Senate Legislation Introduction Thread (New)

[Mr. Reactionary]

S.T.O.V.E. ACT

1. This act shall be referred to as the Stop Trying to Obsessively Villify Energy Act or S.T.O.V.E. Act.

2. No Federal agency may propose, implement, or finalize a rule or guidance that restricts or bans the use and purchase of gas-powered stoves, cooktops, ranges, or ovens in Atlasia.

3. This act shall take effect immediately.

[Mr. Reactionary]

ADEQUATE CONSIDERATION RESOLUTION

1. Article II, section 3 of the Official Senate Rules and Procedures shall be amended as follows:

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d.) The twenty-third and twenty-fourth slots shall be reserved for the President of the Republic of Atlasia for bills, appointments, treaties, and Constitutional Amendments and administered by either the President of the Senate or the PPT.

e.) The twenty-fifth slot shall be reserved for public bill and Constitutional Amendment submissions and shall be introduced by the President of the Senate PPT.

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2. Article VI of the Official Senate Rules and Procedures shall be amended by adding the following:

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5. ) Any bill that seeks to repeal two (2) or more federal laws adopted after June 1, 2016 in the same bill shall not be able to be brought to a final vote without a two-thirds vote of the whole Senate. Any bill that seeks to amend two (2) or more federal laws adopted after June 1, 2016 in the same bill shall not be able to be brought to a final vote without a two-thirds vote of the whole Senate.

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[Mr. Reactionary]

TERMINATE CYBERDYNE ACT

1. Beginning five (5) days from the date this law is enacted, it shall be unlawful for any Atlasian Senator, GM official, or other Atlasian official to utilize any robot, algorithim, or artificial intelligence, including but not limited to ChatGPT, to write any legislation, regulations, executive orders, storylines, or other legally binding content.

2. The failure of any Senator or other officer to affirmatively declare a bill, regulation, order, story, or other content as having been written or partially written by any robot, algorithim, or artificial intelligence, including but not limited to ChatGPT, shall be a crime punishable by a fine of $10,000 and imprisonment for no less than ten (10) days and no more than one (1) year per bill, regulation, order, story, or other content. Lying about whether or not a bill, regulation, order, story, or other content as having been written or partially written by any robot, algorithim, or artificial intelligence, including but not limited to ChatGPT, shall be considered perjury, and shall be punishable by expulsion, a fine of $10,000, and imprisonment for no less than ten (10) days and no more than one (1) year per lie.

3. It is the position of Atlasia that potentially having a robot draft hundreds of bills, regulations, orders, stories, or other content within minutes without any human interaction greatly defeats the point of this game and renders the continuation of Atlasia pointless.

4. The Official Senate Procedures and Rules for Operation shall be amended as follows:

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Article 2: Introducing Legislation

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2.) If the PPT determines that a piece of legislation is functionally impractical, frivolous, was written using the assistance of A.I. such as ChatGPT, or is directly unconstitutional, they may, in a public post on the Legislation Introduction thread, remove said legislation from the Senate floor. The sponsoring Senator of the legislation shall have ninety-six (96) 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, may override the actions of the PPT. (Nasolation clause)

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9.) No legislation shall be written using the assistance of A.I. such as ChatGPT and other language model algorithims.


Article 3: Amendments

1.) During the course of debate on legislation, any sitting Senator may offer amendments to the legislation. The President Pro Tempore may in good faith remove amendments from consideration that are functionally impractical, frivolous, repetitive, was written using the assistance of A.I. such as ChatGPT,  directly unconstitutional, entirely non-germane to the broader subject of the bill, or lack clear intent regarding the changes to be made. The amendment sponsor shall have 24 hours to object to the decision by the PPT and may overturn the action with the concurrence of 1/3rd of his fellow Senators. Unless stated otherwise in the amendment, components of the underlying legislation not referenced in an amendment will remain unchanged.

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6.) No amendments shall be written using the assistance of A.I. such as ChatGPT and other language model algorithims.

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Article 4: Debate

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5.) No debate on the Senate flooe shall be conducted or written using the assistance of A.I. such as ChatGPT and other language model algorithims.

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5. Any existing law prohibiting discriminatory conduct against certain classes or groups of persons shall not be interpreted as applying to beings in the following categories:

A. Humans who possess non-medically required artificial enhancements that allow such person to perform tasks;

B. Prohibited human-animal chimeras;

C. Non-human animals; and

D. Artificial intelligence.

6. Every school, college, or university receiving federal funds shall be required by July 1, 2023 to adopt a plagiarism policy prohibiting the use of robots, algorithims, or artificial intelligence, including but not limited to ChatGPT, in the completion of any paper, test, assignment, or other student work product.

Authorship Statement: This bill was not written with the assistance of ChatGPT or other A.I.

[Mr. Reactionary]

CHOOSE LIFE ACT

TITLE I: DEFINITIONS AND ENACTMENT

1. For purposes of this act covered entity means any insurer who sells or offers health insurance in interregional commerce and any healthcare provider who accepts federal funds.

2. For purposes of this act disability includes but is not limited to physical, mental, and development disabilities. Down syndrome constitutes a disability.

3. For purposes of this act Retaliation includes, but is not limited to, demotion, discipline, firing, salary reduction, job/shift reassignment, or any other negative job action.

4. This act shall take effect ninety (90) days after its passage.

TITLE II: ORGAN TRANSPLANTS

1. It is unlawful for a covered entity to do any of the following, solely on the basis of an individual’s disability:

A. Consider an individual ineligible to receive an anatomical gift or organ transplant.

B. Deny medical services or other services related to organ transplantation, including diagnostic services, evaluation, surgery, counseling, and post-operative treatment and services.

C. Refuse to refer the individual to a transplant center or other related specialist for the purpose of being evaluated for or receiving an organ transplant.

D. Refuse to place a qualified recipient on an organ transplant waiting list.

E. Place a qualified recipient on an organ transplant waiting list at a lower priority position than the position at which the individual would have been placed if the individual did not have a disability.

F. Refuse insurance coverage for any procedure associated with being evaluated for or receiving an anatomical gift or organ transplant, including post-transplantation and post-transfusion care.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 1 of this title, a covered entity may take an individual’s disability into account when making treatment or coverage recommendations or decisions, solely to the extent that the disability has been found by a physician or surgeon, following an individualized evaluation of the individual, to be medically significant to the provision of the anatomical gift.

3. If an individual has the necessary support system to assist the individual in complying with post-transplant medical requirements, a covered entity may not consider the individual’s inability to independently comply with post-transplant medical requirements to be medically significant for the purposes of section 2 of this title.

4. A covered entity shall make reasonable modifications to its policies, practices, or procedures to allow individuals with disabilities access to transplantation-related services, including diagnostic services, surgery, coverage, post-operative treatment, and counseling, unless the covered entity can demonstrate that making such modifications would fundamentally alter the nature of such services.

5. A covered entity shall take steps necessary to ensure that an individual with a disability is not denied medical services or other services related to organ transplantation, including diagnostic services, surgery, post-operative treatment, or counseling, due to the absence of auxiliary aids or services, unless the covered entity demonstrates that taking these steps would fundamentally alter the nature of the medical services or other services related to organ transplantation.

6. The provisions of this title apply to all stages of the organ transplant process.

7. No covered entity offering a health insurance policy in interregional commerce that provides coverage for anatomical gifts, organ transplants, or treatment and services related to anatomical gifts or transplants shall do any of the following:

A. Deny coverage to an insured solely on the basis of that individual’s disability.

B. Deny to an individual eligibility, or continued eligibility, to enroll or to renew coverage under the terms of a health insurance policy solely for the purpose of avoiding the requirements of this section.

C. Attempt to induce a health care provider to provide care to an insured in a manner inconsistent with this section by penalizing or otherwise reducing or limiting the reimbursement of a health care provider, or by providing monetary or nonmonetary incentives to a health care provider.

D. Reduce or limit health benefit plan coverage benefits to an insured for any services related to organ transplantation performed determined to be necessary in consultation with the attending physician and the insured.

E. In the case of a health benefit plan maintained pursuant to one or more collective bargaining agreements between employee representatives and one or more employers, any amendment to the health benefit plan made pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement solely to conform to this section shall not be treated as a termination of the collective bargaining agreement.

F. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require an insurer to provide coverage for a medically inappropriate organ transplant.

TITLE III: LIFE SUPPORT

1. No healthcare facility shall discontinue life-sustaining treatment to an incapacitated patient solely due to the futility of the patient's eventual recovery, unless the patient has signed an advance medical directive authorizing such discontinuation.

TITLE IV: FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS

1. No federal court shall hear or rule upon any civil case raising a claim of wrongful birth or wrongful life.

TITLE V: DONOR PROTECTIONS

1. An employer operating in interregional commerce with more than fifty (50) employees must provide paid leaves of absence to employee(s) who are about to undergo a medical procedure to donate bone marrow and/or an organ (partial or complete) to another person.

2. The length of the paid leave of absence may be decided by the employee undergoing the procedure, but may not exceed 48 hours, unless agreed upon by both the employer, as well as their employee in question.

3. The employer may require official verification an employee seeking organ or bone marrow donation by a physician regarding the purpose and length of each leave requested by the employee.

4. If there is a medical determination that the employee does not qualify as a bone marrow or organ donor, the paid leave of absence granted to the employee prior to that medical determination is not forfeited.

5. An employer must provide unpaid leaves of absence to employee(s) who are about to undergo medical procedure to donate bone marrow and/or an organ (partial or complete) to another person.

6. The length of the unpaid leave of absence may be decided by the employee undergoing the procedure, but may not exceed 8 weeks, unless agreed upon by both the employer, as well as their employee in question.

7. An employer is not permitted to retaliate or sanction against an employee for requesting leave, whether paid or unpaid.

8. No person seeking an organ donation may be prohibited from declining an otherwise-compatible donated organ that he is religiously opposed to accepting. Such refusal shall not result in the forfeiture of his priority of receiving an organ donation when a compatible donation to which he is not religiously opposed becomes available.

[Mr. Reactionary]

GAS STATION HEROIN ACT

1. The drug tianeptine, or any derivative or analog thereof is hereby classified as a Schedule II drug under federal law. Accordingly, it shall be unlawful for any person to import, sell, give, or dispense tianeptine to any person in Atlasia without a valid prescription from a duly licensed medical practitioner.

2. This act shall take effect thirty (30) days from the date of passage.

[Mr. Reactionary]

REGIONAL DEATH PENALTY AMENDMENT

1. Article I, Section 9 of the Atlasian Constitution shall be amended as follows:

Section 9

No person accused of crimes under the laws of this Republic, or of the several Regions, shall be compelled to bear witness against themself, nor subjected to excessive bail, nor cruel or unusual punishment. Capital punishment may not be prescribed by a federal civilian court of law.

Amendment Explanation

This amendment permits Regional law to prescribe capital punishment while maintaining the federal ban.

[Mr. Reactionary]

PARDON CONTINUITY AMENDMENT

Article IV, Section 2 of the Atlasian Constitution shall be amended as follows:

Section 2.

The President shall have the power, except where limited elsewhere by this Constitution,

to grant reprieves and pardons for crimes committed under the laws of the Republic of Atlasia, but the Senate may rescind such pardons by a 2/3 vote

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Amendment Explanation

This amendment removes the ability of the Senate to rescind pardons and reprieves to prevent bills of attainder.

[Mr. Reactionary]

An Amendment to the Fifth Constitution of Atlasia

To regionalize authority over abortion laws

Be it enacted with a supermajority of the Senate of Atlasia and the Regions

Article I of the Constitution shall be amended as follows:

14. Regional governments shall hold full authority to determine and regulate abortion policy including the status of abortion being a right or not.

Amendment Explanation

This amendment seeks to give full control over abortion policy to the regions of Atlasia by adding a new section to the Bill of Rights in the federal Constitution.

[Mr. Reactionary]

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 2023

Section I — Title

This resolution may be cited as the Civil Rights Act of 2023.

Section II — Expanding Discrimination Protections

1. Federal discrimination laws shall be expanded to prohibit discrimination based on an individual's involvement in a subculture. Members of subcultures shall be granted all protections currently given to other protected classes.

2. All federal, regional, state, and municipal laws and policies discriminating based on involvement in a subculture shall be nullified.

3. Section II Provision 1 shall take effect thirty (30) days after passage; Section II Provision 2 shall take effect immediately.

Requesting a sponsor.

I will sponsor.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Will legislation not yet considered by the Senate and already having been introduced in this session by a still-sitting Senator be considered by the new Congress?

Thats typically how weve done it.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Google is racist Act

1. As used in this act:

A. racist robot means any artificial intelligence or algorithim that is programmed, designed, or intended to perform any function or task in a manner that intentionally discriminates on the basis of race, skin color, or ethnicity. For purposes of this act, a function or task includes but is not limited to providing search engine results, generating images, promoting information, and answering questions. For purposes of this act, intentionally discriminates includes but is not limited to any program intended to promote or discourage diversity, inclusion, or equity (DIE) of purportedly "underrepresented" races, skin colors, or ethnicities.

B. Historically-illiterate robot means any artificial intelligence or algorithim that is programmed, designed, or intended to perform any function or task in a manner that intentionally provides historically incorrect data or responses. For purposes of this act, a function or task includes but is not limited to providing search engine results, generating images, promoting information, and answering questions. For purposes of this act, intentionally providing historically incorrect data or responses includes but is not limited to any program intended to promote or discourage diversity, inclusion, or equity (DIE) of purportedly "underrepresented" races, skin colors, ethnicities, sexes, or other identity group or belief.

2. It shall be a felony punishable by imprisonment for no less than three (3) years and no more than twenty (20) years and a fine of no less than $10,000.00 and no more than $250,000.00 for any person in Atlasia to knowingly import, sell, rent, or transfer, advertise for sale, rental, or transfer, manufacture for sale, rental, or transfer, transport for the purpose of selling, renting, or transferring, or finance the sale, rental, or transfer, of any racist robot or historically-illiterate robot. For purposes of this act, uploading or transmitting a program or code that enables a device to download the artificial intelligence to program a racist robot or historically-illiterate robot or a 3D printer to manufacture a racist robot or historically-illiterate robot, or the components thereof constitutes a transfer in violation of this provision.

3. This act shall take effect immediately.

[Mr. Reactionary]

INTERNAL ROBOT SERVICE ACT

1. As used in this act:

A. Robot spy means any artificial intelligence or algorithim that is programmed, designed, or intended to identify, catelogue, monitor, gain access to, obtain information from, or make any changes to any banking, credit, debit, investment, payment processing, or other financial services account.

2. No federal department, agency, employee, agent, or contractor shall use, purchase, or obtain the benefits of any robot spy or any information obtained by a robot spy.

3. No federal funds appropriated to the Regions shall be used for the purchase, repair, maintenance, or operation of any robot spy or to acquire any information obtained by a robot spy.

4. Any information possessed by a federal department, agency, employee, agent, or contractor that was obtained by a robot spy shall be immediately destroyed or otherwise disposed of.

5. No court in Atlasia shall admit as evidence any information possessed by a federal department, agency, employee, agent, or contractor that was obtained by a robot spy.

6. This act shall take effect immediately.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Repeal Stupid FDA Rules That Almost Killed Me Act

1. Dietary Supplements consisting only of a potassium-containing compound that are not marketed as a multi-vitamin or a dietary supplement of any vitamin or mineral other than potassium, may be sold in serving sizes up to 100% of the daily recommended amount as established by the FDA. Any contradictory regulation or guidance previously issued by the FDA is hereby rescinded. This section shall take effect immediately.

2. Any bottled water intended for human consumption that contains a PH greater than 8.0, also known as "alkaline water", that is sold, imported, or exported in interstate or international commerce shall include in the Nutrition Facts a maximum recommended daily amount, to be determined by the FDA. Such determination shall be made assuming a person only consumes alkaline water and that human blood PH shall not exceed 7.3 for safety purposes. Any contradictory regulation or guidance previously issued by the FDA is hereby rescinded. This section shall take effect 120 days from the date of passage.