Vetoed Congressional Process Amendment (II)

[1950Minecrafter]

A
BILL
To

Amend the Congressional Process​

The people of Democracy Craft, 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 “Congressional Process Amendment Act 2020 (II)”.
(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.

2 - Change of the Congressional Process Point
(1) “The Bill is publically proposed on the #bill-creation discord channel using the above format.”
(2) “The bill will be added to the schedule. “
(a) “The schedule must contain:”
(I) “The date of scheduling, the date for debate and the date for voting.”
(II) “Status of the Bill (Awaiting for debate (orange), Debate (blue), Voting (cream color), Passed (green), Rejected (red), Withdrawn (brown), Act of Congress
(yellow), Vetoed (Red)).”
(III) “Number(AB for Amendment Bills and CB for Creation Bills and its number by order) and name of the Bill, the player who proposed it (with the
background color of their Party), the propose and a link to the Drive Document where the Bill can be found.”
(b) “There can only be 3 bills scheduled a day to debate and vote.”
(c) “There will be an exception for those bills that the Speaker considers as more important”.
(d) This is an example of how it must be done:

(3) "When the debate date arrives, the Speaker will introduce all the Bills to debate that day and change the Bill status in the schedule to Debate.”
(a) “The debate will last 48 hours and it will not be allowed to start another one within those 48 hours.”
(b) “The Bill may be modified during this period.”
(4) “When the debate is finished and the voting date has arrived, the Speaker will post a thread in the forums with the Bill and a poll so that the Representatives
can vote and change the Bill status in the schedule to Voting”.
(a) “The poll will last 24 hours”
(5) “After the 24 hours have passed; all votes have been submitted; or a majority is reached, there will be 2 situations:”
(a)“If the Bill is passed, the Speaker will change the Bill status to Bill: Passed in the forums thread and the schedule and send the
results to the President in order to approve it or veto it.”
(b)“If the Bill is rejected, the Speaker will change the Bill status to Bill:Rejected in the forums thread and schedule and move it to the
Rejected sub-forum.”
(6) “Once passed to the President:”
(a) “If the President approves it, the Speaker will have to make a ticket to the DEC in discord in order to ask a draftsman to apply the
changes.”
(b) “If the President vetoes it, the President will have to provide the reason under the Bill thread and the Speaker will have to announce to the Congress that it
has been vetoed and the reasons. The Speaker will then change the Bill status in forums and schedule to Bill:Vetoed and move it to Voted sub-forum.”
(7) “Once the changes have been made by the draftsman, the Speaker will announce the change and will change the Bill status in the forums thread and the
schedule to Bill:Act of Congress and will move the thread to the Act of Congress sub-forum

3 - Change of the Ties Point
(1) If there’s a tie (this is there are the same number of votes in favor and against independently of the number of abstains), the poll will be held again without the abstain option.

4 - Motions
(1) “Point 3. Motion of Nomination”, will be changed to “Motion of Removal”
(2) There will be a new point, “Point 4. Motion of Nomination”
(a) When a candidate for the Judiciary or the Legislative branches is nominated by the President or the Speaker, the Congress will vote in favor or against that
nominee. The nominee will need at least 5 out of 7 votes in favor in order to be chosen.
(3) Any of the motions will be allowed to be revoted twice in case of tie, as the point 3 of this amendment says, or rejection. If after doing the polls the motion is
rejected, that same motion will be allowed to be revoted in 14 days.

1950minecrafter

Speaker of Congress
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Vetoed

- As discussed with the speaker the schedule should be moved on to forums.
- The representative should post their bill to forums. It is the speakers job to facilitate voting through adding the polls and changing the prefixes, not through posting the bill for the rep. in that sense the current wording works well for this.

- Good point on the ties.

Suggestions:

- Speaker to assume and replace the role that the draftsman fills updating the rules and laws.
- expand the motion of nomination to include the appointments rather than create a new motion all together.