S.19.2-9: Southern Infrastructure Act (Debating)

[Deep Dixieland Senator, Muad'dib (OSR MSR)]

Section 1: Title
This bill will be known as the Southern Infrastructure Act

Section 2: Creation of an Infrastructure Board
1: An organization that will hereby be known as the Southern Infrastructure Board.
2: This board will manage money allotted to them through the Chamber of Delegates with the Signature of the Governor to grant money to localities that are in need of new infrastructure.
I: The board determines the amount of money that goes to a locality based off of need.
II: If the board makes a determination in which the Chamber of Delegates disagrees, a decision can be overturned by a vote of 2/3’s.

Section 3: Funding
1: The Southern Government hereby gives the Southern Infrastructure Board $15 Billion dollars to grant to localities.
I: $10 Billion dollars of new spending will be given to the board as well as $5 Billion from the discretionary spending area.

Section 4: Oversight
1: The board will have direct oversight from the Chamber of Delegates.
2: The Chamber is allowed to assume duties of the board should it fail to operate effectively.
3: Localities once given the money for infrastructure projects will be overseen on a monthly basis by inspectors from the Southern Government to ensure the money is being properly used.

Section 5: Repeals
1: The Department of Infrastructure and Environment Act is hereby repealed.
2: The Southern Infrastructure Survey Act is hereby repealed.

Section 5: Implementation
This bill will take effect immediately upon being signed into law.

Sponsor: Governor Young Texan

[Southern Delegate matthew27]

Has my full support

[Fmr. Representative Encke]

I've said this before, but the 'other/discretionary' category is NOT just a random fund that you can draw from. Things like Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, electric power, gas supply, solid waste management, sewerage, and parks and recreation are included in the 'other/discretionary' category. If you want to fund this, just take all 15 billion from the surplus.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I've said this before, but the 'other/discretionary' category is NOT just a random fund that you can draw from. Things like Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, electric power, gas supply, solid waste management, sewerage, and parks and recreation are included in the 'other/discretionary' category. If you want to fund this, just take all 15 billion from the surplus.

We did add 30 billion dollars worth of funds to the account though, without specifying a source for them. $10 Billion of that was used for the Disaster Relief Fund, but the remaining $20 billion remains available.

[Fmr. Representative Encke]

I've said this before, but the 'other/discretionary' category is NOT just a random fund that you can draw from. Things like Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, electric power, gas supply, solid waste management, sewerage, and parks and recreation are included in the 'other/discretionary' category. If you want to fund this, just take all 15 billion from the surplus.

We did add 30 billion dollars worth of funds to the account though, without specifying a source for them. $10 Billion of that was used for the Disaster Relief Fund, but the remaining $20 billion remains available.

Recall, however, that the CANDU reactor eats up 10 billion from discretionary per year. IRL, state-only funding in the 'other' categories is 31 billion.

So if 20 billion from discretionary is used for the reactor and the disaster relief, plus 5 for infrastructure, while 'Other' is only allocated 50 billion, that means something important will be underfunded.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I've said this before, but the 'other/discretionary' category is NOT just a random fund that you can draw from. Things like Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, electric power, gas supply, solid waste management, sewerage, and parks and recreation are included in the 'other/discretionary' category. If you want to fund this, just take all 15 billion from the surplus.

We did add 30 billion dollars worth of funds to the account though, without specifying a source for them. $10 Billion of that was used for the Disaster Relief Fund, but the remaining $20 billion remains available.

Recall, however, that the CANDU reactor eats up 10 billion from discretionary per year. IRL, state-only funding in the 'other' categories is 31 billion.

So if 20 billion from discretionary is used for the reactor and the disaster relief, plus 5 for infrastructure, while 'Other' is only allocated 50 billion, that means something important will be underfunded.

Uh, when did the Southern Government authorize funds for a CANDU Reactor? Per Wikipedia, in RL, such reactors exist in:

Canada: 19 and 5 decommissioned.
South Korea: 4.
China: 2.
India: 2, 13 active CANDU-derivatives, and 3 CANDU-derivatives under construction.
Argentina: 1, and 1 planned.
Romania: 2, and 2 dormant part-constructed.
Pakistan: 1.

[Fmr. Representative Encke]

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=264941.msg5664202#msg5664202

Thumb costed that bill fwiw.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Wow the South is a joke sometimes.

But yeah, just take it all from the surplus then.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I proudly support this legislation.

[Deep Dixieland Senator, Muad'dib (OSR MSR)]

Fellow delegates, as discussion on this has died down and there hasn't been any post for nearly 3 days I propose the this be put to a vote.

Section 1: Title
This bill will be known as the Southern Infrastructure Act

Section 2: Creation of an Infrastructure Board
1: An organization that will hereby be known as the Southern Infrastructure Board.
2: This board will manage money allotted to them through the Chamber of Delegates with the Signature of the Governor to grant money to localities that are in need of new infrastructure.
I: The board determines the amount of money that goes to a locality based off of need.
II: If the board makes a determination in which the Chamber of Delegates disagrees, a decision can be overturned by a vote of 2/3’s.

Section 3: Funding
1: The Southern Government hereby gives the Southern Infrastructure Board $15 Billion dollars to grant to localities.
I: $15 Billion dollars of new spending will be given to the board.

Section 4: Oversight
1: The board will have direct oversight from the Chamber of Delegates.
2: The Chamber is allowed to assume duties of the board should it fail to operate effectively.
3: Localities once given the money for infrastructure projects will be overseen on a monthly basis by inspectors from the Southern Government to ensure the money is being properly used.

Section 5: Repeals
1: The Department of Infrastructure and Environment Act is hereby repealed.
2: The Southern Infrastructure Survey Act is hereby repealed.

Section 5: Implementation
This bill will take effect immediately upon being signed into law.

Sponsor: Governor Young Texan

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

no objection.

[Deep Dixieland Senator, Muad'dib (OSR MSR)]

There being no objections, I will ring the bells (DM all delegates) to notify all delegates that a final is now in progress.

The bill being voted on is the following:

Section 1: Title
This bill will be known as the Southern Infrastructure Act

Section 2: Creation of an Infrastructure Board
1: An organization that will hereby be known as the Southern Infrastructure Board.
2: This board will manage money allotted to them through the Chamber of Delegates with the Signature of the Governor to grant money to localities that are in need of new infrastructure.
I: The board determines the amount of money that goes to a locality based off of need.
II: If the board makes a determination in which the Chamber of Delegates disagrees, a decision can be overturned by a vote of 2/3’s.

Section 3: Funding
1: The Southern Government hereby gives the Southern Infrastructure Board $15 Billion dollars to grant to localities.
I: $15 Billion dollars of new spending will be given to the board.

Section 4: Oversight
1: The board will have direct oversight from the Chamber of Delegates.
2: The Chamber is allowed to assume duties of the board should it fail to operate effectively.
3: Localities once given the money for infrastructure projects will be overseen on a monthly basis by inspectors from the Southern Government to ensure the money is being properly used.

Section 5: Repeals
1: The Department of Infrastructure and Environment Act is hereby repealed.
2: The Southern Infrastructure Survey Act is hereby repealed.

Section 5: Implementation
This bill will take effect immediately upon being signed into law.

Voting Options are:
[   ] Aye
[   ] Nay
[   ] Abstain

[Southern Delegate matthew27]

aye

[PragmaticPopulist]

Aye

[UlmerFudd]

Aye

[Leinad]

Aye

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Aye

[Deep Dixieland Senator, Muad'dib (OSR MSR)]

AYE

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

6 ayes, 0 nays. this bill passes.

[Deep Dixieland Senator, Muad'dib (OSR MSR)]

6 ayes, 0 nays. this bill passes.

Mr. Speaker I believe that technically the vote had another 28 minutes or so to go. But the bill passes regardless.