SENATE BILL: Let People Travel Act (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Let People Travel Act

SENATE BILL

Be it enacted by the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Republic of Atlasia in Congress assembled,

SECTION I: NAME

1. This bill may be cited as the Let People Travel Act.

SECTION II: NO MORE DUMB FEES

1. No fee or tax shall be charged for first-time application or renewal of any Atlasian passport book or passport card.
2. Passport photographs shall be available to be taken free of charge at every facility which accepts passport applications.

Sponsor: MB
Senate Designation: SB21:12

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The sponsor has 24 hours to commence an advocacy here and all other members have 48 hours to respond.

[Dr. MB]

It's ridiculous for the government to be charging people in order to travel out of the country. The process for obtaining a passport is unreasonably difficult already, and this will speed up the process while making it significantly more affordable - and easier to obtain a valid ID.

[Pyro]

I'm in full support of this legislation.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What is the expected cost of this to these facilities? A lot of these facilities that take passport applications are post offices, the financial concerns of which have been the topic of multiple bills over the past three years now.

[fhtagn]

iirc weren't passport fees raised at one point to fund a Labor bill a few sessions ago? Doesn't seem like a good idea to remove a source of funding for existing programs.

Would applicants still be charged fees to expedite their application of they chose to do so?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Responses?

[Dr. MB]

iirc weren't passport fees raised at one point to fund a Labor bill a few sessions ago? Doesn't seem like a good idea to remove a source of funding for existing programs.

Would applicants still be charged fees to expedite their application of they chose to do so?

link to the bill?

And yes, they still would be charged expedition fees.

[fhtagn]

iirc weren't passport fees raised at one point to fund a Labor bill a few sessions ago? Doesn't seem like a good idea to remove a source of funding for existing programs.

Would applicants still be charged fees to expedite their application of they chose to do so?

link to the bill?

And yes, they still would be charged expedition fees.

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=323591.msg7044560#msg7044560


Citizen Affordability Act.
Adam signed it on Nov 7th.

[Dr. MB]

Seems like an easy fix, introducing an amendment:

Let People Travel Act

SENATE BILL

Be it enacted by the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Republic of Atlasia in Congress assembled,

SECTION I: NAME

1. This bill may be cited as the Let People Travel Act.

SECTION II: NO MORE DUMB FEES

1. No fee or tax shall be charged for first-time application or renewal of any Atlasian passport book or passport card.
2. Passport photographs shall be available to be taken free of charge at every facility which accepts passport applications.
3. Section 5 of the Citizen Affordability Act, "The fee associated with the filing of a passport application is hereby increased by $10", is hereby struck out.

24 hours to object.

[fhtagn]

Sure, if you wanted to take away funding that went towards reducing naturalization fees to poor people.

Money doesn't grow on trees, you can't just keep racking up costs and ignore how to pay for it.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The amendment is adopted.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

So what now?

[Dr. MB]

Motion for a final vote. 24 hours to object.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A final vote is now open on this legislation, Senators please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

[Pyro]

Aye

[ON Progressive]

Aye

[Dr. MB]

Aye

[Devout Centrist]

Aye

[Peanut]

Aye.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Aye

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Final Passage of the Let People Travel Act:

Aye (6): Devout Centrist, MB, NC Yankee, Ontario Progressive, Peanut and Pyro
Nay (0):
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (0):

This has less than an hour remaining.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Final Passage of the Let People Travel Act:

Aye (6): Devout Centrist, MB, NC Yankee, Ontario Progressive, Peanut and Pyro
Nay (0):
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (0):

This bill has passed the Senate and is sent to the VP.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE BILL

Be it enacted by the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Republic of Atlasia in Congress assembled,

SECTION I: NAME

1. This bill may be cited as the Let People Travel Act.

SECTION II: NO MORE DUMB FEES

1. No fee or tax shall be charged for first-time application or renewal of any Atlasian passport book or passport card.
2. Passport photographs shall be available to be taken free of charge at every facility which accepts passport applications.
3. Section 5 of the Citizen Affordability Act, "The fee associated with the filing of a passport application is hereby increased by $10", is hereby struck out.

People's Regional Senate
Passed 6-0 in the Atlasian Senate Assembled,