I have been drafting a proposal for a ‘Ban on Leaded Fuel’, and would like to check a couple of potential questions about its legality before submitting this.
1. Is the subject already covered thoroughly enough by GA Resolution #257 ‘Reducing Automobile Emissions’, so that this proposal would be illegal for amendment/contradiction/duplication? That earlier resolution talks specifically about ”gases”, and apparently the Lead compounds released due to burning leaded fuel are actually [finely-divided] solids suspended in the gaseous exhaust rather than gasses themselves which is a technicality that some governments might otherwise exploit…
2. Concerning the transition periods which this potential legislation would allow for some of the changes involved_
I realise that it’s usually said that the terms of resolutions must apply as soon as they pass, if only to match the OOC immediate effects of the associated stat changes, but there actually is legal precedent for allowing proposals with some immediate effects and then a transition period for the remainder as this proposal would. I cite, for example, the [appropriately relevant] “historical” resolution the ‘Fossil Fuel Reduction Act’. Is this proposal legally okay on that basis?
(Also, I point out that the fairly short length of the transition-period allowed would mean that [even though the text doesn’t explicitly say so…] the companies for which it’s relevant would almost certainly have to increase spending on R&D — and maybe begin re-tooling factories, too — quite soon after the resolution passes if they want to be able to stay in business once that period ends…)
