Southern Submitted Legislation Discussion Thread

[reagente]

I figure it makes sense to have a place to make comments about submitted legislation, rather than clog up the legislative submission threads:

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Robot Slaves Act

1. It shall be a felony punishible by a fine of $25,000 and imprisonment for no less than six (6) months and no more than five (5) years for any person to introduce any federal bill in violation of the federal Terminating Cyberdyne Act, provided such bill becomes law and is intended to affect the people of the South.

2. The Attorney General shall have full power to enforce this law, including but not limited to, through prosecution and injunctions.

3. This act shall take effect immediately.

How exactly do you intend to enforce these punishments in the context of a forum game? Is this just a meme or just for NPC staffers, or are you actually going to target players with this? I hope you realize that if you attempted to force Atlas users to pay exorbitant fines for writing a bill you didn't like, you would certainly face not only in-game or in-forum legal consequences, but also legal and financial consequences IRL - extortion is a felony in all 50 RL states.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Promoting Sleep Act

1. The Daylight Savings Time Act shall be amended as follows:

Title II: Time

The South shall recognize and use Daylight Savings Time during the entirety of the year. as described herein:

A. On the second Sunday in March at 1:00:00 AM and the first Sunday in November at 1:00:00 AM, in each respective time zone in the South, all clocks shall be set back one (1) hour to conserve sleep. This process shall repeat every year in perpetuity.

B. In the year 2024, and then every twelve (12) years thereafter, the Principality of the South shall not observe leap year on February 29th to keep the date harmonized.

C. To keep the Southern Calendar from drifting away from the Gregorian Calendar, the Principality of the South shall not observe leap year whenever a year is a multiple of 100, or whenever the year is four years less than a multiple of 1200.

2. Daylight Savings Time shall not be recognized by the South to end, nor to begin, at any time.

This act shall take effect immediately, backdated to November 1, 2023.

Wait, doesn't this mean there will be years where you'll be working almost entirely when it's dark out and sleeping almost entirely when it's Daylight? I don't see any companion legislation to force the adjustment of standard working hours for when what's recognized as "9 am" in your region is present-day "9 pm".

Continuing Budget Resolution

1. The Principality of the South hereby reauthorizes and extends the FY 2022 Budget through FY 2099.

2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Oh yes, let's return to the budget from 2 years ago (we're already in FY '24) and then never adjust it, ever!
Talk about a lazy and irresponsible region.

[reagente]

Promoting Sleep Act

1. The Daylight Savings Time Act shall be amended as follows:

Title II: Time

The South shall recognize and use Daylight Savings Time during the entirety of the year. as described herein:

A. On the second Sunday in March at 1:00:00 AM and the first Sunday in November at 1:00:00 AM, in each respective time zone in the South, all clocks shall be set back one (1) hour to conserve sleep. This process shall repeat every year in perpetuity.

B. In the year 2024, and then every twelve (12) years thereafter, the Principality of the South shall not observe leap year on February 29th to keep the date harmonized.

C. To keep the Southern Calendar from drifting away from the Gregorian Calendar, the Principality of the South shall not observe leap year whenever a year is a multiple of 100, or whenever the year is four years less than a multiple of 1200.

2. Daylight Savings Time shall not be recognized by the South to end, nor to begin, at any time.

This act shall take effect immediately, backdated to November 1, 2023.

Wait, doesn't this mean there will be years where you'll be working almost entirely when it's dark out and sleeping almost entirely when it's Daylight? I don't see any companion legislation to force the adjustment of standard working hours for when what's recognized as "9 am" in your region is present-day "9 pm".

I do not know if this bill will even pass, so we will cross that bridge if this bill passes, but that is not a bad idea for future legislation.

[reagente]

Well, I guess DieselDogg will make history for proposing the first set of bills to ever be voted down by the Southern Diet.

[DieselDogg]

Don't let your personal circumstances bias you against my expertly-crafted legislation.

[reagente]

Don't let your personal circumstances bias you against my expertly-crafted legislation.

Enjoy getting less than 10% support on these "bills"