House Legislation Introduction Thread

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Financial Abortion Act

Giving the right to terminate any financial support of a future child

Section I: Action and Timeframe

i. If one member of a partnership of two people that created a mutually conceived fetus wishes to raise a child but the other does not, the one that does not want the child may terminate all parental rights including financial rights. They will not be required to pay any child support as longs as the child resides in Atlasia . This action will hereby be referred to as a financial abortion.

ii. This Financial Abortion must take place either 12 weeks into the pregnancy or 2 weeks after disclosure of the pregnancy to both partners,whichever is the later date.

[lfromnj]

Young Traders Act

Opening a limited stock market to the youth.

Section I:Actions now Allowed
A. Age Lowering
    i. The minimum age to open a special youth stock market account shall be lowered to 16.
    ii. Nothing stated above may prevent private brokers from setting their own age restriction stated it is above the age of 16.
   iii. Stated youth stock market account will not have full function of the market and will be only be allowed to purchase and sell the top 500 companies in market cap at the date of purchase of the stock.
  iv. Brokers will not be held responsible for any losses due to trades
  V. Brokers may not give special options that increases risk such as selling on margin or selling short.

A short bill that encourages people to invest when they are most likely to have free income.

[lfromnj]

I am filing this/prefiling this/basically don't want this to somehow get lost between the two Congresses because I don't know when we'll get to it.

SPEEDY TRIAL PROTECTION ACT

SECTION I: NAME
a. This act shall be called the Speedy Trial Protection Act

SECTION II: SPEEDY TRIAL
a. Where a federal judge or magistrate has found that there is probable cause to believe that an adult has committed a felony, the accused, if he or she is held continuously in custody thereafter, shall be forever discharged from prosecution for such offense if no trial is commenced within six (6) months from the date such probable cause was found; and if the accused is not held in custody, he or she shall be forever discharged from prosecution therefor if no trial is commenced within nine (9) months from the date such probable cause was found.
b. If there was no preliminary hearing, or if such preliminary hearing was waived by the accused, the commencement of the running of the six (6) and nine (9) months periods, respectively, set forth in this act, shall be from the date an indictment or presentment is found against the accused. If an indictment or presentment is found against the accused but he has not been arrested for the offense charged therein, the six (6) and nine (9) months periods, respectively, shall commence to run from the date of his arrest thereon. The time during the pendency of any appeal in any appellate court shall not be included as applying to the provisions of this section.
c. The provisions of this section shall not apply to such period of time as the failure to try the accused was caused:
   1. By his insanity or by reason of his confinement in a hospital for care and observation;
   2. By the witnesses for the prosecution being enticed or kept away, or prevented from attending by sickness or accident;
   3. By the granting of a separate trial at the request of a person indicted jointly with others for a felony;
   4. By continuance granted on the motion of the accused or his or her counsel, or by concurrence of the accused or his or her counsel in such a motion by the prosecutor, or by the failure of the accused or his or her counsel to make a timely objection to such a motion by the prosecutor, or by reason of his escaping from jail or failing to appear according to his recognizance;
   5. By the inability of the jury to agree in their verdict; or
   6. By a natural disaster, civil disorder, or act of God.

SECTION III: DATE
a. This act shall take effect thirty (30) days from the date of passage and shall not apply retroactively.

[lfromnj]

am filing this/prefiling this/basically don't want this to somehow get lost between the two Congresses because I don't know when we'll get to it.

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE REFORM ACT

SECTION I: NAME
a. This act shall be referred to as the Criminal Procedure Reform Act

SECTION II: DEFINITION
a. Violent Crime as used within this act shall be defined to include any of the following:
   1. murder
   2. voluntary manslaughter
   3. aggravated assault
     4. rape or sexual assault
     5. sexual abuse or aggravated sexual abuse
     6. abusive sexual contact
     7. child abuse
     8. kidnapping
     9. human trafficking
     10. robbery
     11. carjacking or hijacking any other vehicle, vessel, or aircraft
     12. burglary
     13. arson
     14. extortion
     15. Threatening a juror, potential juror, witness, or potential witness related to a criminal case
     16. domestic violence
     17. piracy
     18. illegal brandishing of a firearm
     19. coercion
     20. interference with flight crew members and attendants
     21. stalking
     22. hostage taking
     23. communicating threats to kill the President, Vice President, Game Moderator, or any Cabinet member, member of Congress, or judge
     24.terrorism
     25. conspiracy to commit any of the above offenses

SECTION III: CRIMINAL RECORDS
a. Any person convicted in a federal court of any misdemeanor or felony other than a violent crime shall be eligible to have all their criminal records sealed from general public disclosure as well as such previous convictions ineligible to be introduced as character evidence in a federal court upon the tenth anniversary of conviction or one (1) year after the completion of the criminal sentence, whichever occurs later, provided the person has not been convicted on any new felonies. This provision shall not apply to violent crimes or to the possession, manufacture, distribution, or sale of child pornography.
b. Any juvenile convicted in a federal court of any misdemeanor or felony other than a violent crime shall be eligible to have all their criminal convictions expunged upon the seventh anniversary of conviction or one (1) year after the completion of the criminal sentence, whichever occurs later. This provision shall not apply to violent crimes or to the possession, manufacture, distribution, or sale of child pornography
c. Any person who is arrested by federal law enforcement for a crime and is later found not guilty by a federal court, or who is arrested but has the charges dismissed or expunged, shall be eligible upon request to have any mugshot, fingerprint sample, or DNA sample collected during the arrest in the possession of any federal law enforcement agency, officer, employee, or contractor, purged from all law enforcement databases.
d. Any person charged with a federal crime shall be entitled to request pre-trial discovery and exculpatory materials eligible for disclosure under Brady v. Maryland unless the person expressly waives such disclosures in writing.
SECTION IV: TIMING
a. This act shall take effect immediately. No suit shall be justiciable under this act until ninety (90) days after adoption of this act.

[lfromnj]

I am filing this/prefiling this/basically don't want this to somehow get lost between the two Congresses because I don't know when we'll get to it.

ENDING RICO ACT ABUSE ACT
SECTION I: NAME
a. This act shall be known as the Ending RICO Act Abuse Act.

SECTION II: REFORMS
a. The RICO act shall be amended to decrease the statute of limitations for crimes relied upon in establishing an organizational nexus to seven (7) years.  18 USC 1961 et seq. shall be amended accordingly.
b. The RICO act shall be amended to remove trade secrets violations, prostitution, and common law fraud actions from the definition of racketeering. 18 USC 1961 shall be amended accordingly.
c. The RICO act shall be amended to remove enterprises lacking a separate economic existence and enterprises that lack a nexus to organized crime from the definition of enterprises. 18 USC 1961 shall be amended accordingly.

SECTION III: TIMING
a. This act shall take effect immediately.

[lfromnj]

End of Public Affirmative Action in Atlasia

I. Any Publicly funded college or university in Atlasia is hereby banned from using race,or gender as a factor in admissions in any form whatsoever.
II. Failure to abide by this law shall result a fine not exceeding $25000 for any individuals involved in racial discrimination in college admissions. If the university as a whole is involved the judgement and fine will be determined by the courts. The money in this fine from the university will be deducted from the next year's budget.
III: A publicly funded university shall be defined as one where at least 20% of funding for the university comes from the government.
IV. Private Universities shall not be affected by this law.

[lfromnj]

                                          A BILL
                   to start a debate on reforming the office of the comptroller and the game economy.
II. Title[/b]
The Title of the Bill shall be known as Comptroller Reform Act.
III. Text
The Atlasian congress and president shall create a multi-partisan commission consisting of 3-5 members who shall work on creating a new system for the game economy by increasing the number of variables involved that result in tax revenue or total GDP. After the commission work is done the final bill will be put to congress.
IV. Creation system
Said system will have to likely be created within excel but it may also be coded within a programming language which will be determined by the commision.
V. Funding
1,500,000 shall be granted for this commission to start work.

[lfromnj]

AN ACT
To ban divisive race theory within the federal government

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Republic of Atlasia in Congress assembled,

Section I. Title

i. This bill may be known as the Discriminatory Training Ban..

Section II. Substance
i. Any Federal agency may not use diversity training which promotes racist concepts during training such as but not limited to that an “individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously” and that “any individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.”
Section III. Enforcement
i. Any worker who is in a department with one of these trainings can whistleblower to an appropriate department for an official reprimand of whoever ordered said training.
ii. Said whistleblower can be granted a reward of up to $10,000 and any workers who experienced discomfort during the training can be granted compensation of up to $50 per hour of the training.
iii. All fines must come from any diversity sub department funding within the department that has stated racist training.