Mideast Assembly Thread

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Fix to the Inactivity Amendment

Article III, Section 1 of the Mideast Constitution shall be amended to read:

7. A member of the Assembly who has missed five consecutive final votes, which lasted at least 48 hours, without having previously posted a leave of absence shall be automatically and immediately removed from office.

[Anna Komnene]

Mideast Regional Museums Act

1) $150 million in funding shall be allocated to contract an architect and construction team to build a Mideast Regional Art Museum and a Mideast Regional Museum of Natural History, as well as to procure and maintain initial exhibits for each museum.

2) The Mideast Regional Art Museum shall be constructed in Cleveland, Ohio.

3) The Mideast Regional Museum of Natural History shall be constructed in Indianapolis, Indiana.

4) Each regionally funded museum in the Mideast must contain at least one exhibit focusing on local art, science, or history.

[Anna Komnene]

Standardizing the Voting Booth Act

All elections held in the Mideast Region will begin at 16:00 Eastern Standard Time on the Thursday dictated by the Mideast Constitution and conclude 72 hours thereafter.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

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[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Resolution to Give Power Back to the People

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[Chancellor Tanterterg]

The Responsible Abortion Policy Act

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[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Right to Life Act

1. Abortions other than for reason of life of the mother being threatened via pregnancy, pregnancy caused by rape, or pregnancy via incest are hereby prohibited

2. The Responsible Abortion Policy Act is hereby repealed

3. Abortions caused by reasons other than the aforementioned are punished by a mandatory 5 year sentence and permanent forfeiture of medical license

4. Sections 1 and 3 of The Abortion Sex Protection Act is reinstated

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Mideast Metrication Act

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Again, this is a basic framework.  Feel free to amend it however you want.

[Anna Komnene]

Mideast Comprehensive Sex Education Act

Recognizing that the best way to reduce sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies is to provide comprehensive and progressive sex education as part of curricula:

1. $15 million will be requested from the Federal Department of Internal Affairs and made available to public schools to support the development and production of sex education programs across the Mideast region.

2. Programs using this funding must address the following areas in a comprehensive, technical, and impartial fashion:

a) Contraception use and availability for both men and women.
     1) Programs must provide a summary of all available contraceptives for both men and women, including advantages and disadvantages of each, how to use them, and where they can be obtained.
     2) Recognizing that men and women have different contraceptive needs, public schools must make options available to each gender in school nurse offices and health centers.
     3) Programs must explain the risks associated with being sexually active in an impartial manner, including sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy.

b) Sexuality and gender identity
    1) Programs should explain sexuality and gender identity as a natural phenomena, encourage students to be sensitive to the feelings of one another, and discourage bullying of any kind.
    2) Impartial counselors should be made available for students to discuss their feelings about sexuality and gender identity issues.
    3) School employees are expressly forbidden to attempt to alter the sexual orientation or gender identity of any student.

3. In order to comply with the Atlasian Comprehensive Sex Education Bill 2013, this program must be endorsed by the Federal Department of Internal Affairs prior to commencement and will be reviewed annually to ensure best information is transmitted.

[Anna Komnene]

Voting Booth Times Notification Act

1.  For any given election, the Governor or Voting Booth Administrator of the Mideast shall notify citizens of the time he or she expects to open the voting booth at least 72 hours prior to the election in a public thread.

2.  If for any reason the opening time of the election must be altered, the Governor shall make every possible effort to inform citizens of the change in the same thread as the original notification.

[Anna Komnene]

Right to Love Act

The Mideast Assembly condemns the practice of "ex-gay" conversion therapy as a reprehensible and fraudulent scientific procedure that causes more harm than good.  Therefore:

1. The practice of ex-gay conversion therapy is hereby banned throughout the Mideast Region.

2. Any licensed medical professional caught practicing ex-gay conversion therapy shall have their medical license revoked and subjected to a fine of up to $50,000.

3. Any citizen attempting to impersonate a licensed medical professional in order to perform ex-gay conversion therapy shall be subjected to a fine of up to $100,000 and/or up to one year in prison.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Seeing as 60 hours has elapsed since the Superior Court vacancy, the Governor can no longer appoint someone, so I have to do it (perhaps we should look at rewording that).

I choose to appoint HappyWarrior.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Agricultural Sales Act

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[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Don't Drown the Voters in Information Act

The Informed Voters Act is hereby amended as follows:

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[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Consistency in Laws Amendment

Article III, Section 2, clause 6 of the Third Mideast Constitution is hereby amended as follows:

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[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

With the announcement of GM SirNick's resignation, we're in a bit of an awkward situation.  Considering the last GM analysis, I think we definitely need to wait on a vote on the Language bill.  I think the False Alarm bill will have a small enough impact to just go forward without a pre-vote analysis.  The bottle bill, metric bill, and sex ed bill are all too fiscally focused for me to be comfortable going forward without a GM analysis.

If the new GM is sworn in before the session ends, I'll try my hardest to get these 4 bills analyzed and voted on, but some or all of them may end up having to wait until next session.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Mideast Education Reform Act

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Mideast Day of Mourning and Remembrance Act

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[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Considering that the Mideast does not recognize Thanksgiving as a regional holiday, is anyone opposed to having votes occur over Thanksgiving?  Due to the fact that we're still waiting on some GM analyses to come in for bills, I don't think we can get as much done if we don't hold votes over the holiday.  On the other hand, if most people won't be able to come on to vote, we can just push it off until the next session.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Considering that the Mideast does not recognize Thanksgiving as a regional holiday, is anyone opposed to having votes occur over Thanksgiving?  Due to the fact that we're still waiting on some GM analyses to come in for bills, I don't think we can get as much done if we don't hold votes over the holiday.  On the other hand, if most people won't be able to come on to vote, we can just push it off until the next session.

I don't know that I'll even be online during Thanksgiving, so I'd obviously prefer for the votes not to be held that day/

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

OK, then considering that we don't have anything back from the GM (and unless we had it before noon tomorrow, we couldn't fit in a vote anyway), I am going to take us into recess until noon Friday when we will start the new session.  If something comes up and we have to have an emergency vote, I will PM everyone.  Have a happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

The 33rd Session of the Mideast Assembly is now called to order. Members please swear in. I will now open nominations for Speaker for the next 24 hours.