SENATE BILL: Region Moving Grace Period Act (Passed)

[Vern]

aye

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

This has enough votes to pass Senators have 24 hours to change their votes.

[MAINEiac4434]

Nay.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on final passage of the Region Moving Grace Period Act:

Aye (5): DevoutCentrist, NC Yankee, OntarioProgressive, Tack50 and Vern1988
Nay (0):
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (1): Maineiac4434 (Late)

With five votes in the affirmative, the bill has passed and is sent to the Vice President for House action.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE BILL

to give players moving to other regions a grace period when changing regions.

Be it enacted by both houses of Congress assembled:

SECTION I. NAME.
1. This Act may be cited as the Region Moving Grace Period Act.

SEC. II. THE GRACE PERIOD.
1. Section 14 of the Federal Electoral Act (F.L. 1-9) is amended by adding the following sections and renumbering accordingly:

4. Upon voluntary deregistration, a person may not be allowed to register again until 168 hours have passed and, unless they were resident in their region of residence and/or deregistered for the previous 180 days  may not register in another region.
5. Congress, by a 2/3rds vote in each chamber, may unilaterally suspend Section 14 clause 3 in times of an emergency. For the purposes of this act, an emergency shall be defined as any event that leaves a significant vacuum in a regional government and/or legislature.
6. Changes to a voter's region of registration shall take effect twenty-four (24) hours after their posting in the New Register Thread; and the voter may reverse the change at any time before this period has elapsed. Having made such a reversal, no voter shall change their region of registration until three hundred sixty (360) hours have elapsed.

SEC. III. IMPLEMENTATION.
1. This Act shall take effect immediately upon its passage.
2. No provisions of this Act shall be applied retroactively.

People's Regional Senate
Passed 5-0 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,

[Lumine]

This has been seen, will move it to the House now.

(I'll start posting like this for clarity as I retake my duties)