Government bills150
- HE 109/2019 vpPassed with amendments
Easier parking for home care workers
Workers providing home care will receive a new parking permit to make parking easier during home visits. The permit will allow parking free of charge in paid spaces and exemption from certain parking prohibitions or time limits.
14 Apr 2020 · passed without a vote - HE 61/2019 vpPassed
Leave to appeal in municipal appeals
Decisions on municipal appeals issued by an administrative court may only be appealed to the Supreme Administrative Court with leave to appeal. The reform will speed up the process of municipal decisions becoming final and clarify appeal practices.
19 Dec 2019 · passed without a vote - HE 60/2019 vpPassed
Automating municipal financial reporting
Financial data from municipalities and joint municipal authorities will be submitted automatically directly from financial management systems to a shared data repository maintained by the State Treasury. The reform replaces previous form-based data collection and improves the timeliness and comparability of municipal finance data.
16 Dec 2019 · passed without a vote - HE 31/2019 vpPassed
Adjusting municipal central government transfers
Central government transfers to municipalities for basic public services will be increased and the criteria for determining them will be adjusted for 2020. At the same time, compensation for tax revenue losses resulting from changes in tax legislation will be transferred to a separate budget item.
16 Dec 2019 · passed without a vote - HE 22/2019 vpPassed
Extending health and social services contract restrictions
The dissolution of joint municipal cooperation areas for health and social services and major outsourcing projects will be restricted while the new health and social services reform is being prepared. The period of validity of the investment and contract restrictions imposed on municipalities will be extended.
5 Dec 2019 · passed without a vote - HE 30/2019 vpPassed
Bringing forward municipal grants to 2019
An increase of 237 million euros in central government transfers agreed for municipalities for 2020 will already be paid in late 2019. The amendment will ease the tight financial situation of municipalities.
25 Oct 2019 · passed without a vote - HE 28/2019 vpPassed
Third supplementary budget for 2019
The third supplementary budget for 2019, containing amendments to the central government budget for the current year. The votes mainly concern individual appropriation items and proposals in the opposition's dissenting opinions.
25 Oct 2019 · 2 votes - HE 9/2019 vpPassed with amendments
Postponing early childhood personnel registration
The obligation for municipalities to record early childhood education and care personnel data in the national database will be postponed by one year to autumn 2020. The more detailed schedule for introducing the database will be laid down by government decree.
10 Oct 2019 · passed without a vote - HE 68/2018 vpPassed with amendments
Enhancing competition oversight and competitive neutrality
Public bodies will be required to keep separate accounts for their commercial activities on the market in order to safeguard fair competition. At the same time, the powers of the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority (KKV) in inspections and the exchange of information between authorities will be improved.
17 May 2019 · passed without a vote - HE 96/2018 vpLapsed
Reforming integration services and responsibilities
Immigrant integration services will be reformed and aligned with regional administration and health and social services. Primary responsibility for regional integration and employment services will be transferred to the regions, while municipalities will continue to be responsible for local basic services.
18 Apr 2019 · no votes - HE 15/2018 vpLapsed
Compensating regions for VAT costs
The state will compensate future regions for value added tax included in their procurements and an imputed tax on health and social services purchased from private providers. The arrangement ensures that taxation does not determine whether a region produces services itself or procures them externally.
18 Apr 2019 · no votes - HE 5/2018 vpLapsed
Securing guarantees for transferred debts
The Municipal Guarantee Board will be able to guarantee funding related to debts transferred to regions in the health and social services and regional reform. As a result, existing loans of municipalities and joint municipal authorities will not need to be terminated before maturity.
18 Apr 2019 · no votes - HE 148/2017 vpLapsed
Transferring environmental health tasks to municipalities
A region could agree on transferring the responsibility for organising environmental health tasks to a sufficiently large municipality or group of municipalities. The transfer would require both the municipality and the region to have resources of at least 30 person-years available for supervisory duties.
18 Apr 2019 · no votes - HE 15/2017 vpLapsed
Regionalising health and social services
Responsibility for organising health and social services and rescue services will be transferred from municipalities to 18 new self-governing regions. At the same time, municipal taxation will be reduced and central government taxation increased to fund the services.
18 Apr 2019 · no votes - HE 248/2018 vpPassed with amendments
Electronic platform for waste and side streams
An electronic data platform will be established in Finland to promote the recycling of waste and material flows. Companies and other waste holders will primarily have to seek private waste management services on the platform before they can use municipal secondary waste management services.
11 Mar 2019 · 1 vote99 jaa85 ei - HE 280/2018 vpPassed
Reforming municipal crisis criteria and participation
The criteria in the Local Government Act for identifying municipalities in crisis are reformed to measure more accurately municipalities' actual debt-servicing capacity and the adequacy of internal financing. In addition, better opportunities to participate and exert influence in municipal affairs are introduced for multi-local residents who stay in a municipality regularly.
1 Feb 2019 · passed without a vote - HE 195/2018 vpPassed with amendments
Reforming municipal cultural activities
Legislation on municipal cultural activities will be reformed to meet modern needs. Municipalities will be tasked with providing cultural services equitably to all residents and promoting wellbeing and inclusion through culture.
18 Jan 2019 · 2 votesClosest vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Ritva Elomaa 1
99 jaa75 ei - HE 246/2018 vpPassed
Extending restrictions on municipal health and social services contracts
The scope for municipalities to carry out long-term outsourcing of health and social services and major property investments will be restricted until the end of 2022. At the same time, municipalities' obligation to belong to health and social services co-operation areas will continue until the end of 2020.
20 Dec 2018 · 2 votesClosest vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Sirpa Paatero
107 jaa73 ei - HE 202/2018 vpPassed with amendments
State compensation for nurse prescribing training
The state will begin paying compensation to healthcare employers for training in limited prescribing for nurses. The subsidy will compensate employers for tuition fees charged by universities of applied sciences.
18 Dec 2018 · passed without a vote - HE 207/2018 vpPassed
Expanding frontline veterans' home services
Services supporting living at home will begin to be reimbursed for frontline veterans to the same extent as for disabled war veterans. The state will pay the costs incurred by municipalities for arranging these services.
17 Dec 2018 · passed without a vote