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These bills have already been here before, leaving me with really much nothing to say. I want to see new bills, not bills with small amends so someone can have their name on it! But I agree with what Seva said.

okay let's vote on this bill

aye

Hmm, I'll vote aye

the Military Structure Reform Bill has passed. The Senate will automatically go into recess in 2,5 hours. Thank you everyone who served this term, it was a pleasure! See some of you next term hopefully - I won't be Chair anymore though, I haven't performed perfectly and it's also quite a tiring job so I don't want to do it in the near future

Brototh

Inauguration

I can now declare the following have been inaugurated:

[nation]Marvinville[/nation], [nation]Sevae[/nation], [nation]Gifty[/nation], [nation]Snowflame[/nation], [nation]Solittus[/nation], [nation]Angypt[/nation] and [nation]Saltmore[/nation] are inaugurated as Senators.

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Senators - Commencement of the Chairman Election

Please state below whether you wish to to stand for Chairman of the Senate. You have 24 hours to declare your intent.

- [nation=noflag]Rayekka[/nation]

Electoral Commissioner

Marvinville

I no longer intend to run for Chairman.

I'm not running

I will be running for chair

Marvinville, Mardis, Santa Marana

Post self-deleted by Gifty.

I will not be running for Chair

Announcement from the Deputy Election Commissioner:

Since the minimum time of 24 hours, as set by the LR. 049, have elapsed, we shall now proceed to the statements and discussion period.

During this period, the representatives may ask the candidate questions, and the candidate can then answer and discuss with the legislators.

The candidate standing for the position of Chairman is: Snowflame.

The statements and discussion period will last a maximum of 24 hours starting from now. A time extension of no more than 2 hours can be granted upon request.

[Spoiler=Senators]

Angypt

Snowflame

Seva

Gifty

Solittus

Marvinville

Saltmore[/spoiler]

The Islamic Country Of Honour

Deputy Election Commissioner of Thaecia

Snowflame, Marvinville

I would like to begin the discussion period of the chairman election by stating a few words which may answer some pending questions some of you may have.

[Spoiler=Bipartisan]Previously, I have been elected 3 times unopposed as Speaker of the House for one main reason: I am incredibly bipartisan. In my last term as House speaker, I had progressives and moderates within my leadership and we worked to form an agenda which applied to everyone across the political spectrum. I plan to do the same as chair of the Senate. As chair, I would be representing everyone in this chamber, and so all of you would deserve to have your bills put up for debate, whether I support the bills or not. At the end of the day, although I may be the chairman, this chamber is run by all of you. All of you will make the decision on if I should be elected as chair and you all will also hold me accountable if I dont accurately represent the beliefs that all of you have. I work with everyone regardless of ideology and will continue to do so.[/spoiler]

[Spoiler=Docket]If you were in the House when I was Speaker, most of the organizational functions will remain the same. The docket will be arranged in a relatively subjective order of importance based on feedback from those who I appoint as deputies. Sometimes, the order will change because something urgent comes up or the Executive needs something done as soon as possible. I will also be returning to my previous loose outline of a chamber's business by listing what the previous business was, what the current business is, and what the next business will be on the Senate RMB.[/spoiler]

[Spoiler=Reminder Pings]I will also be doing reminder pings whenever I notice that voting is stalled or taking exceptionally longer than usual. Even if a bill is something everyone here agrees with, I encourage everyone to voice their agreement with the bill anyways. As a quick note, I will not be spamming everyone with pings. I understand that everyone is busy and these pings will mainly be targeted to those who have not voted. Sometimes we forget that a bill is being voted on and just need a reminder.[/spoiler]

Thank you for reading this, I'm looking forward to answering any questions that you all may have.

I was Deputy Speaker in one of the 2 terms a while ago, and I really enjoyed your leadership then. I have no questions and intend to vote in favour. Also as the previous chair, I recognise this is a lot of work - I haven't updated the docket in months so I'm planning do that so Snow has a better outline of what we have to debate

Snowflame

I'm confident in Snow as Chair, and have no further questions.

Snowflame

UC Motion Announcement

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1731730

I motion for unanimous consent to pass this bill.

[Spoiler=Senators]

Marvinville

Snowflame

Gifty

Angypt

Solittus

Sevae

Saltmore

[/Spoiler]

I acknowledge the motion

I acknowledge the motion.

I acknowledge. These seem like common-sense fixes and don't really change anything substantial, just making everything make more sense

I acknowledge the motion.

Announcement From The Deputy Election Commissioner

Senators, the statements and discussion period has come to an end, and we are now approaching the voting stage. We have 1 (one) candidate: Snowflame.

An "aye" would indicate a vote for Snowflame as Chairman, "nay" would indicate a vote against Snowflame as Chairman, and "abstain" would indicate an abstention from the voting which would be discounted from the total number of votes cast.

The voting period will last a maximum of 24 hours. A time extension of no more than 2 hours can be granted upon request.

[Spoiler=Senators]

Angypt

Snowflame

Seva

Gifty

Solittus

Marvinville

Saltmore[/spoiler]

The Islamic Country Of Honour

Deputy Election Commissioner of Thaecia

Announcement From The Deputy Election Commissioner

Snowflame has now been elected as the Chairman of the Senate. He has received 6 votes in favour, out of the 6 votes cast in this election, with one member not casting a vote at all. I wish Chairman Snowflame and the Senate a very productive and peaceful term, and I would also like to congratulate Snowflame for winning the Chairman post, and also the Senators for getting a qualified leader in Snowflame to lead the chamber this term. With this, I hereby declare the election closed. The Senate is now free to deliberate on issues relating to the welfare of the citizenry.

Chairman Snowflame

Hiya!

I would first like to thank every Senator for their support. I hope for this term to be one of productivity, bipartisanship, and efficiency! Although many of us have different policies, parties, and ideologies, we are all gathered here together as a team because we all want to make Thaecia better!

If you have any bills, be sure to message me on discord or telegram Chairman Snowflame. If you have any complaints or concerns, be sure to message me as well. I want this term to go by as smooth as possible!

I would also like to appoint both Gifty and Angypt as my deputies for this term.

We will begin our first official business momentarily. Thank you!

First Order of Business

We wil begin with the confirmation hearings of the nominees for Minister of Domestic Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Cultural Affairs:

Domestic Affairs Nominee: Marvinville

Foreign Affairs Nominee: Islonia

Cultural Affairs Nominee: Toerana V

I encourage all Senators to ask questions to the nominees and/or voice their perspective on the individuals nominated.

[Spoiler=Senators]

Angypt

Snowflame

Sevae

Gifty

Solittus

Marvinville

Saltmore[/spoiler]

Sevae

hi senate, been a while.

This time it's Culture, I think the fact I've been running events for the past couple of weeks is evidence enough that I'm qualified for the role. It'll only get better from what we've seen so far.

I'll naturally take any questions anyone may have, uh, thanks for having me?

Sevae

To Toerana V: What are some of your plans for the ministry this term?

To Islonia: In what direction do you foresee our Foreign Affairs going in the next few months? Are there any specific Foreign Affairs advancements that you hope to attempt to push this term?

To Marvinville: What is your plan to help improve our recruitment?

Toerana V, Sevae

Snowflame wrote:To Toerana V: What are some of your plans for the ministry this term?

As I did in Comms, bring in a sense of regularity. This will come primarily in the form of regular events and schedules held throughout my term. Every so often, a calendar detailing events will be published, these events will be hosted. The aim is for events to take place on the same day, or days, every week, to bring a sense of rhythm and regularity to the office, and to set up reasonable expectations.

Culture, prior to Brototh's term, was a mess. It was non existent. The point of Culture is to give us something to do, to have us play games and interact as a community, and to build up a social and more enjoyable atmosphere that is currently dying in Thaecia. At the end of the day, it will boil down to being my job to help make Thaecia fun for a casual player, and that's what I intend to do.

No massive cultural events or plans are currently in the works, nor do I personally have any intention at this time of organising one, but we will see where the future leads. I'm not against the idea of interregional events, but my term will be focused towards getting regular game sessions and events running in Thaecia, in its discord and on its RMB, instead of big, one off events that take months of prep work.

Snowflame, Marvinville

I'll vote in favour of Bow's nomination for Culture. It's clear that he's active and dedicated and a common-sense pick for basically any position in cabinet except for FA. I've caught a glimpse of some of the events and am happy to see Culture being revived. Just hoping we won't have to reconfirm you by UC this time :p

Toerana V

Snowflame wrote:

To Marvinville: What is your plan to help improve our recruitment?

I have an ambitious plan to help improve our recruitment. If I get confirmed to be Domestic Affairs Minister, I will heavily advertise our stamp donation program through different methods, such as through a ping on discord, post on rmb, and a regional tg. I pledge today to donate at least 10k stamps to our recruitment effort and I will urge all citizens to donate 3k, 2k, or 1k (or more!!) stamps if they are financially able to. I will also lead efforts to increase the amount of manual recruiters in the Ministry. I will notify all Thaecians of the opportunity to be a manual recruiter and I will help them learn how to manually recruit if they are new at it. I will also work with the Prime Minister and Congress on how we can increase the number of recruiters and recruitment tg's we can send out as a region. The Ministry will also have a chart to record our progress on recruitment, which will help us determine if we need to adjust our recruitment strategy during the next 4 months. With following this plan, I believe we can increase the population in the region, which can have a positive effect on regional politics.

Snowflame

Mr Chairman, Senators, thank you for having me.

Snowflame wrote:To Altys: In what direction do you foresee our Foreign Affairs going in the next few months? Are there any specific Foreign Affairs advancements that you hope to attempt to push this term?

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not have a specific agenda for this term. I recently stated the same on this in this floor, and I am doing so once again. We simply want to continue to maintain our current relationships, and the value we attribute to each of them. Anything else is done relatively on the spot, as is the nature of foreign affairs - live and not *really* predictable months in advance. This is why we have a group of people at the helm (the Council). In addition, it is important to note that with this administration's focus on domestic affairs, primarily community growth, the Ministry itself takes a back seat.

Nonetheless, the last term has opened up the possibility of future projects with our foreign friends. Whether it is the Lupercalia Alliance when it comes to interregional military cooperation, or our rapprochement with Balder since the TCB affair; projects do exist, but their realisation will not depend solely on the Council itself, especially for the latter; but rather on the Cabinet, and in particular the Ministry of Culture.

TL;DR: Where there are draft projects, they are not at all the focus of the administration; while the expansion of our diplomatic network is irrelevant.

Snowflame

For all candidates:

What new ideas will you bring to your role during your tenure?

What do you hope to achieve by the end of your tenure?

Solittus wrote:For all candidates:

What new ideas will you bring to your role during your tenure?

What do you hope to achieve by the end of your tenure?

New Ideas:

Nothing major that we haven't seen begin towards the end of last term. Ideas that we execute on my not necessarily be mine, and they will evolve and change as our social scene begins to grow again, and we see what's best to cater towards Thaecia and Thaecian interests.

Hope to Achieve:

I don't know if a complete rebuilding of Thaecia's social atmosphere is possible in just four months, but I'm going to try my hardest to promote the more social aspects of this game and region. Toxic politics has dominated this region, to its heavy detriment, for too long.

Solittus

Solittus wrote:What new ideas will you bring to your role during your tenure?

None as of now. Considering we are merely in the continuity of governance with my nomination, there isn't much agenda for this term as I've stated before. This does not prevent new ideas to be implemented--just that we have nothing concrete as of now.

Solittus wrote:What do you hope to achieve by the end of your tenure?

Same as the above.

Solittus wrote:For all candidates:

What new ideas will you bring to your role during your tenure?

What do you hope to achieve by the end of your tenure?

There isn't many opportunities to bring new ideas into the Domestic Affairs Ministry simply because of its role and function. However, I will seek to advertise our stamp donation program in multiple methods that have not been attempted recently. By the end of my tenure as Minister, I hope that the region can have a stable increase of population as well as have a larger group of manual recruiters.

Snowflame

As there does not seem to be an influx of questions and since the nominees have answered all of the questions that were posted, we will now begin voting.

Note: If any senators think of any follow-up questions during the voting time, I encourage the Senators to message the nominees privately!

[Spoiler=Senators]

Angypt

Snowflame

Sevae

Gifty

Solittus

Marvinville

Saltmore[/spoiler]

I will be voting:

Altys- Aye

Toerana V- Aye

Marvinville- Aye

Altys - Aye

Toerana V - Nay

Marv - Aye

Altys - Aye

Toerana V - Aye

Marv - Abstain

Aye to all candidates.

Altys - Aye

Toerana V - Nay

Marv - Aye

Voting has now closed, the results are as follows:

Marv: 6 ayes, 0 nays, 1 abstain. Marv has been confirmed as the Minister of Domestic Affairs.

Toerana V: 5 ayes, 2 nays. Toerana V has been confirmed as the Minister of Cultural Affairs.

Altys: 7 ayes, 0 nays. Altys has been confirmed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

We will begin our next order of business soon.

Toerana V, The Ambis

We will begin with the confirmation hearings of The Ambis for Minister of Legal Affairs.

Snowflame, The Ambis

Ummm, Hi Senators! Feel free to ask questions I suppose.

The Ambis wrote:Ummm, Hi Senators! Feel free to ask questions I suppose.

The Ministry of Legal Affairs has historically been an idle one aside from the occasional court case which doesn't exactly happen too often. As minister, should we expect for you to maintain sort of the status quo with the ministry or are there any potential plans that you hope to implement?

Snowflame wrote:The Ministry of Legal Affairs has historically been an idle one aside from the occasional court case which doesn't exactly happen too often. As minister, should we expect for you to maintain sort of the status quo with the ministry or are there any potential plans that you hope to implement?

So, yeah, I’ll do the occasional court case, but I’ll also try to keep the people of Thaecia updated on any ongoing court cases. I’ll also make sure that the Bar Exam is accessible and easy to find. All I have to do is find it myself. Still working on that part.

EDIT: Just so I’m not asked about qualifications, I’m going to put those here:

[spoiler=Qualifications][list][*]I’m an active member of Thaecia. I have been since last December

[*]I’ve been watching the High Court case since we voted on the related stuff in the HoC

[*]Ive read over the constitution multiple times

[*]I recently read over all the laws in the current law registry

[*]I have taken my Bar Exam, to have legal qualifications, and so all I am doing now is waiting for a response (of which there is no rush).

[/list][/spoiler]

As there are both further questions, we will now begin voting on the nominee!

[Spoiler=Senators]

Angypt

Snowflame

Sevae

Gifty

Solittus

Marvinville

Saltmore[/spoiler]

As of right now, I will be abstaining. I will likely update my vote later today with an explanation.

I will be changing my vote to nay. I do not believe maintaining the status quo is the best option for the ministry right now.

As someone who has been waiting for the bar to reopen so I can actually use my legal skills I would consider the status quo being kept is not the best choice.

I vote Nay

As an update: The Bar Exam is something that I would like to make more accessible. If confirmed, I will talk to the justices in potentially updating it, and putting it to more use. Ever since I tried to find it though, I have been determined to make it better accessible. I do not say this to appeal to anyone, I simply say this as something I would genuinely like to do. I’m sorry, I should have elaborated.

I'm going to vote nay.

While I believe in the nominee's ability to improve the ministry, their lack of qualifications and current plans for improving the ministry beyond the status quo is too great for me to feel safe in confirming them.

Voting has now ended as every senator has voted:

The ayes are 2, the nays are 3, and the abstains are 2. With a majority voting nay, the nominee has been rejected.

Our next order of business will begin soon.

I would also like to inform the senators that the new docket will be posted either today or tomorrow. Be sure to send me any bills that you want us to debate😁

We will now begin the hearing of Solittus for the position of Minister of Communications! I recommend all senators ask the nominee a question on the RMB!

[Spoiler=Senators]

Angypt

Snowflame

Sevae

Gifty

Solittus

Marvinville

Saltmore[/spoiler]

I am quite surprised by this pick, to be honest, but I do think Solittus is a very capable individual. With that in mind, I will ask you:

What relevant experience do you have in Communications or any written media?

How will your leadership differ from that of Toerana V, if at all?

Snowflame

I have faith in Solittus to do the job. I do want to see a response to Seva's question, but I am planning on voting aye.

Sevae wrote:I am quite surprised by this pick, to be honest, but I do think Solittus is a very capable individual. With that in mind, I will ask you:

What relevant experience do you have in Communications or any written media?

How will your leadership differ from that of Toerana V, if at all?

Thank you for your questions.

I was delighted to be offered this position as Minister of Communications, and really appreciate the nomination.

I have lots of experience with a similar job in The Union of Fairer Nations. I served as Home Secretary and Prime Minister for a period of time, and as part of that I published news updates, which I wrote in their entirety. You can view all these updates in this dispatch . I hope these prove my dedication and experience with written media of this kind.

I have great respect for Communications with Toerana V as Minister. I hope to continue to lead the ministry in a similar way, publishing regular monthly updates as well as perhaps introducing updates for more regular events, and election specials with more detailed results. I'm really interested in Thaecia, and its politics, and this will really help with this role. I will still employ those who wish to write articles for the updates, as well as educating others on how to get involved.

Gifty, Brototh, Toerana V, Sevae

Great answer, and having read your linked posts you do show skill in that regard.

My question is, going forward what plans or new direction do you plan to bring or do you plan to maintain the status quo placed by Toerana V? You mentioned above a couple of things but I'd like it if you'd elaborate a bit.

Gifty wrote:Great answer, and having read your linked posts you do show skill in that regard.

My question is, going forward what plans or new direction do you plan to bring or do you plan to maintain the status quo placed by Toerana V? You mentioned above a couple of things but I'd like it if you'd elaborate a bit.

Thanks for the question. Personally, I don't think there is a problem with maintaining the "status quo" especially considering the previous success of the Communication Ministry. I don't plan to have a completely new direction of leadership and management, however one thing I will strive to change is the view that Comms just do a monthly update. To solve this, as I said earlier, I will try to publish more regular updates of events, as well as legislative updates (covering the bills passed by each house), and perhaps election results (including full breakdowns as we see on the Discord Server). The main reason why I want to do this is to improve the relationship between onsite and offsite players, and ensure onsite nations stay involved and enlightened about our region.

Gifty, Toerana V, Sevae, Lukaymmunki

I'm voting aye on this, thanks for the answers!

As there are no more questions, we will now begin voting on the nominee!

[Spoiler=Senators]

Angypt

Snowflame

Sevae

Gifty

Solittus

Marvinville

Saltmore[/spoiler]

I am voting aye!

Snowflame wrote:As there are no more questions, we will now begin voting on the nominee!

[Spoiler=Senators]

Angypt

Snowflame

Sevae

Gifty

Solittus

Marvinville

Saltmore[/spoiler]

I am voting aye!

Nay.

UC Motion Announcement

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1734966

I motion for Unanimous Consent to pass the WA Waiver Act.

[Spoiler=Senators]

Angypt

Snowflame

Sevae

Gifty

Solittus

Marvinville

Saltmore[/spoiler]

I acknowledge the motion

I acknowledge the motion

Also, aye to the nominee

Aye to nominee

I acknowledge the motion

I acknowledge the motion.

I acknowledge the motion

Abstain to nomination

As all Senators have voted, the vote has come to an end! The results are as follows:

For Sollitus to be confirmed as Minister of Communications:

The ayes are 5.

The nays are 1.

The abstains are 1.

The nominee has been confirmed.

Our first bill of the term is the Assembly of Roleplay Act, linked below:

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1524817

I encourage all senators to give their thoughts on the bill and to have a discussion about it!

Since Brototh is the author of the bill, she does have permission to talk on the Senate floor.

[Spoiler=Senators]

Angypt

Snowflame

Sevae

Gifty

Solittus

Marvinville

Saltmore[/spoiler]

I will post my thoughts a bit later, however I would like to voice my approval of the bill.

Snowflame wrote:Since Brototh is the author of the bill, she does have permission to talk on the Senate floor.
since Brototh is the Prime Minister she has permission to talk but chile xdd

Snowflame

Brototh wrote:since Brototh is the Prime Minister she has permission to talk but chile xdd

We all LOVE Chile!

Brototh

I support this bill. This is a great trial ground to give the citizens more representation and see what happens! And we'll have some fun laws too for the benefit of our culture

Marvinville

I am proposing some amendments

[spoiler=Amendment A]

To Amend Article I, Section I:

Section I - Roleplay Legislation, which may also be referred to as RP Legislation or RPL, is defined as legislation that does not directly affect regional operations, and legislation that solely exists for reasons related to IRL purposes. is defined as, for the purposes of this bill, as legislation that either does not directly affect the running of this region, legislation that exists for flavour, and legislation that exists for reasons solely related to IRL purposes. For example, bills that declare a climate emergency, bills that protect certain rights however do not make it an IC crime punishable by the High Court or any lower court created in the future to violate these rights (such as a LGBTQ+ marriage protection bill), etc.

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[spoiler=Amendment B]

To remove Article I, Section II and replace with the following:

Section II - The Minister in charge of Domestic Affairs is responsible for ensuring that only RP legislation is debated by the Assembly of Roleplay. The Domestic Affairs Minister shall have the ability to order the assembly to stop considering a bill if it is not considered to be RP legislation.

Section IIa - The High Court of Thaecia may overturn any order made by the Minister in charge of Domestic Affairs if they find that the order stops the consideration of a RP legislation as defined by this Act.

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Amendment C]

[I]To amend Article I, Section III:

Section III - Any Roleplay Legislation passed by the Assembly of Roleplay shall not, for the purposes of this bill, be considered laws as defined in the Constitution. As it does not directly affect the running of the region, it must not be considered the same as typical bills passed by Congress, and thus shall not be considered Thaecian law.

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Amendment D]

To amend Article II, Sections II and III:

Section II - Any citizen of Thaecia can author RP Legislation. In order for the legislation to be legitimate, it must contain a Bill Name and Author. No bill may be debated if it does not fulfill such criteria. have fulfil the above criteria. Additionally, the bill may also include a section stating the "Sponsors" of the bill. A bill may not be debated if it contains profanity, inappropriate, or offensive language. If the bill contains profanity, inappropriate, or offensive language, it may not be debated.

Section III - The Assembly of Roleplay shall be led by one citizen of Thaecia, whom shall be called the Leader of the Assembly, which may also be referred to as the ASL (Assembly Leader). Tthey shall be elected decided by a vote amongst citizens once every four months, occurring at this being the same time as the inauguration of the Prime Minister at the start of a new regularly scheduled term. There may also be a vote for this position if the position becomes vacant. These votes shall be overseen by the Electoral Commissioner. World Assembly Delegate.

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[spoiler=Amendment E]

To amend Article II, Section IIIa:

Section IIIa - The ASL shall be responsible for managing running debates and votes within the Assembly of Roleplay. They must put legal bills on the floor in the priority order of the following: 1) the number of sponsors the bill has, 2) the date and time in which the legislation was last edited. The ASL does not have the permission to determine the agenda of the Assembly based on their own personal beliefs of the bills, and must follow the above criteria.

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[spoiler=Amendment F]

To amend Article II, Section IIIb:

Section IIIb - The ASL may be removed from office with a special RP Legislation known as a "Removal of ASL", which requires 5 3 sponsors to be debated on. This legislation shall receive the highest priority, and will immediately go on the floor once if it receives 5 sponsors and approval from the author. if the author requests so, otherwise it shall go on the floor immediately after current business has concluded. Debate of the Removal of ALS shall last between 24 and 48 hours and the vote shall last for 48 hours. Debate of the Removal of ASL shall last at least 24 hours, must end after 48 hours, the vote shall last at least 24 hours, and must end after 48 hours. The debate and vote of the removal shall be overseen by the Electoral Commissioner, whom will serve as Acting ASL for the time.

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[spoiler=Amendment G]

To amend Article III, Sections II, III, and IV:

Section II - The purpose of the debate stage is for citizens to share and discuss their opinions of the bill in question. Bills are entitled to a debate lasting between 24 hours and 72 hours. minimum of 12 hours debate. All bills are entitled to a debate, as long as it complies with Article II Section II.

Section III - Amendments may be put forward by any citizen at any time during the debate process. Amendments can change either part or all of the bill on the floor. Amendments shall be debated during the debate stage of the main bill. If the amendment contains profanity, inappropriate, or offensive language, removes the entire text of the bill, or would result in the bill violating Article II of this law, it shall not be debated or voted on. If any amendments have been submitted, the ASL shall put them to vote. Voting time on amendments must be between 12 hours and 48 hours.

Section IV - The voting stage shall occur after debate has been closed by the ASL or amendments have been voted on by the Assembly. The voting stage shall last between 24 and 72 hours. If any amendments have been submitted, the ASL shall put them to vote. Voting time on amendments must be between 6 hours and 48 hours. Citizens can cast either an “Aye”, “Nay”, or “Abstain” vote. "Aye" votes represent a vote in support on the bill or amendment, "Nay" votes represent a vote in opposition to the bill or amendment, "Abstain" votes represent an abstention from voting and are discounted from the overall total of votes cast. A poll on the Assembly of Roleplay region may be used during any vote period

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Snowflame

I agree with Marv's amendments, however I am a bit conflicted on Amendment G, mainly in regards to debate time. Because RP legislation is not as important as congressional legislation, I dont see the need for an extended debate time for RP bills. I personally believe that 12 hours is a good number as a minimum. I do have 2 amendments that I wanted to introduce as well:

[Spoiler=Amendment H]

To amend Article 2 Section 2:

profanity, inappropriate, or offensive language, including but not limited to slurs or prejudices.[/spoiler]

[Spoiler=Amendment I]

Amends Article 3 Section V:

If amendments [Strike]on for the bill pass, no matter their announced intention to vote on the bill prior to the amendments being proposed, their vote shall be recorded as an Abstention, unless they return during the vote period.[/spoiler]

Brototh

I support all amendments except:

Amendment A, because of the non inclusion of a comma and a connective RP Legislation is SOLELY defined as IRL Legislation. This means the recently passed holidays act, which has no bearing on the process of the region, would become IC Legislation. This would unreasonably begin to clog up the law registry again which was the point of making two separate so that things that did not affect the region would remain separate

The non-inclusion of a comma suggests that these are two conditions that must both be filled, so I urge that it is added

defined as legislation that does not directly affect regional operations, and legislation that solely exists for reasons related to IRL purposes

This change would resolve the amendment and I would happily support it. Otherwise I feel the amendment seriously damages the law registry overall

And Amendment E, because the intention of the RP Assembly is to be a fun and enjoyable process, not one in which you have to compete for business. By mandating it to bills that have the most sponsors, those which are the most supported go up in priority. For a fun side legislature this is the most fun experience in my opinion

I edited amendment A

Snowflame, Brototh

Full support for Amendment A

I really like that this bill has been written, and I very much agree with the concept. I am in favour of all the amendments proposed so far, except Amendment E - I agree with Brototh on this.

As debate seems to have slowed down, we will now begin voting on the amendments!

[Spoiler=Senators]

Angypt

Snowflame

Sevae

Gifty

Solittus

Marvinville

Saltmore[/spoiler]

I cast my votes for the following

Aye to Amendments A, B, C, D, F, G, H, I

Nay to Amendment E

Snowflame wrote:As debate seems to have slowed down, we will now begin voting on the amendments!

[Spoiler=Senators]

Angypt

Snowflame

Sevae

Gifty

Solittus

Marvinville

Saltmore[/spoiler]

I cast my votes for the following

Aye to Amendments A, B, C, D, F, G, H, I

Nay to Amendment E

Abstain.

Aye to Amendments A, B, C, D, F, G, H, I

Nay to Amendment E

Aye to all except E

Aye to all except E and G

Nay on E and G

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Written by Refuge Isle.