L7.3.1:Department of Regional Security Act

[Blair]

I'm moving this to the first slot on the new revised legislative table (as the current one is rather confusing)

[Blair]

FWIW if we want to free up space we could add in the terrorist Designation Act as an amendment to the bill, seeing as they're essentially on the same broad topic.

[Blair]

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I offer the following amendment

[Blair]

As it's been more than 72 hours since this was re-introduced, I'm going to be opening a final vote shortly if there's no objections.

[Blair]

I've changed the part you mentioned in the amendment.

If anything I think the budget may be too low; IIRC the last budget had a surplus of $85 billion (and whilst a fair amount of this could get hit by healthcare reform) so I don't think $45 million would be too high, for what is generally a quite expensive job

[Blair]

Apologies for the late reply; I'm stuck in class, and then on a train for the next 6-7 hours so I should be able to think up some numbers by trying to look at A.) What's been done in the past B.) What the current levels of spending are

[Blair]

I'll have to look into the new federal budget being proposed; but I read that a fair amount of anti-terror funding comes in grants from the Federal Government so we wouldn't have to propose a lot more spending; however I'd want to increase the number because on the whole Lincoln includes a lot of high value, and high cost targets/urban areas (Chicago, New York etc)

[Blair]

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I offer the following amendment; for the sake of Assembly note-keeping, I'm also going to assume sponsorship of the bill

[Blair]

Oh wait sorry you're the sponsor; I got it confused with the terrorist designation bill and thought that Lok sponsored this one (and that you sponsored the tabled bill) Apologies

[Blair]

Apologies for dragging out this bill for even longer but I found this whilst scrubbing through the bills; it's a 2016 act that created the regional security force in Lincoln; thought it would be of some relevance to the debate about this bill.

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[Blair]

You know, I had no clue about that bill, but it looks very similar to the one I proposed. If we go forward for this one, should we dissolve the TRASA, or just incorporate it?

I actually thought that the TRASA had failed; I think both bills can work as TRASA just seems to deal with creating the Northern Defense Force.

I think it would be good to add the Department of Regional Security like the RL US Homeland Security; so it wouldn't need any further money added.

[Blair]

You know, I had no clue about that bill, but it looks very similar to the one I proposed. If we go forward for this one, should we dissolve the TRASA, or just incorporate it?

I actually thought that the TRASA had failed; I think both bills can work as TRASA just seems to deal with creating the Northern Defense Force.

I think it would be good to add the Department of Regional Security like the RL US Homeland Security; so it wouldn't need any further money added.

Okay, so if I understand this correctly, we eliminate the funding bit all together in this bill and specify it is to work in cooperation with the TRASA, the bill should be good to go

I meant more so that we don't need to add more to the $45 million, or $60 million I put in the amendment. I'd be happy to cut that out if the Northern Defense force already had a spending tag but it doesn't appear to.

[Blair]

Okay apologies for the delay in doing this but here's what I hope can be the final amendment to this bill.

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[Blair]

If there aren't any objections this this I'll be hoping to call this to a final vote in the morning.

[Blair]

With no objections I open a final vote on this bill.


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