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Bill: New District Government Act

Details

Submitted by[?]: Labour Party

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: October 4080

Description[?]:

This Act proposes to amend the District Government Act of 4054 [http://bit.ly/DisGov4054]. It will require a 2/3rds Majority to pass, as explained in the 4054 bill. Although parties are free to compare the current legislation to that proposed below, for the sake of simplicity we will explain the material changes to the legislation. It is simply the removal of Article 8, which granted the District Assemblies the ability to control Kalistan's military forces.

Given the Unitarist nature of the Republic, the Government of Kalistan shall establish a second tier of government in the Districts.

1) There shall be created, by this act, for RP purposes, District Assemblies. For the purpose of this Act, District Assemblies shall consist of some number of Deputies, elected at the same time as regular or special elections for the National Assembly.

2) The composition of any District Assembly shall reflect the District vote for National Assembly. For example, if Ananto awards 37% of its seats in the National Assembly to Party X, Party X shall receive 37% of the seats in Ananto's District Assembly.

3) The Party holding the Plurality in the District Assembly (nominally, the single highest seat count) shall be awarded the title "Speaker of the District Assembly", and shall set the Agenda for the District Assembly, presumably in line with their corresponding National Party. The Party/Parties which do not hold the Plurality position in a given District may not set the Agenda, and may only move legislation through the Speaker of the District Assembly. In the event that the Plurality Party is not the majority Party, any RPed laws from District Assemblies require a majority of Players holding seats in the District Assembly.

4) If a District Assembly passes a law which affects any other District, or the Republic as a whole, the matter is brought before the National Assembly, in the form of an RP Resolution, which requires a majority of the Seats in the National Assembly to pass. If the Resolution fails to pass, the District Law is nullified.

5) The Plurality Party shall also name the Governor of the District. The Speaker of the District Assembly and the Governor of the District must be two separate NPCs. The District Governor shall serve as liaison between the National Assembly and the District Assembly, and shall represent the government of the District. The District Governor will also serve as Commander in Chief of the District Military when it is not placed under national control.

6) All laws in the Districts, for the purposes of RP shall conform with the National Constitution and active legislation. If the National law specifically forbids some act, no state Government may do that. Any law the National Assembly does not have the power to address may be addressed by the Districts. No District Law may cancel the effects of National Law within the District. Districts may not nullify any law or act passed by the National Assembly.

7) State Governors do have the right, in declared emergency situations, to not enforce laws. They must explicitly declare such.


8) District Assemblies may be dissolved by Resolution of the National Assembly requiring 2/3rds of all Seated Assembly members. The District Assembly will remain dissolved until the next regular election. The National Assembly may not remove any District Governor for any reason.

9) This law shall only be abrogated by a 2/3rds Majority.

10) This law will enter into force with a 2/3rds Majority of current seats, and shall be binding until it is abolished at some point in the future.

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date23:34:58, August 24, 2016 CET
FromThe Conservative Independence Party
ToDebating the New District Government Act
MessageWe will support. We agree that several separate parties can't possibly manage the armed forces.

Date08:18:37, August 25, 2016 CET
FromSocialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK)
ToDebating the New District Government Act
MessageWe can support the renationalization of the regular forces as well.

Date06:48:41, August 26, 2016 CET
FromSocialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK)
ToDebating the New District Government Act
MessageWait a moment.

The SP cannot support this position. The normal position is that Kalistan maintains a regular force which coordinates with militias.

"The government retains a part time, professional army, navy and air force in alignment with paramilitary groups"

We do not support the extralegalization of Party Militias. We will vote to oppose this act based on the attached proposal.

Date06:49:27, August 26, 2016 CET
FromSocialist Party of Kalistan (SPoK)
ToDebating the New District Government Act
MessageWe encourage other Parties to join us in the opposition to the proposed changes, based on the attached proposal.

Date13:20:00, August 26, 2016 CET
FromLabour Party
ToDebating the New District Government Act
MessageIf this bill passes, which it looks likely to, we intend to immediately propose a change to that position. This was an administrative error on our part, our sincerest apologies.

Date00:44:08, August 27, 2016 CET
FromThe Conservative Independence Party
ToDebating the New District Government Act
MessageThat's fine, we'll back our militias.

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Voting

Vote Seats
yes
    

Total Seats: 473

no
  

Total Seats: 277

abstain
 

Total Seats: 0


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