1581-1582 Nyland Federal Assembly

[Seperallis]

Milan Vuletaski - NL

The esteemed assemblyman from the NMP will be happy to hear that considerations on the effects increased minimum wages have upon employment and price inflation was the subject of some... heated discussions within the NL for some time. During the course of drafting this bill, we looked back on studies looking at the effects of wage increases spanning the entire history of a federal minimum wage, because we were especially concerned about such things.

During our investigation, we discovered something peculiar: when moderate increases are made to the federal minimum wage, there is, funnily enough, no noteworthy increase to inflation! Even more surprising, overall employment was unaffected; however, as we have already discussed, tipping industries do see some such changes, thus our intent to shield those workers and those jobs from such effects through our exemption provisions.

As a matter of fact, we have noticed an actual, slight increase in economic performance after such modest wage increases, more often than not due to such wages almost always going directly back into the market as increased spending. That info, coupled with the fact that the federal minimum wage has not seen any meaningful, real changes for more than Three Decades, is why we feel the time is right for this modest and pragmatic increase.

Thank you for your concerns, however, assemblyman.

[Seperallis]

Milan Vuletaski - NL

Since there are apparently no other comments, I motion for a vote.

[Blacaria]

Josef Carling - UP

I second the motion

Nichlas Hougaard
Speaker of the Assembly

The motion for a vote is recognized, in the absence of further discussion. All honourable Assembly members are hereby invited to vote on the passage of the amended Federal Minimum Wage Act of 1581

Ultranationalist Party
FR - 70
AG - 34

[Ayzek]

PCP
FR - 27
AG - 22
AB - 2

[Hadash]

New Centrist List
FOR - 77
AGAINST - 12
ABSTAIN - 7

Green Party
FOR - 33
AGAINST - 18
ABSTAIN - 14

[Seperallis]

Nyland Liberalists
FOR - 62
AGAINST - 20
ABSTAIN - 14

[Blacaria]

269 FOR
106 AGAINST
146 ABSTAIN


With 268 votes needed for a majority, the Amended Federal Minimum Wage Act of 1581 has been passed by the Assembly

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Nichlas Hougaard
Speaker of the Assembly

With deliberation and voting for the Amended Federal Minimum Wage Act of 1581 over, I now open deliberation on the Infrastructure Modernization Act of 1582

Infrastructure Modernization Act of 1582
Assembly Bill 1582.658
Drafted by: Department of Commerce, Federal Budget Office, Army Corps of Engineers, Anders Kohout, and others. Submitted by: Milan Vuletaski Submit Date: 28 Dein, 1582 Hearing Date: Revision Date: Summary: Nyland's infrastructure system is an aging, crumbling behemoth in serious need of updating, both in real work to be done and in the processes that govern how work is awarded and managed. Hundreds of billions of daler in direct costs to taxpayers are lost each year due to infrastructure failings, as well as trillions of daler in indirect losses due to lost economic growth and increased household and business costs, due to failing and inadequate physical structures as well as antiquated governmental administrative and political structures controlling infrastructure projects. This plan thus: 1) Expands the federal government's role in educating the public on infrastructure financing and delivery. 2) Empowers public agencies to use options to work with private sector in development and consultation, & expands the federal agencies to do so. 3) Provides for standard method to inventory public infrastructure assets, and makes the inventory publicly accessible data. 4) Gives executive power and freedom to formalize standards and best practices for project permitting, standardize documentation, and create project priority framework. 5) Gives federal agencies power to generate private sources of funding for infrastructure projects. 6) Changes all federal public infrastructure funding accounts from discretionary accounts to permanent non-discretionary accounts, ensuring stable, long-term funding options for national infrastructure. 7) Authorizes the plans and funding for shovel-ready modernization work, and guarantees funding for inventory, planning, and construction of infrastructure modernization work, beyond regular maintenance for a period of not less than 10 years. Adoption of this plan will generate an increase in GDP of 19% over current growth patterns, save Nylanders $200 billion in real savings annually, and generate an additional 3.5 million permanent jobs for the country over the timeframe of the plan. Section 1: Office of Federal Procurement 1. Creates the "Office of Federal Infrastructure Procurement" (hereby "OFIP") under the Department of Commerce. 2. OFIP shall coordinate all federal planning and procurement et al for public and public-private infrastructure works across all federal agencies letting or otherwise in charge of infrastructure works projects, and have authority to issue decisions in the coordination and cooperation of works projects between agencies. 3. OFIP shall create, administer, publicise and oversee the implementation of public education programs regarding the nature of infrastructure financing and bid delivery methods. 4. OFIP shall create, administer, publicise and oversee a federal infrastructure inventory program of all federal infrastructure projects and assets, as well as create standards and methods for efficient coordination between state, federal, and private agencies. 5. OFIP shall create, administer, publicise, oversee and enforce standardized infrastructure project documentation and guidelines for project priority frameworks. 6. OFIP shall have the authority to set rules and regulations regarding the use and acceptance of public bidding processes, as well as regulations concerning public project financing and public-private project financing/investment, and have the means to enforce its rules and decisions. 7. OFIP shall issue guidance and recommendations pertaining to rules set forth in Section 1.4 above to any and all other federal, state, local, municipal et al agencies seeking to perform infrastructure works under federal provisions. Section 2: Federal Non-Discretionary Infrastructure Fund 1. All non-defense federal infrastructure discretionary spending accounts (such as the Federal Highway Fund, the National Ports and Waterways Fund, the Federal Power and Energy Fund, and others) shall, be made permanent and non-discretionary beginning from the point of this act being signed into law. 2. All such previously discretionary budget accounts shall, by 1586, be merged with, subsumed by and subordinate accounts within a new Federal Non-Discretionary Infrastructure Fund hereby created and administered by the OFIP 3. The Federal Non-Discretionary Infrastructure Fund shall remain financially solvent, and with a permanent budget of not less than 0.625% of GDP (nominal). 4. The Federal Non-Discretionary Infrastructure Fund shall encompass all federally funded and necessary construction, maintenance, emergency repairs, and contingencies across all federal agencies performing such work. Section 3: Federal Emergency Modernization and Building Fund 1. This act authorizes the appropriation of $3 Trillion over the next ten years, starting in 1583, for the temporary, discretionary, "Federal Emergency Modernization and Building Fund" (hereafter refered to as "the fund") which shall be overseen and administered by OFIP. 2. At the end of the ten (10) year period ending in 1593, the fund shall be closed and any remaining funds liquidated to the Department of the Treasury, unless funded and operated on a discretionary basis by statute of the Federal Assembly. 3. The fund shall be used solely for the complete modernization of all Economic and Social Infrastructure, as defined below, by and with the Corps of Engineers and any federal, state, local, and private infrastructure-maintaining agencies, to be planned and let between the years of 1583 and 1593 (or until the fund's discretionary operation ends, whichever is later). 4. The fund shall be used on a federal investment-matching basis determined by the OFIP with all public and private investing agents seeking to pursue infrastructure modernizations under this statute. 5. The OFIP shall review, approve, and coordinate projects financed in whole or in part by the fund. Section 4: Definitions 1. Economic Infrastructure shall be all infrastructure in Nyland that fall into the categories listed below in this section: 1.1 Drinking water systems 1.2 Waste water systems 1.3 Roads 1.4 Bridges 1.5 Rail 1.6 Ports 1.7 Waterways 1.8 Airports 1.9 Telecommunications 1.10 Power & electricity systems 1.11 Pipelines 2. Social Infrastructure shall be all infrastructure in Nyland that fall into the categories listed below in this section: 1.1 Schools 1.2 Libraries 1.3 Hospitals 1.4 Housing 1.5 Courthouses 1.6 Prisons 1.7 Civic buildings

[Seperallis]

Milan Vuletaski - NL

Ladies and gentlemen of the Assembly, I believe there's not much more to be said about this act than has already been included in the preamble to this act. Nyland's infrastructure is a failing mess, old and outdated, and is the single largest barrier to achieving great economic growth, job creation, and securing the health and wellbeing of our citizens against dirty sewage leaks and dangerous lead-polluted water.

If the Speaker so wills it, I would like to directly motion for a vote before comment.

[Seperallis]

*Federal Minimum Wage Act of 1581 is signed*

~ Anders Kohout

[Ayzek]

Randers Perssen - PCP

"I second the motion"