SENATE BILL: POSTAL REFORM IS NEEDED ACT (Passed)

[Devout Centrist]

I motion for a final vote

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A Final vote is now open on this bill, Senators please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Former President tack50]

Nay

[Vern]

Aye

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE

[Devout Centrist]

Abstain

[Comrade Funk]

Nay

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on final passage of the Postal Reform is Needed Act:

Aye (2): NC Yankee and Vern1988
Nay (1): Tack50
Abstain (1): Devout Centrist

Didn't Vote (2): Comrade Funk (voted over a day late), and Ontario Progressive

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE BILL
To help the postal service

Be it enacted by the Congress of the Republic of Atlasia assembled

POSTAL REFORM IS NEEDED ACT

SECTION I: TITLE

1. This law shall be referred to as the Postal Reform is Needed Act.

SECTION II: FREEDOM OF PERSONAL CHOICES

a. The lawful carry of firearms onto Post Office property shall not be prohibited. 39 CFR 232.1 shall be amended accordingly.

b. The regulation prohibiting the mere wearing of a Postal uniform by a non-actor is hereby eliminated. 18 USC 1730 shall be amended accordingly.

SECTION III: SOLVENCY PROPOSALS
a. Mail delivery service shall be discontinued on Tuesday. This shall not affect delivery of packages on Tuesday. 118 Stat. 3264 shall be amended accordingly.
b. The price of a First Class Stamp shall be increased to $0.55.
c. The Postal Service shall be permitted to sell advertising space on the sides of Postal Delivery Vehicles.
d. National, Regional, and State political committees shall be ineligible to receive reduced mailing rates reserved for other non-profit organizations. 39 U.S.C. § 3626 shall be amended accordingly.

SECTION IV: CELEBRATE OUR STATES COMMEMORATIVE STAMP ACT
a. The Postal Reform Act, Section IV shall be amended accordingly:

1. A Commemorative Stamp Program is hereby authorized to honor each State in Atlasia. Beginning January 2nd, 2021 a new forever stamp shall be released honoring an Atlasian State, beginning with Alabama and proceeding therefrom alphabetically every two months until all States have been honored.
2. Each stamp shall include the name of the State being honored, and an image of a famous person from the State being honored. The famous person to be honored by each State shall be chosen in the following way:
     a. If a Regional legislature passes a law agreeing to participate in the program by January 2nd, 2020, the Regional legislature may choose the method for selecting the famous person to be honored.
     b. If a Regional legislature fails to pass a law agreeing to participate in the program by January 2nd, 2020[, the President may choose the method for selecting the famous person to be honored.
3. The design for each Stamp shall be approved by the Citizen’s Stamp Advisory Committee

SECTION V: EFFECTIVE DATE

1. This act shall take effect immediately. No lawsuit to enforce the provisions of the law shall be justiciable in any federal or Regional court until 90 days after this law takes effect.

People's Regional Senate
Passed 2-1-1 in the Senate Assembled

[YE]

Ugh this passed because Comrade and ON Prog (pending which way he would have voted) missed the vote.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Ugh this passed because Comrade and ON Prog (pending which way he would have voted) missed the vote.

DC also abstained.  If any of the three had voted/voted differently/earlier it would have failed.

[YE]

Ugh this passed because Comrade and ON Prog (pending which way he would have voted) missed the vote.

DC also abstained.  If any of the three had voted/voted differently/earlier it would have failed.

I just don’t like it when a votes outcome is altered by people forgetting to show up and vote lol.