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Bill: Speaker of the House (Amendment) Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM)
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: August 2886
Description[?]:
| I. The Speaker of the House is the presiding officer of the legislature, and oversees debates and ministerial statements, and ensures that all Members of Parliament are equally represented in parliamentary proceedings. II. The process for electing a Speaker shall begin when the sitting Speaker has two years of his term remaining. Each party shall nominate one candidate over a period of eight months, and each party shall then state their first and second preferences, excluding their own candidate. Voting shall take place over a period of eight months. Should a candidate receive over 50% of first preferences then he shall become Speaker. If not, then second preferences shall be included in the count. III. The Speaker of the House shall serve for ten years, and shall not be eligible for re-election. IV. Upon election, the Speaker must resign his political party membership and renounce all other political affiliations. V. The Speaker of the House's office shall be responsible for keeping records of the transactions and proceedings of the legislature. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:07:19, January 25, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Speaker of the House (Amendment) Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, there are two main amendments here. The first is that the office of Speaker shall not be seen as the President of the legislature, rather the "Presiding Officer". Secondly, there shall be a clause added that will insist that the speaker must resign from his original political party and must not be a member of any other politically-orientated campaign group. |
| Date | 14:21:02, January 29, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Speaker of the House (Amendment) Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, this amendment also includes a change to the election procedure. |
| Date | 14:38:03, January 29, 2010 CET | From | House Lusk-Nat'l Syndicalist Party (UM) | To | Debating the Speaker of the House (Amendment) Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, we do not wish to appear un-co-operative, but we obviously prefer our own version of this. |
| Date | 15:08:23, January 29, 2010 CET | From | Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Speaker of the House (Amendment) Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, we recognise that, but a majority has voted against it, and so we thought it best to propose a different version, in the hope that some system can be on the statute book! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 363 | |||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 28 |
| Random fact: In cases where a party has no seat, the default presumption should be that the party is able to contribute to debates in the legislature due to one of its members winning a seat at a by-election. However, players may collectively improvise arrangements of their own to provide a satisfying explanation for how parties with no seats in the legislature can speak and vote there. |
| Random quote: "When women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking." - Elaine Boosler |