NSG Senate Archives [Admins and Senate PpT Only]

[Senate President pro Tempore]

Protection from Religious Fraud Act
Urgency: None | Author: Oneracon [PC] | Category: Business & Finance
Co-sponsors: Yanalia [RG] | Battlion [NLP] | Glasgia [MSP] | Ainin [TR] | Fulflood [LD] | Rumostan [NLP] | Prussia-Steinbach [Resigned] | Wolfmanne [LD] | Mitonesia [LD]

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The Senate of the Aurentine Commonwealth,

RECOGNIZING the importance of religious devotion to the lives of many Aurentines;

AFFIRMING the need for religious bodies that pursue charity work in their communities to not be taxed on their income;

APPALLED that some unsavoury persons seek to exploit the religious beliefs of others and the tax-free nature of religious groups to enrich themselves;

HEREBY ENACTS the following:

Definitions
1. "Religion" is defined as an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to the supernatural, and to spirituality.
2. "Religious group" is defined as a group that undertakes actions in the name of religion.
3. "Public interest" is defined as the welfare or well-being of the general public.
4. "Charity work" is defined as actions undertaken, without want for profit, by non-government organizations in the public interest.

Tax Exemption
5. Religious groups that can provide material evidence to the Revenue Collection Agency that they engage in charity work shall be exempt from taxation on their income.
6. For the purposes of this Act, the definition of charity work shall not include the promotion of religious beliefs on their own.
7. For the purposes of this Act, the definition of charity work shall include fundraising provided that revenue from monies raised are used for later non-fundraising charity work.

Other Religious Groups
8. All other religious groups shall be subject to appropriately defined business taxes.

[Senate President pro Tempore]

Participatory Consumption Systems Act
Urgency: Significant | Author: Osea 767 [CP] | Category: Business & Finance
Co-sponsors: Free South Califas [CP] | Slazliyka [CP] | Sahrani DR [CP] | Polvia [RG] | Threlizdun [CP] | Kouralia [NLP] | Aeken [LD]

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The Senate of the Aurentine Commonwealth,

RECOGNIZING that the mechanisms of the market can often be inadequate for expressing the desires of citizens in regard to their consumption needs; for example, markets tending to favour those with means, and failing to factor how limited means affect consumption plans.

FURTHER RECOGNIZING we need a system that enables all citizens to fully express their needs and work together for mutual benefit in this area.

DECLARING, with the above in mind, that the following items shall be passed into law.

• All citizens will be empowered to create and participate in democratic councils dedicated to the purpose of creating consumption proposals derived from the input of citizens.
• These consumer councils will be empowered to negotiate with producers on behalf of their constituency
• They will be obliged to full openness in regards to their dealings and conversations to producers and any affiliates of the producers. This will involve, but not be limited to, the maintenance of a public record of all affiliations and contracts and a system for enabling citizens to bring complaints to the attention of the public, plus an obligation to notify relevant authorities in regard to all meetings where business or matters related to commercial interests were discussed. Failure to do so will result in penalties and, in councils with recall systems, may be used as grounds for a recall vote.
• These councils will be guaranteed the right to manage their own internal proceedings and organisation, subject only to the will of their constituencies.
• All citizens will be permitted to enact systems of recall in their councils and will be guaranteed the right to impartial oversight of voting processes.
• The state will be expected to support citizens in the creation and effective maintenance of a system of economic facilitation boards. The purpose of these boards will be to facilitate information exchange and processing between producers and the consumer councils for collective consumption proposals and for large-scale investment projects, amongst other things.

[Senate President pro Tempore]

Free Education for Innovative Self-Management Act
Urgency: High | Author: Free South Califas [CP] | Category: Business & Finance
Co-sponsors: Osea 767 [CP] | Slazliyka [CP] | Polvia [RG] | Threlizdun [CP] | Kouralia [NLP] | Aeken [LD]

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The Senate of the Aurentine Commonwealth,

RECOGNIZING that all economies require a steady influx of innovation in order to be robust, efficient and competitive;

DEFINING workers as those who can or do perform (a) specific work task(s) which is/are directly productive from the perspective of their employer (hypothetically as necessary), that is, which generates an opportunity for more revenue and/or profit for a company interested in such things than that company would have without hiring them;

LAMENTING that potentially inefficient and biased modes of communication in hierarchical firms may prevent or delay innovation due to the interests of a single firm or of (an) established officer(s) thereof being weighed as a concern alongside or instead of the interests of the whole nation or of the entire economy thereof;

NOTING with resignation that the profit motive often requires labor to be compensated with less than the full value of its product in wages, which some workers may consider exploitative;

APPALLED at the consequence that many workers are forced to choose between exploitative wages and poverty or worse,

RESOLVED to ameliorate this situation and establish a certain standard of dignity in economic affairs through voluntary means,

CLARIFYING that this Act may not be limited in its funding or effect by any previous act of the Senate,

HEREBY establishes educational programs through which workers may improve skills relevant to increasing their earning potential through self-employment and collective self-management in democratic workplaces, including:

1. Free classes at existing, and/or new if necessary, physical and internet-based academic sites, primarily,
-A. drafting business plans and other introductory business classes,
-B. basic accounting,
-C. basic political economy,
-D. relevant basic mathematics,
-E. remedial mathematics, grammar, vocabulary, history and literature as necessary, and
-F. social skills, some tailored to individuals with general deficits/differences and some to the skills all businesspeople need i.e. in maintaining client relationships, pitching ideas to a producer, etc.;
-G. Establishing the Free Education Fund for Self-Directed Innovation (FEFSDI), with a mandate to create minimal departments and subdivisions within itself and delegate as necessary to complete its tasks, which shall be tasked with providing such classes listed above, devising such requirements as are necessary to prioritize helping those who can state a feasible goal, encouraging private charities and philanthropists to fund such classes on their own and make them freely available to the public, reporting on the outcome of such encouragement, and investigating potential improvements to the list of free classes above, which it may suggest to the Senate,
-H. Granting FEFSDI a starting budget of £2 billion per annum with a mandate to spend it as efficiently as possible in a good faith effort to deliver the highest quality, most empowering and broadest civic-minded education to the most workers according to the goals listed above,

2. Vouchers for necessary classes in academic fields directly relevant to the specific work being done or proposed by current or prospective self-employed individuals, whether as part of collectively owned and operated corporations or in isolation, which specifically relates to doing such work in a self-employed/self-managed context, for example the need to acquire basic mastery in medical notation so as to avoid hiring an expensive specialist,
-A. Establishing the Democratic Entrepeneur Education Voucher Organization (DEEVO), which shall be tasked with receiving and in good faith analysing requests for such vouchers, responding to them in a timely manner, and granting such vouchers as it considers necessary to further the business goals of self-employed individuals and democratically operated cooperative corporations, and which may upon each new unrelated request demand an explanation of how the worker plans to incorporate the class material into their business (plan),
-B. Granting DEEVO a starting budget of £2 billion per annum with a mandate to spend it as efficiently as possible in delivering the most necessary, most empowering and most socially useful classes to the workers who are most directly poised to incorporate them into a realistic plan for economic empowerment.

[Senate President pro Tempore]

Collective Benefit Option Act
Urgency: High | Author: Free South Califas [CP] | Category: Business & Finance
Co-sponsors: Osea 767 [CP] | Slazliyka [CP] | Polvia [RG] | Threlizdun [CP] | Kouralia [NLP] | Aeken [LD]

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The Senate of the Aurentine Commonwealth,

REVISING the Universal Credit Act so as to strike Article 2h from the law, and render its text null and void, clarifying that all text shall be removed and voided from Universal Credit Act and all other laws which would otherwise deny or in any way limit the ability of the Senate to extend or create benefits;

RECOGNIZING that all economies require a steady influx of innovation in order to be robust, efficient and competitive;

DEFINING workers as those who can or do perform (a) specific work task(s) which is/are directly productive from the perspective of their employer (hypothetically as necessary), that is, which generates an opportunity for more revenue and/or profit for a company interested in such things than that company would have without hiring them;

LAMENTING that potentially inefficient and biased modes of communication in hierarchical firms may prevent or delay innovation due to the interests of a single firm or of (an) established officer(s) thereof being weighed as a concern alongside or instead of the interests of the whole nation or of the entire economy thereof;

NOTING with resignation that the profit motive often requires labor to be compensated with less than the full value of its product in wages, which some workers may consider exploitative;

APPALLED at the consequence that many workers are forced to choose between exploitative wages and poverty or worse, enacts the following into law:

1. Identifies several major problems in the social and economic condition which may be exacerbated by this dilemma:

-A. The development of industry suffers from the lack of potentially innovative techniques which could be offered by more robust competition;

-B. What innovation is employed toward productive ends, may be limited to uncredited improvisations required to complete tasks without drawing attention to problems which ideally ought to be addressed, and the innovator duly rewarded;

-C. Unemployment and the lack of satisfying or sufficiently renumerated employment are artificially high despite the apparent desire of almost all people to contribute positively to their society;

-D. The labor market may be artificially depressed if ambitious workers are prevented from developing administrative and management skills in a practical environment due to the decreased profitability of hiring and training more people for such work and/or expanding the size of meetings at which important production decisions are made;

-E. Income inequality may be inflated because the highest salaries tend to accrue to managers and directors, who likely have the power to take credit for some of their subordinate employees' work, and disproportionate influence over the process of determining their own salaries compared to the income of other workers; while the lowest wages tend to accrue to workers who have least control over the decisions which affect them, regardless of the value, amount or intensity of the work provided;

-F. Innovative workers may be prevented from producing the best possible goods and services because of false subjective evaluations during interviews by individuals with disproportionate power within hierarchical firms, possibly toward discriminatory ends which are difficult to prove in each incident and which may be quite accidental, i.e. that an innovative autistic interviewee's lack of eye contact is erroneously perceived to signal disinterest in the opportunity;

-G. Many workers feel alienated from their work due to a lack of control over it, risking a psychological symptom called 'learned helplessness', a factor in depression and other serious illnesses which may artificially deflate their and the market's interest in what should be lucrative opportunities for them to innovate;

-H. Some workers may feel less than entirely free to express their personality at work through varied productive and creative passions due to the pressure of finding employment for a specific task desired by a person or corporation which already controls a sufficient amount of capital, and these workers may suffer an artificial deflation of market wage value due to the deterioration of natural talents which are not adequately nurtured at particular places of employment;

-I. Workers may not have adequate opportunity to contribute their labor at odd hours or on unusual schedules, even if this labor is required for the proper dignified functioning of society, i.e. elder care, child care, sanitation, civil engineering, etc.;

2. Resolves to encourage the most practical solution(s) to multiple problems above in an efficient and timely manner without causing undue burden;

3. Suggests that the voluntary proliferation of democratic workplaces may create an opportunity to resolve or ameliorate several such problems simultaneously with small, efficient investments aimed at increasing innovation while attacking un(der)employment and broadening the skill base of workers;
-A. Noting in any case that even if we fail in this goal, the Aurentine economy and society will be better off for having a larger number of self-confident, highly skilled, civic-minded, educated workers who feel grateful to society for their opportunities and value each other as equals in a moral sense;

4. Encourages workers to employ themselves or form their own democratic corporations to manage their own work with minimal outside interference,

5. Resolves to make it easier for workers to enter into business by amending all currently active and future legislation establishing continuing benefits which accrue to workers, under any name such as 'unemployment', 'credit', 'welfare', 'disability', etc., such that in lieu of receiving such benefits normally on an individual basis, any number of recipients may form an organisation together in which they have equal decision-making power, through which they may together draw their total benefits collectively in the interest of opening or maintaining a democratically-operated business which may have profit or (if a non-profit organisation) fiscally-sustainable non-partisan social progress as its motivating goal,
-A. Requiring such 'collective recipients' to have together submitted a single business plan which is more or less feasible compared to the standard for its relevant industry, field, or component field, without which they shall continue to receive only their normal benefits, but may attempt to submit a better plan until such time as the CRPAO finds such activity disruptive to its goals stated in this Act as originally written,
-B. Establishing for the purpose of receiving and analysing in good faith all such business plans, the Collective Recipient Plan Analysis Organisation (CRPAO), which shall be tasked with resolving and making available to recipients such analyses in speedy fashion,
-C. Allowing such a group of collective recipients to receive, if necessary for the feasibility of the business, their expected combined benefits for a given number of years as a lump sum or as collateral for a loan provided at no more than the minimum reasonable cost or debt to recuperate its overhead and calculated risk,
-D. Establishing for the purpose of funding all such collectively received benefits and loans and advocating for the necessary funding for this project, the General Fund for Collectively Drawn Benefits (GFCDB),
-E. Granting to the GFCDB a general operating budget of £2 billion per annum and a mandate to spend it as efficiently as possible in order to bring about the above listed goals,
-F. Allowing to each such collective organisation of benefit recipients, for all purposes and in all combinations, a maximum draw (as capital or collateral) per worker of £200,000 per annum, which may not be dispensed a second time per the same annum in part or in whole,
-G. Considering this finality an excellent motivation for such recipients to work hard in the service of building a stable and competitive business together,

and finally,

5. Declares its solidarity with the unemployed and underemployed, aiming through this and other policies to eventually reduce unemployment to 0.

[Senate President pro Tempore]

Public Work Centre Act
Urgency: High | Author: Free South Califas [CP] | Category: Business & Finance
Co-sponsors: Osea 767 [CP] | Slazliyka [CP] | Threlizdun [CP] | Kouralia [NLP] | Aeken [LD]

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The Senate of the Aurentine Commonwealth,

DISMAYED that in many of our cities, towns and rural areas, there may be vital work to be done in the name of society in general, which is not adequately performed because it is not profitable to comprehensively address it,

DEFINING workers as those who can or do perform (a) specific work task(s) which is/are directly productive from the perspective of their employer (hypothetically as necessary), that is, which generates an opportunity for more revenue and/or profit for themselves or a company interested in such things than that entity would have without the benefit of their work,

LAMENTING that potentially inefficient and biased modes of communication in hierarchical firms may prevent or delay innovation due to the interests of a single firm or of (an) established officer(s) thereof being weighed as a concern alongside or instead of the interests of society at large,

REVISING the Universal Credit Act so as to strike Article 2h from the law, and render its text null and void, clarifying that all text shall be removed and voided from Universal Credit Act and all other laws which would otherwise deny or in any way limit the ability of the Senate to extend or create benefits,

HEREBY establishes Public Work Centres, with persistent physical and internet presence, through which socially important work can be done which may otherwise be ignored or inadequately performed because of profit or budgetary concerns;

A. Establishing for the purpose of organizing such opportunities and efficiently tracking the hours, intensity and nature of duties performed for the public good at such centres, the Public Work Centre Administration (PWCA), which shall first be tasked with analyzing the present socioeconomic conditions and proposing sensible policy suggestions for how many such centres to place, where to place them, and what sort of budgetary considerations shall be required;

B. Finding at a minimum that at least the following tasks or significant components thereof are suitable for self-directed public work administered through the PWCA: cleaning public areas; assisting with environmental maintenance or sustainability work; providing essential care to children, the elderly or the disabled; contributing to the planting or harvesting of publically owned or community-accessible food or clothing or medical crops; maintaining or repairing publically owned or community-accessible vehicles, or building bicycles; building, maintaining or repairing common computer technology; giving tours at public facilities of great interest; security patrol as the first line of defense to protect sensitive public facilities; and other tasks not requiring an exceptionally onerous degree of investment, training or risk of bodily or mental harm compared to the listed tasks as performed in the normal range of conditions;

C. Granting the PWCA all requisite powers and privileges to form a reasonable number of departments concerned with discrete tasks like payroll accounting, etc.;

D. Allowing the PWCA to directly supervise a small number of work hours per given period, with the aim of ensuring public investments in such work centres are used efficiently, given legally and ethically adequate informed consent on the part of all parties, selected at random from among all workers so employed at the time, except those who have already been supervised significantly more than others in this way, unless they have shown evidence of a dishonest personality through meaningful relevant actions or words observed by PWCA officials and the extra scrutiny is thought to be warranted by at least one such official in active service, although this evidence should be periodically reviewed in light of other potential explanatory factors like medical diagnoses which involve an unusual degree of fatigue or a difficulty in social interaction, for example;

E. Requiring the government to fairly compensate work performed at these centres, at least as such:
-1. Mandating the PWCA to maintain and periodically update at least a local list at each centre, and a unified national list, of standard pay rates in all fields of work performed at each respective centre, including all data relevant to paying a more precise wage for particular levels of intensity or education involved;
-2. Amending all currently active and future legislation establishing benefits which accrue to workers, under any name such as 'unemployment', 'credit', 'welfare', 'disability', etc., such that for the purposes of all workers who perform socially beneficial work tracked by the PWCA as described above, all benefits intended for individuals seeking work or performing underpaid work shall be automatically renewed for each week in which said individual performs more than 5 hours of work, for each month in which the individual performs more than 20 hours of work, or for some other equivalent period if it is more relevant to the legislation in question, and such that all of the time gained through this automatic renewal process is considered separately from any and all other time limits established in any other legislation, which are considered to stop immediately before the automatic renewal takes effect and to resume immediately after the renewal's effect has ended;
-3. Adding an exception to E2 for workers who have used such automatic renewals for over 4 months consecutively, except for those who have submitted an explanation to the PWCA through any useful medium which is considered by at least two PWCA officials to be sufficient, as to why they have special difficulty finding regular work or contributing more hours to the public work centres, i.e. a disability or cognitive difference which may make it difficult for them to interact with others, but if this explanation does not refer to a legitimate and relevant medical diagnosis, a new or rephrased explanation shall be required at least every 2 months, citing generally realistic goals for the future;
--i. Medical or ability-related explanations may be submitted to the PWCA on an individual worker's behalf by a doctor, therapist or social worker with whom they have an active working relationship. If the worker is denied benefits through this route, they may submit their own explanation as an appeal, in case the care professional misunderstood or poorly explained their situation.
-4. In any case allowing such benefits to accrue automatically to any worker who contributes over 30 hours of work in a given week, or over 115 hours of work in a given month, if necessary in order to compensate such work;
-5. Mandating the PWCA to pay a competitive wage for hourly work, or the minimum legal wage under all combined considerations, whichever is higher, within two weeks of the work having been performed;
-6. Allowing an exception to E5 in fields or varieties of work for which it is standard to be paid per goal or project (component), in which case the PWCA shall do so, or pay the minimum legal wage under all combined considerations, whichever is higher, within two weeks of the work having been performed;
-7. Also to make available at the work centre, in a form which can be taken away and demonstrated to others, official notices that the worker will be paid soon, as necessary to help workers negotiate their financial obligations in the off hours.

[Senate President pro Tempore]

Food Vendor Act
Urgency: None | Author: Liberated Counties [CFE] | Category: Business & Finance
Co-sponsors: Byzantium Imperial [NIFP] | Potenco [RG] | Ainin [TR] | Polvia [RG] | Divair [CSP] | Pyreneesia [?]

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The Senate of the Aurentine Commonwealth,

RECOGNIZING The fact that people often find themselves desiring a snack when away from home.

NOTING Restaurants are sometimes too expensive to always eat at when away from home.

HEREBY Allows citizens to apply for permits to sell food on public premises.

DEFINES A Food Vendor as a person who sells food, however not inside a cafè, restaurant or store.

Section 1: Permits

Permits will be necessary for a self-employed citizen to sell food in a certain location. Local authorities, at their own discretion, are responsible for providing small tracts of public area to acquire permits for, providing the citizen applying for the permit is adequately qualified to be handling uncooked or pre-cooked foodstuffs. A permit is free, however a 3% profit tax will be charged to the vendor at the end of each month. In the event that all the permits are taken, the applicant can be put on a waiting list.

Section 2: Food Quality

A vendor selling food is completely liable for any illnesses or adverse effects their food may cause, however in the event of an allergy being triggered neither buyer or vendor are liable if the vendor provided adequate allergy warnings. Local authorities are to be responsible for making sure Food Vendors follow health and safety guidelines.

[Senate President pro Tempore]

Responsible Government Act
Urgency: None | Author: Ainin [TR] | Category: Business & Finance
Co-sponsors: Grenartia [TR] | Luziyca [?] | Zokoria [TR] | Geilinor [LD]

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The Senate of the Aurentine Commonwealth,

ACKNOWLEDGING that no state in the world is totally free from corruption,

HOWEVER NOTING it can significantly be diminished through efficient legislation,

Section I - The Auditor-General
A) The government agency of the Office of the Auditor-General of Aurentina (OAG) is created
B) The head of this agency is to be known as the Auditor-General of Aurentina
C) The Auditor-General is appointed by the President on advice of the Prime Minister
D) The appointee is to hold a bachelor of business administration and be a chartered accountant at the very least
E) He or she is to audit Aurentine government departments, agencies and publicly-owned enterprises once yearly
F) He or she is to directly report to the President of Aurentina
G) The Auditor-General may seat for two four-year terms at the maximum

Section II - Conflict of Interest
A) No senator, cabinet minister or other civil servant may vote on or issue decisions that will lead to direct personal monetary gain
B) Point A is to exclude salary increases, pensions, tax cuts and tax credits
C) Aurentine public servants violating this section will be charged with conflict of interest and fined at least twice their gain and no more than 10 times their gain
D) Senators found to be violating this section must surrender their financial information to the Auditor-General who is to perform an investigation within 2 months of the offense

Section III - Access to Information
A) A file confidentiality system is created, from Open to Top Secret
NB: Open > Confidential > Strictly Confidential > Top Secret
B) Any document, file or letter issued in an official position by a national, provincial or municipal civil servant classified Confidential or lower may be released by request
C) Any document, file or letter issued in an official position by a national, provincial or municipal civil servant classified Strictly Confidential is reclassified Open after 5 years
D) Any document, file or letter issued in an official position by a national, provincial or municipal civil servant classified Top Secret is reclassified Open after 20 years
E) Any document, file or letter issued in an official position by a national, provincial or municipal civil servant classified Confidential may be redacted before release, in a manner that does not impede understanding
F) Any document, file or letter issued in an official position by a national, provincial or municipal civil servant may be redacted to remove personal information
F) Internal Memorandums are classified Open after 6 months
G) Access to information requests are to be sent to the Auditor-General, and may be sent by any citizen of the Commonwealth

Section IV - Judicial Clarity
A) No official or employee of the Aurentine Government is immune from prosecution for offenses committed either on or off-duty
B) No citizen, resident, business, organization or other entity in the Aurentine Commonwealth is immune from any legislation, unless specified otherwise in a concise manner
C) The interpretation of legislation is the responsibility of the judicial, and not the executive or legislative branches

CONCLUDING that this act is necessary for a stable and transparent government in Aurentina,

Hereby passes the Responsible Government Act

[Senate President pro Tempore]

National Park Service Establishment Act
Urgency: Low-Medium | Author: Venaleria [TR] | Category: Environment & Energy
Co-sponsors: Aeken [LD] | Beta Test [LD] | Maklohi Vai [LD] | Free South Califas [CP] | Glasgia [MSP] | Rumostan [NLP] | Gothmogs [TR] | Malgrave [USLP] | Wolfmanne [PC]

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The Senate of the Aurentine Commonwealth,

REALIZING the importance of natural recreation and the need for education on our outside environment
NOTING many natural, under-developed landscapes are being destroyed, polluted, and harmed for unjust reason
AWARE that we as a nation must do our part to protect, defend, and preserve these ecosystems and landscapes for the bettering of our future lifestyles

Defines the following:

National Park: A governmentally protected ecosystem, landscape, or "outside" area which contains beauty, history, or ecological importance to this nation

Park Ranger: An individual who is educated in the subject of wildlife and natural protection as well as one who is willing to use their judgement for the greater good of aforesaid national parks. A select group shall be legally certified and chosen to range and protect the park locations around this nation.

Hereby confirms these statements:

I. The National Park Service (NPS) shall be created in which those who wish to do so may explore, visit, or learn from different national park locations around this nation
II. All national parks shall be physically maintained and protected by the hereby established National Park Service Rangers Organization (NPSRO) in which certified park rangers are given access to all areas of the parks in order to keep these locations sanitary, physically protected, engaging, and of public enjoyment.
III. The National Park Service Rangers Academy (NPSRA) shall be established in order to assist and educate those who wish to be and/or are already certified park rangers through comprehensive training and standards set forth by the NPS.
IV. The Minister of Environment and Minister of Interior shall be given joint authority to set standards and regulation which they deem fit in collaboration with each other. Regulation must be adhered to by all citizens otherwise according consequences may and most likely will ensue.
V. Any land mass which may be suitable to fit national park status must be inspected by the NPS as well as the Ministers of Environment and Interior, and must be officially eradicated by this Senate. These locations must pass the following points to be a national park:
- Location must be more than one-hundredth (0.01) acres as well as less than ten-million (10,000,000)
- Location must consist substantially of historical, ecological, and/or natural beauty
- Location must have either deep cultural reference to this nation or contain a comprehensive resource connection
- Location must be accessible and generically enjoying or educational to the general public for a set and regulated fee
- Location must provide an accurate, unspoiled example of a resource
- Location must be in regulation with any other rules or standards set forth by the aforesaid offices
VI. Park rangers shall be instructed to educate, direct, attend to, search for, and assist the public present

The Senate hereby passes and instates the National Park Service Establishment Act.

[NSG Senate Administrators]

Republican Executive Act
Strength: Strong | Drafted by: Trotskylvania, Wolfmanne

Resolved: Since there is no tradition of monarchy here in our nation, it is pointless to establish one. Rather, we would consider it much more fruitful to establish the NSG State as a pluralist, democratic republic, and to that end we proposes establishing an executive that shall take into account the necessity of coalition building.

Be it enacted by the Senate of NSG, a constitutional bill to establish the executive offices of state:

I. The executive power of the NSG state shall be vested in a President and a Council of Ministers
- A. The President shall be the Head of State, elected by the Senate in a two-round system, in which the top two candidates from the first round shall be voted one.
- B. The President shall serve a term of two months, renewable once.
- C. The President may be removed by the Senate for official misconduct or disability by a vote of 2/3rds of the Senate.
- D. Upon the death of the President, the Senate shall elect a new president to a new 2 month term.
- E. The President shall have the following powers:
- - 1. Remand/veto a bill to the Senate if it's unconstitutional and call for revisions (may only do this once), with a full explanation.
- - 2. Declaring a state of war, if in full agreement with the Senate.
- - 3. Making and receiving state visits, on behalf of the Prime Minister.
- - 4. Ratification of international treaties, upon approval of the Senate.
- - 5. He must formally recognise the Prime Minister and his Cabinet, as elected by the Senate.
- - 6. Act as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and exercises his role by order of the Senate.

II. The Council of Ministers shall consist of a Prime Minister, and Ministers of the various executive departments.
- A. The Prime Minister shall be appointed by the President upon election by the Senate, and shall hold office with the confidence of the Senate.
- B. The Prime Minister shall appoint all other Ministers with the confidence of parliament, and shall have the power to dismiss them.
- C. The Prime Minister shall be head of government

III. Any person serving as a Senator shall be eligible to hold executive office.
- A. Ministers shall old office for a term not exceeding one month. One month after the previous election, the Senate shall hold elections for the members of the Council of Ministers, but neither sitting Ministers nor previous Ministers shall be barred from election.
- B. The President and executive Ministers shall maintain their privileges as Senators while holding office.

IV. The Council of Ministers shall enforce the laws ratified by the Senate.
- A. Ministers shall hold executive powers according to their portfolio as established by law.

V. If at any time the Council of Ministers loses the confidence of the Senate, they must resign immediately, holding office only until new executive officers can be elected.

Office of Vice President

1a. The office of Vice President of Aurentina shall be formally established.
1b. The Vice President of Aurentina shall be appointed by the President upon his immediate election.
1c. The Vice President is to take over the role of President, in periods in which the President is unavailable.
1d. The Vice President may only assume his role if the President is unavailable or is inactive.
1e. If the President has been unavailable or inactive for a long period of time, the Vice President is to ascend to the office of President of Aurentina.
1f. In a regular period of time, the President is permitted delegate his powers and responsibilities to the Vice President and may establish limits to how much power the Vice President gets in a regular period of time.
1g. Upon the resignation of the President, if he does the Vice President is to take over and continue the remainder of the President's term time.

Council of State

2a. The Council of State shall be formally established as a non-executive advisory council to the President.
2b. The Council of State shall be formally headed by the Vice President of Aurentina and shall provide advise to the President, whether on or whether not on request.
2c. The Council of State may not consist of a number of individual exceeding the number of 20, including the Vice President however it is not mandated for all 20 seats to be occupied.
2d. The Council of State is mandated to include the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister of the Interior, Minister of Treasury and Finance (Exchequer) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in addition to the regular holders in the Council of State; these five offices are collectively to be referred to as the Great Offices of State.
2e. The Council of State, whilst it may hold elections regarding a decision on what advice to give to the President, the President, or any individual for that matter, is not legally obliged to follow the orders of an elected decision of the Council of State and their role is purely advisory only.

Officers of the Senate

3a. Whilst it has been established that the office of 'President of the Senate' exists in previous acts, the powers of President of the Senate are yet to be defined.
3b. The President of the Senate is to moderate debate, make rulings on procedure, monitor the amount of votes recorded and announce the results of votes.
3c. The office of President of the Senate is mandated to be held simultaneously by the Vice President of the Senate.
3d. The office of Vice President of the Senate has also been established through previous acts. This position has hereby been renamed to President pro tempore of the Senate to avoid confusion with the President of the Senate, who simultaneously holds the office of Vice President of Aurentina.
3e. The President pro tempore of the Senate shall act in the place of the President of the Senate and carry out his responsibilities on his behalf. He shall be formally appointed by the President of the Senate and he must have the confidence of a supermajority of the Senate to be defined as 75% of all voting senators.
3f. The President pro tempore of the Senate shall be legally delegated all powers of the President of the Senate, however he may not be delegated the powers of Vice President of Aurentina.
3g. The President of the Senate, or the President pro tempore of the Senate acting on his behalf, shall appoint a Secretary of the Senate, who is responsible for administrative tasks such as counting votes, organising or recording down the official legislative queue and any other administrative tasks. The President of the Senate, or the President pro tempore of the Senate acting on his behalf, is permitted to appoint a number of Assistant Secretaries of the Senate (referred to in singular form as Assistant Secretary of the Senate), to aid in the task of the Secretary of Senate.
3h. The office of Administrator of the Senate is hereby established. An Administrator of the Senate shall be defined as Senators formally permitted to ensure that discipline is maintained among the Senators. Being an Administrator of the Senate is a hallowed privilege and new Administrators can only be selected by current Administrators. Administrators can only be fired by the consent of other Administrators.
3i: The office of Founder of the Senate is established and shall be eternally held by Denecaep, who is also recognised as the only Senator for Life, for his extremely important role in the founding of the Senate. He shall hold the position even in his death and no one else may hold the position.
3j. In the absence of the President of the Senate, President pro tempore, the Secretary of the Senate, an Assistant Secretary of the Senate or an Administrator of the Senate, are permitted to act in the place of the President of the Senate.
3k. It is recommended by this act that the President of the Senate, as he can be delegated the powers of Presidency, does not take an active role as the Presiding Officer of the Senate and instead recommends that the President pro tempore of the Senate leads proceedings.
3l. The Prime Minister is to be recognised as the Majority Leader of the Senate and the Deputy Prime Minister as the Deputy Majority Leader. Meanwhile, the Opposition is permitted to designate a Leader of the Opposition, who is to be recognised as the Minority Leader of the Senate, who may appoint a Shadow Cabinet with a shadow minister for each Minister in the Council of Ministers. The Shadow Cabinet must include a Deputy Leader of the Oppposition, who is to be recognised as the Deputy Minority Leader of the Senate and is to be the shadow ministers of the Deputy Prime Minister. The Leader of the Opposition is required to be a Senator with a simple majority of opposition Senators (defined as Senators that the current government doesn't recognise as part of the Majority or as a Senator who voted against the appointment of this Prime Minister) supporting the Senator appointed to Leader of the Opposition. A plurality is not considered acceptable.
3m. The President of the Senate or the President pro tempore of the Senate may extend the debating period for 12 hours if at least 7 Senators move for an extension.

Legislative queuejumping

4a. Establishes a new power to the President of Aurentina, referred to as legislative queuejumping.
4b. Senators are permitted to petition to the President of Aurentina to rearrange the queue to allow a number of bills, include those that have been omnibused, to be voted on at a sooner time. A formal petition with a minimum of seven Senators signing it is required before any legislative queuejumping can commence. Alternative methods includes a Letter of Recommendation from a member of the Council of Ministers.
4c. Usage of legislative queuejumping is to be at the discretion of the President and it is strongly recommended that he seeks advice of the Council of State before he makes a decision.
4d. The President of Aurentina then rearranges the queue to how he see fits and the President of the Senate, or the President pro tempore acting in his place, formally posts the new queue.
4e. This act strongly recommends that the President of Aurentina expresses extreme discretion before using his power of legislative queuejumping and recognises that improper usage of it is a cause of his immediate Impeachment.
4f. If the Vice President is carrying out the duties of the President of Aurentina due to his absence or inactivity, then he can not be the one who formally posts the new queue; only the President pro tempore may do so.

Senatorial Committees

5a. This bill permits Ministers to establish Senatorial Committees, which are recommended to be multipartisan, to advise them on issues regarding their portfolio.
5b. A committee is to be titled Senatorial Committee on [PORTFOLIO OF THE MINISTER]'. The Minister is to be the Chairman and he may appoint a Deputy Chairman to carry out his duties on his behalf.
5c. A Minister is not required to listen to the elected decision of a Senatorial Committee.
5d. It is permitted for a permanent committee under the authority of the relevant Minister to be established if 2/3 of Senators voting approves of it's status of permanence.
5e. Non-permanent committees may be dismissed at will by the Chairman, whilst permanent committees can only be disbanded with the approval of 2/3 of voting Senators.

Constitution of Aurentina

6a. In the Republican Executive Act, provisions for remanding or vetoing a bill is established as a power for the President; he may do this once if a bill is unconstitutional and it require a full explanation. However, this is an inefficient system and hereby Article 1, Section EI, is repealed.
6b. An alternative system for a constitutional veto is proposed by this bill, with the President having the ability to make one veto to the Senate if he or she believe that it breaks the constitution. The second time is comes up, if the President believes it's still unconstitutional, then the bill is passed over to the the highest court in the land delegated with the ability to trial cases regarding constitutional law, upon the establishment of a judicial system.
6c. It is mandated that all acts signed into law by the President undergoes judicial review by the highest court in the land delegated with the ability to trial cases regarding constitutional law and reviews whether it is indeed constitutional. If not, it may issue a decree mandating that the President formally vetoes it. If so, then the act is to be formally recognised as being part of the law of the land.
6d. A formal document referred to as the 'Constitution of Aurentina', consisting of the codification of acts that are deemed to define the constitution of this nation, is to be created.
6e. Upon the passing of this amendment, the Constitution of Aurentina is to consist of the Judicial Act, the Republican Executive Act, the Ministry Foundation Act, the National Symbols Act, First Amendment to the Republican Executive Act and the Constitution of the New Senate.
6f. Bills must specify on whether they are to be amended to the Constitution of Aurentina; if so then, they require a 2/3 supermajority of Senators voting to be added to the Constitution of Aurentina.

Regarding the Second Constitution of the Senate

7a. Repeals Article 1, Section 6 of the Second Constitution of the Senate, on the condition that the Second Constitution of the Senate due to the fact that it sees the President of the Senate as being a Majority Leader rather than a speaker (in light of this, Article 3l Section L has been added to this bill), Article 2, Section 3 as it allows the queue to be changed with only the approval of one Administrator; this bill has a fairer system, as the President is the one who changes the queue and if he does it in poor faith, he is accountable to the Senate and can be impeached and Article 2, Section 5, as it is fairer for the President of the Senate or the President pro tempore to decide this.

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
1. The Deputy Prime Minister shall be appointed by the Prime Minister and may perform the duties of the Prime Minister in case of resignation or a physical inability to complete duties on the part of the Prime Minister.

2. Clause 1-A of the REA is hereby struck out and rendered null and void. It shall be replaced with the following clause. "The President shall be the Head of State, elected by the Senate in a two-round system, in which the top two candidates from the first round shall be voted on, unless one candidate attains a majority of 50%+1 of the total votes in the first round, upon which that candidate assumes the Presidency without a second round of voting."

On Impeachments

"The Senate may, by a 2/3rds vote of members present, remove the President from office for criminal actions. If the Council of State, by majority vote, deems the President incapable of carrying out the duties of the office, due to mental or physical incapacitation, they may present a motion for the President's removal to the Senate. The Senate may then remove the President by majority vote."

[NSG Senate Administrators]

Bills to be added when convenient (second update)

COPA: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=15978766#p15978766
LTPA: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=15211164#p15211164
APF: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=15702109#p15702109
APA: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=15982078#p15982078
NPWWA: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=15282368#p15282368
NFSA: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=15866318#p15866318

[NSG Senate Administrators]

Railways Act
Urgency: Moderate

Author: Britcan [NSP]
Sponsors: Polvia [RG], Phing Phong [RG], Divair [CSP], Priory Academy USSR [TR], Wolfmanne [PC], Shrillland [RG], Ainin [TR], Fulflood [LDP]

Description:.

RECOGNISING that while under British ownership a network of railways was established in this nation by the British government and that this network is still in existence today.

ASSERTING that since we are now an independent nation the railways should now be owned by the people of this nation.

HEREBY forms the Aurentine Railways Board which will operate as a part of the Ministry of Transport and be charged with overseeing the maintaing and running of the national railway system as well as regularly checking up on the rapid transit networks in order to ensure that the local government is running and maintaing them to a reasonable degree.

MANDATES the following;

1) All parts of the existing railway network including overground, underground and other rapid transit systems should be nationalised with immediate effect. All citizens of this nations who owned shares in the railways as of 00:00 UTC on Monday 3rd of June 2013 should be awarded the worth of the shares at 00:00 UTC on Monday 3rd of June 2013 in compensation. Small, single-line railways that are not connected to the national network, do not carry passengers and were built independently from the colonial authorities are exempt from this ruling.

2) The government must hand over the running and maintenance of rapid transit networks to local government as soon as it is reasonably possible for it to do so.

3) The government take up the duty of maintaining and running the national railway system of this nation and that any and all profits from the railways go into the treasury of the nation.

4) All railway and rapid transit networks may run at a loss of no more than ten per cent in any given year.

5) If local government is deemed by the Aurentine Railways Board to be running a rail or rapid transit network inefficiently or in any way in contravention of this Act, the Aurentine Railway Board may assume temporary control of the relevant network in order to restructure their organisation and increase their efficiency to an acceptable level.

6) The Aurentine Railways Board can make a local government lower it's fare prices if they are deemed to be excessive.

7) The national rail and rapid transit network must be operating solely off electricity by 2035 in order to reduce carbon emissions.

GIVES the ministry of transport the ability to use it's funds to improve and expand the national rail network as well as rapid transit networks.

[NSG Senate Administrators]

Internet Freedom Act
Sponsor: Regnum Dominae (LFP)
Co-Sponsors: Vedastia (LFP), Liberated Counties (CFE), Ainin (TR), United Provinces of Atlantica (CP), Geilinor (LD), Eliasonia (NIFP), Lemanrussland (LD), Yanalia (RG), Beta Test (LD), Distruzio (LFP), Priory Academy USSR (TR), The Jahistic Unified Republic (GG)

(1)
(a) The government shall not modify, censor, or remove online content.
(b) The above shall not apply to:
(I) content that exists in the .gov.an domain.
(II) pornography depicting persons under the age of consent, which will be set in future legislation.
(c) The above shall not be construed to remove the right of private persons, entities, or organizations to modify, censor, or remove content that exists on websites, databases, or servers owned by said private person, entity, or organization.
(d) The government shall not tamper with Domain Name Server (DNS) databases.

(2)
The government shall not monitor the online activities of individual persons, unless a warrant has been granted by a panel of judges based on substantial evidence of criminal activity.

(3)
Crimes committed over the Internet shall not be prosecuted any differently than the equivalent crime would be if it were committed through any other medium.

(4)
Encryption of data shall be fully legal, and the government shall not restrict access or use of encryption algorithms.

(5)
The right to freedom of speech shall apply to online communications and publications.

(6)
(a) The government shall not accept Internet-based personal information regarding individual customers from private businesses, unless a warrant has been granted by a panel of judges due to circumstances that require the government to be able to access the information.
(b) Private businesses shall have the right to choose not to keep records of individual customers if they so desire.

[NSG Senate Administrators]

Aerospace Safety Act
Author: Kamchastkia (USLP)
Co-Sponsors: The Realm of God, Oneracon, The State of Czecho-Slovakia (PCP), Prince Edward Islandistan (USLP), Wolfmanne (PCP), Battlion (NLP), Free South Califas (CP)
Urgency: Meh, urgentish?

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RECOGNIZING the necessity for safe transit in the airspace of Aurentina and technological development for the safety of all domestic and abroad,

HEREBY,

ESTABLISHES the aditional tasks to the Civil Aviation Authority:
4g: Herein relegates Regulating all air travel in Aurentine Airspace to the CAA.
4h: Herein relegates Creating and Updating all charts related to airport departures, arrivals, STARs, SIDs, Taxiways, ETC to the CAA.
4i: Herein relegates Researching and Developing Technology in relation to the safety of Aviation, and the release of that technology to the public domain, to the CAA.

ESTABLISHES the Aurentine Board of Aerospace Safety as an agency under the authority of the Civil Aviation Authority.

ESTABLISHES the ABAS's authority as at least the following:
1.) Enforcing the regulations on air travel set in place by the Aurentine Aerospace Association.
2.) Investigation of all reported malfunctions and aviation accidents in Aurentine.
3.) Issuing of new Aviation Safety Standards based on sufficient evidence collected from aviation accidents domestic or abroad.

REQUIRES that all pilots to be certified to fly in Aurentine by the CAA or a foreign, reputable aerospace organization.

REQUIRES 2/3rd's majority vote in favor by senate in order to repeal any safety standard set in place by the CAA or ABAS.

[NSG Senate Administrators]

Internet Registration Act
Urgency: Moderate | Author: Oneracon [RG] | Category: Domestic Development
Co-sponsors: Ainin [TR], Potenco [RG], Quebec and Atlantic Canada [RG], Byzantium Imperial [NIFP], Phing Phong [RG], Funkadelia [LFP], Free South Califas [C]

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The Senate of the Aurentine Commonwealth,

RECOGNISING that most self-governing entities in the world today have their own Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) within the Domain Name System of the Internet.

ASSERTING that, as an independent nation, Aurentina must offer its citizens and businesses access to a ccTLD.

RECOGNISING that .an is the former ccTLD of the Netherlands Antilles, an entity which has not existed since 2010, and will shortly be removed from the Domain Name System by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).

DECLARING that it is easier to claim the .an ccTLD as former Netherlands Antilles users transfer to new ccTLDs than it is to request IANA to add further new ccTLDs to the Domain Name System.

HEREBY declares .an to be the ccTLD of the Aurentine Commonwealth, and;

HEREBY incorporates the Aurentina Network Information Centre (AurNIC) as a non-profit corporation, overseen by the Ministry of Telecommunications, charged with the maintenance and registration of Aurentine domain names, and;

HEREBY MANDATES the following:

.an ccTLD Registration Requirements

1. AurNIC shall act at all times to preserve the .an domain name as an Aurentine resource operated and managed by citizens of the Aurentine Commonwealth.
2. Registrants of .an domains must be:
   
   • Citizens of the Aurentine Commonwealth; OR
   • Corporations or other entities as defined by Aurentine law that maintain a physical presence in the Aurentine Commonwealth
   AurNIC Membership
3. All registrants of .an domains shall be members of AurNIC, with membership occurring automatically 15 days from the time of registration
4. Registrants have the right to refuse or rescind membership at any time without giving up their registered domain name
   
   AurNIC as an Aurentine Entity
5. AurNIC shall always be an entity defined by Aurentine law and have both a majority of its operations and its primary name server physically located in the Aurentine Commonwealth.
   
   AurNIC Board
6. AurNIC shall be managed by the AurNIC Board, a Board of Directors consisting of 7 Directors elected annually by the members of the corporation and 1 permanent non-voting Director.
7. The Minister of Telecommunications, or a designated delegate, shall hold the permanent non-voting seat on the AurNIC Board.
8. Directors on the AurNIC Board shall consist only of Aurentine citizens.
9. Directors on the AurNIC Board shall be elected for two-year terms.
10. There shall be no maximum number of terms for Directors.
11. All decisions of the AurNIC Board shall require a simple majority (50% + 1) to pass.
    
    First AurNIC Board
12. The first AurNIC Board shall be appointed by a Senate committee chaired by the Minister of Telecommunications.
13. Half of the appointed directors, chosen by random drawing, are to be nominated for a one-year term to ensure future elections maintain a combination of rotation and continuity.
    
    AurNIC Services
14. AurNIC shall provide the following services:
    
    • Maintenance of the Aurentine name database within the Domain Name System
    • Services for registrars to register and maintain domain names in the AurNIC name database
    • Online electronic query services for said name database
    • Domain name resolution services for .an domains
    Future Representation
15. As the governance of the Internet evolves, it may become necessary for AurNIC to participate in various international forums. If these events occur AurNIC shall be the designated representative of the Aurentine Commonwealth to these forums.
    
    Registrar System
16. Any corporate entity, such as an Internet Service Provider, or individual can be charged with registering .an domain names with AurNIC on behalf of consumers.
17. Registrars must pay an annual fee (to be determined by the AurNIC Board), show adequate financial stability, and demonstrate adequate technical capacity to obtain and maintain AurNIC approved registrar status.
18. There shall be no set limit on the number of registrars.
    
    AurNIC as a Registrar
19. To ensure smooth operation AurNIC shall operate as a registrar for 1 year following its formation.
20. Extending this service beyond the first year of operation shall require approval of the AurNIC Board.
    
    Registrants and Applicants
21. Applicant for .an domains shall be granted any acceptable and available names if they meet appropriate criteria.
22. There shall be no limit to the number of names an applicant may register.
23. AurNIC shall maintain a list of restricted domain names that are not available for public registration. This list shall be updated regularly by the AurNIC Board.
24. Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) shall be reserved by AurNIC and not available for public registration. This includes, but is not limited to: .com.an, .edu.an, .net.an, .org.an
25. The aforementioned domains may be registered as subdomains, such as: example.com.an
    
    Domains for Government Use
26. The following domains are reserved for government use, registration of subdomains on these domains must be approved by the Minister of Telecommunications.
    
    • gov.an - Aurentine government
    • sen.an - Aurentine Senate
    • mil.an - National Defense Force
    • ang.an - Aurentine National Gendarmerie
    • pol.an - Constabularies and other police forces
    Fees
27. AurNIC shall set fees for the registration and renewal of .an domains.
28. AurNIC shall review its fee structure on an annual basis and require approval from the AurNIC Board to implement changes.
    
    AurNIC Autonomy
29. The AurNIC Board shall make regulations covering aspects of ccTLD governance not given in this act.

[NSG Senate Administrators]

Bumpity bump to get this thread ready for the onslaught of the upcoming weeks.

[Senate President pro Tempore]

Bills passed through the following pages:

Pages 31-60: Chamber 1

The National Taxation Act, already listed in the OP of this thread, is not in pages 61-90. It is under pages 31-60. Besides, this is the correct version:

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=14053099#p14053099

Could someone please change that?

Other than this fact, no passed bills apply to Pages 31-60.

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Pages 31-60: Chamber 2

National Security Act (21/5/13)

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Pages 181-210: Chamber 2

Transportation Ministry Provision Act (2013) (15/6/13)
National Census Bureau Establishment Act (15/6/13)
Commerce Ministry Act (15/6/13)

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Pages 331-360: Chamber 2

Criminal Code of the Aurentine Commonwealth (06/7/13)
Proper Procedure and Unacceptable Behavior Act (2013) (09/7/13)
First Amendment to the Limiting Legislation Act (09/7/13)
First Amendment to the Republican Executive Act (09/7/13)
Second Amendment to the Republican Executive Act (09/7/13)
Senatorial Grammar, Spelling, and Punctuation Enforcement Act (09/7/13)
Second Constitution of the Senate (09/7/13)
Prime Minister and President's Questions Act (09/7/13)

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Pages 1-30: Chamber 3

Prevention of Corruption Act
Proxy Voting Act
Impartial Polling Places Act
Presidential Election Procedures Act
First Amendment to the Ministry Foundation Act
First Amendment to the Second Constitution of the Senate
Third Amendment to the Republican Executive Act
Repeal Most of the Commerce Ministry Act
Military Pensions Act
Protection from Religious Fraud Act
Participatory Consumption Systems Act
Free Education for Innovative Self-Management
Collective Benefit Option Act
Public Work Centre Act
Food Vendor Act
Responsible Government Act

This took a ton of work, but I'm finally finished. I think I deserve a thank you from Wolfmanne...

[NSG Senate Administrators]

Bump. We're almost done with the archive update, I believe.

-MV

[NSG Senate Administrators]

Bumping along.

[NSG Senate Administrators]

Archival process is complete.

-Ain

[Britanno]

The link for the Financial Act of 2013 is wrong, and needs to be replaced with this one:

viewtopic.php?p=14301067#p14301067

I'll delete this post once the change has been made considering this thread is closed.

[NSG Senate Administrators]

The Financial Act link has been updated. We'll talk about whether we want to just leave the links in the OP, or whether we should import the bills into this thread. I'm leaning for the former.

-MV

[NSG Senate Administrators]

The Archives are now complete! We will just be keeping links in the OP instead of pasting bills into the thread, seeing as there's really no issue with the former.

-MV

[NSG Senate Administrators]

Bump

[NSG Senate Administrators]

Bump

[Britanno]

Could I make a suggestion?

In brackets next to bills have links to any amendments that have passed. Makes it easier.