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The Act of Senate Voting Guidelines - 2010; IX
Topic Started: 19 Feb 2010, 21:41 (274 Views)
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The Act of Senate Voting Guidelines – 2010

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This bill will set proper guidelines on the procedures of voting and improve on the Senate Bill Acceptance 2009 improving the guidelines and putting in a set rule on how to vote, keeping it in effect however amending some of the original bill.

Introduction

Noticing that some bills are often left in a queue and never remarked upon and that some immediately go to voting and don’t get past, and understanding that the debating and alteration of these bills could result in it being passed and a useful piece of legislation not being implemented.

This bill is amending points in the Senate Bill Acceptance 2009 and will null the old bill out of effect.

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1. The first stage of a bill is the first posting, this will be the original copy of a bill given to the senate to be discussed and voted on, unless a member has changed it since the time of posting a copy to be placed into the senate to the time it is, if so he must post the new copy in the same thread stating it is the version he wants in the senate.

2. The bill is opened up to debating. The debating will end when any elected official believes that it has had substantial time since the last post was made. The minimum a bill must be kept up since the last debated post is 6 hours. If a bill is not debated on after 24 hours of last significant post, i.e not a short approval, it is put into a voting procedure automatically. During this time anyone who has Perennial Interest in the voting of the bill must state it and thus abstain from the vote, excluding it being their own bill.

3. If there has been amendments to the bill a new bill will be posted up since the debating began the new bill is posted in the second posting. 24 hours is given for the author to be able to reject this new bill if he wishes to or any further debate to happen.

4. As long as there is no objection to the bill posted in the second posting then it will be put up to vote.

5: Voting will last a maximum of 72 hours from the opening of the vote on any bill. Voting may ber terminated earlier if a majority (50.1%+) of all voters have agreed to pass or fail the bill.

6. If a senate member wishes to change his vote then he must follow clause 6 of the Senate Bill Acceptance Act of 2009, however they cannot if they wish to change their vote to the side that has won the vote already and may not have the vote recalled then keep their first submitted vote and submit it again, i.e a member may not vote AYE on something, wish to change their vote and, in the second vote, vote AYE again.

7. A bill may be re-voted on twice however can only be voted on a third time if there is substantial evidence that it deserves to that will be decided by the elected senators between them by voting whether to bring the vote up again.

8. After this point a bill may not be voted on again unless substantial parts of it has been changed, at a minimum an entire clause being rephrased or changed or removed.

This will be added or amended with the following clauses of the Senate Bill Acceptance Act of 2009 added to it amended from their original form, removing all other clauses from AWP Law.

9. This bill hereby states that from the date of ratification on into the future, all bills, laws, and legislation or any other form of policy changing directive that is debated and/or voted on by the senate body of AWP shall require a quorum before being passed, and brought into production or activity.

10. The senate body is defined as the: Elected World Assembly Delegate, Regional Founder, Elected Senators, and Appointed Ministers.

11. A quorum, for the purposes of this bill, shall be defined as 66.6% or greater of all senate members registering a vote. A member actively refusing to vote shall have his vote considered as an abstained position, and shall register as a vote.

12. All bills, laws, legislation, and policy changing directive must have a majority vote, meaning 50.1% or greater of all percentages of votes.

13. If any member of the Senate during the voting period wishes to continue debating, they may invoke a continuance clause. Voting becomes nullified, votes are discarded, and debate continues for another 12 hours.

14. If no one continues the debate, after 24 hours, an automatic vote gets triggered.

15. If a Senate member does continue the debate, the 12 hour expiration deadline gets reset, and voting will continue 12 hours after the last point made in the debate or if a motion to end debate and start voting from Senate member who triggered the continuance is seconded by another member of the senate, rendering the continuance expired.

16. The Delegate is the active senator who will check that bills go through this timetable of events before they are voted on, if he feels that the bill has not gone through the proper procedure he can veto it, if he feels there is a reason to repeat a stage, i.e a flaw appearing at after the bill has been passed and feels the senate didn't spennd enough time debating to account acknowledge this flaw.


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Looks good, something like this is needed because a lot of bills sit dormant.
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don't we have a bill similar ( but shorter) than this somewhere?
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Yeah the one mentioned, it is a revised updated version, the old one was set up to make it so that there was an actual procedure for voting in the senate, however it was very thin and did only just put down basic guidelines onto how to vote and not actually put in a correct procedure, this puts in a correct procedure, amends some of the outdated bits that were there because it had been done in a time when the senate was least active, and makes it slightly more set, as well as shortening times and increasing the amount of time debated. So it is really amending it but is in effect a new bill and would just cancel the old bill and put this one into effect in its place, it is a new one as most of the points are new and a lot of the old points are either rewritten scrapped, rewritten due to the change of time.



Alsoo I have edited it to make it official that this is amending the previous bill.
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Anything more, if not then we could possible vote oon the edited version.
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I would like to reopen the debate on this for new senate members.
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I think this should be revived, reviewed, debated, and voted on. We have one that this is based on that is more or less ignored...

I like this bill as written, but the timelines are tight. Where they work for me, 6 hours, 12 hours and 24 hours in some cases are too tight. The bill should also appoint a "Lead Senator" or whatever, basically someone who can enforce this bill. We have no problems coming up with procedure, but we do have enforcement problems within our senate.
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What if I add this.

The Delegate is the active senator who will check that bills go through this timetable of events before they are voted on, if he feels that the bill has not gone through the proper procedure he can veto it, if he feels there is a reason to repeat a stage, i.e a flaw appearing at after the bill has been passed and feels the senate didn't spennd enough time debating to account acknowledge this flaw.
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No go, give neas too much power :P on a much more serious note, I am not in favor of give veto power to someone who's not an elected official.
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note I wrote delegate :P
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note I chose to read that word as founder :P

I think it sounds good like that. Either a veto, or a restart of the debate is fine with me...
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LETS VOTE - YAY


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As noted in the initial discussion thread, I STILL think clause 7 reads like ****.

However, the intent of the bill is sound. AYE.
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Should me moved ^^^
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For the record, AYE
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