The Imperial Dominion of the South's Legislature

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I officially call this first meeting of the House to Order.

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The first matter of business is the swearing in of the Representatives.

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Just a friendly greeting from Northeast colleague

Appreciate it, and good luck to you guys up North

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     Deldem is away at this time, so we will be unable to begin business immediately.

Do you know when he will return?

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Can we start introducing legislation now, or do we have to wait until all of our members are sworn in?

The legislature can't start until all members are hear and sworn in. we have to wait for Deldem

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Can we start introducing legislation now, or do we have to wait until all of our members are sworn in?

It would be recommended you form some sort of Standing Rules for the body so that the sequence of things is orderly.

Agreed i am in the process of writing them now.

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The legislature will be back in session on the earliest date the members can be here.

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Here's rules 1-5, i have not had the time to do the others
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South East legislature Standing Rules

Rule 1: Oaths

   The New Legislators shall be inaugurated by an oath of office. The oath is: "I, (name of Senator), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the South East against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me Dave."


Rule 2: Designation of Titles:

   The Legislatures shall refer to each member by the name of Legislator. As for the Speaker of the legislature, the Legislator shall refer to him or her as Mr. or Mrs. Speaker. As for the Lt. Governor, the legislative body shall refer to him or her as Mr. Or Mrs. President

Rule 3: Quorums and Absentee Legislature:


•  A quorum shall consist of a majority of the legislators duly chosen and sworn.
•  No Senator shall absent himself from the service of the Legislature without leave.
•  If, at any time during the daily sessions of the Senate, a question is raised by any Legislator as to the presence of a quorum, the Presiding Officer shall forthwith direct the Secretary of the Legislature to call the roll and shall announce the result, and these proceedings shall be without debate.

•  Whenever such roll call occurs, it shall be ascertained that a quorum does not exist and not present, a majority of the Senators present may direct the Sergeant at Arms of the Southeast Legislature to request, and, when necessary, to compel the attendance of the absent Senators, which order shall be determined without debate; and pending its execution, and until a quorum shall be present, no debate nor motion, except to adjourn, or to recess pursuant to a previous order entered by unanimous consent, shall be in order.
•   If a Legislator is going to be absent from the legislature, the person shall announce his leave of absence no later than a day before his absence


Rule 4: The Presiding Officer:   
Whoever is present during the meeting of the legislator shall be the highest ranking official . If the Lt. Governor is absent the title goes to the Speaker.

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Does anyone else have an opinion?

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    Looks good. Two comments, though:

1) using the terms Legislator & Senator interchangeably without including a clause establishing that they are in fact interchangeable could cause confusion.

2) establishing rules on legislation, such as how long debate has to be open, how long various types of votes are open, &c. Probably should take care to establish a cloture requirement such that attaining cloture does not entail enough votes to override a veto, which would be difficult in such a small body. Maybe have two-thirds of Legislators plus the Lieutenant Governor voting in the affirmative to attain cloture.

I changed the grammar mistakes in rule 3

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All right, i request a vote on standing rules 1-5.

Say Yay if you are for them, or Nay if you don't want them.

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Come on guys, let's get back on track.

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Standing Rules 1-5 are approved unanimously , and will be sent to the governor.

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Standing Rules 1-5 are approved unanimously , and will be sent to the governor.

     Does it need to be sent to the governor? The Senate does not need amendments to the OSPR to be signed by the President.

From what i was told earlier, the governor has to either sign or veto these. I don't know.

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Was the full thing passed or just an amendment?

It's rules 1-5 Mr. Governor. I guess you can consider it an amendment.

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Agreed, the appointments should be for  along as the person wants to do it.

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Let's take a vote on the Fair Voting Requirements Act

Yay if you agree, Nay if you disagree

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The vote shall be delayed due to a request for more discussion time.

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Let's take a vote for who wants to be the speaker.

This time just say who you want to be the speaker.

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Here is the official ballot:

Official ballot for speaker
[ ] PiT (The Physicist)
[ ] NOTA
[ ] write-in (ex: Chuck Norris)

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The Vote is over:

PiT is the Speaker.

Now back to business.

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Let's Take a vote on the Fair Voting Requirements Act, and the amendment to 3b

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Let's Take a vote on the Fair Voting Requirements Act, and the amendment to 3b

     What about Deldem's proposed addition of clause 4? If we include that, I would be comfortable with a final vote on the bill.

The Amendment is supposed to be voted with the actual piece of Legislation.

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Let's Take a vote on the Fair Voting Requirements Act, and the amendment to 3b

     What about Deldem's proposed addition of clause 4? If we include that, I would be comfortable with a final vote on the bill.

The Amendment is supposed to be voted with the actual piece of Legislation.

     That seems slightly odd, since in my time in the Senate some bills were altered into something completely different over the time they were on the floor. In that case, may I suggest that after the votes on amendments are finalized, legislators are given 24 hours to change their vote on the bill itself if they so choose?

Idea approved

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     Okay, I'll PM my colleages to let them know about the impending vote.

Thanks