HB 1187: Act to Preserve and Cherish Native Atlasian Culture (Passed)

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People's Regional Senate
Passed 5-0-1 in the Atlasian Senate assembled

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Sponsor: Rfayette

     I hereby open the floor for debate.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Unless I am missing it, this bill would presently violate the House's paygo resolution since the $10 million isn't funded.

     If you sponsor the bill, you can go ahead and propose an amendment to change that.

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     Representatives have 24 hours to object to Representative Rfayette assuming sponsorship of this bill.

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     With no objections, Representative Rfayette is now the sponsor. I invite the Representative to make a post advocating for the bill.

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     Any other comments? After 10 days, I would like to see posts from more than 2 Representatives in this thread.

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Unless I am missing it, this bill would presently violate the House's paygo resolution since the $10 million isn't funded.

     This is a pretty important factor to address. Does anyone have ideas for how to tackle this?

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     I would bring this to a final vote, but I probably shouldn't since it violates House rules.

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I motion to override Article 2 Section 6  of the House rules for this bill. As for a fix I have introduced a massive overhaul to the rule that I am hopeful the house can pass.

     Does a Representative second this motion?

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I am not sure the sort of figures we would be saving from schools that have been stripped of their funding under the Protecting Our Students Act, but some of the saved funding could go towards this since it does have a large educational aspect in this bill. But that would be something the GM Dept would need to provide figures for if it can be done.

     Do the Representatives have any thoughts on this proposal?

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Also I'd have to double check on actual numbers, but it appears the cost of this can go down, too. I can see a large amount to build and open the museum, but I am curious why $10 million annually and if it's feasible to lower the annual budget for it to make it a bit more passable since money is the big issue.

     I would expect a large initial investment and a smaller ongoing one. An investment static in time does not make sense for a museum.

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     So would someone like to propose an amendment to address this observation?

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OK, I propose an amendment.
Amendment:  Paying for Museum

In order to pay for this proposal, a $15 admission fee should be levied for admission to the museum. 

     Thank you for taking this up. Where in the bill should this slot? A Section 1, Clause 3 would be a natural choice, but I leave this up to you to determine.

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     Representatives have 24 hours to object.

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     With no objections, the amendment is adopted.

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     If there are no more comments, I will open a final vote in 24 hours.

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     Someone should go and try to obtain that estimate.

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     Someone should go and try to obtain that estimate.

     Any success with this?

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     I sent a PM on this matter.

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The amendment should generate around $3.73 million.

     Thank you. This means for the House that the bill is not properly funded as is, since we need $10 million.

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How about free year pass for investing into the start-up costs?

     There would need to be an amendment to edit the text to reflect reduced operating costs after year one, followed by a motion to suspend PayGo for the uncovered portion of the bill.

[Associate Justice PiT]

How about free year pass for investing into the start-up costs?

     There would need to be an amendment to edit the text to reflect reduced operating costs after year one, followed by a motion to suspend PayGo for the uncovered portion of the bill.

     It also occurs to me that you may have meant offering a year's pass as a reward to people who will invest in supporting the startup cost of the museum. Either way, we still have some big funding question marks.

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How about free year pass for investing into the start-up costs?

     There would need to be an amendment to edit the text to reflect reduced operating costs after year one, followed by a motion to suspend PayGo for the uncovered portion of the bill.

     It also occurs to me that you may have meant offering a year's pass as a reward to people who will invest in supporting the startup cost of the museum. Either way, we still have some big funding question marks.

Yeah, I intended for the tickets to help offset some of the building costs as well as maintain continuing operation.  There is some uncertainty due to us not having a perfect estimate of attendance. 

     We do have an official estimate above. Now we can continue working from here.

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So anyone have a spare $7 million dollars laying around?


You know this doesn't have to be so damn hard. The problem here is the record setting levels of disengagement from legislating.

     It's quite the challenge here.

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     If there is nothing else, we could motion to suspend PayGo. It's a cheap enough bill that it is basically a rounding error on the bottom line.

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As of last check it wouldn't even display.


since the format has 1 = billion and only has two decimals, so anything under 10 million is pathetic.

That being said it is pathetic that we cannot find the money.

     Yes, it is pathetic. With that said, does anyone want to take up the motion?