SENATE BILL: Queue Sanity OSPR Amendment (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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Sponsor: shua

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The sponsor has 24 hours to begin advocating for this.

[TNF]

AKA the anti-TNF act

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Too many bills are held over from the last session, or sometimes even the session before last, and only a portion of bills are able to be acted upon in the session they are introduced. This is a way of addressing that in a way that also makes the queue more equitable to each senator in terms of allowing them to put their legislative priorities forward.

[Lumine]

I can't say I dislike this bill. Shua is right, and there's still a lot of ground to cover in this session, even after X's resignation (and the subsecuent loss of most of his bills). Besides, ten bills seems more than reasonable.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

2 drunk 2 care really

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Well I would point out that TNF is limited to three non-emergency pieces of legislation like any Senator, and that the increase in the numbero f slots, most of whom do not go in order, has mitigated the problem of bills from past sessions delaying current ones. A good example is this bill, DC's two bills and several bore and Tyrion bills that have been plucked from the middle and bottom of the queue.

At one point we were only three or four weeks behind amongst Non-TNF bills, I think back in January. The date of next non-TNF bill is January 29, 2014, 05:45:42 pm, which is seven weeks ago and that is in good part because it took so long to get this Senate started.

One benefit of this, is that it would lead to prioritization whereby the big and important stuff are entered first over the smaller and less important ones.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

2 drunk 2 care really

Which reminds me. This should not be an act. The consittuion gives us exclusive power to make our own rules, thus there is no need for Duke to have to interrupt his drunken stupor anyway.

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[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Shua, is my amendment friendly or hostile?

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

friendly

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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Sponsor Feedback: Friendly
Status: Senators have 24 hours to object.

[Talleyrand]

I recall Bacon King once telling me that the queue was in fact regularly cleared at the beginning of each senate session. When was the specific law passed that changed that?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Used to be there was a legislation reintroduction thread, but we repealed that and so as long as you remain a Senator, the bills remain in the queue.

[Talleyrand]

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An amendment.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I am going to say hostile. 

I'm wary of it since it seems like it will lead to a huge race between members to introduce all their bills at the very beginning of the session so that the Senate has a chance to get to them during the session, and so could just lead again to a few Senators monopolizing the queue by other means than currently.

[President Tyrion]

Eh, yeah, I'm not a fan of a reset at the beginning of the Session. I'm not sure it's a good use of our time, frankly.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A week later and now the next non-TNF bill is dated March 05, 2014, 06:58:08 pm. Yes Lumine, it is yours.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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Sponsor Feedback: Hostile
Status: A vote is now open on the above amendment, Senators please vote Aye, NAy or Abstain.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Nay

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I recall Bacon King once telling me that the queue was in fact regularly cleared at the beginning of each senate session. When was the specific law passed that changed that?

I finally found it. It was BK's idea initially to remove it and I added the language to the text that removed the section calling for reintroduction of legislation.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

NAY

[bore]

Nay

[TNF]

Nay

Even if this does pass, I'll just reintroduce all my legislation in the queue the minute the next session starts, so I'm not sure what the point is of doing this, other than to try and get under my skin.

[Lumine]

A week later and now the next non-TNF bill is dated March 05, 2014, 06:58:08 pm. Yes Lumine, it is yours.

Awesome! It's foreign policy time!

NAY.

[Goldwater]

NAY