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| DRAFT VERSION - Revised Secretary of the Senate; for discussion | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: 27 Mar 2010, 14:07 (43 Views) | |
| Wibblefeet | 27 Mar 2010, 14:07 Post #1 |
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Secretary of the Senate Act, Revised --by Wibblefeet Purpose: To reinstate the duties, if not the Separate Office, of Secretary of the Senate; and to make such position fit the current needs of AWP. To this end, We, the Senate of AWP, resolve that: 1: The “Secretary of the Senate Act” enacted in May of 2008 is hereby repealed. 2: The duties and office of Secretary of the Senate shall be created. a: This office shall normally be attached to the Vice-Delegate of AWP. b: Should the Vice -Delegate inform the Senate they are unable to perform the duties of Secretary of the Senate, someone shall be appointed to this position by the majority vote of the Senate. This appointment to last until the end of the current Senate Session, or until a new Vice-Delegate is appointed. 3: The powers and duties of the Secretary of the Senate shall be as follows: a: Empowered to control both the pace and termination of debate on bills, in accordance with applicable regional laws. b: Empowered to start and call the completion/results of votes on legislation, in accordance with applicable regional laws. c: The Secretary of the Senate may remind Senate members publicly or privately to vote on an issue, provided such a reminder is not delivered in such as way as to influence the direction of a Senate Member’s vote. d: Empowered and Required to move the text of successful legislation to such archives of legislation as AWP shall construct and maintain. e: Empowered and Required to move the names of and links to the debate on unsuccessful legislation to such archives as AWP may choose to construct and maintain, for reference purposes by future lawmakers. f: Not to otherwise comment on, editorialize about, or vote on legislation. Opinions and comments. As this is my first attempt to draft legislation here, this is NOT formally submitted to the floor for senate debate at this time. I am putting this up here for a discussion of what I've done right and wrong in writing this. |
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| Turlmanistan | 27 Mar 2010, 16:32 Post #2 |
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3.f. kinda needs to go, the VD has lobbying rights here in the senate, and I think they should stay. If the words "while performing the duties of the Secretary of the Senate." were added at the end, that may work too. EDIT*** this is by the way VERY well written, you'd never know it's a first attempt. |
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| Wibblefeet | 29 Mar 2010, 09:39 Post #3 |
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Excellent point, I'll go with your second option, since the VD can be split from the SotS under this proposal. If they were, we wouldnt' want to give them free rein to lobby. Since my workweek is about to end, I'll check other comments during the weekend if I can and post up and actual submission of the bill on thursday. |
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| Numero Capitan | 29 Mar 2010, 10:24 Post #4 |
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It looks spot on to me, very well written and does exactly what it needs to, good stuff |
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