Proposals for Members' Bills
Note: Proposals are listed in the order draft proposals were lodged. Proposals for members' bills lodged prior to 12 November 2004 The Standing Orders of the Parliament were amended on 12 November 2004. All proposals lodged prior to that date fell unless a Bill had already been introduced. A flowchart (pdf) is available to help understand the process
Proposal
Proposed Primary Medical Services (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill
Proposer
Carolyn Leckie
Proposal Details
Draft proposal for a Bill to amend the Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 to prevent health boards from allowing private limited companies to run general practices
Draft proposal for a Bill to create a register of property factors and make provision for an accessible form of dispute resolution between homeowners and property factors.
Proposed Local Government Elections (Scotland) Bill
Proposer
David Davidson
Proposal Details
Draft proposal for a Bill to provide for local government elections to be held on different dates from Scottish Parliamentary elections and to delay the next local government election until 2008.
Proposed Provision of Rail Passenger Services (Scotland) Bill
Proposer
Tommy Sheridan
Proposal Details
Draft proposal for a Bill to direct Scottish Ministers to arrange for rail passenger services to be provided directly by the public sector or by a specifically created company on a not-for-profit basis.
Draft proposal for a Bill to improve compensation for asbestos victims and relatives of persons deceased through personal injury attributable to asbestos-related diseases.
Proposed Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation (Scotland) Bill
Proposer
Rosemary Byrne
Proposal Details
Draft proposal for a bill to provide for all drug users to receive an individual holistic care plan within seven days of the drug user requesting such assistance from a health or social care agency, for that care plan to include support and treatment for them and their relatives and for a percentage of the monies seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act (2002) to be used to pay towards the care plan.
Draft proposal for a Bill to provide free school meals, water and milk in all local authority primary schools; to give powers to Scottish Ministers to extend this provision to local authority secondary schools; to give powers to Scottish Ministers to regulate the sale and advertisement of consumable goods on school premises; to require Scottish Ministers to set nutritional standards for school meals and to establish a complaints procedure for pupils and parents in relation to these standards.
Proposed Energy Efficiency And Micro-generation (Scotland) Bill
Proposer
Sarah Boyack
Proposal Details
Draft proposal for a Bill to promote energy efficiency by requiring the Scottish Executive to support the means of small scale renewable and low carbon energy production both in new and existing households and business premises by adoption of regulatory, administrative and financial measures
Draft proposal for a Bill to require the Scottish Executive to introduce financial and administrative measures to support the development of small-scale renewable energy generation by households and businesses
Proposed Cease the Sale of Homes to Pay for Residential Accommodation Bill
Proposer
John Swinburne
Proposal Details
Draft proposal for a Bill to disregard the value of a person’s home in the financial assessment undertaken by local authorities to establish contributions towards the cost of residential accommodation placements
Proposed Local Government Elections (Scotland) Bill
Proposer
Brian Monteith
Proposal Details
Draft proposal for a Bill to provide for local government elections to be held on different dates from Scottish Parliamentary elections and to delay the next local government election until 2008.
Proposal for a Bill to require the Scottish Executive to establish targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to Climate Change, by a specified date and to take steps including the preparation of an action plan to ensure those targets are met and to report on progress.
Proposed Third party Planning Rights of Appeal Bill
Proposer
Sandra White
Proposal Details
Proposal for a Bill to provide third parties with a right of appeal against decisions made in planning applications under the Town and Country Planning (Scotlan) Act 1997 Third party Planning Rights of Appeal Statement of reasons (pdf)
Draft proposal for a Bill to require the Scottish Executive to set targets for achieving energy efficiency in domestic dwellings and to require the publication of an action plan and progress reports
Lodged 10 January 2006 Home Energy Efficiency Targets consultation summary & conclusions (pdf 34KB posted 11.01.06)
Final proposal for a Bill to require the Scottish Executive to establish targets to improve the energy efficiency of households by a specific date and to take steps, including the preparation of an action plan, to ensure those targets are met and to report on progress.
Draft proposal for a Bill to create a Civil Appeals Committee in the Court of Session as a final appeal procedure in Scottish civil cases. Civil Appeals Statement of reasons (pdf)
Civil Appeals (Scotland) Bill introduced on 29 September 2006
Civil Appeals (Scotland) Bill fell on 20 December 2006
Proposal
Proposed Local Government Elections (Scotland) Bill
Proposer
David Mundell
Proposal Details
Draft proposal for a Bill to provide for local government elections to be held on different dates from Scottish Parliamentary elections and to delay the next local government election until 2008.
The proposal did not gather sufficient support and fell on 25 November 2005
Proposal
Proposed Road Traffic Reduction Targets (Scotland) Bill
(Previously - Proposed Green Transport Bill)
Proposer
Chris Ballance
Proposal Details
Draft proposal for a Bill to require Ministers to provide transport targets and plans aimed at stabilising road traffic at 2001 levels and which reduce climate change emissions and promote socially and environmentally sustainable transport alternatives
Draft proposal for a Bill to impose an environmental levy on specified plastic bags payable by the consumer, to require local authorities to collect the levy and for the 'net proceeds' to be ring fenced for use on environmental projects in local authority areas Proposed Plastic Bag Environmental Levy Bill - statement of reasons (pdf)
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