Bill: Draft Legislative Transparency Act

The people of the Commonwealth of Redmont, through their elected Representatives in the Congress and the force of law ordained to that Congress by the people through the constitution, do hereby enact the following provisions into law:

1 — Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the 'Legislative Transparency Act.'
(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.
(3) This Act has been authored by TheStormcrafter and Representative Smami.
(4) This Act has been co-sponsored by Representative Talion77.

2 — Reasons
(1) Many internal channels are already subject to FOI-Requests.
(2) Having them invisible to the public muddies congressional action and increases burdens on the presiding officers who then have to manually gather the requested information.
(3) Having these channels read-only for members of the public has already been proven to work on StateCraft.

3 — Amendments to the LSA
Insert a new section 19a — Congressional Transparency into the Legislative Standards Act reading the following:

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(1) All channels not explicitly classified shall be made available to the public read-only.
(2) The channels #congress-chat, #house-chat and #senate-chat shall not be classified under any circumstances.
(3) The congressional Discord server shall have a ticket bot established and maintained for the purposes of any citizen being able to directly contact their congresspeople, which shall satisfy the following criteria:
(a) A ticket may be opened by anyone.
(b) The person opening the ticket may add anyone they deem appropriate.
(c) Anyone not expressly added to the ticket is barred from accessing its content.
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