NSG Senate Chamber [NSG Senate]

[Rumostan]

Great I guess I should do something formal....

I Senator, Jean-Henri Rousseau, your Prime Minister elected by the General Will of the Aurentine People do humbly swear to carry out my duties to the best of my ability while bound to the Republican Executive Act and the entire canon of Aurentine Law.

Wait for another day, your not quite there yet.

[The Realm of God]

Great I guess I should do something formal....

I Senator, Jean-Henri Rousseau, your Prime Minister elected by the General Will of the Aurentine People do humbly swear to carry out my duties to the best of my ability while bound to the Republican Executive Act and the entire canon of Aurentine Law.

Wait for another day, your not quite there yet.

Ok, well I was going to get rid of it when I realised that the vote still had a day left.

[Britcan]

Sorry chaps, I got the date wrong. The vote ends 21 July 15:17 UTC

[Britanno]

Sorry chaps, I got the date wrong. The vote ends 21 July 15:17 UTC

Well at least that is sorted out.

[Battlion]

So many flags with horrible faces...

[Belmaria]

So many flags with horrible faces...

I know...

[Free South Califas]

<old news>

[Free South Califas]

Now I am officially confused.

Blame Rumostan. I tried to make it absolutely clear what time it ended, but then he decided to break my usability innovation so that nobody would know exactly what was meant.

Thanks Rumostan. Without you, who would have undone that work and necessitated all this confusion and extra work?

Next time, leave my time zone links alone, OK Rumostan?

[Ranbo]

I could have sworn I had officially abstained to begin with, yet there are no abstains counted at present.

I guess it wouldn't matter anyway, considering I was about to change it to an AYE.

[Rumostan]

Now I am officially confused.

Blame Rumostan. I tried to make it absolutely clear what time it ended, but then he decided to break my usability innovation so that nobody would know exactly what was meant.

Thanks Rumostan. Without you, who would have undone that work and necessitated all this confusion and extra work?

Next time, leave my time zone links alone, OK Rumostan?

No, I'm using the right timezone.

[Belmaria]

Blame Rumostan. I tried to make it absolutely clear what time it ended, but then he decided to break my usability innovation so that nobody would know exactly what was meant.

Thanks Rumostan. Without you, who would have undone that work and necessitated all this confusion and extra work?

Next time, leave my time zone links alone, OK Rumostan?

No, I'm using the right timezone.

Let's just all apologize to everybody else and forget about it. Sorry everybody (Even though I had nothing to do with it lol)

[Rumostan]

No, I'm using the right timezone.

Let's just all apologize to everybody else and forget about it. Sorry everybody (Even though I had nothing to do with it lol)

If I have to apologise, I will do it after FSC.

[Belmaria]

Let's just all apologize to everybody else and forget about it. Sorry everybody (Even though I had nothing to do with it lol)

If I have to apologise, I will do it after FSC.

Ugh... politicians are worse than children

[Bleckonia]

If I have to apologise, I will do it after FSC.

Ugh... politicians are worse than children

Tell me something I don't know.

[Free South Califas]

Let's just all apologize to everybody else and forget about it. Sorry everybody (Even though I had nothing to do with it lol)

If I have to apologise, I will do it after FSC.

I don't need words from you. I need you to understand the following. You do not have permission to remove any of my OOC text relating to time zones in this thread. I will consider it to be in bad faith and take appropriate action. Every word I say about time zones during this vote has been and will be OOC. It took a lot of work of the very kind you often demand from those of us who maintain the queue and voting counts, and this would be your second time ruining my contribution if you removed it.

That should clear this up. No further discussion on the matter will be required.

You don't even have any justification for using UTC - Aurentina uses CET. But whatever. Just understand the first part.

Prime Minister Confirmation Vote | Candidate: Realm of God [PC] | Proposed by: Britanno [PC]

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For: 66
Against: 43
Abstain: 0

OOC: Click the text below to find out what time it is in my time zone. Do not remove the lines below.
Began: Fri Jul 19, 2013 8:17 am PDT (Los Angeles)
Ends: Sun Jul 21, 2013 8:17 am PDT (Los Angeles)

[Pesda]

I vote NAY if voting is still happening.

[Free South Califas]

Prime Minister Confirmation Vote | Candidate: Realm of God [PC] | Proposed by: Britanno [PC]

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For: 66
Against: 44
Abstain: 0

OOC: Click the text below to find out what time it is in my time zone. Do not remove the lines below.
Began: Fri Jul 19, 2013 8:17 am PDT (Los Angeles)
Ends: Sun Jul 21, 2013 8:17 am PDT (Los Angeles)
Remaining: 11h:58m

[Kamchastkia]

Senate Legislative Queue

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Currently at debate: National Financing and Accounting Act
2. Legality and Restrictions Act
3. Anti Corruption Omnibus
4. International Treaties Ratification Act
5. Economic Oversight Act
6. Civil Liberties Omnibus
7. Internet Omnibus Act
8. Voting out business management without holding shares is stupid idea and illegal
9. Standards of Daily Measurement Act
10. Condemnation of United States National Security Agency project: US-984XN
11. Environment Act
12. Transportation Amendments, Standards, and Safety Omnibus
13. Armed Forces Reform Act
14. State of Emergency Act
15. National Fingerprint Registry
16. Blakewell Act
17. Social Welfare Act
18. Repeal First Amendment to the Limiting Legislation Act
19. First Amendment to the Ministry Foundation Act
20. Order of Aurentina Establishment Act
21. Reasonable Wage Act
22. Electoral Standards Omnibus
23. Law and Order Improvement Act
24. Protection from Religious Fraud Act
25. Aurentine Youth Senate Act

Aurentine Youth Senate Act added to the queue.

[United Provinces of Atlantica]

I vote NAY.

I vote NAY if voting is still happening.

OOC: The vote's still happening..

[Threlizdun]

Unisex Restroom Establishment Act
Author: Threlizdun [C] | Co-Author: Oneracon [RG]
Co-Sponsors: Battlion [NLP], Yanalia [RG], The Realm of God [PC], Potenco [RG], New Sapienta [PC], Slazliyka [C], Beta Test [LD], Free South Califas [C], Franklin Delano Bluth [C], Venaleria [RG]
Urgency: High

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RECOGNIZING the extreme discomfort and psychological harm transgender and intersex individuals face when pressured into using a restroom that does not match their gender identity;

ADDITIONALLY RECOGNIZING the issues with restroom facilities involving handicapped users and an opposite-sex attendant, or a parent caring for a child of the opposite sex;

OBSERVING the success seen by the establishment of unisex restrooms in many nations around the world with resolving the aforementioned issues;

REALIZING the potential for unisex restrooms to one day replace those assigned to one sex or gender;

NOTING that much of the population is not yet prepared for the total abandonment of restrooms segregated by sex;

HEREBY ENACTS the following:

Definitions

1. For the purposes of this Act "small businesses" shall be defined as an unincorporated or private limited business which is: not bankrupt, employs 50 or fewer persons, and earns less than £1,000,000 in gross revenue per year
2. For the purposes of this Act "private facilities" shall be defined as any building that does not fall under the category of public facilities.
3. For the purposes of this Act "public facilities" shall be defined as any building owned and/or operated by any level of government as well as any building, including privately owned, which are necessary for the health and well-being of the general public. This includes, but is not limited to:
   
   • Hospitals and other buildings housing medical services
   • Emergency services (fire, police, ambulance)
   • Military facilities
   • Recreational centres and parks
   • Schools
   • Libraries
   • Buildings which house one or more offices of government services
   Timeline for Implementation
4. All public facilities shall construct unisex restrooms, either in addition to or in place of male and female restrooms, by no more than one (1) year following the ratification of this Act.
5. All private facilities shall construct unisex restrooms, either in addition to or in place of male and female restrooms, by no more than two (2) years following the ratification of this Act.
6. Unisex restrooms shall completely replace segregated restrooms within ten (10) years of this Act’s ratification.
   
   Use of Segregated Restrooms
7. Male and female restrooms shall hereby be segregated by gender and not sex.
8. All persons shall be permitted to use the washroom which corresponds to their gender identity.
   
   Funding
9. The costs of unisex washroom construction in public facilities owned by the Government of the Aurentine Commonwealth shall be directly subsidized by the Ministry of Finance.
   
   Unisex Restroom Establishment Fund
10. The Unisex Restroom Establishment Fund (UREF) shall be established under the supervision of the Minister of Finance to aid small businesses and lower levels of government in complying with this Act.
11. Small businesses or lower levels of government that apply to the UREF shall be entitled to a rebate equal to 50-99% of the construction costs of unisex washroom(s), dependent on financial need.
12. The UREF shall be disbanded eleven (11) years after this Act's ratification.

I motion to add this bill to the Civil Liberties Omnibus

[Yanalia]

Unisex Restroom Establishment Act
Author: Threlizdun [C] | Co-Author: Oneracon [RG]
Co-Sponsors: Battlion [NLP], Yanalia [RG], The Realm of God [PC], Potenco [RG], New Sapienta [PC], Slazliyka [C], Beta Test [LD], Free South Califas [C], Franklin Delano Bluth [C], Venaleria [RG]
Urgency: High

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RECOGNIZING the extreme discomfort and psychological harm transgender and intersex individuals face when pressured into using a restroom that does not match their gender identity;

ADDITIONALLY RECOGNIZING the issues with restroom facilities involving handicapped users and an opposite-sex attendant, or a parent caring for a child of the opposite sex;

OBSERVING the success seen by the establishment of unisex restrooms in many nations around the world with resolving the aforementioned issues;

REALIZING the potential for unisex restrooms to one day replace those assigned to one sex or gender;

NOTING that much of the population is not yet prepared for the total abandonment of restrooms segregated by sex;

HEREBY ENACTS the following:

Definitions

1. For the purposes of this Act "small businesses" shall be defined as an unincorporated or private limited business which is: not bankrupt, employs 50 or fewer persons, and earns less than £1,000,000 in gross revenue per year
2. For the purposes of this Act "private facilities" shall be defined as any building that does not fall under the category of public facilities.
3. For the purposes of this Act "public facilities" shall be defined as any building owned and/or operated by any level of government as well as any building, including privately owned, which are necessary for the health and well-being of the general public. This includes, but is not limited to:
   
   • Hospitals and other buildings housing medical services
   • Emergency services (fire, police, ambulance)
   • Military facilities
   • Recreational centres and parks
   • Schools
   • Libraries
   • Buildings which house one or more offices of government services
   Timeline for Implementation
4. All public facilities shall construct unisex restrooms, either in addition to or in place of male and female restrooms, by no more than one (1) year following the ratification of this Act.
5. All private facilities shall construct unisex restrooms, either in addition to or in place of male and female restrooms, by no more than two (2) years following the ratification of this Act.
6. Unisex restrooms shall completely replace segregated restrooms within ten (10) years of this Act’s ratification.
   
   Use of Segregated Restrooms
7. Male and female restrooms shall hereby be segregated by gender and not sex.
8. All persons shall be permitted to use the washroom which corresponds to their gender identity.
   
   Funding
9. The costs of unisex washroom construction in public facilities owned by the Government of the Aurentine Commonwealth shall be directly subsidized by the Ministry of Finance.
   
   Unisex Restroom Establishment Fund
10. The Unisex Restroom Establishment Fund (UREF) shall be established under the supervision of the Minister of Finance to aid small businesses and lower levels of government in complying with this Act.
11. Small businesses or lower levels of government that apply to the UREF shall be entitled to a rebate equal to 50-99% of the construction costs of unisex washroom(s), dependent on financial need.
12. The UREF shall be disbanded eleven (11) years after this Act's ratification.

I motion to add this bill to the Civil Liberties Omnibus

Seconded.

[Slazliyka]

There are enough sponsors for it to be added to to queue automatically.

Thus, it is now at the back of the queue, and whoever updates the queue list next should add it there.

[Kamchastkia]

Senate Legislative Queue

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Currently at debate: National Financing and Accounting Act
2. Legality and Restrictions Act
3. Anti Corruption Omnibus
4. International Treaties Ratification Act
5. Economic Oversight Act
6. Civil Liberties Omnibus
7. Internet Omnibus Act
8. Voting out business management without holding shares is stupid idea and illegal
9. Standards of Daily Measurement Act
10. Condemnation of United States National Security Agency project: US-984XN
11. Environment Act
12. Transportation Amendments, Standards, and Safety Omnibus
13. Armed Forces Reform Act
14. State of Emergency Act
15. National Fingerprint Registry
16. Blakewell Act
17. Social Welfare Act
18. Repeal First Amendment to the Limiting Legislation Act
19. First Amendment to the Ministry Foundation Act
20. Order of Aurentina Establishment Act
21. Reasonable Wage Act
22. Electoral Standards Omnibus
23. Law and Order Improvement Act
24. Protection from Religious Fraud Act
25. Aurentine Youth Senate Act
26. Unisex Restroom Establishment Act

Unisex Restroom Establishment Act added.

[Threlizdun]

There are enough sponsors for it to be added to to queue automatically.

Thus, it is now at the back of the queue, and whoever updates the queue list next should add it there.

I understand this. I was motioning for it to be added to Civil Liberties Omnibus however.

[Slazliyka]

There are enough sponsors for it to be added to to queue automatically.

Thus, it is now at the back of the queue, and whoever updates the queue list next should add it there.

I understand this. I was motioning for it to be added to Civil Liberties Omnibus however.

Ah, I missed that. My apologies.

In that case, I third the motion.