Higher government transfers for informal care
Act amending section 55 of the Act on Central Government Transfers to Local Government for Basic Public Services
The state will increase central government transfers to municipalities for basic public services from July 2016. The additional funding will fully cover the costs incurred by municipalities from the reforms to informal care and family care.
- Status
- Passed
- Submitted
- 26 May 2016
- Latest event
- 23 Jun 2016
- Votes
- 0
- Speeches
- 1
- Confirmed
- 29 Jun 2016
- Statute
- 506/2016
- Source
- eduskunta.fi ↗
What is proposed
The central government transfer rate for municipal basic public services will be increased by 0.14 percentage points, from 25.47 per cent to 25.61 per cent, and the municipalities' self-financing share will decrease correspondingly to 74.39 per cent from 1 July 2016. The increase ensures that the expanding duties in informal care and family care will be reimbursed to municipalities at 100 per cent.
What it means
The change will provide municipalities with 49.3 million euros in additional funding to develop informal care and family care. Municipalities will face new obligations to arrange days off for informal carers as well as wellbeing and health check-ups, and municipalities will also have to review existing care and service plans as well as informal care agreements within six months of the entry into force of the act.
How Parliament voted
The bill passed without a vote – no MP proposed rejecting or amending it in plenary.
Debate in the chamber
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1 speech · 1 speaker · 1 debate
Yleiskeskustelu päättyi. Eduskunta hyväksyi hallituksen esitykseen HE 89/2016 vp sisältyvän lakiehdotuksen sisällön mietinnön mukaisena. Lakiehdotuksen ensimmäinen käsittely päättyi.
Stages of consideration
The bill's path from the preliminary debate to the decision, as recorded by Parliament.
- 26 May 2016Eduskuntakäsittelyn vireilletulo · Valtiovarainministeriö
- 31 May 2016Lähetekeskustelu · Täysistunto
- 14 Jun 2016Valiokunnan mietintö tai lausunto · sosiaali- ja terveysvaliokunta
- 15 Jun 2016Ensimmäinen käsittely · Täysistunto
- 21 Jun 2016Toinen käsittely · Täysistunto
- 22 Jun 2016Eduskunnan vastaus ja kirjelmä
Decisions by law proposal1
- 1Laki kunnan peruspalvelujen valtionosuudesta annetun lain 55 §:n muuttamisestaHyväksytty · 506/2016 · 29 Jun 2016
Proposed law text
The law proposals in the bill as the Government presented them. The final act may differ after committee consideration.
The law text is shown in Finnish or Swedish from Parliament's official documents; it is not translated into English.
Laki kunnan peruspalvelujen valtionosuudesta annetun lain 55 §:n muuttamisesta
Eduskunnan päätöksen mukaisesti muutetaan kunnan peruspalvelujen valtionosuudesta annetun lain (1704/2009) 55 §:n 1 momentti, sellaisena kuin se on laissa 1701/2015, seuraavasti:
55 §Valtionosuusprosentti ja kunnan omarahoitusosuus
Kunnan 6—13 §:ssä tarkoitetut laskennalliset kustannukset jakautuvat siten, että kuntien valtionosuus on 25,61 prosenttia (valtionosuusprosentti ) ja kuntien omarahoitusosuus on 74,39 prosenttia.
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Tämä laki tulee voimaan päivänä kuuta 20 .
Main content of the bill (official)
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