LGC 17.5 - Lincoln Citizen Initiative Amendment - Passed

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

Lincoln Citizen Initiative Amendment

Section 2 of the Standard Order of Procedure shall be amended as follows:

Section 2: Movement of Legislation to the Floor
A. The Speaker shall keep a thread on the Regional Governments board for introducing legislation. This thread shall be known as the Lincoln General Court Legislation Introduction Thread.

B. The number of threads about legislation that may be opened simultaneously shall be two for each Deputy of the General Court. All Deputies shall be able to use all slots, except as stated in C.

C. The Speaker shall move legislation to these threads in the order in which it was introduced in the Legislation Introduction Thread, except that legislation without a Court sponsor shall be skipped until it obtains one, and that if a sponsor has 2 or more pieces of legislation on the floor, legislation from other sponsors shall take priority until all such other legislation is on the floor.

D. The speaker shall move any legislation proposed by a citizen which has received the signatures of three or more citizens to the floor provided there is an open slot. However, if there are bills in the queue from deputies, or that have been directly sponsored by a deputy, those bills will be prioritized.

DE. Each piece of legislation on the floor shall receive its own thread. Threads shall be titled as follows:

I would be happy to sponsor.

Sponsor: Sirius
Court Sponsor: Utah Neolib
Occupying: Slot 5

[Sirius_]

This is a campaign promise I made to create a system for greater citizen involvement in the regional government. I gave some thought to how this should work and came up with this method so that the threshold of signatures wouldn't be super high so that it would be actually achievable, but so it wouldn't be too powerful as it would have to be approved by the general court.

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

Amendment to ensure this doesn't end up creating an infinite number of slots and to avoid it obstructing the ability of actual deputies to propose bills:

Lincoln Citizen Initiative Amendment

Section 2 of the Standard Order of Procedure shall be amended as follows:

Section 2: Movement of Legislation to the Floor
A. The Speaker shall keep a thread on the Regional Governments board for introducing legislation. This thread shall be known as the Lincoln General Court Legislation Introduction Thread.

B. The number of threads about legislation that may be opened simultaneously shall be two for each Deputy of the General Court. All Deputies shall be able to use all slots, except as stated in C.

C. The Speaker shall move legislation to these threads in the order in which it was introduced in the Legislation Introduction Thread, except that legislation without a Court sponsor shall be skipped until it obtains one, and that if a sponsor has 2 or more pieces of legislation on the floor, legislation from other sponsors shall take priority until all such other legislation is on the floor.

D. The speaker shall move any legislation proposed by a citizen which has received the signatures of three or more citizens to the floor. provided there is an open slot. However, if there are bills in the queue from deputies, or that have been directly sponsored by a deputy, those bills will be prioritized.

DE. Each piece of legislation on the floor shall receive its own thread. Threads shall be titled as follows:

I would be happy to sponsor.

Sponsor: Sirius
Court Sponsor: Utah Neolib
Occupying: Slot 5

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

Amendment Adopted.

Motion for a final vote

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

A final vote is beginning.

AYE

[Utah Neolib]

Aye

[Liminal Trans Girl]

Aye

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Aye

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

PASSES 4-0-0-0

Lincoln Citizen Initiative Amendment

Section 2 of the Standard Order of Procedure shall be amended as follows:

Section 2: Movement of Legislation to the Floor
A. The Speaker shall keep a thread on the Regional Governments board for introducing legislation. This thread shall be known as the Lincoln General Court Legislation Introduction Thread.

B. The number of threads about legislation that may be opened simultaneously shall be two for each Deputy of the General Court. All Deputies shall be able to use all slots, except as stated in C.

C. The Speaker shall move legislation to these threads in the order in which it was introduced in the Legislation Introduction Thread, except that legislation without a Court sponsor shall be skipped until it obtains one, and that if a sponsor has 2 or more pieces of legislation on the floor, legislation from other sponsors shall take priority until all such other legislation is on the floor.

D. The speaker shall move any legislation proposed by a citizen which has received the signatures of three or more citizens to the floor provided there is an open slot. However, if there are bills in the queue from deputies, or that have been directly sponsored by a deputy, those bills will be prioritized.

DE. Each piece of legislation on the floor shall receive its own thread. Threads shall be titled as follows:

I would be happy to sponsor.

As this is an amendment to the SOAP, no gubernatorial input is required.