2009 Atlasian Economic Relief and Recovery Bill (Law'd)

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2009 Atlasian Economic Relief and Recovery Bill

Recognizing the strain that the economic downturn has put on Atlasian families and businesses, seeking to offer struggling Atlasians relief while investing in an economic recovery, the Senate of Atlasia authorizes the following:

Section 1: Direct Aid to Struggling Atlasians ($254 billion)

   a. $100 billion for Medicaid
   b. $70 billion to extend unemployment benefits for eighteen months, individual unemployment compensation checks will be increased by $50
   c. $30 billion for a 25% increase in individual food stamp benefits
   d. $20 billion to fund additional Pell Grants, which shall be increased to $6,000 per individual
   e. $12 billion to increase the availability of Section 8 Housing Vouchers
   f. $10 billion to increase and extend welfare payments
   g. $10 billion to job training and disabled worker rehabilitation programs
   h. $2 billion for food program funding, including free school lunch programs, food banks, and meals programs for seniors (General food banks shall recieve priority funding)

Section 2: Infrastructure Investment ($162.5 billion)

   a. $60 billion to be distributed to highway, road, bridge construction/repair projects
   b. $20 billion for urban public transportation construction and repair projects
   c. $10 billion to immediately fund the 2009 High Speed Rail Act (FL 30-8)
   d. $10 billion to increase rural broadband coverage
   e. $10 billion for infrastructure repair and construction projects in the Social and Economic Development Zones enacted in FL 31-19
   f. $10 billion to repair and modernize government facilities and buildings
   g. $10 billion to repair sewage lines and drinking water infrastructure
   h. State governments will be required to pave or re-gravel all township roads and re-pave all township roads that have not been paved since January 1, 1999 by December 31, 2014. $6.5 billion is allocated to each region for this effort
   i. Two-thirds of the manufacturing material related to highway, road, and bridge construction or repair projects are required to have been produced and manufactured by Atlasian businesses

Section 3: Aid to the Atlasian Auto Industry ($45+ billion)

   a. The federal government will purchase majority shareholder status in the Big 3 auto companies: General Motors, Ford and Chrysler
   b. An Automobile Industry Reform Board (AIRB) will be selected, tasked with the running of the Big 3
   c. The AIRB will be tasked with refocusing and streamlining production, with a focus on the development and production of fuel efficient and hybrid cars
   d. The Big 3 will also be paid to produce buses and trains, to expand the Atlasian public transportation system
   e. The AIRB will be required to make reports to the Senate every six months
   f. A flexible goal of returning to the Big 3 to private ownership within five years will be set

Section 4: Regional & Local Fiscal Relief ($150 billion)

   a. $100 billion in financial aid to the regions, to decrease and prevent budget cuts of essential services and layoffs or cutbacks of government workers (This financial relief will be prioritized to state governments on the basis of budget severity)
   b. $50 billion to aid school districts facing budget shortfalls, to prevent cutbacks or layoffs

Section 5: Responsible Individual & Business Tax Relief ($42+ billion)

   a. $25 billion to exempt the first $5000 collected through unemployment compensation from taxation until December 31, 2010
   b. $8 billion to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit
   c. $6 billion to provide a voluntary annual $700 tax credit to home-owners who make use of solar, wind, or hydroelectric sources of energy (To qualify for the tax credit, home-owners must have at least 25% of their electricity generated from the aforementioned sources.)
   d. $3 billion to provide an expanded sales tax deducation from automobile purchases from Atlasian automobile companies
   e. The business tax rate shall be reduced by 2%
   f. Individual businesses making $300,000 or less in total annual income shall be exempt from all business taxes for exactly one year after The 2009 Atlasian Economic Relief and Recovery Act is made law
Spon: Sen. Marokai Blue, Sen. MaxQue

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I hereby open up a vote on this amendment. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

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And with 4-5 we wait 7 days for Afleitch who will not be back in time.

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With 3 Ayes, 5 Nays and 1 Abstention this amendment has failed.

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I hereby open up a vote on this amendment. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

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With 6 Ayes, 0 Nays and 0 Abstentions this amendment has passed.

Please begin discussing the next one in the queue on PS's list. We need actual debate time on each before the vote starts.

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I hereby open up a vote on the amendment below. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

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With 6 Ayes, 0 Nays and 0 Abstentions this amendment has passed.

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This is what we're debating now. There shall be a vote on this later tonight, but we need some debate on it first if you will.

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I hereby open up the vote on the amendment below. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

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With 6 Ayes, 0 Nays and 0 Abstentions this amendment has passed.

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I hereby open up a vote on this amendment. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

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With 8 Ayes, 0 Nays and 0 Abstentions this amendment has passed.

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I hereby open up a vote on this amendment. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

Section 3 is amended to read:

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With 6 Ayes, 2 Nays and 0 Abstentions this bill amendment has passed.

[MasterJedi]

This might be the next amendment. If not I might have missed this one.

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Just an FYI that I'm a little busy now so I'll get to this bill come tonight. I'll post an updated version of the bill and open the next amendment vote then (if there is one).

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I still need to go back and check the amendment queue but here should be the current version of the bill, unless I missed something:

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Ok, this is the next amendment. I'll open up the vote tomorrow morning on it.

I propose the following to amend C in Section 3:

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I hereby open up the vote on this amendment. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

I propose the following to amend C in Section 3:

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With 8 Ayes, 0 Nays and 0 Abstentions this amendment has passed.

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I hereby open up a vote on this amendment. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

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With 6 Ayes, 0 Nays and 0 Abstentions this amendment has passed.

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I hereby open up a vote on this amendment. Please vote Aye, Nay or Abstain.

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