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« Reply #150 on: May 21, 2007, 03:45:49 PM »

Citizen Marriage Act

1. Anyone who applies for a marriage license inside the boundaries of Atlasia must be a citizen of the Atlasia
2. Marriages between non-citizens will remain valid
3. Penalties will be regulated by the state government for anyone who marries an illegal, vacationer, resident alien, or other non-citizen



Establishment of 9/11 Rememberance Day

1. September 11th will now be an Atlasia holiday in rememberance of those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001.
2. All Atlasia institutions will close on that day
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« Reply #151 on: May 23, 2007, 04:23:08 PM »
« Edited: June 14, 2007, 04:03:13 PM by Sen. DWTL »

Free Trade for All Act

1. No tariffs, customs, or restrictions on movement of goods, except those that have been outlawed by the destination or interim nation, shall exist between the Republic of Atlasia and any nation.
2. The President and other officers of the Atlasian Government shall take such actions as may be necessary to implement the provisions of this act.
3. Any government deemed as "hostile" or an "enemy" will not apply.
4. Any senator wishing to add a country to not apply may propose (1) amendment including them
 
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« Reply #152 on: May 25, 2007, 05:51:06 AM »

Free Trade for All Act

1. No tariffs, customs, or restrictions on movement of goods, except those that have been outlawed by the destination or interim nation, shall exist between the Republic of Atlasia and any nation.
2. The President and other officers of the Atlasian Government shall take such actions as may be necessary to implement the provisions of this act.
3. Any government deemed as "hostile" or an "enemy" will not apply.
 
 


Not this sh*t again...
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« Reply #153 on: May 25, 2007, 05:42:24 PM »

Free Trade for All Act

1. No tariffs, customs, or restrictions on movement of goods, except those that have been outlawed by the destination or interim nation, shall exist between the Republic of Atlasia and any nation.
2. The President and other officers of the Atlasian Government shall take such actions as may be necessary to implement the provisions of this act.
3. Any government deemed as "hostile" or an "enemy" will not apply.
 
 


Not this sh*t again...

My point is to eliminate all those frivolous laws and combine them into one
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« Reply #154 on: May 25, 2007, 05:45:52 PM »

Stop posting in the Legislation Introduction thread.  We have a debate thread.  Are you illiterate?
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« Reply #155 on: May 28, 2007, 08:31:36 PM »

Stop posting in the Legislation Introduction thread.  We have a debate thread.  Are you illiterate?

Partially Smiley

And here's another bill:

Establishment of Advertisment Currency
1. The Republic of Atlasia will now allow for businesses to pay for advertisment on the back of Atlasia quarters
2. The advertising will be bid on at the beginning of the fiscal year
3. The business must purchase at least 5,000 quarters
4. A quota of 100,000 advertising quarters may be minted each year
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« Reply #156 on: May 31, 2007, 05:34:25 AM »
« Edited: May 31, 2007, 06:05:09 AM by Ebowed »

Ratification of the Kyoto Treaty

1. The Republic of Atlasia hereby ratifies the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as agreed in Japan in 1997.



Copyrights Bill

1. U.S. Code Title 17, Chapter 3, Section 2, Clause 1 is amended to read "Copyright in a work created on or after January 1, 1978, subsists from its creation and, except as provided by the following subsections, endures for a term consisting of twenty-five years or until the death of the owner, whichever occurs first."
2. U.S. Code Title 17, Chapter 3, Section 2, Clause 2 is amended to read "In the case of a joint work prepared by two or more authors who did not work for hire, the copyright endures for a term consisting of twenty-five years or until the death of the last owner of the copyright, whichever occurs first."
3. U.S. Code Title 17, Chapter 3, Section 2, Clause 3 is amended to read "In the case of an anonymous work, a pseudonymous work, or a work made for hire, the copyright endures for a term of 20 years from the year of its first publication, or a term of 25 years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first."
4. No person shall be held liable for the use of computers or the Internet in copying, sharing, or distributing copyrighted music, movie, television, text, image, or software files.
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« Reply #157 on: June 03, 2007, 12:19:22 PM »

Friendly Amendments Senate Procedural Resolution
1. Insert new clause 2 into Article 4, Section 3 of the OSPR with following text:

During this debate time the main sponsor of the legislation may motion to accept the proposed Amendment as a Friendly Amendment. The PPT shall then allow 24 hours for any other Senator to object to accepting the Amendment as a Friendly Amendment. If no other Senator objects then the Amendment shall be ajudged to have been unanimously passed by the Senate and will be automatically incorporated into the Bill. If a Senator objects to accepting the Amendment in this fashion then it shall be voted upon as specified in the rest of this Section.

2. Subsequent clauses in Section are re-numbered to retain consistency.
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« Reply #158 on: June 03, 2007, 01:06:58 PM »

Friendly Amendments Senate Procedural Resolution
1. Insert new clause 2 into Article 4, Section 3 of the OSPR with following text:

During this debate time the main sponsor of the legislation may motion to accept the proposed Amendment as a Friendly Amendment. The PPT shall then allow 24 hours for any other Senator to object to accepting the Amendment as a Friendly Amendment. If no other Senator objects then the Amendment shall be ajudged to have been unanimously passed by the Senate and will be automatically incorporated into the Bill. If a Senator objects to accepting the Amendment in this fashion then it shall be voted upon as specified in the rest of this Section.

2. Subsequent clauses in Section are re-numbered to retain consistency.

I suggest this already and most thought it was a bad idea
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« Reply #159 on: June 03, 2007, 01:56:03 PM »

Resolution Amending the Position of Dean of the Senate

1. Article 2, Section 2, Clause 3 of the OSPR shall be amended to read as follows:
"In the event that the President of the Senate should be absent by reason of (a) exercising responsibility as Acting President of the Republic of Atlasia under the Constitution; (b) vacancy of the Vice Presidency; or (c) having failed to post in the Atlas Forum for a period of no less than 7 days, then the powers given by this Resolution to the President of the Senate shall instead be exercised by the Dean of the Senate."

2. Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3 of the OSPR shall be amended by the addition of the following to the existing clause:
"The Senate may, by a two-thirds majority vote on an ordinary resolution, pass the title, powers and responsibilities of the Dean of the Senate, to the next longest serving Senator (not having been removed from the position by the Senate previously), for any reason whatsoever."
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« Reply #160 on: June 05, 2007, 02:19:28 PM »

Carbon Tax Act

§1. Determination of Taxable Carbon Dioxide
(a) The President shall determine based on the best available scientific evidence available, the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the production and consumption of fossil fuels for the purpose of applying the tax called for in this act.
(b) The initial determination shall be due on the September 30, 2007 or thirty days after the passage of this Act, whichever is later, such determination shall be used for the calculation of the tax imposed in calendar year 2008.
(c) For calendar years after 2008, the President may issue a revised determination no later than September 30 of the prior calendar year.  If no revision is made the determination used in the prior calendar year shall be used.

§2. Determination of Base Tax Rate
(a) For calendar year 2008, there shall be a base tax of $5 per tonne of emitted carbon dioxide.
(b) For calendar year 2009, there shall be a base tax of $10 per tonne of emitted carbon dioxide.
(c) For calendar year 2010, there shall be a base tax of $15 per tonne of emitted carbon dioxide.
(d) For calendar year 2011, there shall be a base tax of $20 per tonne of emitted carbon dioxide.
(e) For calendar year 2012, there shall be a base tax of $25 per tonne of emitted carbon dioxide.
(f) For calendar year 2013, there shall be a base tax of $30 per tonne of emitted carbon dioxide.
(g) For calendar year 2014, there shall be a base tax of $35 per tonne of emitted carbon dioxide.
(h) For calendar year 2015, there shall be a base tax of $40 per tonne of emitted carbon dioxide.
(i) For calendar year 2016, there shall be a base tax of $45 per tonne of emitted carbon dioxide.
(j) For calendar year 2017, there shall be a base tax of $50 per tonne of emitted carbon dioxide.
(k) For calendar year 2018 and beyond, the base tax per tonne of emitted carbon dioxide shall be that of the previous calendar year multiplied by the factor determined in section 3.

§3. Tax increase factor
(a) The calculation of the factor to be used in section 2(k) shall be made no later than September 30 of the year preceding the calendar year for which the factor shall be used to determine the base tax rate per tonne of emitted carbon dioxide.  In the event that the calculation is not made by that time, a factor of 1.1 shall be used.
(b) The base factor shall be the geometric mean of Atlasian carbon dioxide emissions in the five calendar years previous to the calculation of the tax increase factor divided by Atlasian carbon dioxide emissions in the calendar year 1990.
(c)(1) If the base factor is greater than 1.1, then the factor to be used shall be 0.99 + 0.1 * the base factor.
(2) If the base factor is between 1.0 and 1.1 then the factor to be used shall be the base factor.
(3) If the base factor is lesser than 1.0, then the factor to be used shall be 1.0.

§4 Adjustment for inflation.
The base tax rate called for in section 2 shall be multiplied by the Core Producer Price Index as of the September prior to the calendar year for which the tax shall be assessed divided by the  Core Producer Price Index as of September 2007.

§5 Applicability
This tax shall be assessed on all fossil fuels produced in Atlasia or imported into Atlasia.



As far as gasoline is concerned this is a very modest tax of $0.50 / gallon as of 2017, but coal produced electricity would would increase by 4 to 5 cents per kWh, which would be a about a 50% increase in the price, so I can't see implementing a carbon tax on a faster schedule without risking significant economic impacts, especially since I have chosen not to exempt any uses from the tax as most carbon taxes that have been passed do, though I have limited it to just fossil fuel CO2 emissions since that is the type of greenhouse gas emission for which I have been able to obtain info as to the price impact in real world terms.

In any case, a carbon tax is far preferable to the cap and trade scheme of Kyoto.  Far too many opportunities for abuse, fraud, and bureaucracy under cap and trade.
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« Reply #161 on: June 07, 2007, 05:54:56 AM »

Liberalization of Sex Laws Bill

1. F.L. 13-17, Unified Federal Territories Sex Crimes Act, is amended in the following ways:
a.) Section 3, clauses 1c, 1d, and 4 are repealed.
b.) Section 4 shall be amended to read "The act of bestiality, which is defined as gross sexual imposition, sexual assault, or the committing of a sexual act with an animal that is not a human being, shall be illegal.  Any person found guilty of bestiality shall be sentenced to no more than one year in jail and/or shall be fined no more than $2,000."
c.) Section 5, clause 1 is amended to read "Sexual acts relating to necrophilia, as defined in clause 2, shall be illegal.  Any person found guilty of sexual acts relating to necrophilia shall be sentenced to no more than one year in jail and/or shall be fined no more than $2,000.  Appropriate penalties relating to restrictions on cemetery visits and in particular contact with the family of the person whose corpse has been defiled may be applied by juries as they see fit."
d.) Section 6 is repealed.
e.) Section 7 is amended to read "It shall be legal to buy, possess and view pornography depicting only persons of 18 years of age or older."
f.) A new section, to be considered Section 8 and titled "Regarding Legal Status of Contraception," will be added to the bill to read "Any law restricting the legal access to contraceptive devices to any person on the basis of age or marital status is repealed."
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« Reply #162 on: June 09, 2007, 08:29:48 AM »

Bill to Establish Atlasian Policy Towards HIV/AIDS

Section 1: Findings
1. The scientific consensus notes that AIDS is caused by HIV.
2. The scientific consensus notes that condoms are an effective method of preventing HIV transmission among sexually active people.
3. The scientific consensus notes that allowing needle exchange is an effective method of preventing HIV transmission among intravenous drug users.
4. The World Health Organization estimates that 25 million people have died from AIDS since 1981, and approximately 38.6 million people are living with the disease worldwide.

Section 2: Needle Exchange
1. Noting that needle exchange programs are effective in decreasing the rate of HIV and Hepatitis C, the federal government pledges $40 million to fund needle exchange programs effective Fiscal Year 2008.

Section 3: Condom Distribution
1. Noting that condom use offers effective protection against sexually transmitted infections including HIV, the federal government pledges $60 million to fund condom distribution programs effective Fiscal Year 2008.
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« Reply #163 on: June 10, 2007, 02:04:16 PM »

I figured I better introduce this...

Fairness to the Office Holder Amendment

1. Article V, Sec. 1, Part II of the Constitution is hereby repealed
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« Reply #164 on: June 10, 2007, 05:35:32 PM »
« Edited: June 20, 2007, 03:53:44 AM by Ebowed »

Perjury Bill

Section 1: Perjury

Any person who takes an oath before a competent tribunal or officer that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed, is true, willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true is guilty of perjury.

Section 2: Trial of Perjury

Perjury shall be tried as though it were a crime under the Consolidated Criminal Justice Act

Section 3: Punishment of Perjury

Sentencing of the crime shall be by the presiding Justice; He may use any combination of the following as punishment, depending upon the severity of the offense:

1. Up to one year revokation of registration within Atlasia.
2. Up to two years ban from holding any office under the Republic of Atlasia.
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« Reply #165 on: June 15, 2007, 04:14:42 AM »

Darfur Divestment Bill

1. All companies operating in Atlasia shall divest all funds that are invested in Sudan by August 1, 2007.
2. Any company that does not divest from Sudan by the above date shall face a fine of $1,000 fine for every employee each day that it is still invested in Sudan.
3. Sections 1 and 2 of this bill will expire on February 1, 2008.
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« Reply #166 on: June 15, 2007, 05:03:32 AM »
« Edited: June 15, 2007, 07:24:58 AM by Ebowed »

Free Palestine Bill

1. The Republic of Atlasia condemns the use of terrorism by groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas in trying to destroy the nation of Israel and to kill innocent Israeli people.
2. The Republic of Atlasia deplores the nation of Israel for using curfews, walls, and other freedom-restricting measures on the Palestinian people.
3. The Republic of Atlasia hereby recognizes the nation of Palestine as being made up by Gaza Strip and West Bank upon the condemnation of terrorism by top Palestinian officials.
4. The Republic of Atlasia hereby calls upon the United Nations, and more specifically Israel to recognize Palestine after the said conditions are met.
5. If the said conditions are met and Israel still does not recognize Palestine, the Republic of Atlasia will hereby withhold 40% of military aid to Israel and 5% more aid will be witheld for every month Israel does not recognize Palestine.
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« Reply #167 on: June 17, 2007, 11:32:07 AM »
« Edited: July 08, 2007, 12:22:23 PM by The 24 DuPont Chevrolet »

President of Atlasia Commerative Coin Act

1. The Atlasian Mint shall issue one dollar gold-plated coins to commenerate all former presidents of Atlasia
2. The front shall depicit an artist redention of the president
3. The back shall depicit a symbol from their home state
4. The treasury shall begin minting these coin on January 1, 2008
5. A president must be out of office for five months before being commenerated


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« Reply #168 on: June 17, 2007, 01:26:52 PM »

Not more of this.
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« Reply #169 on: June 17, 2007, 01:35:57 PM »


What me beating you in elections Smiley
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« Reply #170 on: June 17, 2007, 03:52:04 PM »


You are disgusting, so is your legislation
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« Reply #171 on: June 17, 2007, 07:38:10 PM »

I will not retract my David Yates legislation, however, I have made due changes
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« Reply #172 on: June 18, 2007, 03:40:35 AM »
« Edited: June 18, 2007, 06:42:37 AM by Ebowed »

Please stop posting in here unless you're posting legislation Cry

Alaskan Wildlife Protection Bill

1. F.L. 6-21 is repealed.
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« Reply #173 on: June 20, 2007, 03:41:53 AM »
« Edited: June 20, 2007, 03:50:06 AM by Ebowed »

Estate Tax Reform Bill

1. Effective FY 2008, Clause 3 of the Tax Increase Act is amended as follows:
Each portion of the value of the estate shall be taxed at the following rates, with each rate corresponding to the tax rate on only the portion of the estate that falls in the appointed range:

a) $0-$2,000,000 – 0%
b) $2,000,001-$4,000,000 – 3%
c) $4,000,001-$9,000,000 – 4%
d) $9,000,001-$15,500,000 – 5%
e) $15,500,001-$22,000,000 – 7.5%
f) $22,000,001-$45,000,000 – 10%
g) $45,000,001-$75,000,000 – 12.5%
h) $75,000,001-$100,000,000 – 15%
i) $100,000,001 and above – 17.5%
j) Farmers' non-residential property shall be taxed at 50% the normal tax rate.



Educational Funding Clarification Bill

No federal money shall go towards any regional school voucher system which funds the tuitions for schools which meet any of the following criteria:
a.) Teaches one religious faith to the exclusion of all others
b.) Prohibits students from joining on the basis of race, nationality, religion, or sexual orientation
c.) Allows the use of corporal punishment by school staff or administration.
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« Reply #174 on: June 20, 2007, 04:46:51 PM »

Establishing an Official Language of Atlasia Act

1. English is hereby established as the official language of Atlasia.
2. All government documents shall be printed in English and only English
3. The government sponsoring anything containing another language is hereby prohibited
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