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Bill: Proposed Assembly Rules
Details
Submitted by[?]: Malivia Democratic Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: October 2324
Description[?]:
| Lifted from my proposed rules back in the 2120s..... ------------------------- Proposed rules: 1) To encourage debate, all bills must be left in debate period for at least five months, unless expedited. 2) bills may be expedited if: they would otherwise not have time to pass before the end of the Assembly session factors require immediate attention to the matter of the bill (war, state of emergency, natural disaster, etc) 3) Repeat bills of identical proposal(s) are not permitted in the same session of the Assembly. 4) Members in debate will restrict their comments such that they be relavant to the matter of the bill. 5) Members in debate will preserve the proper restraint which will permit the Assembly to conduct its business in an orderly manner and without unnecessarily and unduly exciting animosity among its Members. 6) Proposals must be limited to no more then three per bill presented to the Assembly. 7.)Once a period of two years has gone by as of the last debate on record for a proposal, the bills sponsor shall either be withdraw it or put it to a vote, unless an election will interfere with the vote, in which case said bill must be put to a vote upon the start of the new session. 8) Rules may be changed by a majority vote of the Assembly's members. 9) Passed Assembly rules must be posted in debate phase and may not be deleted, until a new set of rules are passed. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:43:25, December 03, 2006 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Proposed Assembly Rules |
| Message | If anything, our first priority should be to ban 'omnibus' bills, which include proposals that have little, or often no, relation to one another. |
| Date | 14:49:43, December 03, 2006 CET | From | Malivia Democratic Party | To | Debating the Proposed Assembly Rules |
| Message | We have a long tradition of having bills in Malivia that include unrelated proposals..as omnibus bills. I feel its better to have several bills..having a few proposals each that can be negotiated..that it is to have three times as many bills with only one proposal. |
| Date | 18:51:23, December 03, 2006 CET | From |  Protectorate Party | To | Debating the Proposed Assembly Rules |
| Message | We support these rules. |
| Date | 00:16:31, December 04, 2006 CET | From | Malivia Democratic Party | To | Debating the Proposed Assembly Rules |
| Message | I'll also point out regarding omnibus bills... Elsewhere you often see bills that have up to 10 or more proposals..all unrelated up for debate and vote. The fact that I'd like to limit omnibus bills here to 3 proposals..I think shows that while I think omnibus bills should be allowed, they should never be as excessive as they are elsewhere. |
| Date | 13:48:20, December 04, 2006 CET | From | Leftsocialist Party | To | Debating the Proposed Assembly Rules |
| Message | At the moment we don't see any reason for this bill. Basically things have been okay. |
| Date | 20:13:41, December 04, 2006 CET | From | Leviathan Party | To | Debating the Proposed Assembly Rules |
| Message | We see no reason for these rules either, and point out again how senseless 'omnibus' bills are. Their only purpose is to attempt to get parties to vote against their platforms on one issue in order to get them to support another. That kind of backhanded political strategy is contradictory to the ideals of a democratic nation. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 50 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 150 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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