Federated States of the New World/Laws/Legislative Standards Act 2020
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- Submission of Legislation
- All submissions made in the #submit-proposals channel must be labelled “MOTION”, “ACT” or “AMENDMENT”.
- A motion is put in place to execute an action or to officially recognise something
- An act is a piece of legislation that will be passed into law should it pass.
- All submissions must be concise and must be implementable without any modification.
- Examples of a bad submission include:
- “Motion to make spamming illegal”
- “Motion to establish a rail agency”
- All pieces of legislation must have a name, or an article number if part of the constitution
- Examples of a bad submission include:
- All submitted proposals must not violate existing law.
- Submitted proposals may not include any content that endorses a particular party, person, or ideology
- All submissions made in the #submit-proposals channel must be labelled “MOTION”, “ACT” or “AMENDMENT”.
- Amendments and Removal
- Amendments may only be made to a proposal before it goes up to vote. Similarly, a proposal may not be withdrawn once it goes up for vote without a court order.
- All amendments must be approved by the proposer of the submission.
- Submissions may be written on google docs, but these must not be edited after the debate phase.
- Administration may remove proposals that do not comply with FS law, though they must post their full reasoning for doing so in #parliament-discussion, and this may only be done before such a proposal is put up for vote.
- Amendments may only be made to a proposal before it goes up to vote. Similarly, a proposal may not be withdrawn once it goes up for vote without a court order.