L.C. 7.2: More Reasonable Final Business Period SOAP Amendment

[S019]

More Reasonable Final Business Period SOAP Amendment

Section 4 of the Standing Orders and Assembly Procedure Act shall be amended as follows

B. The "Final Business" period of Council shall commence 96 36 hours prior to dissolution of the Council session and shall end at dissolution.

  i. At the start of Final Business, the Speaker shall declare in all pending legislative threads that Final Business has commenced and the session is nearing its end.

    a. At this time, the Speaker must no longer open new legislative threads.

    b. At this time, neither the Speaker nor legislative sponsors shall consider new amendment proposals or votes.

  ii. Starting 72 hours prior to dissolution of the Council session, the Speaker shall no longer consider any new motion for a final vote, override vote or cloture vote.

  ii. All legislation on the floor of the Council shall go to a final vote at the start of the final business period, if more than 72 hours of debate have occurred on the legislation, unless either the sponsor of the legislation or a majority of the Council voices an objection to the vote


  iii. The Speaker shall lock all pending legislative threads at the time of dissolution.

Sponsor: S019

Debate on this has begun and shall last for at least 72 hours

[Lambsbread]

No objections.

[S019]

Any objections to this?

[Gracile]

No objections.

[S019]

So, my thoughts are that we shouldn't pass this, until we are sure that the dissolution amendment passes, if it doesn't, we can amend this accordingly.

[S019]

Motion for a final vote on this, as the amendment referendum has been called. 24 hours to object to this motion.

[S019]

This vote is now open please vote AYE, NAY, or ABSTAIN, and will remain open for 48 hours


AYE

[CookieDamage]

Aye

[Lambsbread]

Aye

[Gracile]

Aye

[Joe Biden 2024]

Aye

[S019]

closing this early, since everyone has voted. This passes by a vote of 5-0-0-0


AYE: S019, cookiedamage, 20RP12, gracile, Gorguf
NAY:
ABSTAIN:
NOT VOTING:

More Reasonable Final Business Period SOAP Amendment

Section 4 of the Standing Orders and Assembly Procedure Act shall be amended as follows

B. The "Final Business" period of Council shall commence 36 hours prior to dissolution of the Council session and shall end at dissolution.

  i. At the start of Final Business, the Speaker shall declare in all pending legislative threads that Final Business has commenced and the session is nearing its end.

    a. At this time, the Speaker must no longer open new legislative threads.

    b. At this time, neither the Speaker nor legislative sponsors shall consider new amendment proposals or votes.

 
  ii. All legislation on the floor of the Council shall go to a final vote at the start of the final business period, if more than 72 hours of debate have occurred on the legislation, unless either the sponsor of the legislation or a majority of the Council voices an objection to the vote


iii. The Speaker shall lock all pending legislative threads at the time of dissolution.

X Speaker S019