Soleimani Gov't Rolls Out New Laws

==Under New Pressure, Public Police Law Passed==
With a vote of 59 in favor to 12 against (with 14 abstaining), the Haalsian Assembly passed a resolution the would require any municipality to have a public police force as the sole administrative body of the law. This law was of course passed with New Makkah in mind; this law will call for the establishment of a Sheriff of New Makkah, who will be a public employee, to whom a police force will be responsible. The spirit of the law is to ensure all law enforcement is accountable directly to the elected government, and would relieve the AEGIS Security Concept of law enforcement duty over the municipality of New Makkah. This law was not expected to be a high priority, but the ruling Moderates saw pressure from their partners in the Socialist Front and from nation-wide attention brought by the United People publication.
AEGIS has previously stated that it will take its case to the courts if Haals Government took steps to limit the scope of their security force's powers. One State Representative commented, 
"AEGIS may sue us, based on New Makkah being private property. But that's the beauty of public police: their jurisdiction does not end at private property. If there is someone selling fake driver's licenses from their front lawn, the police are in their right to intervene in that illegal activity on private property. Of course, we have laws, and police need permits to intrude in a private building, as they still will in New Makkah. But the public police do not need AEGIS' permission to enforce the law on the open streets as in any other municipality."
==Ambitious Reconstruction Package Passes==
With 54 votes in favor and 20 against (with 11 abstaining), a 5 billion fall reconstrution package was passed to rebuild the massive damages caused by the long-time civil war. Entire neighborhoods had been reduced to crumbling abandoned property. The money will be spent employing the public in rebuilding their nehighborhoods; their schools; their hospitals; their homes. More legislation has been promised to follow that will help resettle the large displaced homeless population. Federal Representative Faulconer has said he hopes to secure federal funding to supplement the state's pledged spending, but conceded that that may not happen until after the war due to the federal political situation.
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