Mideast Assembly Thread

[HappyWarrior]

If you could just write up that sort of amendment Ben I would happily accept it as friendly.

[HappyWarrior]

I will accept Ben's amendment to the schools bills as friendly.  Would anybody like to see furthur debate on this of can I call it to a vote?

[HappyWarrior]

Mr. Speaker,

After the education bill passes (I would very much assume), will you be bringing up the regional budget bill you've been working hard on these past few months I assume?

As long as there are no bills in regards to election systems in the Mideast.

[HappyWarrior]

Weighted Grades Amendment

Whereas: The Mideast government feels we need to take extra steps to encourage high school students to take challenging courses so that they may reach their full potnetial.
Be It Resolved:
Section One:
1. All public and charter schools in the Mideast region shall conform to a 4.0 grading scale system.
Section Two:
1. For every advanced placement course (AP) or honor course taken by a Mideast student in grades 9-12, student shall have an additional .25 to their overall GPA for the semester, assuming they receive a grade above C in the course.

This bill is now up for a vote with the following amendment accepted as friendly:

"Section 2.1 shall be amended to read:
For every Mideast student in grades 9-12, student shall have an extra 1.0 points added to each end of year grade in every Advanced Placement (AP) class in which they have received an end of year grade of at least a C."

[HappyWarrior]

AYE

[HappyWarrior]

With that the Weighted Grades Amendment is passed and presented to the Governor for his signature.

Now does anyone have any other bills to put forward before I put up my budget bill?

[HappyWarrior]

Could you guys repost those bills just for the sake of expediency?

[HappyWarrior]

We will now begin 48 hours of debate on the ConCon bill.  GO!

[HappyWarrior]

I'd now like to call for a vote on the ConCon bill.  If there are no objections:

AYE

[HappyWarrior]

The ConCon bill passes and is hereby presented to the Governor for his approval.

Now we will begin 48 hours of debate on the Consistency of administration of justice bill.

[HappyWarrior]

HW, can we get a vote going?

Yes, on the Judiciary bill voting is now open:

AYE

[HappyWarrior]

This bill is now presented to the Governor for his signature or veto

[HappyWarrior]

Without Further ado here is my Budget bill

Mideast Constitutional Budget Amendment

Article VIII-Regional Budget

Section 1: Budgetary Procedure

1.  During each Gubernatorial term a budget shall be passed by the Assembly in regards to Regional spending.
2.  This budget shall include all regional spending which is not specifically addressed and set by previous legislation.
3.  All budgets should also address tax rates in the Mideast region.
4.  Following a gubernatorial veto of any budgetary legislation, the Assembly must establish a 2/3s marjority to override this veto, just as with any legislation.
5.  No further spending may be addressed by the Assebly until the passing of the regional budget.

Section 2: Budgetary Precedence

1.  Upon passage of the first budget, all previous laws in relation to spending shall be overridden unless specifically mandated by the budget.

[HappyWarrior]

Anyone who would like to propose an amendment should feel free to do so.

[HappyWarrior]

Anyone who would like to propose an amendment should feel free to do so.

Here:

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note: the last article in the current constitution is VI, so I changed VIII to VII. I'm iffy on sections 1.5 (1.4 in this version) and 2, but we'll have to debate some more on that first.

If you'd like to I'll accept that as friendly.

[HappyWarrior]

I understand that it's accepted as friendly, then?

The main change was to strike down the 2/3 majority clause, which I don't think is necessary (see previous comments).

yes

Now onto Section 2. What are all your thoughts on this? I'm opposed to it (slightly) I don't think we should just start over, you can't do that in RL and we really haven't passed THAT many bills

The bill would only strike down past spending bills, which were after all only guesses anyway and pretty much useless.

[HappyWarrior]

We will now be holding a vote on the following bill unless there are any objections:

Mideast Constitutional Budget Amendment

Article VII-Regional Budget

Section 1: Budgetary Procedure
1.  During each Gubernatorial term a budget shall be passed by the Assembly in regards to Regional spending.
2.  This budget shall include all regional spending which is not specifically addressed and set by previous legislation.
3.  All budgets should also address tax rates in the Mideast region.
4.  No further spending may be addressed by the Assebly until the passing of the regional budget.

Section 2: Budgetary Precedence

1.  Upon passage of the first budget, all previous laws in relation to spending shall be overridden unless specifically mandated by the budget.

[HappyWarrior]

On the motion to close nominations: AYE

[HappyWarrior]

I will not run for another term as speaker, my time in real life is simply too hectic at this moment and I will happily endorse Inks for the job.

[HappyWarrior]

Dean is supposed to open the vote.

[HappyWarrior]

On the Speaker vote vote Inks or for a WI:

Inks

[HappyWarrior]

Hashemite.

[HappyWarrior]

AYE

[HappyWarrior]

I'd just like to thank the Assembly members for their vote of confidence in confirming me as the new Mideast Judge.

[HappyWarrior]

I nominate Inks for Speaker. Let's get on a vote and get this session moving

Sounds good to me.