End Plastic Bag Pollution Bill (Law'd)

[minionofmidas]

End Plastic Bag Pollution Bill

1. A levy of $0.20 shall be made on the sale of all plastic bags within the Republic of Atlasia to take effect 6 weeks after the ratification of this Act.

2. For the purposes of this legislation, 'plastic bag’ shall be defined in as a bag 'made wholly or in part of plastic'.

3. Any and all funds raised from this levy shall be directed towards an 'environmental fund'.

4. The expenditure of monies from the environmental fund shall be made on projects dedicated to improving the environment of Atlasia as may be approved by the President of Atlasia, or such persons as he may appoint to do same.


Sponsor: Jas

[minionofmidas]

Obviously the amendments on the floor need a little more debate before going to any votes...

meanwhile I would urge the esteemed Senator who is down with the left to reword his amendment slightly, as it currently reads (in part):

Amendment to change Section 3 to read:

"3. Any and all funds raised from this levy shall be directed towards toward improvements in mass transits. 

[snip]

And add a Section 5:
"The fund shall be run be each region individually"

[minionofmidas]

It would probably make sense to specify (at least approximately) the process by which each region's citizens would decide what to spend the money on.

[minionofmidas]

Amendent to change Section 3 to read:

3. Any and all funds raised from this levy shall be directed towards an 'environmental fund'. improvements in mass transits. 

Amendment to change Section 4 to read:
4. The expenditure of monies from the environmentalbag tax shall be made on projects dedicated to improving the environment mass transit systems of Atlasia as may be approved by the President of Atlasia, or such persons as he may appoint to do same. citizens of each region

And add a Section 5:
The fund shall be run by each region individually

The vote is on the amendment (Sensei's amendment to come up afterwards).

Please vote aye, nay or abstain.


Nay.


We voted in new money for mass transits already. My vote is nothing to do with the regional thingy, nor with the amendment's sponsor.

[minionofmidas]

This amendment has failed.
Vote count:
Aye 1 (Dwtl)
Nay 6 (Lewis, Jas, Torie, Al, Bacon, Sensei)
did not vote 3 (Verily, Meeker, Culture)

I'd like to offer an amendment
End Plastic Bag Pollution Bill

1. A levy of $0.10 shall be made on the sale of all plastic bags within the Republic of Atlasia to take effect 6 months after the ratification of this Act.

2. For the purposes of this legislation, 'plastic bag’ shall be defined in as a bag 'made wholly or mostly of plastic'.

3. Any and all funds raised from this levy shall be directed towards an 'environmental fund'.

4. The expenditure of monies from the environmental fund shall be made on projects dedicated to improving the environment of Atlasia as may be approved by the President of Atlasia, or such persons as he may appoint to do same.

The vote is on the amendment. Please vote aye, nay or abstain.


Nay.

[minionofmidas]

Oh wait. I was going to say "yeah hi, I'm back! Sorry for the absence!" and then post a vote count, but I just realized that my term as PPT ended 40 minutes ago.

So yeah, hi, I'm back! Sorry for the absence!

The new VP and/or the new Dean (Culture King I suppose?) get to business, open a PPT thread and an expired legislation thread, please.

Oh, and close and open votes and stuff. For the time being.

[minionofmidas]

Okay... it seems the PPT post is vacant and the VP hasn't sworn in yet, so the Dean of the Senate gets to do things. Culture King has resigned, 3 Senators are new (PiT, Happy, Andrew), 4 are two months old (Sensei, Al, Jas, Dwtl), 2 are four months old (Torie and me), the OSPR uses swearing-in time as a tiebreaker and I swore in before Torie. So I can actually keep on running my little empire here.

Getting to business in a second...

[minionofmidas]

Current vote count:

Aye 3 (Dwtl, Culture King, Happy)
Nay 3 (Lewis, Torie, Jas)
yet to vote 4 (Al, Sensei, AndrewCT, PiT)

Vote times out tomorrow at 4:03pm.

[minionofmidas]

Sorry, last two votes were cast after the vote timed out (besides, you're voting against your own amendment again, Sensei. This your new policy or something?).

Final vote count:

Aye 4 (Dwtl, Culture King, Happy, PiT)
Nay 4 (Lewis, Torie, Jas, AndrewCT)
did not vote 2 (Al, Sensei)

The Vice President gets to do his duty.

[minionofmidas]

End Plastic Bag Pollution Bill

1. A levy of $0.20 shall be made on the sale of all plastic bags within the Republic of Atlasia to take effect 6 weeks after the ratification of this Act.

2. For the purposes of this legislation, 'plastic bag’ shall be defined in as a bag 'made wholly or in part of plastic'.

3. Any and all funds raised from this levy shall be directed towards an 'environmental fund'.

4. The expenditure of monies from the environmental fund shall be made on projects dedicated to improving the environment of Atlasia as may be approved by the President of Atlasia, or such persons as he may appoint to do same.


Sponsor: Jas

Righto, no more debate? Final vote time it is, then. Please vote aye, nay or abstain.

[minionofmidas]

Aye.

Current vote count:

Aye 4 (Jas, Happy, Torie, Lewis)
Nay 2 (Dwtl, PiT)
yet to vote 3 (Sensei, Al, Andrew)
vacant 1

[minionofmidas]

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

Current vote count:

Aye 6 (Jas, Happy, Torie, Lewis, Sensei, Andrew)
Nay 2 (Dwtl, PiT)
yet to vote 1 (Al)
vacant 1

[minionofmidas]

This bill has passed. It is presented to the President for his signature or veto.