176/2016 vpPassed with amendments

    Introducing an entrepreneur tax deduction

    A 5 per cent tax deduction from the profits of business operations will be introduced for sole proprietors, partners in partnerships, and operators in agriculture, forestry and reindeer husbandry. The reform will ease the income taxation of these operators from 1 January 2017.

    Leena Meri: Yes
    15 Dec 2016 · 5 votes
    118 jaa
    41 ei
  8. HE 247/2016 vpPassed

    Freezing index increases in church funding

    Price-level adjustments to state funding for the churches will be frozen for 2017–2019 as part of central government spending cuts. The amount of funding will be kept at the 2016 level for three years.

    Leena Meri: Yes
    14 Dec 2016 · 1 vote
    96 jaa
    63 ei
  9. HE 241/2016 vpPassed

    Clarifying assessment of cross-border planning impacts

    Finnish land use planning rules will be clarified in the event that a plan has significant environmental impacts on the territory of another state. Notification of and consultations with neighbouring states will be regulated in greater detail than before.

    Leena Meri: No vote recorded
    7 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote
  10. HE 33/2021 vpPassed with amendments

    Postponing municipal elections to June 2021

    The 2021 municipal elections would be postponed from April to June due to the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, the advance voting period in Finland would be extended to two weeks.

    Leena Meri: No
    26 Mar 2021 · 2 votes

    Closest vote · Luottamuslause oikeusministeri Henrikssonille / Jussi Halla-ahon ehdotus

    103 jaa
    66 ei
  11. HE 24/2021 vpPassed

    Postponing electronic financial reporting for listed companies

    Securities issuers will be given a one-year extension to transition to a harmonised electronic format for financial statements. Companies may still publish their 2020 financial statements in the previous format.

    Leena Meri: No vote recorded
    25 Mar 2021 · passed without a vote
  12. HE 17/2021 vpPassed with amendments

    Supplementary budget for 2021

    The supplementary budget for 2021, meaning amendments to central government's budget for the current year. The votes mainly concern individual appropriation items and proposals in the opposition's dissenting opinions.

    Leena Meri: No
    25 Mar 2021 · 16 votes
  13. HE 256/2020 vpPassed

    Tighter control of fishing quota concentration

    Commercial fishers will have to report their company's ownership structure annually when applying for fishing quotas. This will enable authorities to monitor more effectively than at present that fishing quotas do not become excessively concentrated among the same owners.

    Leena Meri: No vote recorded
    25 Mar 2021 · passed without a vote
  14. HE 15/2021 vpPassed with amendments

    Enhancing mandatory health checks and disclosure

    Authorities and communicable disease control physicians will be able to order individuals or groups of people to undergo mandatory health checks to prevent the spread of a generally hazardous communicable disease. At the same time, persons exposed to infection or infected will be required to disclose their contact details to healthcare professionals.

    Leena Meri: No
    24 Mar 2021 · 13 votes

    Closest vote · 89 §, mietintö / Mia Laiho

    31 jaa
    20 ei
  15. HE 8/2021 vpPassed

    Increasing agricultural and reindeer investment guarantees

    The state would raise the maximum amount of state guarantees granted for investment loans in agriculture and reindeer husbandry. This would ensure the financing and implementation of investments during the transitional period between EU funding periods.

    Leena Meri: No vote recorded
    24 Mar 2021 · passed without a vote
  16. HE 6/2020 vpPassed with amendments

    Tackling crime during imprisonment

    The Criminal Sanctions Agency's supervisory powers in prisons will be enhanced and its ability to exchange information with pre-trial investigation authorities will be improved. The Criminal Sanctions Agency will be able to disclose information to the police on its own initiative, monitor prisoners' payment card accounts and participate in joint criminal intelligence.

    Leena Meri: No vote recorded
    24 Mar 2021 · passed without a vote
  17. HE 135/2020 vpPassed

    Toughening penalties for financing terrorism

    Financing an individual terrorist will be made a criminal offence under the law, even if the funding cannot be directly linked to a specific terrorist attack. At the same time, penalties for financing a terrorist group will be increased.

    Leena Meri: No vote recorded
    23 Mar 2021 · passed without a vote
  18. HE 157/2016 vpPassed with amendments

    Transfer of rescue officer training

    Responsibility for organising university of applied sciences education for rescue services officers will be transferred from Savonia University of Applied Sciences to the Police University College. At the same time, the training programme and its funding will be transferred entirely to the administrative branch of the Ministry of the Interior.

    Leena Meri: No vote recorded
    25 Nov 2016 · passed without a vote
  19. HE 90/2016 vpPassed with amendments

    Civil servant transfers and cooling-off periods

    A state civil servant could be transferred for a fixed term to work partly in another agency or outside central government. In addition, provisions on paid cooling-off agreements lasting up to one year and on leave to appeal to the Supreme Administrative Court would be added to the act.

    Leena Meri: No vote recorded
    23 Nov 2016 · passed without a vote
  20. HE 113/2016 vpPassed

    Shortening the duration of unemployment allowance

    The maximum duration of unemployment allowance would be shortened and the waiting period extended from five to seven days. In addition, increased components of unemployment security would be reduced or abolished.

    Leena Meri: Yes
    21 Nov 2016 · 3 votes
    100 jaa
    47 ei