Senate Legislation Introduction Thread (New)

[ChiefFireWaterMike]

DIE IS A SCAM ACT

1. No Atlasian federal funds paid to a college or university shall be expended to fund any diversity, inclusion, and equity (DIE) activities, including but not limited to salaries, segregated events, or other programs in which persons are treated differently based on alienage, race, sex, gender, or sexual orientation.

2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.

I STILL HAVE RIGHTS ACT

1. No emergency rule, regulation, or executive order issued by the President or any subordinate department or agency pertaining to shutdowns, lockdowns, quarantines, or social distancing shall apply to the free exercise of religion in a church, synagogue, or other place of worship.

2. No emergency rule, regulation, or executive order issued by the President or any subordinate department or agency pertaining to shutdowns, lockdowns, quarantines, or social distancing shall prohibit businesses that sell firearms or ammunition from operating if within the same locality other types of businesses receiving similar or greater volumes of customers are not prohibited from operating.

3. Any emergency rule, regulation, or executive order issued by the President or any subordinate department or agency pertaining to shutdowns, lockdowns, quarantines, or social distancing shall not be enforced through the  discontinuance of utility services to any residence.

4. No emergency rule, regulation, or executive order issued by the President or any subordinate department or agency pertaining to shutdowns, lockdowns, quarantines, or social distancing shall interfere with public gatherings in an unequal, discriminatory, or viewpoint non-neutral manner.

5. This act shall take effect immediately.

BUILD THE WALL ACT

1. The Atlasian government is hereby authorized to expend up to $50 Million per year through 2026 for the acquisition of land adjacent to the southern border with Mexico and the construction thereon of a sturdy, permanent barricade to reduce illegal border crossings.

2. This act shall take effect immediately.

FOREIGN EXCHANGE PROGRAM RESOLUTION

Whereas, the People's Republic of China (PRC) is a Communist dictatorship with a history of violent conflict against Atlasia; and

Whereas, the PRC has used colleges and universities to spy upon and sow propaganda in Atlasia; and

Whereas, the PRC is attempting to dominate the island nation of Taiwan, hereafter referred to as the Republic of China (ROC), which is an important ally and trade partner of Atlasia;

Now therefore, be it resolved that the Republic of Atlasia encourages colleges, universities, and institutes of higher education to relocate Chinese language and cultural exchange programs from the PRC to the ROC to advance Atlasian national security interests, strengthen ties between our two democracies, and promote a positive learning environment to enhance comprehensive Mandarin language education for Atlasian students.

This resolution shall take effect immediately.

CRUEL ANIMAL ENTERTAINMENT ACT

1. It shall be unlawful for any person to travel in interstate or foreign commerce and bite the head off of a live chicken, bat, rat, or other animal, or to in interstate or foreign commerce finance, produce, advertise, or conduct a geek show where such activity occurs.

2. It shall be unlawful to to travel in interstate or foreign commerce and kill any species of seal, pinniped, or manatee by clubbing or inflicting blunt force trauma upon such animal, or to in interstate or foreign commerce finance, produce, advertise, or conduct an event where such activity occurs.

3. A violation of this act shall be punished by imprisonment no more than one (1) year and a fine of no less than $5,000 nor more than $10,000.

4. This act shall take effect ten (10) days from the date of passage.

Authorship Statement: These bills were not written with the assistance of ChatGPT or other A.I.

[ChiefFireWaterMike]

SPAM IS BAD ACT

TITLE I: DEFINITIONS

1. As used in this Act:

A. Commercial electronic mail message means an electronic message sent primarily for the purpose of commercial advertisement or promotion of a commercial product, a commercial service, the content on an Internet website, or a website operated for a commercial purpose. Commercial electronic mail message shall not mean campaign messages, materials, or get out the vote attempts relating to an election in Atlasia.

B. Domain name means any alphanumeric designation that is registered with or assigned by a domain name registrar, domain name registry, or other domain name registration authority as part of an electronic mail address on the Internet.

C. Electronic mail service provider means any person, including an Internet service provider, that is an intermediary in sending and receiving electronic mail and that provides to the public the ability to send or receive electronic mail to or from an electronic mail account or online user account.

D. Header information means the source, destination, and routing information attached to an electronic mail message, including the originating domain name and originating electronic mails, and any other information that appears in the line identifying or purporting to identify a person initiating the message, and technical information that authenticates the sender of an electronic mail message for network security or network management purposes.

E. The term initiate, when used with respect to a commercial electronic mail message, means to originate or transmit the message or to procure the origination or transmission of the message and does not include actions that constitute routine conveyances of such message.

F. Internet means the international computer network of both federal and nonfederal interoperable packet switched data networks.

G. Internet protocol address means the string of numbers by which a location on the Internet is identified by routers or other computers connected to the Internet.

H. Materially falsified means altered or concealed in a manner that would impair the ability of one (1) of the following to identify, locate, or respond to a person who initiated an electronic mail message or to investigate an alleged violation of this act:

i. A recipient of the message;

ii. An Internet access service processing the message on behalf of a recipient;

iii. A person alleging a violation of this section; or

iv.  A law enforcement agency.

I. Multiple means:

i.  More than ten (10) commercial electronic mail messages during a 24-hour period;

ii. More than one hundred (100) commercial electronic mail messages during a 30-day period; or

iii. More than 1,000 commercial electronic mail message during a 1-year period.

J. Protected computer means a computer used in interregional or international communication with a computer located in Atlasia.

K. Routine conveyance means the transmission, routing, relaying, handling, or storing, through an automatic technical process, of an electronic mail message for which another person has identified the recipients or provided the recipients’ addresses.

TITLE II: ILLEGAL SPAM

1. A person may not conspire to or knowingly:

A. Use a protected computer of another to relay or retransmit multiple commercial electronic mail messages with the intent to deceive or mislead recipients or an electronic mail service provider as to the origin of the message;

B. Materially falsify header information in multiple commercial electronic mail messages and intentionally initiate the transmission of the messages;

C. Register, using information that materially falsifies the identity of the actual registrant, for ten (10) or more electronic mail accounts or on-line user accounts of two (2) or more domain names and intentionally initiate the transmission of multiple commercial electronic mail messages from one or any combination of accounts or domain names;

D. Falsely represent the right to use five (5) or more Internet protocol addresses and intentionally initiate the transmission of multiple commercial electronic mail messages from the Internet protocol addresses;

E. Access a protected computer of another without authorization, and intentionally initiate the transmission of multiple electronic mail advertisements from or through the protected computer;

F. Violate item (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E) of this section by providing or selecting addresses to which a message was transmitted, knowing that the electronic mail addresses of the recipients were obtained using an automated means from an Internet website or proprietary online service operated by another person, and the website or online service included, at the time the addresses were obtained, a notice stating that the operator of the website or online service will not transfer addresses maintained by the website or online service to any other party for the purposes of initiating or enabling others to initiate electronic mail messages; or

G. Violate item (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E) of this section by providing or selecting electronic mail addresses of recipients obtained using an automated means that generates possible electronic mail addresses by combining names, letters, or numbers into numerous permutations.

TITLE III: PENALTIES

1. A person who violates title II, section 1, item (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E) of this act is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than three (3) years or a fine not exceeding $10,000, or both.

2. A person who violates title II, section 1, item (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E) of this act involving the transmission of more than 250 commercial electronic mail messages during a 24-hour period, 2,500 commercial electronic mail messages during any 30-day period, or 25,000 commercial electronic mail messages during any 1-year period is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years or a fine not exceeding $25,000 or both.

3. A person who violates title II, section 1, item (C) or (D) of this act involving twenty (20) or more electronic mail accounts or ten (10) or more domain names and intentionally initiates the transmission of multiple commercial electronic mail messages from the accounts or using the domain names is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years or a fine not exceeding $25,000 or both.

4. A person who violates title II, section 1, item (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E) of this act that causes a loss of $500 or more during any 1-year period is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years or a fine not exceeding $25,000 or both as well as restitution.

5. A person who violates title II, section 1, item (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E) of this act in concert with three (3) or more other persons as the leader or organizer of the action that constitutes the violation is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years or a fine not exceeding $25,000 or both.

6. A person who violates title II, section 1, item (A), (B), (C), (D), or (E) of this act in furtherance of a felony, or who has previously been convicted of an offense under the laws of this Region, another Region, a State, or under any federal law involving the transmission of multiple commercial electronic mail messages is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years or a fine not exceeding $50,000 or both.

7. A person who violates title II, section 1, item (F) or (G) of this act is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than two (2) years or a fine not exceeding $5,000, or both.

8. In addition to any other sentence authorized by law, the court may direct that a person convicted of a violation of this act forfeit to the treasury:

A. Any moneys and other income, including all proceeds earned but not yet received by a defendant from a third party as a result of the defendant’s violation of this section; and

B. All computer equipment, computer software, and personal property used in connection with a violation of this act known by the owner to have been used in violation of this act.

TITLE IV: CIVIL REMEDIES

1. An action brought under this title shall be commenced within two (2) years after the commission of the act.

2. The Attorney General may institute a civil action against a person who violates this section to recover a civil penalty not exceeding:

A. $25,000 per day of violation; or
B. Not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than ten dollars ($10.00) per commercial electronic mail message initiated in violation of this section. For any violation of this Act, the amount determined hereunder shall not exceed $2,000,000.00.

3. The Attorney General may seek an injunction in a civil action to prohibit a person who has engaged in or is engaged in a violation of this act from engaging in the violation.

4. The Attorney General may also enforce criminal violations of this act.

5. Nothing in this act shall be construed to have any effect on the lawfulness of the adoption, implementation, or enforcement by an electronic mail service provider of a policy of declining to transmit, route, relay, handle, or store certain types of electronic mail messages under any other provision of law.

TITLE V: ENACTMENT

1. This act shall take effect sixty (60) days after the date of enactment.

[ChiefFireWaterMike]

Motion to Expel Senator LouisvilleThunder

Whereas, LouisvilleThunder was credibly accused of doxing another member of Atlasia in 2021

Whereas, new information has been shared with me that shows that LouisvilleThunder’s doxing was both malicious and intentional (see below):











Whereas, LouisvilleThunder was able to escape deserved criminal punishment in part because this information regrettably was never shared with the prosecution because the source of this information had feared retaliation

Whereas, the Atlasian Constitution allows the Senate to discipline members and expel them by a two-thirds vote:

Resolved, that –

(1) The Senate condemns and expels Senator LouisvilleThunder from the Senate for conduct that disrespects the Atlasian people in a way that is not befitting a member of the Senate.

I second this motion

[ChiefFireWaterMike]

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No Funding For Stupidity Act

1 . No postsecondary student in Atlasia shall be eligible for any federally funded scholarship, grant, or loan offered nor to receive any federal funds awarded therefrom if such student is actively pursuing or intends to actively pursue a degree in:

A. Diversity

B. puppetry

C. Ethnic studies

D. civilization studies

E. black or africana studies

F. hispanic studies

G. indigenous studies

H. Asian studies

I. white, whiteness, or european studies

J. women's studies

K. men's studies

L. gender studies

M. queer studies or queer theory

N. marxist theory

O. critical theory

P. Sexuality studies

Q. Underwater basket-weaving

2 . Nothing in this act shall be interpreted as authorizing the censorship of professors, lectures, or classes.

3 . No federal funds shall be awarded to any daycare, summer camp, Pre-School, Kindergarten, or Elementary, Middle, Junior High, or High School if such program or school provides litter boxes for use by students claiming to identify as non-human animals.

4 . This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.

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[ChiefFireWaterMike]

Cheaters Never Prosper Act

1 . Every school, college, or university receiving federal funds shall be required by January 1, 2024 to adopt a plagiarism policy prohibiting the use of robots, algorithms, or artificial intelligence, including but not limited to ChatGPT, in the completion of any paper, test, assignment, or other student work product.

2 . Beginning January 1, 2024, any student receiving federal student aid who is proven after due process to have used any robot, algorithm, or artificial intelligence, including but not limited to ChatGPT, in the completion of any paper, test, assignment, or other student work product, shall have his or her student aid revoked and shall be ineligible to reapply for such aid for no less than two (2) years.

[ChiefFireWaterMike]

Persuant to Senate Rule, Article I, Section 4, I initiate a Motion of No Confidence against acting PPT LouisvilleThunder for the following reasons:

1. For improper conduct as Deputy PPT. During SB-117-18: Stop the Harassment Act, LouisvilleThunder acting contrary to the Senate rules, attempted to illegally count an amendment vote that was at least 9 hours late to influence the result to his desired outcome (turning a defeat of the amendment into a tie). As Deputy PPT he had to be overruled, and cannot be trusted to act as an impartial PPT.

2. For displaying partisan hubris unbecoming of a PPT.

3. For not resigning his position as acting PPT in order to restore Wulfric to the positon of PPT, when Wulfric only lost the position and he only gained it due to two seperate technicalities.

Should this motion be successful, I intend to nominate Wulfric as PPT.

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[ChiefFireWaterMike]

Stopping Sexual Violence Act

1. No defendant in any federal criminal trial shall be permitted to raise or offer as a defense that such defendant lacked culpability or mens rea as a result of voluntarily participating in sadomadochistic, dominance and submission, roleplay, or other sexually fetishistic conduct.

2. For purposes of federal criminal sentencing, if any person is convicted of rape, sexual assault, or any attempt or conspiracy to commit rape or sexual assault, and such person uses a bestality device during the commission of such crime, then such person, in addition to any mandatory minimum sentence imposed for rape or sexual assault, shall also be subject to a non-concurrent mandatory minimum sentence equivalent to that imposed for bestiality.

3. For purposes of federal criminal sentencing, if any person is convicted of a crime requiring registration as a sex offender, such person shall be prohibited from owning or possessing any bestiality device. Any such bestiality device discovered in the ownership or possession of a registered sex offender shall be subject to immediate seizure and forfeiture.

4. As used in this Act, bestiality device means any sexually explicit sculpture, toy, or other object that is designed or sculpted to appear as the genitalia or sex organs of a non-human animal, including but not limited to a fictitious, mythical, or anthropomorphized animal. This shall not include any equipment utilized in veterinary science or animal husbandry or breeding.

5. This act shall take effect immediately.

Sequoyah Statehood Amendment

1. Effective July 1, 2024 Anno Domini the new State of Sequoyah is hereby authorized to be created consisting of the territory of the following existing counties of the State of Oklahoma:

Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Carter, Cherokee, Choctaw, Coal, Craig, Creek, Delaware, Garvin, Haskell, Hughes, Johnston, Latimer, Le Flore, Love, Marshall, Mayes, McClain, McCurtain, McIntosh, Murray, Muskogee, Niwata, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Ottawa, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Pushmataha, Rogers, Seminole, Sequoyah, Watie, Wagoner, Washington, and Washington.

2. Until such time as a new State Constitution may be adopted or enacted, the Constitution of Oklahoma, all existing State and local laws, and all Tribal governing documents and laws shall remain in effect, and all office holders shall remain in office for the duration of any existing term. Until a special election may be conducted, the chief executive of the State of Sequoyah shall be the Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

3. The title to all property belonging to the State of Oklahoma located within the new State of Sequoyah shall escheat to the State of Sequoyah. The current debt, obligations, and funds of the State of Oklahoma shall be shared with the State of Sequoyah on a per capita basis.

4. For purposes of Art. VII, Sec. 2, Cl. 1 of the Atlasian Constitution, the ratification of the Constitutional Amendment adopted herein by the Southern Region shall be considered to fulfill the requirement that the State of Oklahoma consents to the creation of such new State.

5.

Be It Resolved in the Atlasian Senate Assembled, that upon ratification by 2/3rds of the Regions, the Fifth Constitution of Atlasia shall be amended as follows:

Article II, Section 1, Clause 3 of the Atlasian Constitution shall be amended as follows:

Section 1. The Regions.

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3. The southern Region shall consist of the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico Richport, Sequoyah, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

The Upper Southern Subregion shall consist of the states of Arkansas, Delaware, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Sequoyah, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.

The Deep Southern Subregion shall consist of the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Puerto Rico Richport, South Carolina, and Texas

Amendment Explanation

This amendment creates the new State of Sequoyah and corrects a typographical error in the spelling of the name of the State of Richport.

Build the Wall Act

1. The Atlasian government is hereby authorized to expend $20 billion dollars for the acquisition of land adjacent to the southern border with Mexico and the construction thereon of a sturdy, permanent barricade to reduce illegal border crossings.

2. It shall be unlawful for any person entering Atlasia across an international border to import or possess a bestiality device during such entry, regardless of immigration status of such person. Any bestiality device discovered at any border checkpoint shall be deemed contraband and subject to immediate seizure and forfeiture.

3. As used in this Act, bestiality device means any sexually explicit sculpture, toy, or other object that is designed or sculpted to appear as the genitalia or sex organs of a non-human animal, including but not limited to a fictitious, mythical, or anthropomorphized animal. This shall not include any equipment utilized in veterinary science or animal husbandry or breeding.

4. This act shall take effect immediately.