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- HE 157/2026 vpIn progress
Stricter penalties for environmental offences
Legislation on environmental offences will be tightened and several new environmental offence categories will be added to the Criminal Code. At the same time, penalties imposed for the acts and corporate fines imposed on companies will be raised considerably.
Johannes Yrttiaho: No vote recorded15 Oct 2026 · no votes yet - HE 13/2026 vpPassed
Securing general support during training
Jobseekers will receive general support during labour market training and supported study without a separate waiting period. At the same time, the Act will allow provisions to be laid down by decree on taking capital gains from business assets into account in general support.
Johannes Yrttiaho: No vote recorded22 Apr 2026 · passed without a vote - HE 178/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Clarifying agricultural support conditions and implementation
Applying for agricultural support, support conditions and monitoring would be streamlined. The threshold for the obligation to restore permanent grassland would be eased, and inspection visits for environmental agreements would be brought forward to avoid clawbacks.
Johannes Yrttiaho: No vote recorded22 Apr 2026 · passed without a vote - HE 176/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Flexible tax deadlines during disruptions
Deadlines for tax returns, tax payments and other tax obligations could be extended quickly by decree in serious disruptions. This would prevent late-filing penalties if obligations cannot be fulfilled because of, for example, widespread electricity or telecommunications outages.
Johannes Yrttiaho: No vote recorded26 Mar 2026 · passed without a vote - HE 42/2026 vpPassed
Clarifying Emergency Supply Fund VAT
The Emergency Supply Fund will become a separate taxable person liable for value added tax (VAT) in trading activities related to material preparedness. The National Emergency Supply Agency, having become a government agency, will move to general state taxation for VAT purposes.
Johannes Yrttiaho: No vote recorded20 Apr 2026 · passed without a vote - HE 171/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Supplementing the 2026 budget proposal
The Government's supplementary proposal for the 2026 budget (HE 99/2025). It updates the budget proposal submitted in the autumn with new information before Parliament decides on the budget; it is considered together with the main budget proposal.
Johannes Yrttiaho: No vote recorded19 Dec 2025 · passed without a vote - HE 167/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming public finance management and oversight
Finland's public finance steering and oversight will be reformed to align with the European Union's new fiscal rules. Long-term ceiling targets will be set for public debt, and the Economic Policy Council will become an independent fiscal watchdog.
Johannes Yrttiaho: No19 Dec 2025 · 2 votes170 jaa9 ei - HE 112/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Combining unemployment benefits into universal support
Basic unemployment allowance and labour market subsidy during unemployment will be combined into a single new benefit, universal support. The new benefit will be applied for from and paid by Kela starting 1 May 2026.
Johannes Yrttiaho: No18 Dec 2025 · 22 votes113 jaa59 ei - HE 187/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Expanding and streamlining plea bargaining
Plea bargaining will be expanded to cover aggravated narcotics offences, aggravated robberies and aggravated human trafficking. A person suspected of an offence can receive a more lenient sentence by confessing to their act, which speeds up and eases the judicial process.
Johannes Yrttiaho: No vote recorded13 May 2026 · passed without a vote - 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.
Johannes Yrttiaho: No8 Oct 2026 · 1 voteOnly vote · Valiokuntaan lähettäminen: puhemiesneuvoston ehdotus JAA / Vesa Kallion ehdotus EI
85 jaa69 ei - HE 202/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Protection for craft and industrial products
An authority system will be established in Finland for the protection of geographical indications for craft and industrial products, such as textiles, ceramics and jewellery. The system will allow manufacturers to protect the names of their regional products against misuse and imitation across the EU.
Johannes Yrttiaho: No vote recorded17 Mar 2026 · passed without a vote - HE 64/2024 vpPassed with amendments
Tightening rules on first-time imprisonment
An offender who has previously served a prison sentence will no longer be eligible for release on parole under first-time offender terms, even if several years have passed since the previous conviction. An offender can be considered a first-time prisoner only once.
Johannes Yrttiaho: Absent18 Dec 2024 · 1 vote112 jaa53 ei - HE 104/2025 vpPassed with amendments
New subsidies for forest nature management
Forest owners can receive new state subsidies if they leave more broadleaf trees in their forests, restore mires, manage herb-rich forests, or leave buffer zones along water bodies. The new results-based subsidies will trial more effective ways to improve forest biodiversity and water protection.
Johannes Yrttiaho: Yes4 Dec 2025 · 5 votes111 jaa56 ei - HE 20/2026 vpPassed with amendments
International harmonisation of road signs
Finland will approve updated international rules on road signs and road markings. At the same time, the period of validity for old guidance signs under the Road Traffic Act will be extended until the end of 2039.
Johannes Yrttiaho: No vote recorded10 Apr 2026 · passed without a vote - HE 9/2026 vpPassed with amendments
Streamlining data protection rules and information flow
The right of authorities and entities performing public functions to process personal data is clarified, and the electronic transfer of data is streamlined. At the same time, the right of insurance companies to process health and criminal record data when an insurance policy is applied for is specified, and the assessment of data protection certification bodies is transferred to the FINAS accreditation service.
Johannes Yrttiaho: No vote recorded6 May 2026 · passed without a vote - HE 55/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Abolishing licensing for private day-care centres
The licence requirement for private day-care centres would be abolished and replaced with a registration procedure. A new day-care centre could start operating as soon as its premises and operating requirements have been inspected, without having to wait for the actual registration decision.
Johannes Yrttiaho: Absent10 Oct 2025 · 1 vote98 jaa40 ei - HE 129/2026 vpIn progress
Pay transparency and preventing pay discrimination
Jobseekers and employees will be guaranteed the right to receive more transparent information on pay in order to prevent gender-based pay discrimination. Large employers will be required to investigate and report gender pay gaps regularly.
Johannes Yrttiaho: No vote recorded18 Sep 2026 · no votes yet - HE 99/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Central government budget for 2026
The central government budget for 2026. Parliament voted in plenary session on hundreds of individual appropriation items and opposition amendments before the budget was approved.
Johannes Yrttiaho: No19 Dec 2025 · 114 votes - 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.
Johannes Yrttiaho: No18 Dec 2025 · 12 votes90 jaa79 ei - HE 98/2025 vpPassed with amendments
Lowering taxes on labour
Taxes on labour will be lowered from the beginning of 2026 by cutting the highest marginal tax rates and increasing the earned income tax credit and the basic deduction. As a counterbalance, the tax deductibility of trade union membership fees, the tax exemption for company bicycles, and the home office deduction for wage earners will be abolished.
Johannes Yrttiaho: No21 Nov 2025 · 12 votes116 jaa40 ei