Bill: Draft Stopping Senatorial Term Chicanery Act

[rhein_FM]

CONGRESS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF REDMONT​

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A BILL TO
AMEND THE CONSTITUTION​

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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 "Stopping Senatorial Term Chicanery Act" or "SSTCA".
(2) This Act shall be enacted following its signature by the President and passage of referendum pursuant to section 36(3) of the Constitution.
(3) This Act has been authored by Senator HatManMC.
(4) This Act has been sponsored by rhein_FM.
(5) This Act has been cosponsored by Senator HatManMC.
(6) This Act amends the following Acts:
(a) Constitution of the Commonwealth of Redmont

2. Reasons and Intent
(1) I know he swapped those numbers, I know it was 1216. One after Magna Carta, as if I could ever make such a mistake, never, never! I, I just couldn't prove it. He covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is bad? This, this chicanery? He's done worse!
(2) Putting aside the obligatory Chicanery quote (s3ep5 of Better Call Saul), a new problem has arisen in electoral policy. Following the implementation of the countback system to allow the filling of seats of resigned members of Congress to be representative of the member who left.
(3) However, the separate policy of senators running for election to a different class has come in direct odds with this policy. A popular senator can run and win a Senate race to switch classes, and their former class will be filled with a loyalist or someone with similar policy, thus doubling that group's representation in Congress without the electoral mandate to do so. It is directly contradictory to the principle of countbacks.
(4) For this purpose, this Act serves to redefine requirements to run for office to prohibit the practice of senators running for reelection in the middle of their term.

PART II: AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
3. Constitution of the Commonwealth of Redmont
(1) The following shall be amended to section 7, clause 2 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Redmont:

(2) Seat Eligibility. A member of Congress may not run for a vacant congressional seat if they fulfill both of the following:

• They maintain a seat in the same chamber of congress as the vacant seat.
• Their remaining term in office covers the entirety of the remaining term in office of the vacant seat.
• Their remaining term in office covers any of the remaining term in office of the vacant seat.