Act of Congress Make Sixty-Four Buffs Illegal Again Act

[HatManMC]

CONGRESS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF REDMONT​

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A BILL TO
FIX THE HUGE MASSIVE BIG GAPING HOLE CREATED IN THE CRIMINAL CODE ACT BY THE BETTER BUFFS ACT (OOPS)

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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:

PART I: PRELIMINARIES
1. Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the "Make Sixty-Four Buffs Illegal Again Act" or "MBIAA".
(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.
(3) This Act has been authored by Speaker HatManMC.
(4) This Act has been cosponsored by Deputy Speaker EmeraldGuuy and Senator TrueDarklander.
(5) This Act amends the following acts:
(a) Criminal Code Act

2. Reasons and Intent
(1) Uhh... we accidentally made possessing 64 buffs of any type legal.
(2) Buffs being legal is typically not a good thing.
(3) This got autoassented before it could be vetoed.
(4) This serves to fix that dire, dire oopsie.

PART II: AMENDMENTS
3. Criminal Code Act
(1) The following amendments shall be made to Part VI, Section 1 of the Criminal Code Act:

(a) possesses less than 64 or less items of a specific category of illicit substances.

(2) The following amendment shall be made to Part VI, Section 2 of the Criminal Code Act:

(a) possesses more than 64 items of a specific category of illicit substances.

PART III: IMPLEMENTATION
4. Implementation
(1) The Office of Congressional Affairs is authorized to make any changes involving renumbering of sections as a result of edits made in this Act.

 

[EmeraldGuuy]

- quick fix

 

[unalign]

- Absolutely unacceptable

 

[antonfr]

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Presidential Assent

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The Make Sixty-Four Buffs Illegal Again Act closes a loophole that the Better Buffs Act accidentally created in the Criminal Code Act. Before, one offence covered possessing less than 64 items of an illicit substance and the other covered more than 64, so holding exactly 64 (one full stack) was covered by neither and was technically legal.

This bill changes the lower offence in Part VI, Section 1 to cover 64 or less, while Part VI, Section 2 continues to cover anything more than 64. Every possible quantity now falls under one offence or the other, and a single stack is treated as the lesser offence rather than the more serious one.

Overall, this is a quick and necessary fix that makes sure possessing illicit substances is illegal at every quantity, as it always should have been.

I apologize for accidentally letting the old bill sit and get auto assented instead of vetoing it right away.

I thank Speaker HatManMC for authoring this bill, Deputy Speaker EmeraldGuuy and Senator TrueDarklander for cosponsoring it, and Congress for passing it this quickly.

This bill has been granted assent and is hereby signed into law.

antonfr
President of the Commonwealth of Redmont​