2025-06-172024/25:SoU29 · p.1SoUHealth & social services
The Government's Legislative Proposals
Bill introducing a leisure card for children and young people
What's at stake: The decision determines whether children and young people, particularly those in economically disadvantaged households and children with disabilities, gain access to leisure activities through a new individual state benefit, and also introduces new personal-data processing and control measures to prevent incorrect payments.
Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.
What the vote decides
The question is whether the Riksdag should adopt the government's bill introducing a state-funded leisure card for children's and young people's leisure activities, or reject the proposal.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee shares the government's assessment that targeted state support in the form of a leisure card creates better conditions for children's and young people's participation in leisure activities than a general grant, and therefore recommends adopting the bill while rejecting the motions calling for it to be rejected.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 1 (S, V, C, MP)
The reservation (S, V, C, MP) calls for rejecting the entire bill. The reasoning is that the proposal is judged insufficient and ineffective and creates unnecessary bureaucracy and administration, that it fails to solve the real problems facing children and young people, that the leisure card risks not reaching those who need the support most, such as children with disabilities, and that the funds should instead be used to strengthen associations and civil society.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
V–
S–
MP–
C–
L–
KD–
M–
SD–
YesNoAbstainAbsent
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: adopting the government's legislative proposal and rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 1 by S, V, C, MP.
Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.
The plan's stance / Actual vote
AI
Vote
Confidence
Evidence
Vown reservation
–
No 0/20/0/4
Sown reservation
–
No 0/93/0/13
MPown reservation
–
No 0/15/0/3
Cown reservation
–
No 0/20/0/4
L
–
Yes 14/0/0/2
KD
–
Yes 16/0/0/3
M
–
Yes 59/0/0/9
SD
–
Yes 63/0/0/9
Committee proposal
The Riksdag adopts the government's proposals for
1. the Leisure Card Act,
2. the Act on the Swedish eHealth Agency's processing of personal data in leisure card matters,
3. the Act amending the Act (2024:307) on the obligation to provide information to prevent incorrect payments from the welfare systems as well as fraud, regulatory violations and crime in working life,
4. the Act amending the Social Services Act (2025:000).
By this, the Riksdag passes proposition 2024/25:157 points 1-4 and rejects the motions
2024/25:3412 by Fredrik Lundh Sammeli et al. (S),
2024/25:3416 by Vasiliki Tsouplaki et al. (V),
2024/25:3418 by Anne-Li Sjölund et al. (C) and
2024/25:3419 by Nils Seye Larsen et al. (MP) demand 1.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen antar regeringens förslag till
1. lag om fritidskort,
2. lag om E-hälsomyndighetens behandling av personuppgifter i ärenden om fritidskort,
3. lag om ändring i lagen (2024:307) om uppgiftsskyldighet för att motverka felaktiga utbetalningar från välfärdssystemen samt fusk, regelöverträdelser och brottslighet i arbetslivet,
4. lag om ändring i socialtjänstlagen (2025:000).
Därmed bifaller riksdagen proposition 2024/25:157 punkterna 1-4 och avslår motionerna
2024/25:3412 av Fredrik Lundh Sammeli m.fl. (S),
2024/25:3416 av Vasiliki Tsouplaki m.fl. (V),
2024/25:3418 av Anne-Li Sjölund m.fl. (C) och
2024/25:3419 av Nils Seye Larsen m.fl. (MP) yrkande 1.
Riksdag decision: More children and young people are to gain access to sports, culture, outdoor activities and association life. The Riksdag approved the government's proposal to introduce a leisure card for children and young people.
The proposals include, among other things
state support in the form of a leisure card for children's leisure activities
a new act on the Swedish eHealth Agency's processing of personal data in leisure card matters
that a leisure card can be given to one of the child's guardians who is resident in Sweden and with whom the child lives
that the Swedish eHealth Agency takes responsibility for handling leisure card matters.
The purpose of the leisure card is to promote children's ability to participate in leisure activities that contribute to an active and meaningful leisure time together with others.
The Riksdag also approved the government's proposals for amendments to the Social Services Act and to the Act on the obligation to provide information to prevent incorrect payments from the welfare systems as well as fraud, regulatory violations and crime in working life.
The legislative changes come into force on 8 September 2025.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants leisure card resources instead to be used to strengthen civil society and associations. (S, V, C, MP) — Reservation 1
Motion 2024/25:3412 — med anledning av prop. 2024/25:157 Ett fritidskort för barn och unga - en aktiv och meningsfull fritid i gemenskap med andra av Fredrik Lundh Sammeli m.fl. (S)
Motion 2024/25:3416 — med anledning av prop. 2024/25:157 Ett fritidskort för barn och unga - en aktiv och meningsfull fritid i gemenskap med andra av Vasiliki Tsouplaki m.fl. (V)
Motion 2024/25:3418 — med anledning av prop. 2024/25:157 Ett fritidskort för barn och unga - en aktiv och meningsfull fritid i gemenskap med andra av Anne-Li Sjölund m.fl. (C)
Motion 2024/25:3419 — med anledning av prop. 2024/25:157 Ett fritidskort för barn och unga - en aktiv och meningsfull fritid i gemenskap med andra av Nils Seye Larsen m.fl. (MP)
Proposition 2024/25:157 — Ett fritidskort för barn och unga - en aktiv och meningsfull fritid i gemenskap med andra