SENATE RESOLUTION: Renaming Senate Rules...: (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE RESOLUTION

To provide an official name for the Senate rules and better define the Senate rules for Final Votes

Be it resolved in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,

Renaming Senate Rules and Improving Senate Rules on Final Votes Resolution

1. The "New Senate Rules Resolution" shall be renamed the "Official Senate Procedures and Rules for Operation" or "OSPR" for short.

2. Reordering the Articles to Match the House:
a. Article 5 of the New Senate Rules Resolution is amended to be Article 7 with the current Article 7 and subsequent articles renumbered accordingly.
b.Article 6 shall be renumbered as Article 5.

3. Causes 5 - 8 of Article 4 of the New Senate Rules Resolution are removed from Article 4 and shall be the new Article 6: Final Votes.

4. Article 6: Final Votes containing the above mentioned moved clauses from Article 4, shall be amended as follows:

1.) Final Votes and veto overrides votes shall last for a maximum of 3 days (i.e. 72 hours). A final vote may be ended earlier than 72 hours:
a. If the vote has a majority to pass or fail, then the Presiding officer may call 24 hours for Senators to vote or change their votes.
b. If all Senators have voted and the result is unanimous for or against, then the Presiding Officer may end the vote immediately

2.) If a bill has been vetoed, a Senator has 24 hours to motion for a veto override. A two-thirds majority of the members of the Senate is needed in order to override a veto.

3.) If a redraft is presented, the original sponsor shall have 72 hours after it is offered to accept the redraft or reject it and request an override. If the redraft is rejected by the Senate, the sponsor may than either motion to resume debate on the bill or withdraw the bill from the floor. If the original sponsor shall have left the chamber, the Presiding Officer shall allow for someone to assume sponsorship as with a normal bill, with the 72 hours commencing after it is completed.

4.) Veto Override and Redraft proceedings shall not be conducted in a slot and thus not subjected to any limits on the amount of legislation on the floor, but shall be conducted in their original threads. If a redraft or override comes to the Senate from the House, it shall be administered in its original thread for that chamber with the same Presiding Officer.

People's Regional Senate
Pending

Sponsor: NC Yankee
Senate Designation: SR29:02

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So this started out as a bill to add in a section on final votes, which the House has and we don't. In the process I realized that the House has an actual name for its rules "Rules and Procedures for Operation", while we have "New Senate Rules Resolution", which as you can guess is the name of an actual piece of legislation from July 2016. OSPR was the name given to the rules of the Senate before the reset and since so much from the good ole days is in vogue now, I rolled with it.

I am reordering the sections and dropping confirmation hearings down to number seven, moving motions to table up to section 5 just like it is in the house and then making six the one on final votes, also like the house. This should minimize confusion.

In section six, it moves some clauses around and then clarifies the two means by which a final vote can be ended early.

1. It has enough to pass, Presiding Officer calls for objections and then ends it after 24 hours.
2. All members have voted and voted the same way, where the vote can be ended early.

Pre-reset, the PPT could end a vote with a majority voting the same way as along as there were no dissenting votes (all six were aye or nay). We use that on confirmation hearings and bill amendments IIRC.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

No responses!

[SevenEleven]

No responses!

Dude it's barely been a day and most of us just got here, I'm not sure what you're expecting.

[SevenEleven]

I don't see anything objectionable after looking this over.

[Blair]

This has my support.

[Left Wing]

Yeah this is a good way to streamline the voting process and I support it.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I motion for a final vote. 24 hrs to object.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A vote is now open here, Senators please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Aye

[Blair]

Aye

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Would like to end this when I get home.

[Left Wing]

Aye

[Senator-elect Spark]

Aye

[Pericles]

Aye

[SevenEleven]

Aye.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Final Passage of the Renaming Senate Rules....


Aye (6): Blair, FalterinArc, NC Yankee, Pericles, Sev and Spark
Nay (0):
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (0):

This Resolution has passed.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE RESOLUTION

To provide an official name for the Senate rules and better define the Senate rules for Final Votes

Be it resolved in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,

Renaming Senate Rules and Improving Senate Rules on Final Votes Resolution

1. The "New Senate Rules Resolution" shall be renamed the "Official Senate Procedures and Rules for Operation" or "OSPR" for short.

2. Reordering the Articles to Match the House:
a. Article 5 of the New Senate Rules Resolution is amended to be Article 7 with the current Article 7 and subsequent articles renumbered accordingly.
b.Article 6 shall be renumbered as Article 5.

3. Causes 5 - 8 of Article 4 of the New Senate Rules Resolution are removed from Article 4 and shall be the new Article 6: Final Votes.

4. Article 6: Final Votes containing the above mentioned moved clauses from Article 4, shall be amended as follows:

1.) Final Votes and veto overrides votes shall last for a maximum of 3 days (i.e. 72 hours). A final vote may be ended earlier than 72 hours:
a. If the vote has a majority to pass or fail, then the Presiding officer may call 24 hours for Senators to vote or change their votes.
b. If all Senators have voted and the result is unanimous for or against, then the Presiding Officer may end the vote immediately

2.) If a bill has been vetoed, a Senator has 24 hours to motion for a veto override. A two-thirds majority of the members of the Senate is needed in order to override a veto.

3.) If a redraft is presented, the original sponsor shall have 72 hours after it is offered to accept the redraft or reject it and request an override. If the redraft is rejected by the Senate, the sponsor may than either motion to resume debate on the bill or withdraw the bill from the floor. If the original sponsor shall have left the chamber, the Presiding Officer shall allow for someone to assume sponsorship as with a normal bill, with the 72 hours commencing after it is completed.

4.) Veto Override and Redraft proceedings shall not be conducted in a slot and thus not subjected to any limits on the amount of legislation on the floor, but shall be conducted in their original threads. If a redraft or override comes to the Senate from the House, it shall be administered in its original thread for that chamber with the same Presiding Officer.

People's Regional Senate
Passed 6-0 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,