SENATE RESOLUTION
To bring Senate passed rules version into alignment with House passed version pertaining to VP administered bills from the opposite chamber
Be it Resolved in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,
Section 1. Title
1. The title of the J.K. Sestak Congressional Reform Resolution shall be amended to read "Congressional Reform Resolution of 2020."Section 2. Amendment to Senate Rules1. Article 11 of the New Senate Rules Resolution is amended to read as follows.
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5.) Whenever either house shall consider a bill, order, or resolution that shall have originated in the other, the President of the Congress shall immediately call a vote in that house on whether to immediately pass the legislation, or further debate it.
a.) The President of Congress shall maintain a single thread in which to preside over these votes as held by both houses, and shall regularly update the title of the thread to inform the Congress of what legislation is being considered in which house.
b.) Should the house vote to debate the legislation further, debate shall proceed in a separate thread as established elsewhere in these rules.
5.) Whenever either house shall consider a bill, order, or resolution that shall have originated in the other, following a 48-hour period in which Congress may discuss, but not formally move to modify, the legislation,the President of the Congress shall call a vote in that house on whether to immediately pass the legislation, or further debate it.
a.) Should the house vote to debate the legislation further, debate shall proceed in a separate thread as established elsewhere in these rules.
b.) These votes shall be known as "initial cloture" votes.
People's Regional SenatePassed 4-1 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled