Act of Congress Referendum Timeframe Fix Act

[Moyfr]

House: 7-0-0
Senate: 4-0-0

A
BILL
To

Amend the Constitution to Fix A Loophole​

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:

1 - Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the 'Referendum Timeframe Fix Act.'
(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.
(3) This Act has been authored by lcn.
(4) This Act has been proposed by Representatives Moyfr.
(4) This Act has been co-sponsored by Representative ToadKing.

2 - Reasons
(1) Currently, a loophole exists in the Constitution in which the president can indefinitely hold off referendums being held for constitutional amendments by simply not requesting that they happen.
(2) It is not illegal for the president to do this. If this is not changed now, there may come a time when an amendment needs to go through, but is blocked by a president for dishonest reasons, and we would be powerless to change it, since this too, is part of the constitution.
(3) With the approval of the Referendum Framework Act, the process in which referendums are proposed will be made a lot smoother and taking pressure off of the Department of State.

3 - Amendment
(1) §33.3 of the Constitution shall be amended as follows:
"(3) The Executive, within 7 days of the previous requirement being satisfied, upon the request of the President, must hold a referendum where citizens, over the course of 48 hours, may vote on the proposed amendment. Such a referendum must result in at least a supermajority approval to pass.”

 

[Kaiserin_]

Presidential Assent

This bill has been granted assent and has been referred to the DOS for referendum.