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Bill: Bill R-1: National Honours Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Party of Hutori
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: February 3980
Description[?]:
| Article 2.) Senate Committee for National Honours I.) This Bill will create the Senate Committee for National Honours, an eleven member non-partisian committee made up of at least one Senator from which Political Party with seats within the National Senate and chaired by the Vice President as President of the Senate. Remaining seats on the Committee will be given from the Parties with the most seats in order of their seat counts. II.) The Vice President will sit as the Eleventh Member and Chairperson but will only vote in the case of ties. III.) Vice Chairperson will be the member of the Committee from the largest political party, unless that party is the same as the Chairperson, then it will be drawn from the second largest political party. IV.) The Composition of this Committee will be re-drawn after every election to reflect the new make-up of the Senate's seats. Article 3.) Order of the Golden Lions I.) This Bill will allow for the re-establishment of the Order of the Golden Lion, Hutori's Order of Knights, to honour Hutorians who have shown utter dedication, and loyalty to Hutori. II.) An appointment to the Order of the Golden Lion will be non-hereditary and will be a symbolic honour with no political powers. III.) Appointments to the Order of the Golden Lion will be by nomination by any Hutorian citizen and decided upon the Senate Committee for National Honours. IV.) Appointments are confirmed by Six (6) Aye votes. V.) Ranks within the Order are in order of less to greatest precedence; Knight Companion, Knight Officer, Knight Marshal VI.) Members appointed to this Order will be addressed as Sir or Dame dependent on their gender Male or Female and can be military, law enforcement or civilian. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Titles of nobility.
Old value:: No titles of nobility are granted or recognised, their use is forbidden.
Current: Titles of nobility may be granted only by the Head of State.
Proposed: Titles of nobility may be granted by the government and any other political body designated by it.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:24:26, February 06, 2016 CET | From |  Hutamale Hut Hut Tamale Parking Ticket | To | Debating the Bill R-1: National Honours Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, This bill exemplifies the priorities of the royalist movement. They are not concerned about pressing issues such as social and economic inequality, they are not interested in raising living standards and they don't care about workers' rights. They only thing they care about is elitist pomp and ceremony - they are completely out of touch with the general public. |
| Date | 16:59:04, February 06, 2016 CET | From | National Progressive Union | To | Debating the Bill R-1: National Honours Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, As our system currently provides no additional political rights to nobles, we see no harm in allowing this to pass. Our party understands that there are those in this country who wish to see the return of the monarchy and, while we will oppose any legislation which directly undermines the republic, I have determined that this bill does not. This will have the NDP's support. A word, though, on the phrasing of Article 2.1 -- Perhaps it would be wise to specify "any party with seats in Senate"? There are many transitory political movements who appear, then fall off the map a few years later. Under the current phrasing, they would be granted a seat as well it seems. Samuel Williams Chair of the National Democratic Party Former President of the Federal Republic |
| Date | 17:55:43, February 06, 2016 CET | From | Liberal Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Bill R-1: National Honours Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker We find it ironic that the Communist Party harps to us about our priorities when the Communist Party themselves, who have Federal Representation have not introduced any sort of bill or initiative promoting Social or Economic equality or raising the standard or living. For a party that claims to be in favor of worker's rights they'd know that Hutorian Federal Law is already almost entirely in favor of the Worker as is. Regardless this isn't the place to discuss this. This is a matter entirely on the matter of this, ignoring ideological jabs and claiming we are elitist based on a single Bill when we don't even have Federal Representation to actually aid the people of Hutori. Arianna Woodbury Founder and President of the Royalist Movement of Hutori |
| Date | 19:54:40, February 06, 2016 CET | From | Hutamale Hut Hut Tamale Parking Ticket | To | Debating the Bill R-1: National Honours Act |
| Message | OOC: I actually lol'd. Until recently, my party was the only one proposing any sort of legislation at all. |
| Date | 22:07:14, February 06, 2016 CET | From | Liberal Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Bill R-1: National Honours Act |
| Message | OOC: Yes... yes you did... but nothing to do with economics, social equality or raising the standard of living ;) believe me I looked before I posted that lol... so I did in fact not lie in the slightest |
| Date | 22:48:18, February 06, 2016 CET | From | Democratic Party | To | Debating the Bill R-1: National Honours Act |
| Message | OOC: #ShotsFired |
| Date | 14:00:52, February 07, 2016 CET | From | Hutamale Hut Hut Tamale Parking Ticket | To | Debating the Bill R-1: National Honours Act |
| Message | OOC: So in the past 15 game years (a relatively short time period) I have proposed: Wage Equality Act Democratic Economy Act Non-Racial Immigration Policy Act Fair Union Ballots Act Trade Act Development Aid Act Child Labour Abolition Act Humanitarian Aid Act Economic Sovereignty Act Development Aid Act That's a lot more legislation focused on tackling economic troubles than your partners any of the other parties during the same period. |
| Date | 14:24:02, February 07, 2016 CET | From | Liberal Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Bill R-1: National Honours Act |
| Message | OOC: That means the last one you actually made about either of your point was the Child Labour Abolition Act, which while commendable means you haven't actually brought up ANYTHING about social or economic equality in Hutori since October of 3968, over a decade... which was ultimately my point. were you bringing them up before, absolutely you did... but the point of my IC ribbing was that you were attacking me for it when you hadn't lifted a finger since the last National Senate reforms went into place to do it yourself. And no I don't count the last three because two of them were simple about increasing our foreign aid which really doesn't help our own "economic troubles" at home and the Economic Sovereignty merely removes us from the International Terran Bank... which doesn't dictate financial policy like the KFS Treaty did. However moving on |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 133 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 117 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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