Legislation Introduction Thread

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Wiki Anti-Vandalism Act

1. Clause 8 is added to Section 1 of the Consolidated Criminal Justice Act: "Vandalism of the AtlasWiki, defined as repeatedly altering an article to include inaccurate or irrelevant information of any sort, after it has been corrected at least once."

Just asking, did we had any examples of such vandalism recently?

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Wiki Anti-Vandalism Act

1. Clause 8 is added to Section 1 of the Consolidated Criminal Justice Act: "Vandalism of the AtlasWiki, defined as repeatedly altering an article to include inaccurate or irrelevant information of any sort, after it has been corrected at least once."

Just asking, did we had any examples of such vandalism recently?

Yes, it's been going on for months. The official color of the Populares, as adopted at our convention, is emerald. Antonio V has been relentlessly vandalizing our party's page and changing the color to this ugly powder blue color that is not emerald. I'm tired of having to go on there every single day to fix it and change it back.

This childish vandalism has got to stop. I'm not going to the JCP wiki page and changing your party's color to whatever I want it to be; I would expect the same respect in return.

The CCJA says that "Maliciously editing the AtlasWiki to remove legitimate content or create off-topic pages" is illegal, but for some reason nothing has been done about this situation by any AG, so perhaps the law has to be made clearer.

The Attorney General is not spending his entire life looking at every wiki page in search for violations. Actually, the Attorney General is staying away from pages of other parties than his in order to avoid any partisian fight over editions.

The Attorney General would surely appreciate being personally informed about a crime taking place. Otherwise, the Attorney General is not going to, beside having RL acitvities, to spend his entire, plus some extra, time, monotoring wikipedia.

Antonio, I don't know what is officially adopted Populares color, but if what Libertas is telling is truth and I'm still in office when notified that happened again, I'll use CCJA.

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Introduced for the Administration

I wonder when our mighty PPT will bring this one

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Introduced for the Administration

I wonder when our mighty PPT will bring this one

Thats what you get when you have multiple papers do at once and your focus is on more important things.

Of course I have no influence, but I'd suggest withdrawing this.

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Horrible bill. Economic santion wouldn't make anything better.

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Honoring Some Folks Act

1. Department of Internal Affairs headquarter shall be officially known as AndrewCT Executive Building
2. Headquarter of the office of Game Moderator shall be officially known as Purple State Executive Building
3. Department of Justice headquarter shall be officially known as Peter Bell Executive Building
4. Headquarter of the office of Registrar General shall be officially known as Fritz Executive Building
5. Headquarter of the office of Moderator General shall be officially known as Joe Arpaio Executive Building
6. Headquarter of Department of Federal Elections shall be officially known as Teddy Executive Building
7. Department of External Affairs headquarter shall be officially known as Hashemite Executive Building

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Guinea Pigs & Co. Protection Act

Considering that neutering of such spices like guinea pigs, hamsters or chinchilla, is much more complicated, health and life threatening procedure than neutering or larger animals, like dogs or cats:
1. Only a veterinarian with a certificate of knowledge and skills sufficient to perform such procedure, shall be allowed to
2. Certificates shall be issued by a revelant institutions of federal and regional governments with a strict regard to a veterinarian qualifications

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Deregistration Act

1. Any citizen, who wish to deregister permanently from Atlasia is required to PM Registrar General. Registrar General shall put the name of a person requesting dereregistration in a special list in census bureau thread.
2. Once request has been made, a citizen cannot post on any Atlasia board for a period of one month, in order to complete the process.
3. After one month of not posting on Atlasia boards, Registrar General shall remove said citizen name from the rolls.
4. No person, who deregistered, shall be allowed to register again for a period of two next month.

I'm withdrawing this project.

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Repeal of Privacy Protection Act

Considering that a Repeal of Privacy Protection Act (F.L. 34-3) is contradicting the higher power of Dave and rules, set by him on the entire forum, said law is hereby repealed.

I withdraw this piece as well.

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Deletion Is Bad Act

1. Deleting a vote in the federal election after twenty minutes since posting and/or after booth was closed is hereby illegal, and is punishable to at least six-month ban from vote and/or six-month ban from holding an office
2. Soliciting another Atlasian to delete a vote is hereby illegal as well, and is punishable to at least one year ban from vote and holding an office

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I'll support this, with a few amendments.

Always willing to accept friendly amendments

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I'll support this, with a few amendments.

Always willing to accept friendly amendments

I would maybe consider what other criminal offenses we have in Atlasia and think about whether the sentences outlined here are really in line with the others. I mean, being convicted of voter fraud under the CCJA can result in 3-month voting bans, as there is no minimum.

If anyone is willing to make this a greater reform here, I would suggest adding these two things to the CCJA and then mandating mandatory minimum sentences for ALL offenses in the CCJA. I don't think that would be unreasonable.

Thank you for those information.

Franzl, the CCJA needs a reform from a long time.

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Hug Muammar Act

The Republic of Atlasia requires itself to provide a full, permanent asylum (including a right to set his tent whenever he wants) to Mr. Muammar Gaddafi as long as he leave Libya and keep a promise to not engage in any political activity anymore.

The offer is for take for a period of two weeks from signing this Act into a law.

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Introduced for administration.

The Keep Japan Afloat and Un-Radiated Act

1.   The government of Atlasia appropriates $400 million for humanitarian relief, aid, and reconstruction for the victims of the recent devastating events in Japan recently.
2.   The Atlasian government pledges full cooperation with and support of efforts of the United Nations and NGO relief agencies in efforts to extend relief and security to the people of Japan.
3.   The government of Atlasia shall also appropriate as much funds as deemed necessary by the GM in order to inspect and shore up all Japanese nuclear facilities deemed to be at any risk by the GM or other appropriate body. The government of Atlasia shall also send many of our top nuclear specialists from government institution to investigate the nuclear facilities deemed to be at risk.
4.   The Senate hereby asks the Secretary of External Affairs to ask that our allies and other developed countries to send their financial support to the Japanese reconstruction effort.

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Nuclear Safety Act of 2011

1. All nuclear facilities in Atlasia shall be inspected every six months in terms of potential natural disaster.
2. Authorities of the Regions, where said facilities are located, shall be required to prepare a complex plans to deal with a potential natural disaster that would threaten nuclear safety.
3. Responsible federal services shall assist regional authorities in preparing said plans.

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Withdrew.

Since Rowan once complained on seniority rules:

Make Rowan Happy Act

1. The following Act shall establish factors considered in calculating seniority for all incoming Senators. The Act shall not affect already established seniority of an incumbent Senators moment of passing.
2. For Senators, who are taking an office the same day, regardless on an exact time of swearing-in, following factors shall be used in determining a seniority:
a. Former Senators (length of time served in previous non-consecutive terms)
b. Former Presidents (in order of their terms)
c. Former Vice Presidents (
- In order of the office's place in presidential line of succession
- In order of their terms
e. Former Governors
- In order of Region's population
- In order of their terms
f. Former Lieutenant Governors
- In order of Region's population
- In order of their terms
g. By Region's population
h. By alfabethical order of a registered username
3. Section 3 is not required, but cool


(Probably needs multiple grammar/speeling corrections anyway)

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Yes, Yes, I know chances of this passing are like 0%, but I'm still introducing this, so at least we can have a decent debate

Vice Presidency Abolition Amendment

1. The office of Vice President of Atlasia is hereby abolished, effectively from the start of the first presidential term after this amendment is passed
2. If the Presidency shall ever fall vacant, the highest-ranking, per current line of succession, Cabinet member shall become President.
3. If the President is unable, either by his own written declaration or Cabinet member and two-thirds majority Senate declaration, the highest-ranking, per current line of succession, shall serve as Acting President for this period, specified by Section 3, Article 2 of the Constitution

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Ask The Power Act

1. Moderator General shall be required to stick current official White House thread
2. Any Senator or Regional Governor shall be allowed to submitt an official question here for President, Vice President or any cabinet members, regarding Government business
3. President, Vice President or Cabinet member, to whom question was addressed, shall be required to provide an official answer within three days, barring leave of absence before

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All right, since we had crappy turnout due to Easter, both on right and left...

No More Holiday Elections Amendment

Article I, Section 4 and Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution shall be amended with adding following clause:

- Federal elections shall not be held during any kind of holiday Friday and weekend.
- In case that constitution is setting election for holiday Friday and weekend, federal election shall be held a week earlier, than originally mandated date

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Because we have an active discussion on the future of Vice Presidency during this campaign, I shall withdraw this:

Yes, Yes, I know chances of this passing are like 0%, but I'm still introducing this, so at least we can have a decent debate

Vice Presidency Abolition Amendment

1. The office of Vice President of Atlasia is hereby abolished, effectively from the start of the first presidential term after this amendment is passed
2. If the Presidency shall ever fall vacant, the highest-ranking, per current line of succession, Cabinet member shall become President.
3. If the President is unable, either by his own written declaration or Cabinet member and two-thirds majority Senate declaration, the highest-ranking, per current line of succession, shall serve as Acting President for this period, specified by Section 3, Article 2 of the Constitution

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Since there's been a lot of talks about reforming the Vice Presidency, I shall officially present my idea, I voiced earlier:

Active Vice Presidency Amendment

1. Vice President's function as President of the Senate shall be abolished.
2. The position of President pro tempore of the Senate shall be transferred to President of the Senate.
3. President shall be required to appoint the Vice President as one of the cabinet officials (namely Secretary of External Affairs, Secretary of Internal Affairs, Secretary of Federal Elections, Attorney General, Registrar General or Moderator General), in addition to his elected position.
4. President shall be allowed to remove the Vice President from a cabinet post, as long as he shall offer him another.

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Regional Senators Clarification Amendment

Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution is amended as follow:

1. The Senate shall be divided into two classes: Class A, which shall comprise the Senators elected from the Regions, and Class B, which shall comprise Senators elected by a form of proportional representation. Each class shall be limited to 5 Senators. Regions shall not elect more than one Senator for Class A.

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Privacy Protection Act

FL 36-11 is hereby repealed.

You mean repealing law decriminalizing posting PMs or chat logs?

I tried it once, because I believed it's illogical to allow something that is illegal under forum rules. But opposition was too strong for me to pass this.

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The Recall of Senators Amendment.
Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution is hereby amending to include:

8: If 30% of a Senator's constituency signs a petition to recall their Senator(s) then the Secretary of Federal Elections shall open a voting booth for the recall election exactly two weeks after the petition obtains the needed amount of signatures. The recall elections shall follow the same procedures as the the general elections for each class of Senators. If the Secretary of Federal elections declares a recall election is to be held, any eligible citizen may declare their intention to be on the ballot up to 48 hours before the booth is open. Should the Senator(s) be recalled, the certified winner(s) of the election may swear in to take their seat in the senate as immediately.   

My two cents:

While I'm not opposing the very idea of allowing recalls (actually, it can be a fun ), I'd take it cautiously, like limiting this one to regional Senators only, to see whether recall stuff works, and then eventually expand. 

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National Initiative Amendment

1. The citizens of Atlasia shall be empowered to propose federal balloting initiatives
2. Each initiative shall be required to gather at least 20 signatures from the registered citizens, outside of an author
3. Initiatives that gathered a required number of signatures shall be voted on at-large each two months, simultaneously with scheduled federal elections
4. The Secretary of Forum Affairs shall administer the voting
5. If passed with absolute majority of votes, an initiative shall become a federal law upon vote certification by the SoFE