Amendment to the OPSR

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Amendments to the Official Senate Procedural Resolution

1. Article 1, Section 1 is hereby amended to read; "The purpose of these Senate Rules, Regulations, and Procedures is to provide the Senate with detailed, yet flexible rules for parliamentary procedure, define clearly the powers and prerogatives of the President Pro-Tempore (PPT) and the President of the Senate within the affairs of the Senate, excepting those provisions so stated by the Constitution, and provide a speedy, yet careful process for legislation to proceed from the lawmaker to the Senate to the President for Passage or Veto."

2. The second sentence of Article 3, Section 1, Clause 1 is hereby amended to read; "Only Senators who presently hold elected office and the sitting federal President may be allowed to post in this thread."

3. Article 3, Section 2, Clause 2 is hereby amended to read; "2. At any one time there may be no more than four (4) Bills/Constitutional Amendments/Resolutions sponsored by Senators on the Senate Floor being debated upon or voted upon by the Senate.  Bills/Constitutional Amendments/Resolutions sponsored by the federal President will be given one (1) additional space on the Senate floor to be debated upon or voted upon by the Senate."

4. Throughout Article 4, Section 2, any instances of the word "Senator" will be amended to read; "Senator and/or federal President".

Sponsor: Sen. Al

[Ebowed]

I'd like to introduce the following amendment:

The following text shall be appended to the amendment:

"In the case of legislation introduced that is claimed by the PPT to address forum affairs that has at least one piece of legislation in front of it in the queue, senators shall have seventy-two (72) hours to challenge this action in a public post, and with the concurrence of one-third (1/3) of office-holding Senators in the affirmative (excluding the PPT), may override the actions of the PPT."

The vote is on the above amendment.  Senators may vote Yea, Nay, or Abstain.