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Leena MeriEach row shows how the selected MPs voted in the bill's decisive vote.
- HE 53/2026 vpIn progress
Enhancing European police data exchange
Finnish law enforcement authorities will join the European automated exchange system for police register data. The data can also be used more effectively to identify missing persons and unidentified deceased persons.
Leena Meri: No vote recorded17 Sep 2026 · no votes yet - HE 70/2026 vpIn progress
Streamlining land-use planning
Finland's land use legislation will be reformed to streamline land-use planning and promote investments. The reform eases guidance from the regional land use plan, sets a minimum distance for wind turbines, and strengthens landowners' right of initiative in planning.
Leena Meri: Yes8 Sep 2026 · 1 voteOnly vote · Valiokuntaan lähettäminen: puhemiesneuvoston ehdotus JAA / Vesa Kallion ehdotus EI
85 jaa69 ei - HE 111/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Medicine savings and deregulating self-care medicines
Prices of prescription medicines and pharmacies' gross margins will be cut, and the basis for determining the pharmacy tax will be reformed. At the same time, certain low-risk self-care medicines will be permitted for sale outside pharmacies and pharmacies will be given the right to deviate from prescriptions in situations of availability disruptions.
Leena Meri: Absent18 Dec 2025 · 12 votes90 jaa79 ei - HE 47/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Criminalising Holocaust and war crimes denial
Public denial or gross trivialisation of genocide established by international courts, such as the Holocaust, and other serious war crimes will be made a punishable offence in Finland. The act will be punishable if it incites hatred or violence and disturbs public order.
Leena Meri: No vote recorded18 Dec 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 173/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Permitting wolf hunting
The year-round protection of wolves will be discontinued, and wolf hunting will be permitted during a defined hunting season. Quotas can be set or hunting licences issued for hunting without strict derogation procedures.
Leena Meri: Absent17 Dec 2025 · 6 votes135 jaa35 ei - HE 109/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Restricting activation plans for rehabilitative work
Activation plans for rehabilitative work activities will only be drawn up for unemployed persons whose primary income is social assistance. For recipients of unemployment benefits, services will be organised according to individual need through a multidisciplinary employment plan.
Leena Meri: Absent17 Dec 2025 · 2 votes95 jaa76 ei - HE 127/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Raising the mining mineral tax
The mining mineral tax paid by mining companies will be increased significantly. At the same time, the distribution of tax revenues will be altered so that the majority of revenues are directed to the state instead of municipalities.
Leena Meri: Absent16 Dec 2025 · 7 votesClosest vote · Mietinnön lausumaehdotus JAA / hylkääminen EI
141 jaa18 ei - HE 108/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Tightening job search obligations and sanctions
Meetings for jobseekers in the employment services will be made more flexible, and applying for jobs referred by the authorities will become immediately mandatory. At the same time, unemployment security sanctions will be tightened so that entitlement to benefits will be lost for a fixed period as early as the first failure to comply.
Leena Meri: Absent16 Dec 2025 · 5 votes112 jaa48 ei - HE 100/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Temporary cut to central government transfers
The central government transfer rate for basic municipal services will rise to 25.73 per cent from the beginning of 2026. At the same time, a temporary two per cent cut of 75 million euros will be made to central government transfers received by municipalities for 2026.
Leena Meri: Absent16 Dec 2025 · 3 votesClosest vote · Proposed statement
98 jaa64 ei - HE 96/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Higher nicotine pouch and e-liquid taxes
Taxes on e-liquids and nicotine pouches will rise, increasing their prices in shops. In addition, travellers will be permitted to bring in a maximum of 200 grams of snus or nicotine pouches tax-free for personal use from another EU country.
Leena Meri: Absent16 Dec 2025 · 2 votesClosest vote · Proposed statement 2
124 jaa38 ei - HE 46/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Supervising the use of artificial intelligence
A supervisory system for the safe use of artificial intelligence systems would be established in Finland in line with EU artificial intelligence regulation. Authorities would receive powers to supervise the use of artificial intelligence and address breaches of the rules through administrative fines.
Leena Meri: Absent16 Dec 2025 · 1 voteOnly vote · Perustelut: mietintö JAA / Hanna Holopaisen ehdotus EI
113 jaa48 ei - HE 168/2025 vpPassed
Raising snus and nicotine pouch limits
Travellers may bring in tax-free up to one kilogram of snus and one kilogram of nicotine pouches from another EU country. The previously planned stricter import limit of 200 grams will not be implemented.
Leena Meri: No vote recorded15 Dec 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 89/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Simplified court procedure for small tenancy disputes
A simplified court procedure for residential tenancy disputes and evictions will be established in the district courts. The reform lowers the threshold for bringing and contesting a claim by capping the losing party's liability for legal costs.
Leena Meri: No vote recorded17 Apr 2026 · passed without a vote - HE 143/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Tuition fees for non-EU students
Tuition fees will be introduced for upper secondary students arriving in Finland from outside the EU and EEA. In addition, commissioned vocational education and training can be sold to employers also for Finnish and other EU citizens.
Leena Meri: Absent12 Dec 2025 · 6 votes131 jaa42 ei - HE 31/2026 vpPassed
Correcting authorisations for organic inspection
The Finnish Food Authority will be able to commission authorised inspectors for organic production alongside vitality centres. The amendment corrects a legal error that arose during an earlier reform and restores previous practice.
Leena Meri: No vote recorded16 Apr 2026 · passed without a vote - HE 85/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Tightening and expanding energy efficiency obligations
Energy saving and reporting obligations for the public sector and energy-intensive companies will be tightened. At the same time, contractual protection for district heating and cooling customers will be improved, and the utilisation of waste heat will be promoted.
Leena Meri: No vote recorded9 Dec 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 12/2026 vpPassed with amendments
Banning possession of radio jammers
The unauthorised import and possession of radio jamming devices, such as GPS jammers, will become punishable. Such devices may be possessed and used only with an official permit, for instance for research, industry, or official duties.
Leena Meri: No vote recorded14 Apr 2026 · passed without a vote - HE 200/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Reform of mediation and debt counselling
Responsibility for organising mediation services in criminal and civil cases will transfer from THL (the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare) to the Legal Services Agency. At the same time, financial and debt counselling will be separated from legal aid offices into independent offices of their own.
Leena Meri: No vote recorded14 Apr 2026 · passed without a vote - HE 110/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Raising informal and family care fees
The minimum fee for support for informal care will be raised and the income security of commissioned family carers will be strengthened when care ends unexpectedly. The changes will enter into force at the beginning of 2026.
Leena Meri: No vote recorded4 Dec 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 101/2025 vpPassed
Cutting state funding for churches
The state will cut funding for the Evangelical Lutheran Church's societal tasks and the central government grant to the Orthodox Church in 2026 and 2027. The fixed-term cuts will strengthen central government finances by a total of 20 million euros.
Leena Meri: Yes2 Dec 2025 · 2 votes152 jaa17 ei