Senate Committees Resolution [debating]

[Bacon King]

Senate Committees Resolution

1. The Senate shall be empowered to create standing and special Senate Committees
2. The Senate shall be empowered to create rules for the committees, to set their jurisdiction and role in legislative process
3. The Senate as whole shall elect it's members to each committee

Sponsor: 20RP12
Bill Slot: 6 (Forum Affairs)

(note: This was introduced with "act" instead of "resolution" in the title but I have corrected it.)

[Bacon King]

This might need to be in accordance with an OSPR amendment to be done right.

Agreed. I don't really see the point in committees, but wouldn't object to language allowing them to be present in the OSPR. In fact, if anyone wants to make this a workable amendment, IIRC one of the OSPR's predecessors had language that granted the Senate the power to establish committees, although it was never used. That would be where one should look if they want to adapt this to the OSPR.

[Bacon King]

I'll sign on as a sponsor.

So noted; Senators have 48 hours to object.

Another concern, this bill lacks a sponsor and I think that may need to be resolved.

This is what happens when I decide to give up caffeine for my New Year's resolution

[Bacon King]

Mind giving us a time of reference on that so we know where to look BK?

I suppose it was never part of the Senate's bylaws, but rather just a proposed amendment to the OSPR? I definitely remember something, at any rate. It couldn't have been too long after I joined Atlasia, so probably around 2006. Looking for it right now.


Also, given that I just forgot Kalwejt wasn't even a Senator anymore (along with several other derpy mistakes), I'm need to make sure there's a safety net in place in case so that anything stupid I do can be corrected. Time for some Patented Bacon King OSPR Loophole Abuse™!

Note that the OSPR doesn't in any way define the term "declared absence"; it doesn't say I can't post or run the Senate when I am on one, it just says that the Dean can operate the Senate if I'm taking one while there's no PPT. So, I hereby announce I'll be on a declared absence until a new PPT is elected, so that Senate Dean NCYankee can correct me in case I have another stupid moment.

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I agree that the OSPR needs some significant amending to ensure that everything refers to what it's supposed to. In the future, it'd be best to include a line at the end of all OSPR resolutions to account for it; something to the effect of, "All later sections are renumbered accordingly, and all references to the renumbered sections are also adjusted accordingly."

[Bacon King]

And just who the hell said I was available for "cleanup duty". My semester just started on Monday also and I got another new computer (I had to take the other back, it wasn't upgradable) to setup.

Don't worry, it's mostly just in case I take a week to close the PPT Election

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Ah, thanks! I didn't know it was acceptable to just update mismatched references in the OSPR on one's own initiative. I know we've had an OSPR amendment just to fix them at least once before, so I thought it had to be done officially.

[Bacon King]

Just curious: the sponsor hasn't been a member of the Senate since December, so does this actually get to be debated?

20RP12 assumed sponsorship; I allowed it since neither of us made a public post notifying the Senate that someone else had to assume sponsorship of Kal's bill(s), which IIRC is required before a former Senator's bills are withdrawn.