Southern Legislation Introduction Thread - 2018

[Mr. Reactionary]

Driver's License Reform Act

1. Commercial driver's licences (CDLs) issued in one state will be recognized as valid throughout all States in the Southern Region.

2. The Bessel-NeverAgain Transgender Rights Act of 2017 shall be amended as follows:

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[Mr. Reactionary]

Butt Stuff Act

1. Whereas, prostate cancer afflicts many Southrons, and
Whereas, prostate cancer can be detected early increasing survival rates,
The Southern Chamber hereby declares June 2019, Get Fingered Month and encourages all adult males to schedule an appointment with their physician for a prostate exam.

2. No later than January 1, 2020, each local Board of Education that offers a non abstinence only sex education curriculum shall publish proposed curriculum for safe analingus techniques.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Resolution in support of DDT Exports

1. Whereas, DDT is still a legal pesticide in many other countries, and
Whereas Atlasia is the best country for manufacturing, and
Whereas jobs are good, and
Whereas cutting our own throat economically is foolish,
be it resolved by the Southern Region that the government of Atlasia should lift the ban on the manufacture, transportation, or sale of DDT to be exported to countries where it is legal.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Judicial and Prosecutorial Reform Act

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[Mr. Reactionary]

Better Skools Act

SECTION I: NAME
This act shall be known as the "Better Skools Act"

SECTION II: SCHOOL FUNDING
1. The Recycling Awareness in Schools Act shall be amended as follows:

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2. Nothing in Regional or State law shall prohibit school districts in the Southern Region from pooling together to buy heating and utility services.
3. No public funds shall be used for transportation expenses related to private school students commuting to private schools.

SECTION III: CURRICULUM
1. The Southern Athletic Requirement Act is hereby repealed.
2. Computer coding is hereby classified as a foreign language for foreign language curriculum requirements.
3. Drivers’ Education classes offered in public schools shall include police stops, related rights, and what to do and not do during police stops within the offered curriculum.
4. The Southern Chamber hereby encourages local schools to refer income qualifying students for SNAP enrollment if they are not already enrolled.

SECTION IV: TIMING
1. This act shall take effect immediately except for Section III-2 and Section III-3 which shall take effect at the beginning of the next school year. 

[Mr. Reactionary]

Public Workers Protection Act

1. No State or locality in the Southern Region shall prohibit an employee of the State or locality, including firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, or law-enforcement officers within its employment, or deputies, appointees, and employees of local constitutional officers, from participating in political activities while these employees are off duty, out of uniform and not on the premises of their employment with the locality.

2. For purposes of this act, the term "political activities" includes, but is not limited to, voting; registering to vote; soliciting votes or endorsements on behalf of a political candidate or political campaign; expressing opinions, privately or publicly, on political subjects and candidates; displaying a political picture, sign, sticker, badge, or button; participating in the activities of, or contributing financially to, a political party, candidate, or campaign or an organization that supports a political candidate or campaign; attending or participating in a political convention, caucus, rally, or other political gathering; initiating, circulating, or signing a political petition; engaging in fund-raising activities for any political party, candidate, or campaign; acting as a recorder, watcher, challenger, or similar officer at the polls on behalf of a political party, candidate, or campaign; or becoming a political candidate.

3. Employees of a State or locality, including firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, and other employees specified above are prohibited from using their official authority to coerce or attempt to coerce a subordinate employee to pay, lend, or contribute anything of value to a political party, candidate, or campaign, or to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of that person's political affiliations or political activities, except as such affiliation or activity may be established by law as disqualification for employment.

4. Employees of a State or locality, including firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, and other employees specified above are prohibited from discriminating in the provision of public services, including but not limited to firefighting, emergency medical, and law-enforcement services, or responding to requests for such services, on the basis of the political affiliations or political activities of the person or organization for which such services are provided or requested.

5. Employees of a State or locality, including firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, law-enforcement officers, and other employees specified above are prohibited from suggesting or implying that a locality has officially endorsed a political party, candidate, or campaign.

6. No firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, or law-enforcement officers in the Southern Region shall be permitted to strike against the public good.

7. No Regional, State, or local employer shall consider the presence or lack of facial hair, tattoos, or piercings when making hiring decisions.

8. No Regional, State, or local contract for services shall caps the number of apprenticeships used by government contractors other than those caps required under federal law.

9. This act shall take effect immediately.

[Mr. Reactionary]

INFOWARS.COM Act

SECTION I: TITLE
1. This law shall be referred to as the INFOWARS.COM Act.

II: CRUSHING THE NEW WORLD ORDER
1. It shall be expressly prohibited for any flag to be displayed in any southern court, or during any Regional, State, or local administrative hearing, tribunal, or arbitration, if that flag has been adorned by decorative fringe.
2. No State, locality, or utility operating within the Southern Region shall provide drinking water with added fluoride without the express written consent of all water users.
3. This act shall take effect immediately. No lawsuit to enforce the provisions of the law shall be justiciable in any federal or Regional court until 90 days after this law takes effect.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Cheaper Car Insurance Act

1. Nothing in Regional or State law shall prohibit automobile insurance vendors from offering accident-forgiveness policies and no-fault policies, including across State lines within the Southern Region.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Ladies Night Clarification Act

1. Nothing in Southern law shall be interpreted as prohibiting bars and restaurants from offering discounts to only women or only men who visit the  bar or restaurant during an announced period of time.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Resolution Declaring the Region's Official Kanto Starter Pokemon

1. The official Kanto starter Pokemon on the Southern Region is hereby declared to be Squirtle.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Zzap Act

1. No Southern Regional officer or employee, or State or locality in the Southern Region shall prohibit a person who is eligible to carry a firearm in public from carrying an electric stungun onto public property with the following exceptions:
a. Airports, Searports, and International Ports of Entry
b. Jails and Prisons
c. Court Houses and active arbitration hearing rooms
d. Public primary and secondary schools
e. Stadiums and arenas

2. This act shall take effect immediately. No lawsuit to enforce the provisions of the law shall be justiciable in any federal or Regional court until 90 days after this law takes effect.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Boring Legal Stuff Act

1. The creation of any future fee tail estates of land succession is hereby prohibited. Any existing land in the Southern Region held as a fee tail shall be considered a fee simple estate.
2. No civil lawsuit for products liability claims against an aircraft shall be heard in southern courts after 10 years of sale or the life of any accompanying express warranty, whichever is greater.
3. Any land owners shall have a possessory lien and may physically impound cattle owned by another person if the cattle crash through the landowner’s fence, until such time that the cattle owner pays for the damage to the fence and a reasonable impoundment fee.
4. No court in the Southern Region shall recognize a theory of contributory negligence in torts actions.
5. In any southern court where an affirmative defense of self-defense is being offered, the southern court shall apply the common law castle doctrine and the common law stand-your-ground tests.
6. In actions at tort in the Southern Region, a landowner owes no duty of care to an unknown and uninvited trespasser, other than a duty to reasonably protect against children drawn to an attractive nuisance.
7. Any defendant in a southern court shall be entitled to an expedited motion to dismiss against frivolous tort claims based on of mental or emotional distress, mental or emotional anguish, or claims related to endangerment against a business due to that business allowing transgender customers to use the bathroom corresponding to their self-identified gender.
8. This act shall go into effect 6 months after the date of passage.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Jeb Stuart Medical Research Gift Act

Whereas, curing medical disorders is good for the Southern Region
1. $100,000.00 is hereby appropriated to discovering a cure for Alzheimer’s disease
2. $100,000.00 is hereby appropriated to discovering a cure for Sickle-Cell Anemia
3. $100,000.00 is hereby appropriated to discovering a cure for Veganism
4. $100,000.00 is hereby appropriated to discovering a cure for the mental disorder causing persons to lick their finger before turning the page
5. $100,000.00 is hereby appropriated to discovering a cure for breast cancer.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Resolution Condemning Recent Bad Acts by Congress

Whereas, Congress has irresponsibly pushed several dumb and dangerous policies,

Be it resolved by the Southern Chamber that the Atlasian Congress should be condemned for its support of the Employee Free Choice Act and the Right to Work Repeal Act, as well as its failure to enact the Commonsense Welfare Reform Act and the Obsolete Programs Sunset Act.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Resolution Condemning certain members of Fremont Parliament

Whereas, members of the Parliament of Fremont has irresponsibly pushed several dumb and dangerous policies,

Be it resolved by the Southern Chamber that those supportive members of the Parliament of Fremont should be condemned for supporting the Resolution on the right to bear arms and the Right to Work Repeal Act, the Fremont Assault Weapons Ban Act, the Resolution supporting Employee Free Choice Act, and the Resolution to tighten federal gun control laws.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I move to sponsor every Spark498 bill currently on the floor.

[Mr. Reactionary]

5 of these are eligible for floor time.

[tmthforu94]

Go South Young Man Act
1. Effective for the 2019 fiscal year, any Fremont resident age 18+ who moves to the South, establishes residency for a minimum of six months and is employed full or part-time shall be eligible for a $1000 tax credit as assistance for moving expenses.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I appoint Wulfric as informal Deputy Speaker.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Go South Young Man Act
1. Effective for the 2019 fiscal year, any Fremont resident age 18+ who moves to the South, establishes residency for a minimum of six months and is employed full or part-time shall be eligible for a $1000 tax credit as assistance for moving expenses.

I co-sponsor this bill.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Better Skools Act

SECTION I: NAME
This act shall be known as the "Better Skools Act"

SECTION II: SCHOOL FUNDING
1. The Recycling Awareness in Schools Act shall be amended as follows:

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2. Nothing in Regional or State law shall prohibit school districts in the Southern Region from pooling together to buy heating and utility services.
3. No public funds shall be used for transportation expenses related to private school students commuting to private schools.

SECTION III: CURRICULUM
1. The Southern Athletic Requirement Act is hereby repealed.
2. Computer coding is hereby classified as a foreign language for foreign language curriculum requirements.
3. Drivers’ Education classes offered in public schools shall include police stops, related rights, and what to do and not do during police stops within the offered curriculum.
4. The Southern Chamber hereby encourages local schools to refer income qualifying students for SNAP enrollment if they are not already enrolled.

SECTION IV: TIMING
1. This act shall take effect immediately except for Section III-2 and Section III-3 which shall take effect at the beginning of the next school year.  

I co-sponsor this bill.

[Mr. Reactionary]

I appoint Wulfric as informal Deputy Speaker.

the role of Deputy Speaker was abolished as part of a rules change.

I can't give you a role that doesn't exist.
I'd be amenable to a rule change that could create a Deputy Speaker position that serves at the pleasure of the Speaker, and changing nothing else though...

Were the rules actually changed or am I just a less appealing Deputy Speaker candidate than Wulfric?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I appoint Wulfric as informal Deputy Speaker.

the role of Deputy Speaker was abolished as part of a rules change.

I can't give you a role that doesn't exist.
I'd be amenable to a rule change that could create a Deputy Speaker position that serves at the pleasure of the Speaker, and changing nothing else though...

Were the rules actually changed or am I just a less appealing Deputy Speaker candidate than Wulfric?

what happened was you becoming GM.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

The Governor also supported the idea of appointing him. Truth be told, you were my first choice but there was this big asterisk that was too much to ignore. And we will saving all your bills.

[Mr. Reactionary]

I appoint Wulfric as informal Deputy Speaker.

the role of Deputy Speaker was abolished as part of a rules change.

I can't give you a role that doesn't exist.
I'd be amenable to a rule change that could create a Deputy Speaker position that serves at the pleasure of the Speaker, and changing nothing else though...

Were the rules actually changed or am I just a less appealing Deputy Speaker candidate than Wulfric?

what happened was you becoming GM.

Did u know that all weekend?