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Bill: Parliamentary Privilege Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Secularist, Socialist Party of Baltusia
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 4236
Description[?]:
| Members of Congress, If the Hosian Front had their way then blasphemy would be illegal. If this were to come around and then say the Hosian Front were to dissolve and all of Baltusia were to be secularly inclined then there would be no way to change the law. It is only right that members of Congress should be allowed to say as they wish despite whatever laws are in place as only then can such laws be changed in the future. And while I have used that example, this bill does not only apply to that scenario but any breach on freedom of speech possible by any party. Marva Read (Shadow Secretary of State for Justice) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Parliamentary privilege.
Old value:: Members of the legislature are not exempt from any civil or criminal liability for their speech or actions during their term of office.
Current: Members of the legislature are not exempt from any civil or criminal liability for their speech or actions during their term of office.
Proposed: Members of the legislature are exempted from any civil or criminal liability for their speech or actions, but this immunity can be overruled by a vote in the nation's legislative body.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:06:05, July 03, 2017 CET | From | Patriotic Party of Baltusia | To | Debating the Parliamentary Privilege Bill |
| Message | Madame Read, To be clear, what format would the vote to overrule take in your proposal? Would it be a 2/3rd super majority required? Otherwise, if it was just a straight majority vote, any majority government of the day could continually vote to remove the privilege any time an opposition representative got up to speak. Randolph Gilbert Majority Speaker of the House |
| Date | 18:33:15, July 03, 2017 CET | From | Secularist, Socialist Party of Baltusia | To | Debating the Parliamentary Privilege Bill |
| Message | Mr Gilbert, The vote to remove parliamentary privilege would require a super-majority of 2/3rds. Marva Read (Shadow Secretary of State for Justice) |
| Date | 18:45:32, July 03, 2017 CET | From | Patriotic Party of Baltusia | To | Debating the Parliamentary Privilege Bill |
| Message | In that case, Madame Read, our party will vote Yes to this proposal. Randolph Gilbert Majority Speaker of the House |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 412 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 188 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Selucia is Particracy's modern take on Ancient Rome, located on the continent of Majatra. |
| Random quote: "God creates men, but they choose each other." - Niccolo Machiavelli |