House Legislation Introduction Thread

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That's fine and we can debate this, I'm simply responding to the public legislation thread that our House is responsible for.

Isn't there a slot in the House for citizen bills?

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Poirot's No Tax Accounts Act

Section 1. Title
1. This legislation may be titled: Poirot's No Tax Accounts Act.

Section 2. Basic
1. No Tax Accounts can be offered by financial institutions operating in the region starting in June 2021.
2. All citizens aged 18 years old or older who are Atlasian residents for fiscal purposes are eligible to open a No Tax Account.
 
 
Section 3. Contribution and Investment
1. Investments allowed in No Tax Accounts are cash, certificate of deposits, bonds, mutual funds and shares in companies listed on a stock exchange.
2. Income generated inside the account (interest, capital gain or dividend) is not taxed.
3. The maximum contribution allowed every fiscal period is $5,000 for everyone 18 years old or older.
4. An individual can own any number of accounts, although the contribution limit per fiscal period is $5,000 total into all accounts (not each account).
5. The amount of contribution allowed in one period not used by a person is added to the contribution allowed of the following period.

Section 4. Withdrawal
1. A withdrawal from the account is considered non taxable income.
2. A withdrawal is allowed at any time (subject to the liquidity of the type of investment held) and a sum equal to the withdrawal can be put back in the account only in the next fiscal period and in addition to the regular contribution allowed in the period.
3. The death of an account holder is considered a withdrawal.

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ROC Act of 2021

1. The Republic of Atlasia will recognize the Republic of China and shall establish a embassy in Taipei, Republic of China
2. The Republic of Atlasia shall recognize that the Republic of China currently controls Taiwan Main Island/Formosa, Kinmen Main Island, Penghu Main Island, Orchid Island, Xiyu Island, Waisanding Shoal Island, Green Island, Lesser Kinmen Island, Baisha Island, Nangan Island, Cimei Island, Lamay Island, Wang'an Island, and Beigan Island.

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AN ACT OF CONGRESS
To grant statehood for Bir Tawil

Section I: Title
1. The title of this bill shall be called the "Bir Tawil Statehood Act"

Section II: Statehood
1. The territory of Bir Tawil shall be granted statehood after the passage of this bill.

Section III: Impact
1. Should this bill pass the impacts is as follows:
a. All Atlasian nationals in Bir Tawil shall be granted citizenship
b. Bir Tawil shall become a state, effective immediately
c. Any person born within Bir Tawil shall be granted citizenship immediately upon statehood.
2. Bir Tawil shall be in the region of Lincoln.

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WEB Dubois ACT

HOUSE BILL

Be it resolved in the Atlasian Congress Assembled,

SECTION 1.

1. This Act may be cited as the "WEB Dubois Act”.

SECTION 2.

1. a. olawakandi shall be considered an eternal citizen of the Republic of Atlasia, as part of the Social Democratic Party in the state of Missouri.
b. He shall not be subject to normal automatic deregistration provisions, regardless of whether he votes in Atlasian elections.
c. He shall receive all rights and privileges normally reserved for citizens of Atlasia.
2. The Registrar General shall update the census accordingly.


SECTION 3.
1. Should olawakandi register in the New Register Thread, this Act shall become null and void.

Credit to MB for the King Dave Act and for inspiring this.

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AN ACT OF CONGRESS
To unite Atlasia and Canada

Section I: Title
1. The title of this bill shall be called the "Canadian-Atlasian Merger Act" It may be cited as "CAMA" or "CAM"

Section II: Canada
1. The Republic of Atlasia shall absorb the provinces and territories confederated as "Canada" as equal states in the Republic of Atlasia
2. The provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the territory of Yukon shall be admitted into the union as states of the Commonwealth of Fremont.
3. The provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the territory of Nunavut shall be admitted into the union as states of Lincoln
4. The provinces of Ontario, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and the Northwest territories shall be admitted into the union as states of the South.

Section II: Enactment
1. This act shall take effect after the ratification of this bill from the Parliament of Canada.

Inspired by this and mostly taken from that.

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A RESOLUTION
To recognize the existance of Bigfoot

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 Bigfoot Recognition Ressolution.

Section II. Content

i. The Congress of Atlasia hereby recognizes Bigfoot's existence.

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A RESOLUTION
To re-introduce the honorable practice of dueling

Be it resolved in both houses of the Atlasian Congress Assembled, that with the ratification of 2/3rds of the Regions, the Constitution shall be amended as follows:

Section I. Title

i. This amendment may be known as the Atlasian Duels Amendment.

Section II. Content

i. Should there be a mutual agreement, any two Atlasians may engage in a duel.

ii. Duels shall take place in a single match of any online game agreed upon by the participants, so long as the game can be fully recorded for independent verification.

iii. A replay of the game must be saved and shared with others to confirm the duel happened and who won and who lost.

iv. Whoever loses the duel shall be removed as a registered voter and prohibited from re-registering for a period of one week or two months, whichever the duelers mutually decide.  Duelists may also agree to different terms provided that the agreement is made in public before the time of the duel.  No citizen may be prohibited from re-registering for a period of longer than two months as the result of a duel.

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A RESOLUTION
To recognize the existance of Bigfoot

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 Bigfoot Recognition Ressolution.

Section II. Content

i. The Congress of Atlasia hereby recognizes Bigfoot's existence.

withdrawing this

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A RESOLUTION
Calling on the President and Secretary of State to enter negotiations with Canada regarding a possible Common Market Agreement

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

Section I. Title

1. This bill may be known as the Canadian Common Market Recommendation Resolution.

Section II. Content

1. The Congress of Atlasia recommends that the President and Secretary of State should enter talks with representatives of Canada.

2. The Congress of Atlasia recommends that the objective of these talks is to negotiate a "Common Market Agreement" between the Republic of Atlasia and Canada.

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A BILL
To bar the United Arab Emirates from getting military aid.

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

Section I. Title

1. This bill may be known as the No UAE Arms Sales Act.

Section II. Content

1. All Military Aid, including both lethal and non-lethal supplies to the United Arab Emirates shall be suspended. This ban shall only be lifted after a majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
2. Any arms, aerospace or other company providing Military equipment, logistical support or defense personnel to the United Arab Emirates will not be allowed to bid for future contracts with the Government of Atlasia.

Section III. Action

1. This bill shall take effect immediately after the President signs this.

(my inspiration)

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A BILL
To get Atlasians on our currency.

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

Section I. Title

1. This bill may be known as the Atlasians on Currency Act.

Section II. Content

1. The one dollar bill shall feature a photo of President Nym.
2. The five dollar bill shall feature a photo of President Gustaf.
3. The ten dollar bill shall feature a photo of Senator North Carolina Yankee.
4. The twenty dollar bill shall feature a photo of President Adam Griffin.
5. The fifty dollar bill shall feature a photo of President LumineVonReuental
6. The penny shall feature a photo of President Al Widdershins
7. The nickel shall feature a photo of President bgwah
8. The dime shall feature a photo of J.K. Sestak
9. The quarter shall feature a photo of Chief Justice Windjammer

Section III. Action

1. This bill shall take effect on June 1st, 2021.

(my inspiration)

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A BILL
To claim unclaimed land.

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

Section I. Title

1. This bill may be known as the "Claiming Unclaimed Land Act in the Danube".

Section II. Content

1. Seeing as Serbia and Croatia have not claimed pockets of land on the west bank of the Danube, the Republic of Atlasia hereby asserts its jurisdiction over the lands unclaimed by Serbia and Croatia in the west bank of the Danube.
2. These territories shall be administered by the Subdepartment of the Interior of the Department of Internal Affairs.

Section III. Action

1. This bill shall take effect immediately after the President signs this.

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A BILL
To amend the Federal Electoral Act of 2019.

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

Section I. Title

1. This bill may be known as the The Fusion Voting Amendment to the Federal Electoral Act of 2019.

Section II. Content

1. Section 5, subsection 3, part c shall be amended to read

c. All candidates must be listed with their registered political party, with the following exceptions:
i. A party may, at its discretion as determined by individual bylaws, prohibit any candidate from appearing on the ballot with it's official party name. This decision must be made and reported to the relevant election administrators at least 48 hours in advance of the start of the election. (Continuation of F.L. 15-05§2.3)
ii. If a candidate who is a member of a political party has been barred from appearing on the ballot with that party’s name in accordance with the above clause, but has been endorsed by another party in accordance with their bylaws, then the candidate may choose, with the assent of the chair of the endorsing party, to appear on the ballot under that party’s name with “(endorsed)” appended to the end of the name. Otherwise, their party shall be listed as “Unaffiliated”
iii. If an independent a candidate has been endorsed by a political party in accordance with their bylaws, then the candidate may choose, with the assent of the chair of the endorsing party, to appear on the ballot with their party listed as “Independent Candidate's Party ([endorsing party name])
iiia. Should a candidate be endorsed by two or more parties, and given approval by the chairs of the endorsing parties to appear on the ballot with the endorsing party's name, the names of the endorsing parties shall be listed alphabetically. 

2. Upon passage of this amendment, a new page entitled "Federal Electoral Act" shall be created on the wiki. It shall contain the most up to date text, with amendments, of the Federal Electoral Act as active in law. The page for "Federal Electoral Act of 2019" shall continue to contain the original text. Both pages shall contain disclaimers at the top of the page explaining this and linking to the other page.

Section III. Action

1. This bill shall take effect immediately after the President signs this.

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AMENDMENT I

To the Fifth Constitution of Atlasia.

1. The Fifth Constitution of Atlasia - pending its ratification by the regions - is amended as follows:

The Northeastern Subregion shall consist of the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Atlasian Virgin Islands.

In addition, no subregional senate election shall admit as eligible voters any person having resided in any other subregion within the fifty-six days prior to the commencement of the election.

Each subregion shall elect a Senator for a term of four months by popular election of the subregion’s residents administered by its constituent regional government in a manner prescribed by the legislature thereof. Subregional Senate elections shall be held in the months of April, August, and December.

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

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to establish such executive departments as may be necessary for the execution of the laws, and to appoint their principle principal officers with the advice and consent of the Senate;

The officers of the Republic of Atlasia, and of the several Regions, shall be bound by Oath of Affirmation to support this Constitution, but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the Republic of Atlasia.

2. Upon ratification of both the Fifth Constitution and this amendment, the text shall immediately be amended, and the amended text shall apply both when the Constitution takes full effect on the Second of July as well as to the Senate elections as held in June.

Amendment explanation: This amendment makes fixes to errors in the intial text to the Fifth Constitution.

Sponsoring Sestak's amendment in the house.

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AN ACT
to bring federal law in line with the Fifth Constitution
Be it enacted by both houses of Congress assembled:

Section 1 (Title)
1. The title of this act shall be, the "Federal Game Procedure Amendments Act of 2021" It may be cited as the "FGPA Act 2021" or "FGPA 21".

Section 2 (Amendments to the Federal Electoral Act)
The Federal Electoral Act is hereby amended with the following substitutions:

Elections to the House of Representatives at-large Senate seats shall be held in the months...

Elections to the House for at-large Senate held in December shall be begin at...

Special elections to the House of Representatives at-large Senate seats, in accordance...

All candidates elected in special elections to the House of Representatives at-large Senate seats shall be eligible...

The declaration period for a special election for the House of Representatives at-large Senate shall begin...

The declaration period for any regularly scheduled or special election for the House of Representatives at-large Senate shall terminate...

During Presidential elections, the candidate listing for Presidential tickets and House of Representatives at-large Senate should be clearly separated...

Elections to the House of Representatives at-large Senate seats shall be conducted...

No write-in for the House of Representatives at-large Senate shall be considered...

Special elections for a single at-large Senate seat in the House of Representatives shall be conducted...

In elections for multiple at-large Senate seats in the House of Representatives, single transferable vote...

...with one ticket’s term of office coinciding with the Congress whose House of Representatives was Senate for which at-large seats were elected at the same election, and the other ticket’s term of office coinciding with the subsequent Congress Senate. ...

If, in a runoff for a single at-large Senate seat in the House of Representatives, both candidates have...

2. Section 10 of the Federal Electoral Act is hereby amended as follows:

1. Should a significant calamity in the operation of Atlasia occur, leaving the federal election authority portfolio unassigned, the Presidency vacant, and the Presidential line of succession completely empty, with too few members in either House of Congress the Senate to elect a presiding officer, then the moderators of the Atlas Fantasy Elections board and modadmins and administrators of the Atlas Forum are statutorily authorized to hold a special election(s) for the House of Representatives so that a Speaker to the Senate as necessary so that a presiding officer may be elected and elevated to the Presidency.

Section 3 (Other Amendments to Federal Law)

1. Section 4.2 of the Census Act is hereby repealed.

2. F.L. 7.1§1 (i), (iv) are hereby repealed and remaining subsections renumbered accordingly. All instances of "nor Speaker of the House of Representatives" are hereby stricken, as is the text "nor member of the House of Representatives" in subsection (v) [now renumbered subsection (iii)]. The text "nor member of Congress" in subsection (vi) [now renumbered subsection (iv)] is hereby amended to "nor Senator".

Section 4 (Addendum to the Common Market Agreement)

1. The following is added as an addendum to the Atlasia-UK Common Market Agreement:

For the purposes of subregional allocation, citizens of Atlasia residing in England and Wales shall be considered to reside within the Upper South subregion, citizens of Atlasia residing in Scotland shall be considered to reside within the Great Lakes subregion, and citizens of Atlasia residing in Nortern Ireland and Gibraltar shall be considered to reside within the Mountain West subregion.

Section 5 (Effective Date)

1. This bill shall go into effect immediately upon passage into law.

Presidential slot.

Sponsoring Sestak's amendments to various bills in the house.

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AMENDMENT II

To the Fifth Constitution of the Republic of Atlasia.

1. The Fifth Constitution of the Republic of Atlasia is amended as follows.

1. In order to facilitate a clean transition to this constitution, upon ratification any scheduled regular elections for the bicameral Congress for a term beginning on July 2nd or later shall be cancelled.
2. Elections shall instead be held in June under the terms of this constitution for terms set to begin upon its taking effect. Elections for regional and at-large Senate shall be regular elections for their seats’ full terms of four and two months, respectively. Elections for subregional Senate shall be special elections to fill a partial term of two months; the first subregional Senate elections for a full term shall then take place in August.
3. Nothing in this Article or in the preceding Constitution shall be construed as to deny the right of any citizen to vote in the elections of June 2021 in the region and subregion of which they are a lawful resident, provided the term of their residency began on or before May 30, 2021.

Amendment explanation: This amendment allows Koopa to vote in the June senatorial elections.

Sponsored.

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A BILL
To amend the "Reforming and Regionalizing Public Healthcare Act of 2017" to include Speech and Language therapy

1. This bill may be known as the Atlascare Speech and Language Therapy Act
2. Section 2, Subsection 2, Part a. of the "Reforming and Regionalizing Public Healthcare Act of 2017" shall be amended as follows:

AtlasCare Part B provides benefits and coverage for

• Doctor and clinical lab services
• Outpatient and preventive care
• Screenings, surgical fees and supplies
• Physical and occupational therapy
• Physical therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Speech and Language therapy