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Government bills7

TopicMinistry of Social Affairs and Health7
  1. HE 16/2025 vpPassed with amendments

    Opening the gambling market to competition

    Finland's gambling system will be partially opened to competition by moving to a licensing system where companies can offer online gambling under a licence granted by the supervisory authority. Part of gambling, such as lotteries and physical slot machines, will remain the exclusive right of the state-owned company Veikkaus.

    19 Dec 2025 · 19 votes
    158 jaa
    9 ei
  2. HE 78/2024 vpPassed with amendments

    Tightening financial steering of wellbeing services counties

    The state will introduce an anticipatory financial steering procedure for wellbeing services counties whose financial management is at risk. At the same time, the threshold for initiating an assessment procedure for a wellbeing services county will be lowered, and the possibility of examining mergers of counties will be accelerated.

    18 Dec 2024 · 5 votes
    106 jaa
    90 ei
  3. HE 5/2020 vpPassed with amendments

    State funding for social work research

    A permanent state funding system will be created for scientific research in social work. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health will be able to award annual funding to high-standard research projects in social work.

    29 May 2020 · passed without a vote
  4. HE 224/2020 vpPassed

    Incorporating THL's vaccine research services

    The commercial vaccine research operations of THL (the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare) will be transferred to a new state majority-owned limited liability company. The reform will clearly separate research funded by pharmaceutical companies from official state vaccine procurement.

    9 Dec 2020 · passed without a vote
  5. HE 213/2016 vpPassed

    Extending training compensation to universities

    Universities will begin to receive state training compensation for providing specialist medical and specialist dental training. The compensation will be based on the number of graduated specialist doctors and specialist dentists.

    14 Dec 2016 · 1 vote

    Only vote · Perustelut, mietintö / Sari Tanus

    153 jaa
    6 ei
  6. HE 183/2016 vpPassed

    Approving protective and cableway inspection bodies

    The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health will continue to be able to approve and supervise inspection bodies that assess the safety of personal protective equipment and cableway installations. The act will be updated to align with directly applicable new European Union regulations.

    22 Nov 2016 · passed without a vote
  7. HE 70/2015 vpPassed

    Abolishing index increases to child benefit

    Automatic index increases tracking price rises will be removed from child benefit. At the same time, the deadline for Kela to submit benefit calculations to the ministry will be extended.

    17 Dec 2015 · 2 votes

    Closest vote · Lausumaehdotus, mietintö / Anneli Kiljunen

    121 jaa
    64 ei