NE3: Adoption Grant Act

[DKrol]

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Debate will last for 72 hours, ending at 3:00PM on Wednesday, May 27th.

Altsomn Stmarken, you have 32 hours to advocate for your bill.

[Prince of Salem]

Thank you Mr. Speaker.

There are three reasons why I introduced this bill. First, compassion towards children without a family. Second, to achieve bigger formalization of adoptions (this would encourage people to notify they've adopted and prevent illegal cases like child trafficking). Third, to prevent abortions. If a pregnant woman isn't in the capacity of raising her baby, she'd have, in this case, more confidence that someone else can do it.

[Clyde1998]

I think maybe $1,000 is too high - possibly $500 would be a more reasonable amount for the grant.

[pikachu]

This seems fine- but will we have an upper limit on the total amount of money we'd spend on this program? And might it be more helpful to have total grant money correlate to income?

[Prince of Salem]

I think maybe $1,000 is too high - possibly $500 would be a more reasonable amount for the grant.

Yeah, I guess that would be fine.

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This seems fine- but will we have an upper limit on the total amount of money we'd spend on this program? And might it be more helpful to have total grant money correlate to income?

I don't think we should have limits, we need the encouragement a lot. And while I usually like the idea of correlating taxes, subsidies, grants or whatever to income, I don't think that should be the case here. Remember this is an encouragement, not a full subsidy.

[DKrol]

We will now move to a 48 hour vote on the bill, as amended by Rep. Altsomn Stmarken.

Aye

[Clyde1998]

Aye

[Dr. Cynic]

Aye

[Prince of Salem]

Aye

[pikachu]

Aye

[DKrol]

With 5 Ayes the bill passes and will be sent to the Governor.