HB 23-18: Atlas Fantasy Government Board Description Act (Passed)

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Atlas Fantasy Government Board Description Act

As requested by Virginia, an Act to provide a description for the Atlas Fantasy Government board and creation of regional government sub boards.

Be it enacted by the Congress of the Republic of Atlasia assembled

A formal request shall be made to the moderators of the Atlas Forum that:

1. The description added to the Atlas Fantasy Government Board should state:
"Government of the Republic of Atlasia, including the Atlasian House, Senate, Presidency and Supreme Court".

2. Sub boards should be created for each of Atlasia's regions under the Atlas Fantasy Government board. The regions shall be responsible for passing legislation with a suggested description for their sub board.

Sponsor: Cinyc
House Designation: HB 23-18

72 hours to debate.

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I'm happy with both sections of this personally.

But, it will give the moderators a lot of work, any changes to the regions such as adding or removing regions in future will need the mods to be able to respond and act quickly. 4 years worth of threads for the different regions will need to be organised into new sub-boards and all the old regional boards will need to be archived somewhere.

But, if they are fine with that workload, then that's great.

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An amendment to specifically request that all threads for the post-reset regions are moved into the right sub-board and that those from before reset are archived. I also changed the language a little bit on point 2, though functionally the effect should be the same.

Atlas Fantasy Government Board Description Act

As requested by Virginia, an Act to provide a description for the Atlas Fantasy Government board and creation of regional government sub boards.

Be it enacted by the Congress of the Republic of Atlasia assembled

A formal request shall be made to the moderators of the Atlas Forum that:

1. The description added to the Atlas Fantasy Government Board should state:
"Government of the Republic of Atlasia, including the Atlasian House, Senate, Presidency and Supreme Court".

2. Sub boards should be created for each of Atlasia's regions under the Atlas Fantasy Government board to facilitate the passage of legislation and other proceedings of regional governments. The regions shall be responsible for passing legislation with a suggested description for their sub board. Descriptions may be added to regional sub boards on the request of the corresponding regional government.

3. All threads started in the Regional Governments sub board on or since June 9, 2016 shall be allocated to the correct regional sub board.

4. All threads started in the Regional Governments sub board before June 9, 2016 shall be allocated to a sub board of the Atlasian Fantasy Government board named "Regional Governments Archive."

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I oppose the splitting of the regional subboards. It seems I am in the minority here.

I especially oppose the current proposal however. That would basically mean Virginia diving through essencially 35 pages of threads and her painfully classifying them into each of the 3 new boards.

We should make Virginia's life easier, not harder!

As I said, my support for splitting up the regional threads is conditional on Virginia or other mods being willing to do that. It is a lot of work, and if the mods feel it is too much, then there is no issue leaving it as is.

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Amendment vote

72 hours

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I won't be supporting section 2 if this amendment doesn't pass. Not moving the threads would create a lot of problems for regional politicians who'd have their threads split between two boards, which would make things worse, not better. If we are gonna do regional threads, we should do it fully, or not at all in my opinion.

Perhaps just active threads can be moved, not the whole thing? Also, wouldn’t the moderators, Gustafson, Yank and Lumine, also be able to move them?

Thats possible, or we could only ask for threads from the last 6 months to be moved, but I'm still a little concerned that it could be too messy for historical records sake for example.

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Aye

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The vote is tied.

2-2-1-4

VP tie-breaker needed.

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The amendment is adopted.

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Amendments are adopted

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Final vote

72 hours

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Passed

4-0-1-4

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Atlas Fantasy Government Board Description Act

As requested by Virginia, an Act to provide a description for the Atlas Fantasy Government board and creation of regional government sub boards.

Be it enacted by the Congress of the Republic of Atlasia assembled

A formal request shall be made to the moderators of the Atlas Forum that:

1. The description added to the Atlas Fantasy Government Board should state:
"Government of the Republic of Atlasia, including the Atlasian House, Senate, Presidency and Supreme Court".

2. Sub boards should be created for each of Atlasia's regions under the Atlas Fantasy Government board to facilitate the passage of legislation and other proceedings of regional governments. Descriptions should be added to regional sub boards on the request of the corresponding regional government.

3. All threads started in the Regional Governments sub board on or since June 9, 2016 should be allocated to the correct regional sub board.

4. All threads started in the Regional Governments sub board before June 9, 2016 should be allocated to a sub board of the Atlasian Fantasy Government board named "Regional Governments Archive."

5. The description for the Regional Governments Archive should state:
"Archive of materials created by regional governments prior to the enacting of the Fourth Constitution of the Republic of Atlasia on June 9, 2016."

House of Representatives
Passed the House of Representatives 4-0-1-4