Amendment to the OPSR

[Ebowed]

I'd like to introduce the following amendment:

The following text shall be appended to the amendment:

"In the case of legislation introduced that is claimed by the PPT to address forum affairs that has at least one piece of legislation in front of it in the queue, senators shall have seventy-two (72) hours to challenge this action in a public post, and with the concurrence of one-third (1/3) of office-holding Senators in the affirmative (excluding the PPT), may override the actions of the PPT."

The vote is on the above amendment.  Senators may vote Yea, Nay, or Abstain.

[The Dowager Mod]

Nay
1/3 is too easy

[minionofmidas]

Can you vote on an amendment to something that has already passed?

[MasterJedi]

Aye

[CheeseWhiz]

Yup.

Can you vote on an amendment to something that has already passed?

We didn't pass this yet, we just passed an amendment to this bill.

[Platypus]

Aye

[Jake]

Aye

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Aye

[minionofmidas]

Oops. Cheese is right of course...

[Gabu]

Aye.

I considered making it a majority or two-thirds, but it's impossible to get a "perfect" amount.  The more votes you require, the more power you give to the PPT, simple as that.  Giving too much power to the PPT would make the PPT able to thoroughly abuse his or her position by bumping stuff up only tangentially related to forum affairs, while giving too little power to the PPT would simply make things loosely related to forum affairs have to wait their turn.  I think that erring on the side of too little power is the best way to go here; hence, I went with one-third.

[MasterJedi]

With 6 Ayes, 1 Nay and 0 Abstenations this amendment has passed.

[Colin]

Aye

[MasterJedi]

This is what this looks like now, if there is no debate before I get back at 9:40 Central Standard Time I'll be opening this up to a final vote.



Article III, Section 2, Clause 2 of the OPSR shall be amended to read:

1. "At any one time, there may be no more than five pieces of legislation on the Senate floor. Of these, no more than two shall be constitutional amendments. The PPT shall leave one spot open for the introduction of legislation that he considers to be related to forum affairs, and emergency legislation which can be introduced pursuant to Article VII, Section 1."

2. "In the case of legislation introduced that is claimed by the PPT to address forum affairs that has at least one piece of legislation in front of it in the queue, senators shall have seventy-two (72) hours to challenge this action in a public post, and with the concurrence of one-third (1/3) of office-holding Senators in the affirmative (excluding the PPT), may override the actions of the PPT."

[MasterJedi]

Ok no debate, I hereby open up the final vote on this bill. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

Article III, Section 2, Clause 2 of the OPSR shall be amended to read:

1. "At any one time, there may be no more than five pieces of legislation on the Senate floor. Of these, no more than two shall be constitutional amendments. The PPT shall leave one spot open for the introduction of legislation that he considers to be related to forum affairs, and emergency legislation which can be introduced pursuant to Article VII, Section 1."

2. "In the case of legislation introduced that is claimed by the PPT to address forum affairs that has at least one piece of legislation in front of it in the queue, senators shall have seventy-two (72) hours to challenge this action in a public post, and with the concurrence of one-third (1/3) of office-holding Senators in the affirmative (excluding the PPT), may override the actions of the PPT."

[Gabu]

Aye.

[MasterJedi]

Aye

[Bono]

Nay

[Colin]

Aye

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Aye

[MasterJedi]

Tally:

4 Aye
1 Nay
0 Abstain

[The Dowager Mod]

Aye

[Platypus]

Abstain

[MasterJedi]

This amendment to the OPSR has enough votes to pass, Senators now have 24 hours to change their votes.

[MasterJedi]

With 5 Ayes, 1 Nay and 1 Abstenation this amendment to the OPSR has passed.