Office of Southern Governor LouisvilleThunder

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

As there were no objections to the motion, the bill now passes 5-0-0 and awaits gubernatorial action.

COMMON LAW CAN BE AMENDED BY LEGISLATION ACT

Whereas, a majority of the Atlasian Supreme Court has declared any U.S. Supreme Court case decided prior to 2016 to be "common law" of no binding nature; and

Whereas, "common law" is judicially created law that only exists when such law is not prohibited by legislative action; and

Whereas, it is a centuries old principle of law that "common law" can be amended or voided at will by legislative action; and

Whereas, the Southern Region is well within its rights to make clear which "common law" it recognizes and which it rejects, as the Southern Region retains its sovereign legislative powers;

Now, therefore, the Southern Region does hereby ordain and resolve the following:

1. To the maximum extent permissible by law, any common law established by the following cases is hereby declared to be superseded, overturned, incorrect, invalid, and null and void when raised in a Southern Court or to a federal court interpreting or deciding the constitutionality of any Southern law:

Federal power over intraregional activity
- McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 316 (1819)
- TX v. White, 74 U.S. 700, (1869)
- De Lima v. Bidwell, 182 U.S. 1 (1901)
- Goetze v. U.S., 182 U.S. 221 (1901)
- Dooley v. U.S., 182 U.S. 222 (1901)
- Armstrong v. U.S., 182 U.S. 243 (1901)
- Downes v. Bidwell, 182 U.S. 244 (1901)
-Huus v. New York and Porto Rico Steamship Co., 182 U.S. 392 (1901)
- Dooley v. U.S., 183 U.S. 151 (1901)
- 14 Diamond Rings v. U.S. 183 U.S. 176 (1901)
- HI v. Mankichi, 190 U.S. 197 (1903)
- Gonzales v. Williams, 192 U.S. 1 (1904)
- Kepner v. U.S., 195 U.S. 100 (1904)
- Dorr v. U.S., 195 U.S. 138 (1904)
- Mendozana v. U.S. 195 U.S. 158 (1904)
- Rasmussen v. U.S., 197 U.S. 516 (1905)
- Trono v. U.S., 199 U.S. 521 (1905)
- Grafton v. U.S., 206 U.S. 333 (1907)
- Kent v. Porto Rico, 207 U.S. 113 (1907)
- Kopel v. Bingham, 211 U.S. 468 (1909)
- Dowdell v. U.S., 221 U.S. 325 (1911)
- Ochoa v. Hernández, 230 U.S. 139 (1913)
- Ocampo v. U.S., 234 U.S. 91 (1914)
- J. W. Hampton, Jr. & Co. v. U.S., 276 U.S. 394 (1928)
- Wickard v Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942)
- Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964)
- Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez, 436 U.S. 49 (1978)
- Marquette Nat. Bank of Minneapolis v. First of Omaha Service Corp., 439 U.S. 299 (1978)
- Colautti v. Franklin, 439 U.S. 379 (1979)
- Bellotti v. Baird, 443 U.S. 622 (1979)
- Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, 462 U.S. 416 (1983)
- Morrison v. Olson, 487 U.S. 654 (1988)
- U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995)
- Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1 (2005)

Individual Rights Generally
- Calder v. Bull, 3 U.S. (3 Dall.) 386 (1798)
- Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857)
- Slaughterhouse, 83 U.S. 36 (1873)
- Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)
- Jacobson v. MA, 197 U.S. 11 (1905)
- Buck v Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927)
- Korematsu v. US, 323 U.S. 214 (1944)
- Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973)
- Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 (1973)
- Planned Parenthood v. Danforth, 428 U.S. 52 (1976)
- Moore v. East Cleveland, 431 U.S. 494 (1977)
- Regents of UC v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978)
- Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980)
- Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 476 U.S. 747 (1986)
- Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992)
- Stenberg v. Carhart, 530 U.S. 914 (2000)
- Grutter v. Bolinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003)

Speech, religion, and guns
- U.S. v. Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939)
-  Railway Employees' Dept. v. Hanson, 351 U.S. 225 (1956)
- Roth v. U.S., 354 U.S. 476 (1957)
- One, Inc. v. Olesen, 355 U.S. 371 (1958)
- International Association of Machinists v. Street, 367 U.S. 740 (1961)
- Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962)
- Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963)
- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)
- Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964)
- Memoirs v. MA, 383 U.S. 413 (1966)
- Epperson v. Arkansas, 393 US 97 (1968)
- Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971)
- Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, 431 U.S. 209 (1977)
- Stone v. Graham, 449 US 39 (1980)
- Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38 (1985)
- Edwards v. Aguillard, 482 US 578 (1987)
- Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990)
- U.S. v. Kokinda, 497 U.S. 720 (1990)
- Lee v. Weisman, 505 U.S. 577 (1991)
- Reno v. ACLU, 521 U.S. 844 (1997)
- Santa Fe Independent School Dist. v. Doe, 530 U.S. 290 (2000)
- Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234 (2002)
- Ashcroft v. ACLU, 535 U.S. 564 (2002)
- johanns v. livestock marketing ass'n, 544 U.S. 550 (2005)

Property and Criminal
- Hurtado v. CA, 110 U.S. 516 (1884)
- Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963)
- Miranda v. AZ, 384 U.S. 436 (1966)
- Apodaca v. OR, 406 U.S. 404 (1972)
- Furman v. GA, 408 U.S. 238 (1972)
- Coker v. GA, 433 U.S. 584 (1977)
- Smith v. U.S., 508 U.S. 223 (1993)
- N.O.W. v. . Scheidler, 510 U.S. 249 (1994)
- Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005)
- Kennedy v. LA, 554 U.S. 407 (2008)

2. No public funds, whether from the Southern Regional government or any State or locality therein may be expended to defend, carry out, or implement any common law established by a case listed herein, nor shall any local, State, Regional, or federal employee enforce or seek to enforce any common law established by a case listed herein.

3. This act shall be severable to the maximum extent permissible by law.

4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.

[reagente]

Governor LouisvilleThunder,

On behalf of the Southern Constitutional Committee, I am transmitting notice that we have finished drafting a proposed Constitution that is ready for the Southern electorate to approve or deny by popular vote in this upcoming election.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Governor LouisvilleThunder,

On behalf of the Southern Constitutional Committee, I am transmitting notice that we have finished drafting a proposed Constitution that is ready for the Southern electorate to approve or deny by popular vote in this upcoming election.

This has been seen, and a popular vote shall be held this weekend on the new Constitution. Great job to all who participated in crafting it.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 5
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

VIOLENCE ISN’T FREE SPEECH ACT

1. It is hereby a felony punishable by no more than five (5) years imprisonment and a fine of no more than $10,000.00 to engage in terroristic intimidation in the Southern Region. Terroristic intimidation shall be defined as:

   A. Any person who, with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons, burns an object, including but not limited to a cross or an effigy, on the private property of another without permission;

   B. Any person who, with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons, burns an object, including but not limited to a cross or an effigy, on a highway or other public place in a manner having a direct tendency to place another person in reasonable fear or apprehension of death or bodily injury;

   C. Any person who, with the intent of intimidating another person or group of persons, places or causes to be placed a swastika or the hammer and sickle on the private property of another without permission;

   D. Any person who, with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons, displays a noose, pike, or guillotine on the private property of another without permission;

   E. Any person who, with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons, displays a noose, pike, or guillotine on a highway or other public place in a manner having a direct tendency to place another person in reasonable fear or apprehension of death or bodily injury; or

   F. Any person who, with the intent of intimidating any person or group of persons, calls in a bomb threat at or physically disrupts, interrupts, or blockades a governmental meeting or proceeding, a meeting or event open to the public, a private meeting or event, or a religious service, or who assaults, batters, or threatens attendees thereat.

2. This act shall take effect on July 1, 2022.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 5
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

NO VOYEURISTIC CREEPS ACT

TITLE I: VOYEURISM AND PEEPING

1. It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by not more than one (1) year imprisonment and a fine of not more than $5,000.00 for any person to enter upon the property of another and secretly or furtively peep, spy, or attempt to peep or spy into or through a window, door, closet, or other aperture of any building, structure, vehicle, or other enclosure of any nature occupied or intended for occupancy as a dwelling, whether or not such building, structure, vehicle, or enclosure is permanently situated or transportable and whether or not such occupancy is permanent or temporary, or to do the same, without just cause, upon property owned by him and leased or rented to another under circumstances that would violate the occupant's reasonable expectation of privacy. A person convicted of such crime on three (3) separate occasions within a five (5) year period shall be required to register as a sex offender, and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling.

2. It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by not more than one (1) year imprisonment and a fine of not more than $5,000.00 for any person to use a peephole or other aperture to secretly or furtively peep, spy, or attempt to peep or spy into a restroom, dressing room, locker room, hotel room, motel room, tanning bed, tanning booth, bedroom, or other location or enclosure for the purpose of viewing any nonconsenting person who is totally nude, clad in undergarments, or in a state of undress exposing the genitals, pubic area, buttocks or breast and the circumstances are such that the person would otherwise have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Peephole means any hole, crack or other similar opening through which a person can see. A person convicted of such crime on three (3) separate occasions within a five (5) year period shall be required to register as a sex offender, and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling.

3. It shall be a felony punishable by imprisonment for no more than one (1) year and a fine of no more than $10,000.00 for any person to promote voyeurism in all States and external territories of the Southern Region. Any person convicted of promoting voyeurism shall be required to register as a sex offender an shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling. A person has committed the crime promoting voyuerism when he knowingly:

   A. produces, distributes, sells, transmits, finances, possesses with the intent to distribute, sell, or transmit, or makes any attempt to produce, distribute, sell, transmit, or finance an obscene item depicting or purporting to depict a person engaged in an act prohibited by this title;

   B. causes another person by force, threat, or intimidation to engage in conduct as prohibited by this title; or

   C. permits conduct prohibited by this title on any premises under his ownership or control.

4. The provisions of this section shall not apply to a lawful criminal investigation or a correctional official or local, State, or regional jail official conducting surveillance for security purposes or during an investigation of alleged misconduct involving an incarcerated person.

TITLE II: UNSOLICITED NUDES

1. It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by not more than one (1) year imprisonment and a fine of not more than $5,000.00 for any person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass any person, to use a computer, computer network, or other electronic communication device to communicate obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, or make any suggestion or proposal of an obscene nature, or threaten any illegal or immoral act. A person convicted of such crime on three (3) separate occasions within a five (5) year period shall be required to register as a sex offender, and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling. Such act shall also be considered a civil trespass and the violator shall be liable to the recipient of the intimate image for actual damages or $500.00, whichever is greater, in addition to reasonable attorney fees and costs. The court may also enjoin and restrain the defendant from committing such further acts.

2. It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by not more than one (1) year imprisonment and a fine of not more than $5,000.00 for any adult person to knowingly transmit an intimate image by computer or other electronic means to the computer or electronic communication device of another adult person when such other person has not consented to the use of his computer or electronic communication device for the receipt of such material or has expressly forbidden the receipt of such material. A person convicted of such crime on three (3) separate occasions within a five (5) year period shall be required to register as a sex offender, and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling. Such act shall also be considered a civil trespass and the violator shall be liable to the recipient of the intimate image for actual damages or $500.00, whichever is greater, in addition to reasonable attorney fees and costs. The court may also enjoin and restrain the defendant from committing such further acts. Intimate image means a photograph, film, video, recording, digital picture, or other visual reproduction of an adult person who is in a state of undress so as to expose the human male or female genitals.

3. It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by not more than one (1) year imprisonment and a fine of not more than $5,000.00 for any minor person to knowingly transmit an intimate image by computer or other electronic means to the computer or electronic communication device of another person when such other person has not consented to the use of his computer or electronic communication device for the receipt of such material or has expressly forbidden the receipt of such material. A person convicted of such crime on three (3) separate occasions within a five (5) year period shall be required to register as a sex offender, and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling. The court may also enjoin and restrain the defendant from committing such further acts. Intimate image of a minor means a photograph, film, video, recording, digital picture, or other visual reproduction of a minor person who is in a state of undress so as to expose the human male or female genitals. No minor who commits such act shall be charged with the manufacture or distribution of child pornography, provided the intimate image of a minor in question is of the violator, nor shall any minor who commits such act be charged as an adult.

4. It shall be a felony punishable by not more than five (5) years imprisonment and a fine of not more than $25,000.00 for any adult person to knowingly transmit an intimate image by computer or other electronic means to the computer or electronic communication device of a minor. A person convicted of such crime shall be required to register as a sex offender, and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling. Such act shall also be considered a civil trespass and the violator shall be liable to the recipient of the intimate image for actual damages or $500.00, whichever is greater, in addition to reasonable attorney fees and costs. The court may also enjoin and restrain the defendant from committing such further acts. Intimate image means a photograph, film, video, recording, digital picture, or other visual reproduction of an adult person who is in a state of undress so as to expose the human male or female genitals.

5. The provisions of this title shall not apply to any Internet service provider, mobile data provider, or operator of an online or mobile application, to the extent that such entity is transmitting, routing, or providing connections for electronic communications initiated by or at the direction of another or to any service that transmits an intimate image, including an on-demand, subscription, or advertising-supported service, or to a healthcare provider that transmits an intimate image for a legitimate medical purpose, or to any transmission of commercial electronic mail.

TITLE III: FLASHING AND PUBLIC INDECENCY

1. It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by not more than one (1) year imprisonment and a fine of not more than $5,000.00 for any person who, while in any public place where others are present, intending that he be seen by others, intentionally and obscenely engages in actual or explicitly simulated acts of masturbation in all States and external territories of the Southern Region. A person convicted of such crime on two (2) separate occasions within a five (5) year period shall be required to register as a sex offender, and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling.

2. It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by not more than one (1) year imprisonment and a fine of not more than $5,000.00 for any person to intentionally make an obscene or sexual display or exhibition, or the exposure of his or her person or the genitals thereof, in any public place or procures another to so expose himself in all States and external territories of the Southern Region. A person convicted of such crime on two (2) separate occasions within a five (5) year period shall be required to register as a sex offender, and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling.

No person shall be deemed to be in violation of this title for breastfeeding a child in any public place or any place where others are present, or for urinating or defecating in a public place or place where others are present, provided the person takes reasonable steps to conceal his or her genitals. No person shall be deemed to be in violation of this title merely for being nude or engaging in an obscene or sexual act in or at a private residence when such nudity or act is only visible to the public through a window, door, or fence, or for being nude of engaging in an obscene or sexual act while in a tent made of opaque material or inside an enclosed vehicle or hatchback, however sexual acts occurring behind a partition known as a gloryhole that is located in a place other than a private residence shall be prohibited. No female who exposes her nipples shall be convicted under this title unless a male would similarly be punished for exposing his nipples. For purposes of this title, an obscene or sexual display shall include but not be limited to the public exhibition of real or simulated sexual activity, sexual kinks and fetishes, sexuality, sadomasochistic abuse, and adult spanking or flaggellation. For purposes of this title, private residences and places that prohibit the admission of minors shall not constitute a public place except in public restrooms. For purposes of this title sexuality shall not include references to marriage or families.

3. It shall be a felony punishable by imprisonment for no more than one (1) year and a fine of no more than $10,000.00 for any person to promote indecent exposure in all States and external territories of the Southern Region. Any person convicted of promoting indecent exposure shall be required to register as a sex offender an shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling. A person has committed the crime promoting indecent exposure when he knowingly:

   A. produces, distributes, sells, transmits, finances, possesses with the intent to distribute, sell, or transmit, or makes any attempt to produce, distribute, sell, transmit, or finance an obscene item depicting or purporting to depict a person engaged in an act prohibited by this title;

   B. causes another person by force, threat, or intimidation to engage in conduct as prohibited by this title; or

   C. permits conduct prohibited by this title on any premises under his ownership or control.

TITLE IV: ENACTMENT

1. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 5
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

PROSTITUTION IS A SIN ACT

TITLE I: DEFINITIONS

  
1. Adult Entertainer means a person who engages in any of the following professions, acts, or performances, for money or other valuable thing or consideration, regardless of if the person receives any money or other valuable thing or consideration on a particular instance:

   A. Producing, filming, directing, designing, editing, printing, distributing, selling, or acting in an obscene, pornographic, or otherwise sexualized film, video, photograph, magazine, or periodical.

   B. Producing, filming, directing, designing, editing, printing, distributing, selling, or acting in a film, video, photograph, magazine, or periodical featuring nudity or a state of undress or display of body parts with the intent of appealing to prurient interests.

   C. Producing, filming, directing, choreographing, distributing, selling, or engaging in a dance or other performance involving nudity or the sexualized stripping or removing of clothing with the intent of appealing to prurient interests.

   D. Producing, filming, directing, choreographing, distributing, selling, or engaging in any task, including but not limited to providing massages, waitressing, or bartending while in a state of nudity or undress with the intent of appealing to prurient interests.

   E. Producing, filming, directing, choreographing, distributing, selling, or engaging in a dance, song, or other performance involving nudity, partial nudity, sexualized dancing, sexualized statements, or other similar adult content, including but not limited to burlesque, cabaret, and drag.

   F. Selling or distributing any sexual toy or object with the intent of appealing to prurient interests.

   G. Owning or operating a place where adult entertainment is conducted.

2. Brothel means any location, facility, place, or room wherein prostitution is practiced. For purposes of this act, a massage parlor, bar, or theater that merely permits nudity or toplessness shall not constitute a brothel and no Regional, State, or local law enforcement in the Southern Region shall raid such place to enforce this act, except upon particularized evidence of an actual criminal violation.

3. Facilitating sex trafficking means:

   A. Facilitating, arranging, providing or paying for the transportation of a person with the intent of inducing the person to engage in prostitution in violation of this act or to enter any place in which prostitution is practiced, encouraged, or allowed for the purpose of sexual conduct or prostitution in violation of this act;

   B. Selling travel services that facilitate the travel of another person with the knowledge that the other person is traveling for the purpose of engaging in sexual conduct with a person who has been induced to engage in sexual conduct or prostitution in violation of this act;

   C. Traveling with the intent of engaging in sexual conduct with a person who has been induced to engage in sexual conduct or prostitution in violation of this act, with the knowledge that such a person has been induced to engage in such sexual conduct or prostitution;

   D. Placing another in the charge or custody of a third person with the intent that the other person engage in prostitution or who compels the other person to reside with him or her or with any third person for purposes of prostitution, or who compels another person to reside in a brothel;

   E. Asking or receiving any compensation, gratuity, or reward, or promise thereof, for or on account of placing in a brothel or elsewhere a person for the purpose of causing that person to cohabit with someone who is not the person’s spouse;

   F. Giving, offering, or promising any compensation, gratuity or reward, to procure a person to engage in any act of prostitution in any brothel, or elsewhere, against the person’s will; or

   G. Decoying, enticing, procuring, or in any manner inducing a person to become a prostitute or to become an inmate of a brothel, for purposes of prostitution, or for purposes of employment, or for any purpose whatever, when that person does not know that the house is a brothel; or

4. Pimp means a person who knowingly accepts, receives, levies, or appropriates any money or other valuable thing, without consideration, from the proceeds of any prostitute, or who lives with or accepts any earnings of a prostitute, or entices or solicits a person to go to a brothel to engage in sexual conduct with a prostitute.

5. Prostitute means a person who for a fee, monetary consideration or other thing of value engages in sexual acts for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of either person. For purposes of this act, the mere possession of condoms or other contraceptives shall not constitute evidence of being a prostitute.

6. Prostitution means engaging in sexual acts with another person in return for a fee, monetary consideration, or other thing of value. For purposes of this act, the consensual, non-penetrative touching or fondling of a licensed adult entertainer or a customer thereof shall not constitute prostitution.

TITLE II: PROSTITUTION CRIMES

1. It is hereby unlawful to facilitate sex trafficking. The crime of facilitating sex trafficking shall be classified as a felony punishable by imprisonment for no more than ten (10) years and a fine of no more than $25,000.00 in all States and external territories of the Southern Region. Any person convicted of facilitating sex trafficking shall be required to pay restitution, register as a sex offender, and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling.

2. It is hereby unlawful to act or engage as a pimp. The crime of acting or engaging as a pimp shall be classified as a felony punishable by imprisonment for no more than ten (10) years and a fine of no more than $25,000.00 where physical force or the threat thereof is involved or for no more than five (5) years and a fine of no more than $10,000.00 where no physical force or threats thereof are involved, in all States and external territories of the Southern Region. Any person convicted of being a pimp shall be required to pay restitution, register as a sex offender, and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling.

3. It is hereby unlawful to engage in prostitution or solicitation therefor, except in a licensed brothel subject to all laws and regulations thereon. The crime of unlawfully engaging in or soliciting prostitution shall be classified as a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for no more than one (1) year and a fine of no more than $5,000.00, in all States and external territories of the Southern Region. A person convicted of unlawfully engaging in or soliciting prostitution on three (3) separate occasions within a five (5) year period shall be required to register as a sex offender, and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling. If any State operates a diversion program authorized by the Lee-Jackson-Davis Criminal Reform Act, in lieu of arrest, a law enforcement officer shall issue a citation and summons along with information that the prostitute or customer may be eligible for assignment to a pre-prosecution diversion program. If, at any time before the trial of a prostitute charged with a violation of this paragraph, the prosecuting attorney has reason to believe that the prostitute is a victim of sex trafficking, the prosecuting attorney shall dismiss the charge. If, at any time before the trial of a minor prostitute charged with a violation of this paragraph, the minor prostitute agrees to cooperate with the prosecution of another crime prohibited by this act, the prosecuting attorney shall dismiss the charge. Any person who is arrested or cited for a violation of this paragraph must submit to a test to detect exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as well as any other sexually-transmissible disease (STD) that may be tested for. Such test must be paid for by the violator and the results of such test must be transmitted to the violator within thirty (30) days. 

4. It is hereby unlawful to solicit for prostitution a law enforcement officer who is posing as a minor or a person who is assisting law enforcement by posing as a minor, provided such purported minor-status is known to the person so soliciting. The crime of soliciting a purported minor shall be classified as a felony punishable by imprisonment for no more than ten (10) years and a fine of no more than $25,000.00, in all States and external territories of the Southern Region. Any person convicted of soliciting a purported minor shall be required to register as a sex offender and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling.

5. It is hereby unlawful to engage in or solicit prostitution while knowingly being infected with HIV or an STD. A person who works as a prostitute, or who solicits a prostitute, whether or not in a licensed brothel, after testing positive in a test for exposure to HIV or an STD and receiving notice of that fact is guilty of a felony and shall be punished imprisonment for no more than ten (10) years and a fine of no more than $25,000.00, in all States and external territories of the Southern Region. Any person convicted of engaging in or soliciting prostitution while knowingly being infected with HIV or and STD shall be required to pay restitution, register as a sex offender, and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling. The results of a positive test must be transmitted to any person with whom the violator has had sexual contact with during the likely period of infection within thirty (30) days of being known. 

6. It is hereby unlawful to:

   A. Own, operate, or advertise an unlicensed brothel;

   B. Let or rent any house, room, vehicle, or structure to any person, for any length of time whatever, to be kept or used for the purposes of prostitution; or

   C. Own, lease, operate, control, or manage any business or private property while knowing that illegal prostitution is more likely than not being conducted at the business or upon such private property and failing to take reasonable steps to abate such illegal prostitution within thirty (30) days after the date on which the person knows the circumstances set forth. Reasonable steps to abate such illegal prostitution include filing a report of such illegal prostitution with a law enforcement agency, allowing a law enforcement agency to conduct surveillance or an unrestricted undercover operation, promoting ongoing education about such illegal prostitution for employees, or using any other available legal means to abate such illegal prostitution.

The crime of owning or operating an unlicensed brothel shall be classified as a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for no more than one (1) year and a fine of no more than $5,000.00, in all States and external territories of the Southern Region. A person convicted of owning or operating an unlicensed brothel on three (3) separate occasions within a five (5) year period shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture of the unlicensed brothel, be required to register as a sex offender, and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling.

7. It is hereby unlawful to act as or engage as an adult entertainer without a license. The crime of acting as an unlicensed adult entertainer shall be classified as a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for no more than one (1) year and a fine of no more than $5,000.00, in all States and external territories of the Southern Region. A person convicted of acting as an unlicensed adult entertainer on three (3) separate occasions within a five (5) year period shall be required to register as a sex offender and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling.

TITLE III: BROTHELS AND LEGAL PROSTITUTION

1. The Regional government shall license prostitutes as well as brothels, wherein prostitution by licensed prostitutes may be legally practiced, subject to the following requirements:

   A. Any State or local government that so chooses, may legally opt-out of allowing brothels. No license shall be issued to a brothel located in a jurisdiction that has opted out of allowing brothels.

   B. Licenses for individual prostitutes as well as for brothels, shall last one (1) year and then expire. License applications must be submitted annually, accompanied by a processing fee of $500.00.

   C. No brothel license shall be issued to any brothel located within 1,000 yards of a residential neighborhood, school, daycare, library, or church or other place of religious worship.

   D. All licensed brothels must submit to biannual inspections by local or State health and building code officials.

   E. All licensed brothels must maintain a registry of every prostitute working withing the brothel each day as well as the identity of any customer of the brothel with whom the prostitute has sexual contact with.

   F. All licensed prostitutes must submit to weekly testing for HIV and other STDs, paid for by the brothel at which they are working. The positive results of any such test shall be promptly reported to the prostitute and to the Regional licensing authority. The results of a positive test must be transmitted to any person with whom the prostitute has had sexual contact with during the likely period of infection within thirty (30) days of being known. If it is discovered that a prostitute has not strictly complied with HIV and other STD testing required by this act, and such prostitute infects a customer with HIV or another STD, then such customer shall be entitled to sue for damages in civil court. 

   G. All licensed prostitutes must require the use of condoms during any act of prostitution involving penile penetration or emission.

   H. All licensed prostitutes are prohibited from engaging in prostitution with a minor present or advertising prostitution to a minor.

   I. All licensed prostitutes and all licensed brothels are subject to an annual tax of 15% on all earnings.

TITLE IV: ADULT ENTERTAINERS

1. The Regional government shall license adult entertainers, subject to the following requirements:

   A. Licenses for adult entertainers shall last one (1) year and then expire. License applications must be submitted annually, accompanied by a processing fee of $500.00.

   B. No licensed adult entertainer shall be permitted to engage in such activity in a public place within 1,000 yards of a residential neighborhood, school, daycare, library, or church or other place of religious worship. For purposes of this paragraph, private residences and places that prohibit the admission of minors shall not constitute a public place.

   C. All licensed adult entertainers are prohibited from engaging in adult entertainment with a minor present or advertising adult entertainment to a minor.

   D. All licensed adult entertainers are subject to an annual tax of 15% on all earnings.

TITLE V: ENACTMENT

1. This act shall take effect six (6) months from the date of passage.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 5
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

OK GROOMER ACT

1. The Southern Region hereby establishes a certification board for the purpose of educating, inspecting, and certifying animal grooming services.

2. Any animal groomer in the Southern Region may take an approved course on animal grooming best practices conducted by the certification board. Upon satisfactory completion of the course, the animal groomer shall be issued an OK Groomer certificate by the board and shall be entitled to display their certificate and advertise themselves as an OK Groomer.

3. All activities conducted by the certification board shall be funded by user fees by applicants.

4. Nothing in this act shall be interpreted as requiring an animal groomer to obtain an OK Groomer Certificate in order to work as an animal groomer in the Southern Region.

5. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 5
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

PAWS NEED CLAWS ACT

1. No person, licensed professional or otherwise, shall perform a partial or complete onychectomy (declawing), phalangectomy, or tendonectomy procedure by any means on a cat in the Southern Region, except when necessary for a therapeutic purpose.

2. For the purposes of this act, the term "therapeutic purpose" means the necessity to address the medical condition of the animal, such as an existing or recurring illness, infection, disease, injury, or abnormal condition in the claw that compromises the animal's health. The term “therapeutic purpose” does not include cosmetic or aesthetic reasons or reasons of convenience in keeping or handling the animal.

3. This act shall take effect thirty (30) days after passage.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 5
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

OBSCENE AS TO MINORS ACT

TITLE I: DEFINITIONS

1. Material means:

   A. A book, pamphlet, magazine, newspaper, printed advertising or other printed or written material;

   B. A motion picture, video, photograph, picture, drawing, statue, sculpture, or other visual representation or image; or

   C. A transcription, recording, or live or recorded message.

2. Minor means any person under the age of 19 years, but as applied to the showing of a motion picture excludes any person employed on the premises where the motion picture is shown.

3. Nudity means:

   A. The showing of the human breast with less than a fully opaque covering of any portion of the areola and nipple, unless in a State or locality that has chosen to allow the public display of nipples;

   B. The showing of the human genitals or pubic area with less than a fully opaque covering of any portion thereof; or

   C. The depiction of the human male genitals in a discernible turgid state whether or not covered.
 
4. Obscene as to minors means that quality of any description or representation, whether constituting all or a part of the material considered, in whatever form, of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual content, sexual excitement, or sado-masochistic abuse which predominantly appeals to the prurient interest of minors, is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community with respect to what is suitable material for minors, and is without serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.

5. Sado-masochistic abuse means real or simulated:

   A. Flagellation, abuse, rape, or torture practiced by or upon a person whether or not clad in undergarments, a mask, or bizarre costume; or

   B. The condition of being fettered, bound, enslaved, captured, or otherwise physically restrained.

6. Sexual conduct means real or purported acts of masturbation, sexual activity, or sexualized physical contact with a person’s unclothed genitals, pubic area, or breasts and nipples.

7. Sexual content means graphic descriptions of sado-masochistic abuse, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, sexual kinks or fetishes, sexual orientation, or sexuality.

8. Sexual excitement means the condition of human male or female genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.

TITLE II: PROHIBITIONS

1. It shall be a felony punishable by imprisonment for no more than one (1) year and a fine of no more than $10,000.00 for any person to knowingly:

   A. Distribute or cause to be distributed to a minor material that is obscene as to minors, unless the person is the parent or guardian of the minor;

   B. Exhibit for distribution to an adult in such a manner or location as to allow a minor to view or to have access to examine material that is obscene as to minors, unless the person is the parent or guardian of the minor;

   C. Sell to a minor an admission ticket or pass for or otherwise admits a minor for monetary consideration to any presentation of material that is obscene to minors, unless the minor is accompanied by his or her parent or guardian;

   D. Misrepresent that he or she is the parent or guardian of a minor for the purpose of distributing to the minor material that is obscene as to minors or obtain admission of the minor to any presentation of material that is obscene as to minors;

   E. Misrepresent his or her age as 19 or over for the purpose of obtaining material that is obscene as to minors or admission to any presentation of material that is obscene as to minors;

   F. Sell or rent materials which contain material that is obscene as to minors on the premises of a business establishment open to minors, unless the person creates an area within the establishment for the placement of the materials and any material that advertises the sale or rental of the materials which prevents minors from observing the materials or any material that advertises the sale or rental of the motion pictures and is labeled, in a prominent and conspicuous location, “Adults Only”, or is located behind the sales counter in an obstructed or semi-obstructed display that conceals any material that is obscene as to minors.

A person convicted of such crime on three (3) separate occasions within a five (5) year period shall be required to register as a sex offender, and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling.

2. The prohibitions listed above shall not apply to a university, community college, museum, or library which is operated by or which is under the direct control of a governmental entity of this Region or an employee or independent contractor of such institution, if the employee or independent contractor is acting within the scope of his or her employment or contractual relationship.

3. It shall be a felony punishable by imprisonment for no more than one (1) year and a fine of no more than $10,000.00 for any teacher, school employee or volunteer, daycare employee of volunteer, or other adult to knowingly, in a public or private daycare, Headstart or afterschool tutorial program, pre-school, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or junior high school, to:

   A. Distribute or cause to be distributed to a minor material that would be obscene as to minors but for serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value, when such material depicts real or purported sexual conduct, sexual content, or sado-masochistic abuse; or

   B. Distribute or cause to be distributed to a minor material that would be obscene as to minors but for serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value, when such material describes real or purported sexual conduct, sexual content, or sado-masochistic abuse involving a minor younger than fourteen (14).

A person convicted of such crime on three (3) separate occasions within a five (5) year period shall be required to register as a sex offender, and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling.

4. It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000.00 for any teacher, school employee or volunteer, daycare employee of volunteer, or other adult to knowingly, in a public or private daycare, Headstart or afterschool tutorial program, kindergarten, elementary, middle, or junior high school, to distribute or cause to be distributed to a minor a motion picture than has been rated “R” or “NC-17” by the Motion Picture Association of Atlasia (MPAA) unless such person has obtained written permission from the minor’s parent or guardian.

5. Any public computer terminal accessible by minors that is operated by or under the direct control of a governmental entity of this Region, including but not limited to terminals in universities, community colleges, museums, or libraries shall be required to install internet browsing filters to screen out material that is obscene as to minors. The failure to install such filters shall result in the disqualification of the governmental entity from receiving Regional funds.

TITLE III: AGE OF CONSENT

1. It shall be a felony for any adult to engage in sexual acts with a minor more than two (2) years his or her junior in all States and external territories of the Southern Region. If the convicted person is less than five (5) years older than the minor victim, this crime shall be punishable by imprisonment for no more than one (1) year and a fine of no more than $10,000.00. If the convicted person is five (5) or more years older than the minor victim, this crime shall be punishable by imprisonment for no more than ten (10) years and a fine of no more than $50,000.00. If the minor victim is younger than fourteen (14) this crime shall be punishable by imprisonment for not less than ten (10) years and no more than life and a fine of $50,000.00. Any person convicted of sex with a minor five or more years his or her junior shall be required to register as a sex offender and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling. Any person convicted of sex with a minor less than five (5) years but more than two (2) years his or her junior shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling. For purposes of this provision, it shall be a permissible affirmative defense that the accused met the minor in a location only accessible by adults, including a bar, nightclub, or brothel, as well as that the minor enticed the accused by lying about his or her age and the accused had no reason based on the totality of the circumstances to suspect that the minor was lying.

2. It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for no more than one (1) year and a fine of no more than $10,000.00 for a minor to lie about his or her age with the intent to entice am adult into engaging in statutory rape. A person convicted of such crime on two (2) separate occasions within a five (5) year period shall be required to register as a sex offender, and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling

3. It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for no more than one (1) year and a fine of no more than $10,000.00 for any adult to, with lascivious intent, kiss a minor under the age of sixteen (16) on the mouth while knowingly and intentionally penetrating the mouth of such minor with his or her tongue. A person convicted of such crime on two (2) separate occasions within a five (5) year period shall be required to register as a sex offender, and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling

TITLE IV: ENACTMENT

1. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 3
Nay:2
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

POISONOUS DRINKING WATER NOTIFICATION ACT

1. Any State, local, or other public utility that markets, sells, or conveys drinking water to customers and adds fluoride to such drinking water shall include a statement of the amount of added fluoride content of the water as well as the following health and safety notice, in each bill:

Warning: Our water contains the chemical additive fluoride.
Drinking fluoridated water is known to the Southern Region to cause cancer, tooth discoloration, communist sympathies, and homosexuality in frogs.

2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 5
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

PEANUT APPRECIATION MONTH

1. Recognizing that peanuts are a nutritious, economically important, and culturally southern food that deserves the South's formal recognition, the Government of the South hereby declares that the month of March shall hereafter be designated Peanut Appreciation Month. All Southerners who are not allergic to peanuts are encouraged to eat peanuts, peanut butter, or a product containing peanuts at least once during Peanut Appreciation Month as a show of Southern unity and regional pride.

2. The advertising character, Mr. Peanut, who has encouraged the consumption of peanuts since 1916, is hereby declared to be an unofficial goodwill ambassador and Regional symbol of the Southern Region.

3. This act shall take effect immediately.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 5
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

KANSAS TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION ACT

1. The Southern Region hereby establishes the Kansas Truth and Reconcilliation Commission, which shall be tasked with the following duties:

A. Investigating and documenting the events leading up to, during, and immediately after the 2022 invasion of Kansas, including the identification of all participating parties and any Southern criminal laws broken by such parties.

B. Ascertaining the amount of financial damages suffered by the Southern Region, any State or local government therein, and any Southern citizen or business during such events.

C. Making recommendations to prevent such events from reoccuring.

D. Preparing and Submitting a report of its findings to the Southern Chamber.

2. The Commission shall consist of at least one (1) member of the Chamber of Delegates, at least one (1) member of the Southern Region's federal Senate delegation, the Southern Attorney General, and two (2) Southern voters at least one (1) of whom must be a resident of Kansas.

3. The Commission shall have the power to issue subpoenas, administer oaths, and compel testimony. Failure to comply with such investigation shall be criminal contempt of a Regional proceedimg.

4. The Commission shall cease to exist thirty (30) days after submitting its final report.

5. This act shall take effect immediately.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 5
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

PRISON RAPE ERADICATION ACT

1. It shall be a separate felony punishable by restitution and imprisonment for no less than fifteen (15) years and no more than life for any person who while incarcerated in any jail, prison, or correctional facility in the Southern Region to commit rape, sexual assault, or infected sexual battery. For purposes of this paragraph, infected sexual battery shall include the intentional infection of another person with an STD regardless of means of transmission, or exposing another person to a bodily fluid with the intent that such exposed person be required to recieve a rape or STD test by correctional employees. Any person convicted of an offense in this paragraph shall be isolated from the general population during their period of incarceration. It is the position of the Southern Region that such isolation shall not constitute cruel or unusual punishment. Any person convicted of violating this paragraph shall be required to register as a sex offender and shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling.

2. It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by no more than one (1) year imprisonment for any person who while incarcerated in any jail, prison, or correctional facility in the Southern Region to engage in consensual sexual acts with another incarcerated person. Any person convicted of an offense in this paragraph may be isolated from the sexual partner during their period of incarceration. It is the position of the Southern Region that such isolation shall not constitute cruel or unusual punishment.

3. It shall be a misdemeanor punishable by no more than one (1) year imprisonment for any correctional employees to engage in consensual sexual acts with a person who is incarcerated in any jail, prison, or correctional facility in the Southern Region. If the correctional employee engages in non-consensual criminal sexual acts with an incarcerated person, including committing rape, sexual assault, or infected sexual battery against the incarcerated person, such crime shall be punished according the same general guidelines for such crime. For purposes of this paragraph coercing or threatening an incarcerated person to engage in sexual acts, including but not limited to threats of unfair treatment or supervision during incarceration or denial of privileges during incarceration, shall be deemed a non-consensual criminal sexual act. Any person convicted of an offense in this paragraph may be isolated from the sexual partner during their period of incarceration. It is the position of the Southern Region that such isolation shall not constitute cruel or unusual punishment.

4. If any person who is incarcerated in any jail, prison, or correctional facility in the Southern Region makes known to a correctional employee that he or she believes he or she has been exposed to or infected with an STD, such prisoner shall be tested at no expense. The prisoner shall have the exclusive right to determine to whom the test results are shared with.

5. If any person who is incarcerated in any jail, prison, or correctional facility in the Southern Region becomes pregnant during incarceration, unless the prisoner identifies the father, all former or current male correctional employees at the place of imprisonment shall submit to a paternity test. Any pregnant prisoner shall be afforded appropriate healthcare and protections by the jail, prison, or correctional facility to ensure the safe and healthy development and delivery of the baby. Any baby born to a prisoner shall, within two (2) weeks, be placed into the temporary custody of a guardian according to law. No prisoner who delivers a baby while imprisoned shall have their parental rights permanently terminated merely for being imprisoned at the time of the baby's birth.

6. Any public computer terminal accessible by prisoners in the Southern Region is hereby required to install internet browsing filters to screen out material that is obscene or pornographic or adult entertainment as defined by law. This shall not apply to home arrest.

7. Any library accessible by prisoners in the Southern Region is hereby prohibited from making available any book or material that is obscene or pornographic or adult entertainment as defined by law.  This shall not apply to home arrest.

8. Any prison store, canteen, or exchange operated by any jail, prison, or correctional facility in the Southern Region for the benefit of prisoners is hereby prohibited from selling or making available any book or material that is obscene or pornographic or adult entertainment as defined by law. This shall not apply to home arrest.

9. It is hereby prohibited for any person imprisoned in the Southern Region to possess material that is obscene or pornographic or adult entertainment as defined by law while incarcerated. Any such material discovered by correctional employees shall be confiscated. This shall not apply to home arrest.

10. It is hereby prohibited for any person imprisoned in the Southern Region to call a phone sex hotline while incarcerated. This shall not apply to home arrest.

11. It is hereby prohibited for any jail, prison, or correctional facility in the Southern Region to host, sponsor, permit, or allow any event or entertainment that is obscene or pornographic or adult entertainment as defined by law. This shall not apply to home arrest.

12. No person imprisoned in the Southern region shall be eligible to receive erectile dysfunction medicine while incarcerated. Any erectile dysfunction medicine discovered by correctional employees shall be confiscated. This shall not apply to home arrest.

13. Nothing in this act shall be interpreted as prohibiting any prison, jail, or correctional facility in the Southern Region from maintaining a policy of allowing conjugal visits by spouses to prisoners.

14.  No prisoner in the Southern Region shall be charged a fee for the reasonable use of menstrual products or toilet paper, nor shall any visitor to a jail, prison, or correctional facility in the Southern Region be required to remove or refrain from using any menstrual products while present in such jail, prison, or correctional facility.

15. Title II (6) of the Bessell-NeverAgain Transgender Rights Act of 2017 shall be amended as follows:

Any persons over 18, imprisoned for the above offences, shall be allowed to correct their legal gender, but shall be required to seek approval from a panel consisting of prison staff and medical professionals, and members of the parole board.

16. This act shall take effect on July 1, 2022.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 5
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

PROMOTING HOLY CHILDBIRTH ACT

TITLE I: DEFINITIONS

1. "Abortion drug" means any ingestable medicine approved by the government that causes a miscarriage or the death of an unborn child, including but not limited to mifepristone and misoprostol.

2. "Crisis pregnancy" means an unplanned pregnancy or a planned pregnancy that has become a serious problem to the pregnant woman because of her age or medical status, desertion by or lack of support from the birth father, lack of support from her family, financial insecurity, or other hardship.

3. "Crisis Pregnancy Center (CPC)" means a non-profit entity that offers counseling, financial resources, and other aid, services, or assistance to pregnant women facing a crisis pregnancy.

4. "Emergency contraceptive" means any ingestable contraceptive medicine approved by the government that prevents pregnancy and is taken after sexual contact.

TITLE II: CRISIS PREGNANCY TRUST FUND

1. There is hereby created the Crisis Pregnancy Trust Fund (CPTF).

A. The fund shall be used for the support and development of services for the assistance of women undergoing a crisis pregnancy. This goal shall be achieved through public and private collaboration, including with CPCs.

B. The Trust Fund will be performing an essential governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it. Gifts, contributions, grants, devises, and bequests, whether personal or real property, and the income therefrom, accepted by the Trust Fund, shall be deemed to be gifts to the Regional government, which shall be exempt from all taxes, and shall be regarded as the property of the Southern Region for the purposes of all tax laws.

C. No CPC shall be eligible to receive monies from the CPTF if it discriminates in the provision of services against pregnant women based on a protected class identified in the Southern Constitution.

D. No CPC shall be eligible to receive monies from the CPTF if it provides abortions, provides transportation services to facilitate abortions, or refers pregnant women to persons or entities that perform abortions or provide transportation services to facilitate abortions.

E. No CPC shall be eligible to receive monies from the CPTF if it refuses to provide information on government assistance programs thar could help pregnant women including but not limited to SNAP and WIC.

TITLE III: CRISIS PREGNANCY FUNDING SOURCES

1. A tax of $100 per dosage is hereby levied upon each abortion drug sold or dispensed in the Southern Region. Unless otherwise specified in this bill, all tax monies collected from this tax shall be deposited in the CPTF.

2. A tax of $15 per dosage is hereby levied upon each emergency contraceptive sold or dispensed in the Southern Region. All tax monies collected from this tax shall be deposited in the CPTF.

3. The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) in each State shall offer a specialty license plate to be known as a "Choose Life" plate, of a design approved by the State. In addition to all other fees required for motor vehicle registration, each application to obtain or renew a Choose Life license plate shall be accompanied by a fee of thirty dollars ($30.00). This fee shall be remitted to the Regional government and deposited in the CPTF.

4. No entity, other than a hospital, shall be eligible to receive Regional funds if such entity provides abortions, provides transportation services to facilitate abortions, or refers pregnant women to persons or entities that perform abortions or provide transportation services to facilitate abortions. Any such funds shall be rescinded and deposited in the CPTF.

5. Beginning in FY 2023, any public middle, junior high, or high school and any public college or university that receives any public funding from the Southern Region must allow reasonable access to its facilities and classrooms to CPCs to share information. Any school, college, or university that fails to allow such reasonable access shall have 10% of its Regional funding for the year rescinded and deposited into the CPTF.

6. Any funds collected from any existing Regional tax on abortion procedures shall be dedicated to and deposited in the CPTF.

TITLE IV: STILLBIRTH TAX CREDIT

1. For taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2022, an individual or married persons filing a joint return shall be allowed a refundable credit against the tax equal to $1,000 for each birth for which a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth has been issued and such stillbirth was not intentionally caused by the mother. The credit may be claimed only in the taxable year in which the stillbirth occurred and if the child would have become a dependent of the taxpayer as defined in federal law.

2. For any taxable year in which married persons file separate Virginia income tax returns, the credit provided under this section shall be allowed against the tax liability for only one (1) of such two (2) tax returns. If the amount of the credit exceeds the taxpayer's tax liability for the taxable year, the excess shall be refunded to such taxpayer. For purposes of Paygo, this tax credit shall be paid for with the required amount from the tax on abortion drugs.

TITLE V: ENACTMENT

Unless otherwise specified herein, this act shall take effect July 1, 2022.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 5
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

PROMOTING HOLY GARDENS ACT

TITLE I: FOOD SECURITY GARDENING TRUST FUND

1. There is hereby created the Food Security Gardening Trust Fund (FSGTF).

A. The fund shall be used for the support and development of local gardening and food production. This goal shall be achieved through public and private collaboration.

B. The Trust Fund will be performing an essential governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it. Gifts, contributions, grants, devises, and bequests, whether personal or real property, and the income therefrom, accepted by the Trust Fund, shall be deemed to be gifts to the Regional government, which shall be exempt from all taxes, and shall be regarded as the property of the Southern Region for the purposes of all tax laws.

C. In accordance with Lev. 19:9 – 10 and Deut. 24:19, no garden shall be eligible to receive monies from the FSGTF if such garden is reaped in totality to the very edges of the field, or the gleanings of the harvest are entirely gathered, or the unripened clusters or fruits are harvested prior to maturation.

D. In accordance with Ex. 23:11, no garden shall be eligible to receive monies from the FSGTF unless such garden is left fallow every seventh year following its establishment.

E. In accordance with Lev. 9:23, no garden shall be eligible to receive monies from the FSGTF if fruit is harvested from fruit trees in such garden within the first three (3) years of such fruit trees being planted.

F. In accordance with Lev. 19:19 and Deut. 22:9, no garden shall be eligible to receive monies from the FSGTF unless such garden separates each species of plant into separate plots.

TITLE II: ELIGIBLE PROJECTS AND EXPENDITURES

1. The Southern Region shall establish a program for the acquisition and distribution of seeds for edible plants to home gardens and community gardens located within the Southern region. $10 Million is hereby authorized from the FSGTF to carry out this program.

2. For taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2022, an individual or married persons filing a joint return shall be allowed a refundable tax credit against up to a maximum of $500 to offset the documented costs of establishing and maintaining a home garden. For any taxable year in which married persons file separate Virginia income tax returns, the credit provided under this section shall be allowed against the tax liability for only one (1) of such two (2) tax returns. If the amount of the credit exceeds the taxpayer's tax liability for the taxable year, the excess shall be refunded to such taxpayer. Receipts for the costs claimed shall be provided at the time of filing. The proceeds of a home garden claiming this credit shall not be sold in commerce. A maximum of $50 Million is hereby authorized from the FSGTF to carry out this program, on a first come-first serve basis. The credit may be claimed only in the taxable year in which the expenses were incurred, unless the yearly allocation has been awarded, in which case the credit may be carried forward up to three (3) years, in order of filing.

3. The Southern Region shall establish a program for awarding grants of up to a maximum of $10,000 to non-profit community gardens located in the Southern Region to offset the documented costs of establishing and maintaining a community garden. Receipts for the costs claimed shall be provided at the time of filing for the grant. The proceeds of a community garden applying for this grant shall not be sold in commerce. A maximum of $15 Million is hereby authorized from the FSGTF to carry out this program, on a first come-first serve basis.

TITLE III: FUNDING SOURCES

1. A luxury tax surcharge of 10% on the end-use sales price of any avocado sold in the Southern Region is hereby levied. All tax monies collected from this tax shall be deposited in the FSGTF.

2. The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) in each State shall offer a specialty license plate to be known as a "Gardening Enthusiast" plate, of a design approved by the State. In addition to all other fees required for motor vehicle registration, each application to obtain or renew a Gardening Enthusiast license plate shall be accompanied by a fee of thirty dollars ($30.00). This fee shall be remitted to the Regional government and deposited in the FSGTF.

TITLE IV: ENACTMENT

1. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 5
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

PROMOTING STRONGER FAMILIES ACT

1. Any person who impregnates another as the product of rape shall not be granted parental rights over the child, however upon a positive paternity test, such person shall be required to pay child support in accordance with established law.

2. Any child born as a result of artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, or surrogacy from a transplanted egg after the death of their parent whose sperm or egg was used during fertilization shall only be eligible to inherit from their parent's estate if they were conceived within one (1) year of the date of the parent's death.

3. No court in the Southern Region shall hear any criminal case or any civil case from a child against their parent or legal guardian due solely to such parent or legal guardian consenting to or obtaining a circumcision for such child permitted by law.

4. No court in the Southern Region shall hear any criminal case or any civil case from a child against their parent or legal guardian due solely to such parent or legal guardian disciplining such child in a safe and reasonable manner. For purposes of this act, safe and reasonable discipline shall include but not be limited to corporal punishment or spanking that does not result in cruel, severe, or permanent injury to the child.

5. In accordance with the rights of parents, any public or private employer, healthcare provider, camp, daycare, tutorial program, or school in the Southern Region shall adopt procedures for notifying a child's parent or legal guardian if there is a change in the child's services or monitoring related to the child's mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being and the employer, healthcare provider, camp, daycare, tutorial program, or school's ability to provide a safe and supportive environment for the child.

A. The procedures must reinforce the fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding the upbringing and control of their children by requiring personnel to encourage a child to discuss issues relating to his or her well-being with his or her parent or legal guardian or to facilitate discussion of the issue with the parent or legal guardian.

B. The procedures may not prohibit parents or legal guardians from accessing any of their child's education and health records created, maintained, or used by the employer, healthcare provider, camp, daycare, tutorial program, or school.

C. An employer, healthcare provider, camp, daycare, tutorial program, or school may not adopt procedures or support forms that prohibit personnel from notifying a parent or legal guardian about his or her child's mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being, or a change in related services or monitoring, or that encourage or have the effect of encouraging a child to withhold from a parent or legal guardian such information.

D. Employer, healthcare provider, camp, daycare, tutorial program, or school personnel may not discourage or prohibit parental or guardian notification of and involvement in critical decisions affecting a child's mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being.

E. This act does not prohibit an employer, healthcare provider, camp, daycare, tutorial program, or school from adopting procedures that permit personnel to withhold such information from a parent or legal guardian if a reasonably prudent person would believe that disclosure would result in abuse, abandonment, or neglect to the child.

6. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 5
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

GENETIC INFORMATION PRIVACY PROTECTIONS ACT

TITLE I: DEFINITIONS.

1. "Affirmative authorization" means an action that demonstrates an intentional decision by a consumer.

2. "Biological sample" means any material part of the human, discharge therefrom, or derivative thereof, such as tissue, blood, urine, or saliva, known to contain deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).

3. "Consumer" means a natural person who is a resident of the Southern Region.

4. "Dark pattern" means a user interface designed or manipulated with the substantial effect of subverting or impairing user autonomy, decision-making, or choice.

5. "Deidentified data" means data that cannot be used to infer information about, or otherwise be linked to, a particular individual, provided that the direct-to-consumer genetic testing company (i) takes reasonable measures to ensure that such information cannot be associated with a consumer or household; (ii) publicly commits to maintain and use such information only in deidentified form and not to attempt to reidentify the information, except that the direct-to-consumer genetic testing company may attempt to reidentify the information solely for the purpose of determining whether its deidentification processes satisfy the requirements of this clause, provided that the direct-to-consumer genetic testing company does not use or disclose any information reidentified in this process and destroys the reidentified information upon completion of that assessment; and (iii) contractually obligates any recipients of the information to take reasonable measures to ensure that the information cannot be associated with a consumer or household and to commit to maintaining and using the information only in deidentified form and not to reidentify the information.

6. "Direct-to-consumer genetic testing company" means an entity that (i) sells, markets, interprets, or otherwise offers consumer-initiated genetic testing products or services directly to consumers; (ii) analyzes genetic data obtained from a consumer, except to the extent that the analysis is performed by a person licensed in the healing arts for diagnosis or treatment of a medical condition; or (iii) collects, uses, maintains, or discloses genetic data that is collected or derived from a direct-to-consumer genetic testing product or service or is directly provided by a consumer.

7. "Express consent" means a consumer's affirmative authorization to grant permission in response to a clear, meaningful, and prominent notice regarding the collection, use, maintenance, or disclosure of genetic data for a specific purpose.

8. "Genetic data" means any data, regardless of its format, that results from the analysis of a biological sample from a consumer, or from another element enabling equivalent information to be obtained, and concerns genetic material. Genetic material includes deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA), ribonucleic acids (RNA), genes, chromosomes, alleles, genomes, alterations or modifications to DNA or RNA, and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). "Genetic data" includes uninterpreted data that results from the analysis of the biological sample and any information extrapolated, derived, or inferred therefrom. "Genetic data" does not include (i) deidentified data or (ii) data or a biological sample to the extent that data or a biological sample is collected, used, maintained, and disclosed exclusively for scientific research conducted by an investigator with an institution that holds an assurance with the federal government, in compliance with all applicable federal, regional, and State laws and regulations for the protection of human subjects in research.

9. "Genetic testing" means any laboratory test of a biological sample from a consumer for the purpose of determining information concerning genetic material contained within the biological sample, or any information extrapolated, derived, or inferred therefrom.

10. "Service provider" means a sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, association, or other legal entity that is organized or operated for the profit or financial benefit of its shareholders or other owners that is involved in (i) the collection, transportation, and analysis of the consumer's biological sample or extracted genetic material (a) on behalf of the direct-to-consumer genetic testing company or (b) on behalf of any other company that collects, uses, maintains, or discloses genetic data collected or derived from a direct-to-consumer genetic testing product or service or directly provided by a consumer or (ii) the delivery of the results of the analysis of the biological sample or genetic material.

TITLE II: EXCLUSIONS

1. This act shall not apply to any of the following:

A. Protected health information that is collected, maintained, used, or disclosed by a covered entity or business associate governed by the privacy, security, and breach notification rules issued by the Atlasian government, established pursuant to the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the federal Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act;

B. A covered entity governed by the privacy, security, and breach notification rules issued by the Atlasian government, established pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, , and the federal Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, to the extent that the covered entity maintains, uses, and discloses genetic information in the same manner as protected health information;

C. A business associate of a covered entity governed by the privacy, security, and data breach notification rules issued by the Atlasian government, established pursuant to the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the federal Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, to the extent that the business associate maintains, uses, and discloses genetic information in the same manner as protected health information;

D. Scientific research or educational activities conducted by a public or private nonprofit institution of higher education that holds an assurance with the Atlasian government, to the extent that such scientific research and educational activities comply with all applicable federal, regional, and State laws and regulations for the protection of human subjects in research;

E. Any newborn screening program established pursuant to State law;

F. Tests conducted exclusively to diagnose whether an individual has a specific disease, to the extent that all persons involved in the conduct of the test maintain, use, and disclose genetic information in the same manner as protected health information; or

G. Genetic data used or maintained by an employer, or disclosed by an employee to an employer, to the extent that the use, maintenance, or disclosure of such data is necessary to comply with a local, State, regional, or federal workplace health and safety ordinance, law, or regulation.

TITLE III: CONSUMER INFORMATION

1. Every direct-to-consumer genetic testing company shall provide to consumers:

A. A summary of the company's (i) policies and procedures related to the collection, use, maintenance, retention, disclosure, transfer, deletion, and security of and access to genetic data and (ii) privacy practices;

B. Information regarding the requirement for consent for the collection, use, and disclosure of genetic data and the process for revoking consent;

C. Notice that a consumer's deidentified genetic or phenotypic data may be shared with or disclosed to third parties for research purposes in accordance with federal law; and

D. Information about the process by which a consumer may file a complaint alleging a violation of this act.

2. Information required to be made available pursuant to this title shall be written in plain language and shall be provided to consumers together with any genetic testing product provided to consumers. Such information shall also be included on any website maintained by the direct-to-consumer genetic testing company in a manner that is easily accessible by the public.

TITLE IV: CONSENT

1. Express consent required pursuant to this act requires a statement of the nature of the data collection, use, maintenance, or disclosure for which consent is sought in plain and prominent language that an ordinary consumer would notice and understand and an affirmative authorization by the consumer granting permission in response to such statement. Express consent shall not be inferred from inaction. Agreement obtained through dark patterns does not constitute express consent.

2. Every direct-to-consumer genetic testing company shall obtain a consumer's express consent for the collection, use, and disclosure of the consumer's genetic data, including, at a minimum, separate and express consent for each of the following:

A. The use of genetic data collected through the genetic testing product or service offered to the consumer. Express consent for such use of genetic data shall include a statement describing who will receive access to the genetic data, how such genetic data will be shared, and the purposes for which such data shall be collected, used, and disclosed;

B. The storage of a consumer's biological sample after the initial testing required by the consumer has been completed;

C. Each use of genetic data or the biological sample beyond the primary purpose of the genetic testing or service and inherent contextual uses;

D. Each transfer or disclosure of the consumer's genetic data or biological sample to a third party other than a service provider, including the name of the third party to which the consumer's genetic data or biological sample will be transferred or disclosed; and

E. Any marketing or facilitation of marketing to a consumer based on the consumer's genetic data or marketing or facilitation of marketing by a third party based on the consumer's having ordered, purchased, received, or used a genetic testing product or service, except that a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company shall not be required to obtain a consumer's express consent to marketing to the consumer on the company's own website or mobile application based on the consumer having ordered, purchased, received, or used a genetic testing product or service from that company if (i) the advertisement does not depend on any information specific to that consumer other than information regarding the product or service that the consumer ordered, purchased, received, or used; (ii) the placement of the advertisement does not result in disparate exposure to advertising content on the basis of a protected class under the Southern Constitution; and (iii) the advertisement of a third-party product or service is clearly labeled as advertising content, is accompanied by the name of the third party that has contributed to the placement of the advertisement, and, if applicable, indicates that the advertised product or service and claims regarding the product or service have not been vetted or endorsed by the direct-to-consumer genetic testing company.

3. Every direct-to-consumer genetic testing company shall provide a mechanism by which a consumer may revoke express consent, which shall include an option for revocation of consent through the primary medium through which the company communicates with consumers.

4. Revocation of express consent by a consumer shall comply with the requirements of federal law. Upon revocation of express consent required herein by a consumer, a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company shall (i) honor such revocation of express consent as soon as is practicable but in all cases within 30 days of receipt of such revocation and (ii) destroy the consumer's biological sample within 30 days of receipt of revocation of the consumer's express consent to store such sample.

TITLE V: OTHER REQUIREMENTS

1. Every direct-to-consumer genetic testing company shall:

A. Implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices to protect a consumer's genetic data against unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure; and

B. Develop procedures and practices to allow a consumer to easily (i) access the consumer's genetic data; (ii) delete the consumer's genetic data, except any data required by state or federal law to be retained by the direct-to-consumer genetic testing company and any account the consumer may have created with the direct-to-consumer genetic testing company; and (iii) revoke consent to storage of the consumer's biological sample and request destruction of such biological sample.

2. Every direct-to-consumer genetic testing company that enters into a contract with a service provider shall prohibit the service provider from retaining, using, or disclosing the biological sample, extracted genetic material, genetic data, or any information regarding the identity of the consumer, including whether the consumer has solicited or received genetic testing, as applicable, for any purpose other than for the specific purpose of performing the services specified in the contract with the service provider for the business.

3. Every contract between a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company and a service provider shall include:

A. A provision prohibiting the service provider from retaining, using, or disclosing the biological sample, extracted genetic material, genetic data, or any information regarding the identity of the consumer, including whether the consumer has solicited or received genetic testing, as applicable, for a commercial purpose other than providing the services specified in the contract with the service provider with the business; and

B. A provision prohibiting the service provider from associating or combining the biological sample, extracted genetic material, genetic data, or any information regarding the identity of the consumer, including whether the consumer has solicited or received genetic testing, as applicable, with information the service provider has received from or on behalf of another person or has collected from its own interaction with consumers or as required by law.

TITLE VI: OTHER PROHIBITED DISCLOSURES AND ACTS

1. Except as provided herein, no direct-to-consumer genetic testing company shall disclose a consumer's genetic data to any entity that is responsible for administering or making decisions regarding health insurance, life insurance, long-term care insurance, disability insurance, or employment or any entity that provides advice to such an entity.

2. A direct-to consumer genetic testing company may disclosure a consumer's genetic data or biological sample to an entity described above if:

A. The entity is not primarily engaged in administering health insurance, life insurance, long-term care insurance, disability insurance, or employment;

B. The consumer's genetic data or biological sample is not disclosed to the entity in that entity's capacity as a party that is responsible for administering, advising, or making decisions regarding health insurance, life insurance, long-term care insurance, disability insurance, or employment; and

C. Any agent or division of the entity that is involved in administering, advising, or making decisions regarding health insurance, life insurance, long-term care insurance, disability insurance, or employment is prohibited from accessing the consumer's genetic data or biological sample.

3. No person or public entity shall discriminate against a consumer on the grounds that the consumer has exercised any of the rights granted by this act with regard to:

A. Providing or denying any good, service, or benefit to the consumer;

B. Charging any different price or rate for any good or service provided to the consumer, including through the use of discounts or other incentives or imposition of penalties;

C. Providing a different level or quality of goods, services, or benefits to the consumer;

D. Suggesting that the consumer will receive a different price or rate for goods, services, or benefits or a different level or quality of goods, services, or benefits; or

E. Considering the consumer's exercise of rights pursuant to this chapter as a basis or suspicion of criminal wrongdoing or unlawful conduct.

TITLE VII: ENFORCEMENT AND ENACTMENT

1. The Attorney General or his designee shall have exclusive authority to enforce the provisions of this act.

2. Any person who negligently violates the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $1,000 plus court costs, as determined by the court. Any person who willfully violates the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount not less than $1,000 and not more than $10,000 plus court costs, as determined by the court.

3. Each violation of this act is a separate and actionable violation.

4. The provisions of this act shall not reduce a direct-to-consumer genetic testing company's duties, obligations, requirements, or standards under any applicable regional, State, and federal laws for the protection of privacy and security.

5. In the event of a conflict between the provisions of this chapter and any other provision of law, the provisions of the law that afford the greatest protection for the right of privacy for consumers shall control.

6. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to affect access to information made available to the public by the consumer.

7. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 5
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

TRIGGER WARNINGS ARE FOR CHILDREN ACT

1. No website or publication published, operated, maintained, or funded by the Southern Region or any State or local government therein shall be permitted to include a trigger warning or other prefratory content warning related to any of the following:

A. Any Constitution, charter, license, judicial order, law, regulation, proclamation, resolution, or Executive Order issued by the Southern Region, or any State or local government therein.

B. Any Constitution, charter, license, judicial order, law, regulation, proclamation, resolution, or Executive Order issued by any other Region, or any State or local government therein.

C. Any Constitution, charter, license, judicial order, law, regulation, proclamation, resolution, or Executive Order issued by the government of Atlasia of the United States of America.

D. Any Constitution, charter, license, judicial order, law, regulation, proclamation, resolution, or Executive Order issued by a foreign government.

E. The Declaration of Independence.

F. Any reading list, course catalogue or description, curriculum, agenda or schedule, instruction materials, assignment, or test issued by a public college or university.

G. Any advertisement for a speaker, panel, or event sponsored by a public college or university or to occur on the property of a public college or university.

2. No monument, memorial, plaque, honor display, or historical or museum display owned by the Southern Region or any State or locality therein shall be modified or physically altered to include a trigger warning, other prefratory content warning, or a recontextualization of such monument, memorial, plaque, honor display, or historical or museum display, nor shall any Regional, State, or lical public funds be expended to modify or physically alter a orivately owned monument, memorial, plaque, honor display, or historical or museum display to include a trigger warning, other prefratory content warning, or recontextualization.

3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 4
Nay:0
Present: 1
Not voting: 0

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the Southern Region to hereby establish food tax credits and refunds to reduce the burden of inflation upon the Southern citizenry:

SECTION 1. Title and Definition


1. This legislation shall be referred to as the Grocery Tax Rebate and Economic Assistance Act of 2022.

a. Any lawful resident individual or household in the Southern Region with a combined income of less than $100,000.00 who is required to file and who has filed an income tax return shall be granted a tax credit for himself and each dependent. For tax years 2023 and after, the credit is one hundred dollars ($100) per individual and dependent. If taxes due are less than the total credit allowed, the taxpayer shall be paid a refund equal to the balance of the unused credit.

SECTION 2. Implementation

1. A lawful resident individual or household that is not required to file an income tax return and for whom no credit or refund is allowed under this act shall, subject to the limitations of this act, be entitled to a refund in the amount provided in section (1) of this act.

a. Except as otherwise provided in this act, a credit or refund is only available only if the individual or household for whom a tax credit is claimed is a lawful resident of the South.

b. In no event shall more than one (1) taxpayer be allowed a credit or refund for the same dependent.

c. In the event that a credit or refund is attributable to any individual or dependent to whom assistance under the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was received for any month or part of a month during the taxable year for which the credit or refund is claimed, the credit or refund allowed under this section shall be in proportion to the number of months of the year in which no assistance was received.

d. In the event that a credit or refund is attributable to any individual or dependent who has been incarcerated for any month or part of a month during the taxable year for which the credit or refund is claimed, the credit or refund allowed under this section shall be in proportion to the number of months of the year in which the individual or dependent was not incarcerated.

e. Any part-year resident entitled to a credit under this section shall receive a proportionate credit reflecting the part of the year in which he was domiciled in this region provided he shall have been domiciled herein for at least 183 days of any year.

f. Any refund shall be paid to such individual only upon his making application therefor, at such time and in such manner as may be prescribed by law. The refunds authorized by this section shall be paid from the  fund designated herein.

SECTION 3. Filing


1. The due date, including extensions, of the return required under this act shall be the fifteenth day of April of the year following the year to which the application relates.

2. A person eligible to receive a credit or refund shall have the irrevocable option of donating credited funds accruing pursuant to this act. Any funds so donated shall be remitted to a cooperative welfare fund, and shall be used solely for the purpose of providing low-income Southerners with assistance in paying home energy costs.

SECTION 4. Funding

1. For purposes of PayGo this provision shall only go into effect upon the adoption of a discretionary spending fund with adequate new funds to cover the costs of this act in a separate act.

2. A luxury tax surcharge of 10% on the end-use sales price of any of the following products sold in the Southern Region is hereby levied. All tax monies collected from this tax shall be used to offset the costs of this act.

A. Almonds and almond milk
B. Artichokes
C. Asparagus
D. Brazil Nuts
E. Cherries (sweet or tart)
F. Coconuts
G. Cranberries
H. Hazlenuts
I. Lettuce
J. Macademia nuts
K. Maple Syrup
L. Olives
M. Pineapples
N. Pistachio Nuts

For purposes of this act end-use price shall mean the price paid at the point of sale to a direct consumer, to a restaurant or food preparer that will use a taxed product as an ingredient in a meal or dish to be sold to a direct consumer, or to a food company that will use a taxed product as an ingredient in a product to be sold to a direct consumer.

3. Unless otherwise specified herein, the provisions of this act shall take effect July 1, 2022.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since 24 hours has passed since the bill had enough votes to pass, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 4
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 1

SIN TAXES ARE THE BEST TAXES ACT

1. Beginning in FY 2023, the commercial activities occurring within the Southern Region that are enumerated herein shall be subject to a Regional tax as specified herein. For taxes enumerated herein that are already established by law, all such law is hereby expressly retained, with the sole exception of the rate of the tax, when such rate varies from a rate previously established by law.

2. The following taxes are hereby established, modified, or retained:

A. Fuel Taxes

- Gasoline (25 cents per Gallon sold to end-use consumer, payable by retailer quarterly)

- Electric Vehicles (5% of sale price charged to end-use consumer, payable by retailer quarterly)

- Oil and gas drilled on Regional land (5% of market value at time of extraction, payable by licensee quarterly)

- Solar and wind electrical generation on Regional land (2% of market value at time of extraction, payable by licensee quarterly)


B. Financial Gains

- Annuity and long-term payment buyers (10% of value of the unadjusted asset value over its life, payable by businesses annually)

- Bank and financial institution income when Regional usury laws are complied with (15% of gross income, payable by businesses quarterly)

- Bank and financial institution income when Regional usury laws are not complied with (75% of gross income, payable by businesses quarterly)

- Bank and financial institution uninsured liabilities (2% of uninsured liabilities exceeding $100 Million, payable by businesses annually)

- Carried interest from financial investments (The same as income for the market value at the time of filing, payable by individuals annually)

- Cryptocurrency mining (5% mining of unrealized gain at time of acquisition, payable by individuals quarterly)

- Cryptocurrency gains (10% of realized gains, payable by individuals annually)

- Found property (20% of gain at time of discovery, payable by individuals annually)

- Fractional investment art share gains (10% of unrealized gains, payable by individuals annually)

- Futures, forwards, options, swaps, and other financial derivative contracts (5% of unrealized gains, payable by individuals annually)

- Gambling income (10% of gross income earned by a person conducting gambling activities, payable by businesses quarterly)

- Gambling Winnings (10% of realized gains, payable by individuals annually)

- Lottery Winnings (10% of realized gains, payable by individuals annually)

- Private College and University Endowment gains (2% of unrealized gain of assets exceeding $1 million per enrolled student, payable by colleges and universities annually)

- Short Position financial gains (10% of realized gains, payable by individuals annually)


C. Drugs

- Beer, wine, liquor, and other spiritous alcohol (15% of sale price charged to end-use consumer, payable by retailer quarterly)

- Cigars, cigarettes, and other tobacco and nicotine-containing products (15% of sale price charged to end-use consumer, payable by retailer quarterly)

- Marijuana, cannabis, hashish, and other THC-containing products (15% of sale price charged to end-use consumer, payable by retailer quarterly)

- Cocaine and coca leaves and products containing such (15% of sale price charged to end-use consumer, payable by retailer quarterly)

- Khat, cathiones, salvia, Jimson weed, diisopropltrypatime, and products containing such (15% of sale price charged to end-use consumer, payable by retailer quarterly)

- Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, psilocybin mushrooms, ahuyasca, DMT and products containing such (20% of sale price charged to end-use consumer, payable by retailer quarterly)

- Opiates (5 cents per pill manufactured or imported, payable by businesses quarterly)

- SSRIs, SNRIs, SMSs, SARIs, NRIs, TCAs, TeCAs, MAOIs, and other prescription antidepressant medication (5 cents per pill manufactured or imported, payable by businesses quarterly)

- Adderall and other amphetamines (5 cents per pill manufactured or imported, payable by businesses quarterly)

- Abortion drugs ($100 per pill manufactured or imported, payable by businesses quarterly)

- Emergency Contraceptive drugs ($15 per pill sold to an end-use consumer or person dispensing directly to an end-use consumer, payable by retailer quarterly)


D. Sex, Lust, and Prideful Income

- Abortion procedures ($100 per abortion procedure, payable by businesses quarterly)

- Abortion clinic operations ($10,000 per location where abortion procedures are performed, payable by businesses annually)

- Brothel operations (15% of gross income, payable by brothel quarterly)

- Prostitution income (15% of net income, payable by prostitutes annually)

- Adult Entertainment income (15% of net income, payable by entertainers annually)

- Pornography (15% of sale price charged to end-use consumer, payable by sellers quarterly)

- Sex Toys (15% of sale price charged to end-use consumer, payable by retailer quarterly)

- Dating or sex location services (10% of net income, payable by businesses quarterly)

- Makeup and cosmetics (10% of sale price charged to end-use consumer, payable by retailer quarterly)

- Tattoos ($100 per tattoo, payable by businesses quarterly)

- No-Fault Divorces (10% of value of marital property distributed during divorce, payable by individuals prior to finalization of divorce decree)

- Security cameras (10% sale price charged to end-use consumer, payable by retailer quarterly)

E. Other immoral Income

- Excessive attorney contingency fees (15% of gross amount of fee exceeding 20% of any recovery, payable by attorney or firm annually)

- Excessive attorney fees (15% of gross amount of fee exceeding $100 per hour, payable by attorney or firm annually)

- Social media company profits (10% of net income, payable by businesses quarterly)

- Data Broker profits (15% of net income, payable by businesses quarterly)

- Off-site billboard income (10% of net income, payable by businesses quarterly)

- Third-Party Debt Collection income (10% of net recovery, payable by businesses quarterly)

- Excessive tax-exempt non-profit salaries (10% of gross amount of annual salary and benefits exceeding $120,000, payable by non-profit annually)

- Excessive corporate officer salaries (10% of gross amount of annual salary and benefits exceeding $200,000, payable by businesses annually).

- Security alarm companies (10% of net income, payable by businesses quarterly)

3. All tax revenues collected pursuant to this act that are not otherwise needed to balance the 2023 Budget, shall be deposited in a special trust fund to pay for potential Southern programs requiring funding to comply with Pay-go rules. Such funds shall require appropriation from the Southern Chamber in a separate law.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 5
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

NOT ON THE TAXPAYERS' DIME ACT

1. Any college and university in the Southern Region receiving public funds as a condition of accepting such funds shall be prohibited from spending any monies to promote or inhibit the celebration of religious holidays. Celebrating any designated federal, Regional, State, or local holidays or any campus specific holidays of a non-religious character, shall not be considered a violation of this paragraph. This paragraph shall not apply to colleges or universities owned or operated by a religious body, organization, or institution

2. Any college and university in the Southern Region receiving public funds as a condition of accepting such funds shall be prohibited from spending any monies to promote or inhibit the use of gender neutral titles, honorifics, pronouns, or neopronouns.

3. Any college and university in the Southern Region receiving public funds as a condition of accepting such funds shall reallocate all funds in their budget designated for diversity, equity, and inclusion offices and programs to be used by the college or university solely for scholarships and tuition assistance programs.

4. No daycare, school, college, or university in the Southern Region receiving public funds as a condition of accepting such funds, shall offer or provide litterboxes in public bathrooms for the use by persons who identify as non-human.

5. No State or local government in the Southern Region and no group, organization, or entity in the Southern Region receiving public funds as a condition of accepting such funds, shall sell or distribute bongs, crack pipes, meth pipes, or other smoking implements or devices to members of the general public.

6. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 3
Nay:1
Present: 1
Not voting: 0

DON'T THROTTLE MY INTERNET ACT

1. Any publicly owned or operated Internet service provider (ISP) in the Southern Region and any ISP that is Regional, State, or local government contractor therein shall adopt a net neutrality policy, provided each such policy shall include a certification that the ISP:

A. Shall not block lawful content, applications, services or nonharmful devices, subject to reasonable network management that is disclosed to the consumer;

B. Shall not throttle, impair, or degrade lawful Internet traffic on the basis of Internet content, application, or service or use of a nonharmful device, subject to reasonable network management that is disclosed to the consumer;

C. Shall not engage in paid prioritization, or accept any consideration to manage its network in a way that benefits particular content, applications, services or devices; and

D. Shall publicly disclose accurate information regarding the network management practices, performance, and commercial terms of its Internet access services sufficient for consumers to make informed choices regarding the use of such services.

2. Nothing in this act shall be interpreted as amending, modifying, or repealing any existing federal, Regional, State, or local law or regulation applying to the provision, operation, management, marketing, or sale of internet service unless such law or regulation expressly prohibits net neutrality policies.

3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 5
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

YOU ARE FAKE NEWS ACT

TITLE I: DEFAMATION, LIBEL, AND SLANDER

1. Any person, who in the Southern Region or causing to occur in the Southern Region the tort of defamation shall be liable to the victim of such defamation for either statutory damages of $1,000.00 or actual damages, whichever is greater. A court of proper jurisdiction may award such other equitable relief as is necessary, including injunction.

2. To create liability for defamation there must be:

A. a false and defamatory statement concerning another;

B. an unprivileged publication to a third party;

C. fault amounting at least to negligence on the part of the publisher with respect to the act of publication; and

D. Harm, either statutory or actual, caused by the publication.

3. A communication is defamatory if it tends so to harm the reputation of another as to lower him in the estimation of the community or to deter third persons from associating or dealing with him.

4. Unless otherwise exempted by law, a person who repeats or otherwise republishes defamatory matter is subject to liability as if he had originally published it.

5. Unless otherwise modified by law, a person who only delivers or transmits defamatory matter published by a third person is subject to liability if, but only if, he knows or has reason to know of its defamatory character.

6. As used in this act, “reason to know” means the person has information from which a person of reasonable intelligence would infer that the fact in question exists, or that such person would govern his conduct upon the assumption that such fact exists.

7. The tort of defamation includes both libel (written statements) and slander (spoken statements).

8. Statements that are literally true may still be actionable if they omit crucial facts and, as a result, convey a factually false defamatory meaning.

9. For a plaintiff to recover from the defendant on his claim of defamation, he must prove by a preponderance of the evidence:

A. The defendant published or caused to be published the defamatory statement in the same or substantially similar words; and

B. The statement caused the plaintiff statutory or actual damage.

10. For a plaintiff to recover from the defendant on his claim of defamation, must further prove by clear and convincing evidence:

A. The substance or gist of the statement was false at the time it was published; and

B. At the time of publication, the defendant knew that the statement was false or the defendant made the statement with reckless disregard as to whether it was false.

11. In the case of a publicly-known figure, the plaintiff must further prove by clear and convincing evidence that the defamatory statement was made with actual malice. "Actual malice" means that the defendant made the defamatory statement with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not. "Reckless disregard" means the failure to verify if such defamatory statement has been disproven or lacks a basis in evidence, or has refused to accept and consider information from the subject of the defamatory statement disputing the defamatory statement. Publicly-known figure shall include government employees.

12. If a defamatory statement is proven by clear and convincing evidence to have been made with actual malice, a court with proper jurisdiction shall treble the damages award as well as require payment of the Plaintiff's reasonable legal costs.

13. The statute of limitations for the tort of defamation shall be five (5) years from defamatory statement.

TITLE II: PRIVACY TORTS

1. Any person, who in the Southern Region or causing to occur in the Southern Region the tort of invasion of privacy shall be liable to the victim of such tort for either statutory damages of $1,000.00 or actual damages, whichever is greater. A court of proper jurisdiction may award such other equitable relief as is necessary, including injunction.

2. The right of privacy is invaded by:

A. unreasonable intrusion upon the seclusion of another;

B. appropriation of the other's name or likeness;

C. unreasonable publicity given to the other's private life; or

D. publicity that unreasonably places the other in a false light before the public.

3. A person has committed the tort of intrusion upon seclusion if he intentionally intrudes, physically or otherwise, upon the solitude or seclusion of another or his private affairs or concerns, if the intrusion would be highly offensive to a reasonable person and is without consent.

4. A person has committed the tort of misappropriation of name or likeness if he  appropriates to his own use or benefit the name or likeness of another, without consent.

5. A person has committed the tort of giving publicity to a matter concerning the private life of another if the matter publicized is of a kind that would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, is not of legitimate concern to the public, is without consent, and is not made about a publicly-known figure.

6.  A person has committed the tort of giving publicity to a matter concerning another that places the other before the public in a false light if the false light in which the other was placed would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, and the actor had knowledge of or acted in reckless disregard as to the falsity of the publicized matter and the false light in which the other would be placed.

7. A Plaintiff must prove the elements of any of these torts by preponderance of the evidence.

8. A defendant to such tort may raise the affirmative defense that the disclosure of and publicity to facts are a matter of public record.

9. If a tort enumerated in this Title is proven by clear and convincing evidence to have been made with actual malice, a court with proper jurisdiction shall treble the damages award as well as require payment of the Plaintiff's reasonable legal costs.

10. The statute of limitations for a tort enumerated in this Title shall be five (5) years from when the tort was committed.

TITLE III: INTERPRETATION AND ENACTMENT

1. Nothing in this act shall be interpreted as modifying the Soecific Legal Protections Act or the Facebook and Twitter Suck Act.

2. A court hearing a case brought under this act shall interpret the act in harmony with the Common Law Can Be Amended By Legislation Act.

3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 4
Nay:1
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

BULLMOOSE ACT

1. The officers and governing board of any publicly traded stock corporation incorporated in the Southern Region hereby possess a fiduciary duty to make business decisions as a reasonably prudent investor would for the benefit of the corporate shareholders. Accordingly no such officer or board member shall make business decisions on behalf of the corporation based off environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, personal political viewpoints, or personal bias nor shall any such officer or board member make a public statement on behalf of the corporation supporting or opposing a public policy that does not directly affect the corporation. Any shareholder shall be entitled to iniate a shareholder derivative class action lawsuit against any officer or board member violating this paragraph to seek damages and legal costs.

2. The officers, agents, and employees of any financial investment company or fund that manages finances for persons in the Southern Region hereby possess a fiduciary duty to make investment decisions as a reasonably prudent investor would for the benefit of the beneficiaries of the investments. Accordingly no such officer, agent, or employee shall make investment decisions on behalf of the company or fund based off ESG factors, personal political viewpoints, or personal bias nor shall any such officer, agent, or employee make a public statement on behalf of the company or fund supporting or opposing a public policy that does not directly affect the corporation. Any beneficiary shall be entitled to iniate a beneficiary derivative class action lawsuit against any officer, agent, or employee violating this paragraph to seek damages and legal costs.

3. The officers, agents, and employees of any shareholder proxy voting firm or company that advises on corporate shareholder proxy voting for persons in the Southern Region hereby possess a fiduciary duty to make business decisions as a reasonably prudent investor would for the benefit of the contracted shareholders. Accordingly no such officer, agent, or employee shall make business decisions on behalf of the firm or company based off ESG factors, personal political viewpoints, or personal bias nor shall any such officer, agent, or employee make a public statement on behalf of the firm or company supporting or opposing a public policy that does not directly affect the contracted shareholders. Any shareholder contracted with such firm or company shall be entitled to iniate a shareholder derivative class action lawsuit against any officer, agent, or employee violating this paragraph to seek damages and legal costs.

4. No publicly traded stock corporation incorporated in the Southern Region shall be permitted to maintain any bylaw or policy that discriminates in board composition or employment against any protected class under the Constitution, including but not limited to bylaws or policies mandating race or sex quotas or mandatory retirement ages.

5. Any Business Trust Series or Real Estate Investment Trust created pursuant to federal law that owns real property or engages in commerce within the Southern Region shall be deemed to consent to personal jurisdiction to be sued in the Southern Region and shall make publicly available the names and contact information of the Trust's beneficiaries, trustee, and address for service of process, regardless of if such Trust was organized in the Southern Region or not.

 6. Any limited liability company (LLC) that owns real property or engages in commerce within the Southern Region shall be deemed to consent to personal jurisdiction to be sued in the Southern Region and shall make publicly available the names and contact information of the LLC's manager, beneficiaries, and address for service of process, regardless of if such LLC was organized in the Southern Region or not.

7. If an officer, board member, manager, trustee, employee, or agent of any partnership, corporation, LLC, or trust commits any illegal fraud or an intentional tort under Southern Regional or State law, and the assets of such entity are insufficient to cover the legal damages, any person upon filing a civil suit in a Southern court shall be permitted to pierce the veil of the entity and join the officer, board member, manager, trustee, employee, or agent as a defendant to such suit.

8. This act shall take effect 120 days from the date of passage.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Since everyone has voted, the bill now passes and awaits gubernatorial action.

Aye: 5
Nay:0
Present: 0
Not voting: 0

TRANSHUMANISM IS DYSTOPIAN ACT

TITLE I: DEFINITIONS

1. Adrenochrome means any chemical compound directly produced by a human or non-human animal from the oxidation of adrenaline or any blood or other product containing such compound.

2. Cryogenic human preservation means the long-term preservation of a human body or human tissue through freezing or heat removal for the intended purpose of resurrecting such body or creating a human clone from such body or tissue at a later date when hypothetical technology is discovered to allow for such resurrection or cloning.

3. Embryonic stem cells means any stem cells produced by a human embryo.

4. External incubation means gestating a living human embryo in an artificial womb until such embryo can be safely implanted in a host or safely delivered as a live baby.

5. Human clone means a human embryo that is substantially genetically identical to a previously born human being.

6. Human embryo means an organism of the species Homo sapiens during the earliest stages of development, from 1 cell up to delivery or fetal death.

7. In vitro fertilization means the artificial creation of a human embryo or fertilized human egg outside of a female human body with the consent of the egg and sperm donors for the intended implantation into a human host body.

8. Metaverse means an interconnected digital platform allowing persons through virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) to interface directly with a digital-only platform that artificially simulates life or life activities, games, communication, or similar such activities.

9. Metaverse property means any divisible software or digital code that is utilized in thr metaverse, including but not limited to digital housing, furnishings, weapons, avatar clothing or skins, currencies, or other things of value.

10. Prohibited artificial intelligence means any real or theoretical program or software code that:

A. reaches or exceeds the level of human intellectual abilities and is able to apply its abilities to any type of task;

B. achieves self-awareness as found in humans;

C. is capable of animating or controlling a human body; or

D. is or purports to be the uploaded soul, life, consciousness, personality, or memories of a specific human.

11. Prohibited eugenics means reproductive procedures including but not limited to sterilization, castration, vasectomy, fallopian tubal ligation, hysterectomy, and abortion which are carried out for the purpose of reducing or eliminating the future population of specific groups or genetic patterns, groupings, or sequences.

12. Prohibited gain-of-function research means medical or scientific research involving the deliberate editing of the genetic code of a virus, disease, or pathogen for the purpose of increasing the virulty, transmissibility, harmfulness, deadliness, resistence, or persistence of the virus, disease, or pathogen.

13. Prohibited human-animal chimera means:

A. a human embryo into which a nonhuman cell or cells (or the component parts thereof) have been introduced to render the embryo's membership in the species Homo sapiens uncertain;

B. a human-animal embryo produced by fertilizing a human egg with nonhuman sperm;

C. a human-animal embryo produced by fertilizing a nonhuman egg with human sperm;

D. an embryo produced by introducing a nonhuman nucleus into a human egg;

E. an embryo produced by introducing a human nucleus into a nonhuman egg;

F  an embryo containing at least haploid sets of chromosomes from both a human and a nonhuman life form;

G. a nonhuman life form engineered such that human gametes develop within the body of a nonhuman life form;

H. a nonhuman life form engineered such that it contains a human brain or a brain derived wholly or predominantly from human neural tissues;

I. a nonhuman life form engineered such that it exhibits human facial features or other bodily morphologies to resemble human features;

J. an embryo produced by mixing human and nonhuman cells, such that human gametes develop within the body of the resultant organism, it contains a human brain or a brain derived wholly or predominantly from human neural tissues, or it exhibits human facial features or other bodily morphologies to resemble human features;

K. a human to whose DNA nonhuman DNA is artificially spliced or grafted; or

L. a human embryo implanted or gestated in a non-human animal.

14. Test tube gestation means the artificial creation of a human embryo or fertilized human egg outside of a female human body.

15. Unknowing test subject means a person upon whom a medical or scientific experiment, test, or case study is being performed without that persons knowledge or consent.

TITLE II: DYSTOPIAN CRIMES

It shall be unlawful for any person in the Southern Region to knowingly:

1. create a human clone or produce, advertise, transport, transfer, or receive any product derived from such cloning;

2. create a prohibited human-animal chimera, transfer a human embryo into a nonhuman womb, transfer a nonhuman embryo into a human womb, or transport or receive for any purpose a prohibited human-animal chimera, however this clause does not prohibit research involving the use of transgenic animal models containing human genes or transplantation of human organs, tissues, or cells into recipient animals, if such activities are not prohibited by this act or any other law;

3. create or a human embryo as a result of test tube gestation, except for the purpose of in vitro fertilization with the consent of both parents and an identified host for implantation of the human embryo, however nothing in this clause shall be interpreted as prohibiting the use of external incubation to save an extant human embryo that lacks a human host;

4. produce, advertise, transport, transfer, or receive any human embryo or human fetal tissue or any product derived therefrom however nothing in this clause shall be interpreted as prohibiting the use of external incubation to save an extant human embryo, in vitro fertilization, the respectful burial of a dead fetus, or scientific research on donated embryonic stem cells resulting from an unintended miscarriage, fetal death, or ectopic pregnancy;

5. conduct, perform, finance, or advertise prohibited eugenics;

6. conduct, perform, finance, or advertise cryogenic human preservation services;

7. produce, advertise, transport, transfer, or receive any product derived from human bones, flesh, appendages, skin, organs, blood, or adrenochrome, however nothing in this clause shall be interpreted as prohibiting scientific research on any lawfully obtained human bones, flesh, appendages, skin, organs, stem cells, or blood or the transplantation of any lawfully obtained human organ, stem cells, or blood;

8. prepare, serve, eat, or consume any human bone, flesh, appendage, skin, organ, blood, or adrenochrome;

9. create, finance, transfer, or receive prohibited artificial intelligence;

10. conduct, perform, or finance any medical or scientific research on an unknown test subject;

11. conduct, perform, or finance any prohibited gain-of-function research; or

12. administer euthanasia to a human embryo, human clone, or prohibited human-animal chimera, except in cases where the animal is suffering from a painful injury or condition for which there is no realistic alternative treatment or realistic chance of recovery.

TITLE III: PUNISHMENTS

1. It shall be a felony to commit any crime enumerated in Title II of this act.

2. A violation of Title II(1) - (4) and (12) of this act shall be punishable by imprisonment for not less than ten (10) years and not more than life and a fine of the greater of $100,000.00 or the amount equal to twice the amount of the gross pecuniary gain from the violation, if any.

3. A violation of Title II(5) - (6) of this act shall be punishable by imprisonment for not less than five (5) years and not more than twenty (20) years and a fine of the greater of $100,000.00 or the amount equal to twice the amount of the gross pecuniary gain from the violation, if any.

4. A violation of Title II(7) - (8 ) of this act shall be punishable by imprisonment for not less than ten (10) years and not more than twenty (20) years and a fine of the greater of $100,000.00 or the amount equal to twice the amount of the gross pecuniary gain from the violation, if any.

5. A violation of Title II(9) of this act shall be punishable by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years and a fine of the greater of $100,000.00 or the amount equal to twice the amount of the gross pecuniary gain from the violation, if any.

6. A violation of Title II(10) of this act that does not result in permanent harm to the unknown test subject shall be punishable by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years and a fine of the greater of $10,000.00 or the amount equal to twice the amount of the gross pecuniary gain from the violation, if any.

7. A violation of Title II(10) of this act that results in permanent harm to the unknown test subject shall be punishable by imprisonment for not less than five (5) years and not more than twenty (20) years and a fine of the greater of $100,000.00 or the amount equal to twice the amount of the gross pecuniary gain from the violation, if any.

8. A violation of Title II(11) of this act shall be punishable by imprisonment for not less than five (5) years and not more than ten (10) years and a fine of the greater of $100,000.00 or the amount equal to twice the amount of the gross pecuniary gain from the violation, if any.

9. Any person convicted of crime enumerated in this act shall be ordered to attend an appropriate treatment program or obtain psychiatric or psychological counseling.

10. Any person convicted of crime enumerated in this act who is a licensed doctor or medical professional shall lose their license to practice in the Southern Region.

11. Any business, institution, or entity that participates in or funds any crime enumerated in this act shall be ineligible to receive Regional, State, or local public funds for no less than five (5) years.

12. No Regional, State, or local public funds shall be expended in the furtherance of any crime enumerated in this act.

TITLE IV: METAVERSE

1. Any metaverse property owned by a resident of the Southern Region shall be taxed at 10% of the unrealized gain on such digital property. Such taxes shall be remitted by the owner annually.

2. The sale in the Southern Region of any equipment specifically designed or marketed for customers to connect to or interoperate, interact, or interface with the metaverse shall be taxed at 10% of the sale price charged to the end-use consumer. Such taxes shall be remitted by the seller quarterly.

TITLE V: DISCRIMINATION

1. Any existing law prohibiting discriminatory conduct against certain classes or groups of persons shall not be interpreted as applying to persons in the following categories:

A. Humans who possess non-medically required artificial enhancements;

B. Prohibited human-animal chimeras and purported human-animal chimeras;

C. Non-human animals and purported non-human animals;

D. Prohibited artificial intelligence;

E. Extraterrestrial lifeforms and purported extraterrestrial lifeforms, including but not limited to reptilians or greys;

F. Interdemensional lifeforms and purported interdemensional lifeforms; and

G. Non-human or purportedly non-human otherkin including but not limited to fairies, pixies, sprites, mermaids, elves, fauns, centaurs, vampires, werewolves, goblins, zombies, demons, dragons, electric hedgehog pokemon, and sentient weather.

TITLE VI: ENACTMENT

1. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.

2. The Black Mirror Act is hereby repealed.