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- HE 134/2016 vpPassed with amendments
Central government budget for 2017
The central government budget for 2017. In plenary session, Parliament voted on hundreds of individual appropriation items and opposition amendments before approving the budget.
Mats Nylund: No22 Dec 2016 · 520 votes - HE 231/2016 vpPassed
Transferring students to general housing allowance
Students living in Finland will be transferred from the separate housing supplement to the general housing allowance. At the same time, the maximum acceptable housing costs under the general housing allowance will be reduced and frozen to achieve savings.
Mats Nylund: No21 Dec 2016 · 9 votes118 jaa45 ei - HE 214/2016 vpPassed
Maintaining daily allowance levels during contribution changes
The levels of sickness, unemployment, and occupational accident daily allowances will be maintained even though employees' social insurance contributions rise. At the same time, the deadline for farmers' accident notifications will be extended to two months.
Mats Nylund: No vote recorded21 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - HE 128/2016 vpPassed with amendments
Easing rural wastewater requirements
Obligations to upgrade wastewater systems on properties in sparsely populated areas will be eased. A strict deadline will apply only in shoreline and groundwater areas, while elsewhere wastewater renovations will become mandatory only in connection with other major renovations.
Mats Nylund: Yes21 Dec 2016 · 3 votes116 jaa55 ei - 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.
Mats Nylund: Yes21 Dec 2016 · 7 votes116 jaa56 ei - 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.
Mats Nylund: No19 Dec 2016 · 2 votes101 jaa64 ei - 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.
Mats Nylund: No vote recorded16 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - 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.
Mats Nylund: Yes16 Dec 2016 · 4 votes155 jaa9 ei - 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.
Mats Nylund: No vote recorded16 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - 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.
Mats Nylund: No vote recorded16 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - 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.
Mats Nylund: Yes15 Dec 2016 · 5 votes118 jaa41 ei - 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.
Mats Nylund: No14 Dec 2016 · 1 vote96 jaa63 ei - 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.
Mats Nylund: No vote recorded7 Dec 2016 · passed without a vote - 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.
Mats Nylund: No vote recorded26 Mar 2021 · 2 votesClosest vote · Luottamuslause oikeusministeri Henrikssonille / Jussi Halla-ahon ehdotus
103 jaa66 ei - 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.
Mats Nylund: No vote recorded25 Mar 2021 · passed without a vote - 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.
Mats Nylund: No vote recorded25 Mar 2021 · 16 votes - 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.
Mats Nylund: No vote recorded25 Mar 2021 · passed without a vote - 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.
Mats Nylund: No vote recorded24 Mar 2021 · 13 votesClosest vote · 89 §, mietintö / Mia Laiho
31 jaa20 ei - 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.
Mats Nylund: No vote recorded24 Mar 2021 · passed without a vote - 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.
Mats Nylund: No vote recorded24 Mar 2021 · passed without a vote