SR 21-08: Screwing Around With Borders Amendment

[Pericles]

SENATE RESOLUTION

Allows regional legislatures and Congress to change state boundaries

Be it resolved by two-thirds of each chamber that the Constitution be amended, as follows, upon ratification by the regions

SECTION 1.

1. This Act may be cited as the "Screwing Around with Borders Amendment”.

SECTION 2.

Article VII, Section 2, of the Fourth Constitution, is amended to read as follows:

1. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this Union, and apportioned among the several Regions as may be appropriate; but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the Regions concerned as well as of the Congress.
2. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the Republic of Atlasia.
3. The Regional legislatures may alter the boundaries of states and counties located within their respective Region at will.
4. Congress may also alter the boundaries of states and counties, when the border in question is located between two or more regions.

This amendment allows regional legislatures and Congress to change state and county boundaries

People's Regional Senate
Passed 4-2 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled


As amended:
Passed in the House of Representatives 6-2-1-0


People's Regional Senate

Sponsor:
Senate Designation: SR 21-08

[Pericles]

As this was amended, we're moving straight to a final vote. Senators have 72 hours to vote on this.

[ON Progressive]

Aye

[Dr. MB]

Aye

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE


Though I preferred the previous language.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Also this is SR21-08, 07 is High for Hours Act.

[Pyro]

Aye

[Pericles]

The amendment passes 4-0-0-2.
Aye; 4(ON Progressive, MB, North Carolina Yankee, PyroTheFox)
Nay; 0
Abstaining; 0
Not voting; 2 (Devout Centrist, Peanut)

[Pericles]

SENATE RESOLUTION

Allows regional legislatures and Congress to change state boundaries

Be it resolved by two-thirds of each chamber that the Constitution be amended, as follows, upon ratification by the regions

SECTION 1.

1. This Act may be cited as the "Screwing Around with Borders Amendment”.

SECTION 2.

Article VII, Section 2, of the Fourth Constitution, is amended to read as follows:

1. New states may be admitted by the Congress into this Union, and apportioned among the several Regions as may be appropriate; but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the Regions concerned as well as of the Congress.
2. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the Republic of Atlasia.
3. The Regional legislatures may alter the boundaries of states and counties located within their respective Region at will.
4. Congress may also alter the boundaries of states and counties, when the border in question is located between two or more regions.

This amendment allows regional legislatures and Congress to change state and county boundaries

People's Regional Senate
Passed 4-2 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled


As amended:
Passed in the House of Representatives 6-2-1-0


People's Regional Senate
Passed 4-0-0-2 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled