Roll Out The Barrel Bill

[MasterJedi]

This will probably be the last thing I'll introduce this session depending on how fast this/anything else passes. (So if nothing passes in the next day or two I won't introduce anything else)


Roll Out The Barrel Bill

§ 1. It is the sense of the Senate that the commerce of Atlasia would be improved if the current various legal definitions of the unit of measure known as the “barrel” which differ depending upon the product being sold were simplified to a single unit of general application to all items of commerce.  Further, it is the sense of Congress that since the barrel which is most commonly used in commerce is the petroleum barrel of 42 gallons that the term “barrel” under the laws of Atlasia should be standardized to that unit.

§ 2. The Acts of Aug. 3, 1912 (referring to apples), Mar. 4, 1915 (referring to general dry goods sold by volume), and Aug. 27, 1916 (referring to limes) which collectively are known as the “Standard Barrel Acts” are hereby repealed two years after the date of enactment of this Act.

§ 3. The term “barrel” as a unit of liquid volume means 42 liquid gallons.

§ 4. Each Federal agency shall no later than three months after the date of enactment of this Act identify all regulations issued by that agency referring to the measures defined in the Standard Barrel Acts and any other usage of a unit of measure known as a barrel which is not consistent with the measure defined in section 3 in a report to be issued to the Secretary of the Treasury who shall compile said reports into a single report to be issued to the President and the Senate no later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act.  No later than 9 months after the date of enactment of this Act, any agency which has identified such regulations shall propose revisions for said regulations which shall eliminate the usage of said measures.  Such regulations shall come into force no later than 21 months after the date of enactment of this Act.

§ 5. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to render invalid or unenforceable under the laws of Atlasia those contracts  which refer to any of the measures defined under the Standard Barrel Acts or under the regulations caused to be revised by section 4, provided said contracts were either entered into before the effective date of section 2 or explictly define the barrel as some other unit of measure.
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Sponsor: Sen. Ernest

[MasterJedi]

Three days and no debate, okey dokey.

I hereby open up the final vote on the bill above. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[MasterJedi]

Aye

[WMS]

Aye.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Aye

[The Dowager Mod]

Abstain

[Q]

[Gabu]

Abstain.

I can't find anything in this bill that I really remotely care about.

[Ebowed]

This bill is clearly an attempt to undermine the Atlasian way of doing things.

[Peter]

aye

[MasterJedi]

This bill is clearly an attempt to undermine the Atlasian way of doing things.

I would agree with this statement if it forced us to start using kilometers or Celsius. But it isn't so I'm ok with it.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

You can continue to use small lime barrels of 180 pounds, large lime barrels of 280 pounds, crannberry barrels of 5,826 cubic inches and dry goods barrels of 105 dry quarts if you wish.  I just don't see why the Feeral government should.  This is just one of the minor oieces of cruft in the law that should be taken out so as to simplify things.  Not a particularly memorable piece of law, to be sure, but I doubted that there would be time to consider more substantial bills in this session when I chose that one to be among those that I introduced, a doubt that proved correct.

[CheeseWhiz]

Abstain

I can't find anything in this bill that I really remotely care about.

^^^^^

[Bono]

Abstain.

I can't find anything in this bill that I really remotely care about.

^^^^^^
Statistically, there's gotta be those times we can agree on something.

[MasterJedi]

This bill has enough votes to pass. Senators have 24 hours to change their votes.

[Jake]

Aye

[Peter]

This bill has enough votes to fail.

I beg your pardon?

[MasterJedi]

This bill has enough votes to fail.

I beg your pardon?

Yeah, that's fixed. I meant pass and I would have passed it anyway tomorrow even with that there.

[Ebowed]

You can continue to use small lime barrels of 180 pounds, large lime barrels of 280 pounds, crannberry barrels of 5,826 cubic inches and dry goods barrels of 105 dry quarts if you wish.  I just don't see why the Feeral government should.  This is just one of the minor oieces of cruft in the law that should be taken out so as to simplify things.  Not a particularly memorable piece of law, to be sure, but I doubted that there would be time to consider more substantial bills in this session when I chose that one to be among those that I introduced, a doubt that proved correct.

I know; I was kidding.  It seems like a sensible bill.

[MasterJedi]

With 5 Ayes and 4 Nays this bill has officially passed. I hereby present this to the President for his signiture.

[Ebowed]

x Ebowed