MA: Common Courtesy While Driving Act (Vetoed)

[Lumine]

I think I will be supporting this act, but I have a small problem with the "excessively honking one's car horn". Any chance we could leave "excessively" even more specific? Otherwise it might be too ambiguous, specially if each case is going to be handled individually.

[Lumine]

Taking some of the conflicting positions (and before I cast my vote), I think that the problem here is the lack of specific references. And since it looks like it will be a big problem to interpretate the Amendment in the right way, I have some basic doubts:

Speaker Inks mentioned that we leave situations like driving too fast to the discretion of a police officer, but I wonder if that's actually specified or it's a mere interpretation of the attributions that a police officer should have. If it was an interpretation, that would require more thought on the Act, but in the case it is specified, perhaps we should change the Amendment to something like this (it's just a mere example, forgive me if I'm wrong):

You must be logged in to read this quote.

Would something like that solve the problem with the Act?

[Lumine]

Aye, then.

[Lumine]

I don't like the idea of an amendment passing on a 3-2 vote, but since I was planning to support this from the beginning, Aye.

[Lumine]

I didn't like the fact that the bill passed with a 3-2 vote, and seeing that the Governor vetoed it, I think the best thing is to start again with this bill so we can reach a better compromise instead of just forcing something though.

Therefore, this time I will vote NAY.