Bill: Draft Old Petitions Act

[Angryhamdog]

CONGRESS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF REDMONT​

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A BILL TO

Block Old Petitions From Being Announced



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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 ‘Old Petitions Act’

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

(3) This Act has been authored by Angryhamdog.

(4) This Act has been sponsored by Speaker Kaiserin.

(6) This Act amends the following Acts:

(a) Referendum Act

2 - Reasons

(1) Old petitions from 2+ years ago have been reaching the 30+ aye mark, despite the original purpose of the petition (usually) not being relevent to the current day.

(2) Petitions on new issues should require new signatures.

PART II — AMENDMENTS

4 - Amendment to the Referendum Act

(1) The following text shall be added to the Referendum Act:

5 – Petitions
(1) A Petition is a public request to take action.
(2) A petition must:
(a) Be listed in the #petitions channel of the DemocracyCraft Official Discord.
(b) State clearly what it asks for;
(c) Be supported by at least 30 citizens;
(i) Support must be demonstrated by reaction.
(d) Not repeat an ongoing or rejected petition from the last 30 days.
(i) Petition rejected in violation of §5.4 of the Act shall be exempt from this subsubsection, given there is not an identical petition ongoing.
(3) If a petition receives the necessary support, it must be announced to Congress by the Office of Congressional Affairs for consideration.
(i) This shall not happen if the petition was created over 30 days before the petition recieves the necessary support.
(4) A petition cannot be renamed. Should a petition be renamed, the petition is rejected.