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  1. HE 86/2024 vpPassed with amendments

    Centralising state venture capital in Tesi

    State venture capital and business financing activities will be brought together under Suomen Teollisuussijoitus Oy (Tesi). The Climate Fund and Oppiva Invest will be wound up, and financing that involves state aid will be transferred to a new subsidiary, Teollisuustuki Oy.

    18 Dec 2024 · passed without a vote
  2. HE 145/2024 vpPassed

    Raising seafarers' service charges and ending state funding

    The state will cease funding the Seamen's Service Bureau, as a result of which the service charges levied on seafarers and shipping companies will be temporarily increased for three years. At the same time, state representatives will leave the administration of the service bureau and responsibility will transfer to the labour market organisations.

    29 Nov 2024 · 1 vote
    107 jaa
    49 ei
  3. HE 157/2024 vpPassed with amendments

    Enhancing anti-money laundering and information exchange

    Information exchange between authorities will be improved to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing and to safeguard national security. At the same time, the format of reports on suspicious transactions will be harmonised and the access to information rights of the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo) will be corrected.

    30 Apr 2025 · passed without a vote
  4. HE 315/2022 vpPassed

    Finland's accession to NATO

    Finland will join the NATO defence alliance and become part of its collective defence. Through accession, Finland will receive NATO's security guarantees and commit to assisting other member states in the event of an attack.

    2 Mar 2023 · 4 votes
  5. HE 4/2025 vpPassed

    Import licences for cultural goods

    The Finnish Heritage Agency will start issuing import licences for valuable and old cultural goods imported into Finland from outside the EU. The reform aims to combat illicit trade in cultural goods.

    27 Mar 2025 · passed without a vote
  6. HE 220/2024 vpPassed

    Increasing victim surcharges

    Victim surcharges collected from persons convicted of an offence will be increased by half. The increases will strengthen the funding of support services provided to victims of crime.

    27 Mar 2025 · passed without a vote
  7. HE 159/2024 vpPassed

    Strengthening learning support in upper secondary schools

    General upper secondary students will receive a statutory right to remedial teaching and special needs education, and it will become possible to take an examination in music, visual arts, or physical education in the matriculation examination. In addition, English-language general upper secondary education and an English-language matriculation examination will be made possible for young people whose proficiency in Finnish or Swedish is not sufficient for a regular general upper secondary school.

    9 Dec 2024 · 1 vote

    Only vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Hanna Kososen moniste

    145 jaa
    38 ei
  8. HE 186/2024 vpPassed with amendments

    Lowering broadcasting tax and raising VAT

    The public broadcasting tax paid by individuals would be reduced by raising the lower limit of taxable income and lowering the maximum amount of the tax. At the same time, the VAT rate on public broadcasting would rise from 10 per cent to 14 per cent.

    29 Nov 2024 · passed without a vote
  9. HE 150/2024 vpPassed

    Lowering unemployment insurance contributions

    Unemployment insurance contributions for employees and employers will decrease at the beginning of 2025. The change will reduce deductions made from employees' pay and lower employers' labour costs.

    29 Nov 2024 · 1 vote

    Only vote · 1. lakiehdotuksen johtolause, mietintö / Ville Merinen

    111 jaa
    54 ei
  10. HE 184/2024 vpPassed

    Freezing index increases for Yle

    No annual index increases will be made to the state funding of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) in 2025–2027. The company's funding will remain at the 2024 level during this period.

    28 Nov 2024 · passed without a vote
  11. HE 79/2024 vpPassed with amendments

    Reforming State Treasury duties and powers

    The State Treasury will receive broader rights to obtain the information needed for processing compensation cases and its other duties directly from various authorities. In addition, maintenance of the Hilma notification system for public procurement will be transferred from the Ministry of Finance to the State Treasury.

    25 Oct 2024 · passed without a vote
  12. HE 328/2022 vpPassed

    Separate compensation for hospital emergency services

    The state may start paying separate compensation to the wellbeing services counties of Lapland and South Savo for additional costs arising from maintaining two round-the-clock hospital emergency departments. The objective of the support is to help ensure the continuation of 24-hour emergency services at the Kemi and Savonlinna hospitals.

    7 Mar 2023 · passed without a vote
  13. HE 222/2022 vpPassed with amendments

    Tighter controls on foreign property acquisitions

    Monitoring of real estate transactions by entities from outside the EU and EEA will be tightened to protect national security. At the same time, the state's right of pre-emption near strategic sites will be strengthened and the authorities' rights to access information will be expanded.

    15 Dec 2022 · passed without a vote
  14. HE 241/2020 vpPassed with amendments

    Establishing wellbeing services counties and the health and social services reform

    Responsibility for organising health and social services and rescue services will be transferred from municipalities to 21 new wellbeing services counties and the City of Helsinki. At the same time, the funding of services and taxation will be reformed.

    6 Jul 2022 · 84 votes
  15. HE 201/2021 vpPassed

    Increasing unemployment insurance contributions for 2022

    Unemployment insurance contributions for employees and employers will increase slightly from the start of 2022. The increase will secure the financing of unemployment benefits.

    1 Dec 2021 · passed without a vote
  16. HE 47/2023 vpPassed

    Limiting index increases in church funding

    The annual index increases in central government funding received by the Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Orthodox Church will be reduced in 2024–2027. Increases will be calculated based on the rise in the consumer price index minus one percentage point.

    30 Nov 2023 · 1 vote
    97 jaa
    56 ei
  17. 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.

    29 Nov 2023 · 1 vote

    Only vote · 18 §, mietintö / Li Andersson

    154 jaa
    9 ei
  18. HE 66/2023 vpPassed

    Adjusting reform school preparatory education funding

    Private reform schools will receive central government funding for preparatory education leading to a qualification based on actual study days. This will secure funding also when a young person is placed in a reform school in the middle of an academic year.

    17 Nov 2023 · passed without a vote
  19. HE 43/2023 vpPassed

    Correcting errors in county funding

    Calculation errors identified in central government funding for wellbeing services counties can be corrected more flexibly than before. Exceptional items will be removed from municipalities' past financial statements so that the funding received by the counties corresponds to actual costs.

    17 Nov 2023 · passed without a vote
  20. HE 132/2020 vpPassed with amendments

    Reforming performing arts funding

    The central government transfer system for the performing arts will be reformed and expanded to cover all forms of live performing arts in addition to theatres and orchestras. Operators will be able to qualify for funding either indefinitely or for a fixed term of three years.

    8 Dec 2020 · 3 votes

    Closest vote · 1. lakiehdotus, 6 §, mietintö / Sanna Antikainen

    44 jaa
    11 ei
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