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Merja KyllönenEach row shows how the selected MPs voted in the bill's decisive vote.
- HE 321/2022 vpPassed
Clarifying air quality monitoring and cooperation
Legislation on air quality monitoring and cross-border air protection cooperation would be specified to align with EU requirements. Municipalities would be required to notify the Ministry of the Environment if air quality limit values are exceeded due to transboundary air pollution from abroad.
Merja Kyllönen: No vote recorded15 Feb 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 59/2023 vpPassed
Reforming student healthcare fees and funding
Higher education students from another EU or EEA country, Switzerland or the United Kingdom will be exempt from the student healthcare fee, and the costs of their treatment will be billed to their home country. At the same time, the due dates of the healthcare fee for all higher education students will be postponed so that Kela has time to provide advance information about the fee.
Merja Kyllönen: No1 Dec 2023 · 1 voteOnly vote · Käsittelyn pohja, valiokunnan ehdotus / Laura Meriluoto
85 jaa68 ei - HE 38/2023 vpPassed with amendments
Bringing nicotine pouches under tobacco tax
Nicotine pouches and other smokeless nicotine products will become subject to tobacco excise duty from the beginning of 2024. This will increase consumer prices for nicotine pouches.
Merja Kyllönen: Absent1 Dec 2023 · 1 voteOnly vote · Lain liite, mietintö / Hannu Hoskonen
140 jaa17 ei - HE 147/2020 vpPassed
Transfer of foreign service healthcare reimbursements
Healthcare reimbursements for civil servants working in foreign missions and their family members will be transferred from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the State Treasury. At the same time, they will gain access to the same 24-hour travel support service as other state business travellers.
Merja Kyllönen: No vote recorded26 Nov 2020 · passed without a vote - HE 78/2023 vpPassed
Raising the agricultural equalisation reserve
Agricultural entrepreneurs will be able to defer a larger share of their profits to be taxed in later years or used for farm investments. The maximum amount of the equalisation reserve will rise from 13,500 euros to 25,000 euros.
Merja Kyllönen: No vote recorded29 Nov 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 76/2023 vpPassed
Extending use of old radiation sources
The use of radioactive sealed sources over 40 years old could be extended under an exemption permit if their use remains safe and no replacement equipment is available. The change would prevent disruptions to industrial and healthcare operations due to equipment shortages or final disposal problems.
Merja Kyllönen: No vote recorded29 Nov 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 61/2023 vpPassed
Substantial reduction in unemployment insurance contributions
Unemployment insurance contributions will be reduced substantially for 2024 for both employees and employers. The change will reduce employers' labour costs and increase wage earners' net income.
Merja Kyllönen: No29 Nov 2023 · 1 voteOnly vote · 18 §, mietintö / Li Andersson
154 jaa9 ei - HE 187/2021 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming civil service cooling-off rules
The cooling-off period for senior state leadership and key personnel in the Finnish Defence Forces can be extended to up to one year, and special advisers to ministers will be required to declare their private interests. At the same time, it will be made easier for a civil servant dismissed on production-related or financial grounds to be employed by another state agency without an open application procedure.
Merja Kyllönen: Yes28 Apr 2022 · 1 voteOnly vote · 44 a § 3 momentti, mietintö / Riikka Purra, Mari-Leena Talvitie
97 jaa72 ei - HE 87/2022 vpPassed
Criminalising enforced disappearance
Finland will accede to the UN convention protecting people from enforced disappearance. At the same time, a new penal provision will be added to the Criminal Code on disappearances carried out by authorities or with their consent.
Merja Kyllönen: No vote recorded25 Jan 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 232/2022 vpPassed
Strengthening gas storage and security of supply
A temporary additional natural gas storage obligation will be introduced in Finland for the years 2022–2025 to ensure security of supply in an exceptional market situation. At the same time, the scope of customers protected in a gas shortage will be expanded from households to also cover critical public services and the food industry.
Merja Kyllönen: No vote recorded17 Jan 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 200/2022 vpPassed
Simplifying association administration and accounting
Financial management and administration in small associations will be eased and streamlined. The smallest associations will be permitted to keep simpler accounts than under the Accounting Act, and electronic procedures can be used more flexibly in association decision-making.
Merja Kyllönen: No vote recorded17 Jan 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 119/2022 vpPassed
Flexible export credits and risk management
Finnvera and Finnish Export Credit will receive more flexible means to manage the interest rate and credit risks of export and ship credits. The amendment will streamline the granting of public export financing, particularly when commercial banks do not offer financing.
Merja Kyllönen: No vote recorded17 Jan 2023 · passed without a vote - HE 96/2021 vpPassed with amendments
Extending transition periods for health data environments
The introduction of the secure operating environments required for research and other secondary use of health and social data will be postponed by one year until May 2022. The entry into force of the notification procedure for significant health findings made in research will also be postponed until the beginning of 2024.
Merja Kyllönen: No vote recorded2 Jul 2021 · passed without a vote - HE 124/2017 vpPassed with amendments
Introducing the unemployment activation model
Unemployment benefit will decrease by 4.65 per cent if an unemployed person does not work sufficiently or participate in employment services during a three-month monitoring period. At the same time, the waiting period at the start of unemployment will be shortened from seven days to five days.
Merja Kyllönen: No vote recorded22 Dec 2017 · 5 votes103 jaa90 ei - HE 120/2020 vpPassed
Travel bankruptcy compensation for cancelled trips
The state can compensate passengers for payments for trips cancelled due to the coronavirus epidemic and received travel vouchers if a tour operator goes bankrupt. Compensation will be paid when claims cannot be covered by the tour operator's securities.
Merja Kyllönen: Yes2 Oct 2020 · 1 voteOnly vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Juhana Vartiainen
32 jaa24 ei - HE 114/2015 vpPassed
Ending ministry confirmation of regional plans
Regional land use plans and joint municipal master plans will no longer need to be submitted to the Ministry of the Environment for confirmation. Plans will enter into force directly on the basis of local decisions, and related appeals will be handled by the administrative courts.
Merja Kyllönen: No vote recorded18 Dec 2015 · 2 votes151 jaa20 ei - HE 251/2016 vpPassed with amendments
Streamlining planning and building permits
Regulation and permit processes for planning and construction are eased. The reform would speed up plan amendments, facilitate construction, and expand location opportunities for large retail units.
Merja Kyllönen: No vote recorded7 Apr 2017 · 7 votes109 jaa46 ei - HE 61/2021 vpPassed with amendments
Enhancing military offence investigations
The Defence Command of the Finnish Defence Forces and the police will be granted the right to initiate pre-trial investigations of military offences independently, without an order from a unit's disciplinary superior. In addition, the Finnish Defence Forces will be granted the right to receive executive assistance for criminal investigations from the police, the Finnish Border Guard and Finnish Customs.
Merja Kyllönen: No vote recorded17 Jun 2021 · passed without a vote - HE 25/2021 vpPassed with amendments
Enhancing supervision of animal transport
Animal transport supervision will be stepped up by granting Finnish Customs the right to inspect transports and by requiring a journey log for the export of reindeer and fur animals. In addition, the boundary between commercial activity and private hobby activities will be clarified.
Merja Kyllönen: Yes16 Jun 2021 · 1 voteOnly vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Ritva Elomaa
32 jaa24 ei - HE 159/2017 vpPassed with amendments
Streamlining research use of health data
Health and social services client data can be utilised more easily and quickly for purposes such as scientific research, statistics and innovation activities. Data permits and the combining of datasets will be centralised under a single authority, and data will be processed in supervised, secure data environments.
Merja Kyllönen: No vote recorded12 Apr 2019 · 1 vote92 jaa80 ei