Bill: Draft Dereliction Logging Act

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CONGRESS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF REDMONT
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A BILL TO

LOG DERELICTION BETTER




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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 ‘Dereliction Logging Act’

(2) This Act shall be enacted when either the 40th House of Representatives or Senate have been called to order.

(3) This Act has been authored by Speaker _GreyMC.

(4) This Act has been co-sponsored by Deputy Speaker HatManMC and Deputy President of the Senate ElegantAlly.

(5) This Act amends the following acts:

(a) Legislative Standards Act

(6) This act is to be read with the Show Up for Work Act, adding harsher dereliction requirements.

2. Reasons and Intent

(1) The current legislation for logging dereliction tallies is minor, having a poorly defined public record.

(2) This act will make it so OCA will keep tallies of dereliction, and publicly announce when someone has committed dereliction of their duties.

(3) They will also keep track of the countdown established for dereliction in the Show Up for Work Act.

PART II - AMENDMENTS

3. Legislative Standards Act

(1) §6(3)(g) of the Legislative Standards Act shall be amended as follows:

(g) Keeping a public record of instances of actions by Congressional Members which contribute to being derelict.Keeping up with the dereliction requirements in the Constitution, including:

(i) keeping a publicly available list of dereliction tallies of each Congressional member

(ii) informing the public when a Congressional member has committed dereliction of their duties

(iii) keeping track of the removal timer when a Congressional member has committed dereliction of their duties

(iv) informing Congressional Members for each dereliction tally they acquire


(2) §11(16) of the Legislative Standards Act shall be added as follows:

(16) Motion to Save

(a) A Motion to Save seeks to “save,” or keep, a member in Congress if the member is found to have committed dereliction of their duties.

(b) A Motion to Save may only be made on one individual at a time.

(c) A Motion to Save must be made and voted on in accordance with the constitutional processes for keeping a member when they have committed dereliction, and the passing requirements shall be those that are defined in the Constitution.