S.19.2-22: Stellar Astronomy Resources Act (Tabled)

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Section 1: Title
This bill will hereby be known as the Stellar Astronomy Resources act, or STAR Act for short.

Section 2: Provisions
1: A surcharge on municipal hotel occupancy tax for the promotion and preservation of dark skies through construction and maintenance of infrastructure that reduces light pollution and sky glow.
2: This surcharge will only apply to municipalities whom have applied for or received International Dark Sky Community designation.

Section 3: Implementation
This act will go into effect three months after becoming law.

Sponsor: TimTurner

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

This bill was inspired by legislation proposed by an IRL TX State House Representative, and edited accordingly.
I have brought it to this floor as means of encouraging activity but to my disappoint no delegate has posted in this thread except me and 2/3rds of the posts are by the Governor, not by members of this chamber.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I'll PM every other delegate (sans Muaddib) in an effort to generate more interest in this and the other major bill on the floor.

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

Mr. Speaker,
My attention has been on other bills, and I was hoping for a bit more of an explanation before commenting. I would like to ask you Mr. Speaker as the sponsor of this bill, why is there no figure for the surcharge? Or Mr. Speaker, was this a part of trying to spark discussion?

I'd like to ask the honorable delegates of this chamber if any of them would like to propose an amendment providing a figure for this surcharge.

...to my disappoint no delegate has posted in this thread except me and 2/3rds of the posts are by the Governor, not by members of this chamber.

Mr. Speaker this is almost a replay of S.19.2-21: Southern Investment Act, where 90% of the discussion was between one delegate of this chamber and the Governor. On that occasion, I was that delegate.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Motion for a final vote.

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

Motion for a final vote.

Objection!

Mr. Speaker you haven't answered my question and further more there is no figure set for the proposed surcharge.

...why is there no figure for the surcharge?

I fail to see how this bill will be workable if we are leaving the figure of the surcharge as totally ambiguous.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Objection heard, the motion fails.
This was a "boost activity" bill and not a "personally advocated" type of bill anyway.
I'm all ears for suggestions to make it more specific.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Feel free to put forth amendments.

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

Feel free to put forth amendments.

I am more inclined to motion to table.
It is a shame that the rest of this chamber can't be... bothered to contribute to the debate. Most of the bills this chamber has seen since the loss of 3 members in May have had very limited debate. I hope that the new chamber elected after the looming Southern election will see a must needed increase in activity.

If I come back tomorrow and there hasn't been an amendment proposed I will motion to table.

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

I motion to table.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

The motion has not been objected to.

The vote to table is now before the floor.

Aye

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

AYE

[PragmaticPopulist]

Aye

[Nyssus]

Nay

[HillGoose]

Aye

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

Voting is Closed

S.19.2-22 Vote tally
[ 4 ] Aye
[ 1 ] Nay
[ 2 ] Absent (Reagente, Ghost_White)

S.19.2-22: Stellar Astronomy Resources Act is tabled