Bill: Draft Clerk Empowerment Act

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CONGRESS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF REDMONT
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A BILL TO

Empower Clerks to Correct Clear Errors in Legislation




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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:


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PART I — PRELIMINARIES

1. Short Title and Enactment

(1) This Act may be cited as the 'Clerk Empowerment Act'

(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.

(3) This Act has been authored by Kaiserin_.

(4) This Act has been sponsored by Rep. antonfr_ and co-sponsored by President of the Senate Talion77.

(5) This Act amends the following acts:

(a) Legislative Standards Act

2. Reasons and Intent

(1) There is no easy way to correct clear errors in legislation without going through the normal congressional process.

(2) Congressional Clerks should be able to make very minor corrections to bills, within reason, and so long as the correction does not alter the substantive meaning of the bill.

PART II — PROVISIONS

3. Amendments

(1) § 6(9) of the Legislative Standards Act shall be amended as follows:

“(9) The Office of Congressional Affairs is authorised to adjust the numbering of sections and subsections within acts make any of the following corrections to Acts of Congress, provided that such changes do not alter the substantive meaning of the act and are made with the permission of at least one Presiding Officer: and are limited to correcting administrative errors in the sequential numbering.

(a) Adjust the numbering of sections and subsections to correct errors;

(b) Correct obvious spelling errors that are not the result of regional differences in spelling;

(c) Update names of offices and organisations when the name of that office or organisation has changed since the passage of the original Act;

(d) Remove provisions that have been explicitly declared invalid or unenforceable by another Act of Congress.”