NSG Senate Chamber: I came, I saw, I cleaned up after myself

[Kralta]

National Judiciary Act: Aye
Second Amendment to the Government Establishment Act: Aye

[Sebastianbourg]

Aye to both.

[Sebastianbourg]

Well the Nationality Act has over five sponsors so it can be added to the queue pending a vote.

Calaverdean Nationality & Citizenship Act
| Author: Sebastianbourg |
| Sponsors: Divitaen | Atlanticatia | Estva | Dragomerian Islands | The Neo-Confederate States of America | Great Nepal |

An act to regulate the granting of Calaverdean nationality and citizenship; to define Calaverdean nationality and citizenship; to make provisions regarding the rights and responsibilities of Calaverdean citizens and nationals

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Chapter I - Definitions

A national is a holder of Calaverdean nationality.
A citizen is a citizen of Calaverde. The terms national and citizen are interchangeable.
A natural-born citizen is a person born a citizen regardless of their place-of-birth.
A citizen by descent is a natural-born citizen born abroad.
A naturalised citizen is a person who became a citizen.
A citizen otherwise than by otherwise than by descent is any citizen who is not a citizen by descent.
A citizen by grant/naturalised citizen by legislative grant is a person who has been granted citizenship by the legislature. They shall be considered naturalised citizens too.
A permanent resident[b] is a person who has been granted a permanent residency card by the appropriate institutions and resides in Calaverde for at least one hundred and eighty-three days in the year.

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Chapter II - Natural-born Citizens

a. All persons born in the territory of Calaverde to at least one citizen or permanent-resident shall be considered natural-born citizens;
b. All persons born to at least one citizen or permanent-resident of Calaverde abroad shall be considered natural-born citizens. These persons shall also be considered citizens by descent;
c. A person born in Calaverde's territory to stateless parents or parents unable to transmit their citizenship to their child shall be considered a natural-born citizen;
d. A person found alone in Calaverde's territory shall be considered natural-born citizens unless that is proven false.

All persons under the age of sixteen adopted by Calaverdean citizens shall automatically become Calaverdean citizens; those adopted after the age of sixteen shall be able to opt for Calaverdean citizenship after two years of residence.

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Chapter III - Naturalised Citizens

In order to become a naturalised citizen one most fulfil the following criteria in addition to successfully completing an examination assessing their knowledge of Calaverdean culture, history along with their ability to communicate in one of Calaverde's languages. The State reserves the right to deny anyone citizenship by naturalisation even if they successfully fulfil the established-criteria.

a. Be at least eighteen-years-of-age;
b. Hold a permanent residency permit;
c. Have resided in Calaverde's territory for at least six years (five years if a refugee and four years if stateless or married to a Calaverdean citizen);
d. All minor children of naturalised citizens shall receive citizenship upon their parent's naturalisation unless they are over the age of twelve and decide not to do so.

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Chapter IV - Naturalised Citizens by Legislative Grant

In order to be considered for citizenship by legislative grant one must fulfil the following criteria. The state reserves the right to deny anyone citizenship by naturalisation even if they are considered to have fulfilled the criteria.

a. Be at least eighteen-years-of-age;
b. Hold a Calaverdean permanent or temporary residency permit;
c. Have an urgent need to receive citizenship.

Anyone who fulfils the above criteria can apply to the legislature directly. If three-fourths of the national legislators vote in favour of the application the person shall be made a Calaverdean citizen with immediate effect. Additionally, a foreigner appointed to a professorship at a state-operated university shall be granted citizenship immediately.

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Chapter V - Loss of Citizenship

Calaverdean citizenship can only be lost in the following ways.

a. Voluntary renunciation of citizenship in front of a Calaverdean diplomatic officials abroad;
b. Revocation of citizenship by the State if convicted of treason or high treason;
c. Revocation of citizenship by the State if irregularities are detected in the naturalisation process of a naturalised citizen.

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Chapter VI - Multiple Citizenship

Calaverdean citizens are free to hold citizenship in other countries but they will considered to be only Calaverdean by Calaverdean authorities in Calaverde's territory. Furthermore, Calaverde cannot assure naturalised citizens and natural-born citizens seeking naturalisation abroad that they will be able to retain their original citizenships as some countries have restriction on dual and multiple citizenship.

I submitted this a long time ago but it got lost in the queue.

[Atlanticatia]

I'd like to submit this for the queue:

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Right to Choose Act

Author: Sen. Sebastián Luc Morales (Atlanticatia | DemLeft)
Sponsors: Encarnacion Diaz (Lykens | LDP), Cristobal Araullo (Argentario | LDP), People Who Say Ni (DL), Mari Castro (Gothmogs | LDP), Jean-François Rochefort (Soviet Canuckistan | LDP), David Vera Cruz (Heraklea- | WA), Jean-Luc Martin (United Provinces of Atlantica | WA)
An act to uphold a woman's right to choose, and ensure the availability of safe, legal, and rare abortions.

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Definitions

• Abortion - the medical procedure of terminating a pregnancy
• Abortion clinc - a medical facility that provides abortion services

Purposes

The purposes of this Act are as follows,

• To protect a woman's right to choose.
• To ensure abortion is safe, and rare.
• To ensure abortion remains legal, without arbitrary restrictions.

§ 1 - The Right to Choose

a) Only the mother, and the mother alone, has the right to make the decision to have an abortion.
b) A woman may not be forced to have or not have an abortion.
c) No parental involvement or consent has to be given for a minor to obtain an abortion.
d) Abortion shall be available unconditionally, and on demand.

§ 2 - Abortion Providers

a) Abortions may only be performed by a licensed medical doctor.
b) A woman cannot be forced to undergo counseling by her abortion provider. It must be the woman's choice.
c) An abortion provider may not show false, misleading, or altered images, videos or text regarding the abortion to the woman.

§ 3 - Safety Protections for Women

a) A 'buffer zone' around all abortion clinics, and all patients and staff, and abortion providers' and clinic staffs' homes shall be established.

i.) The buffer zone shall be a 20m (66 ft) fixed area around an abortion clinic, a 40m (132 ft) fixed area around a hospital, and a 120m (396 ft) fixed area around the homes of abortion providers and abortion clinic staff.
ii.) Protesters are not allowed to protest within the protected 'buffer zone'.
iii.) Any form of harassment that is designed to intimidate the woman seeking an abortion is explicitly banned within the buffer zone.
iv.) Carrying a weapon while within the 'buffer zone' of an abortion clinic is explicitly banned.

b) Damaging the property of an abortion clinic is explicitly banned.
c) Forming a 'blockade' that is designed to block entry to an abortion clinic is explicitly banned.

§ 4 - When the Woman is Incapacitated

a) If a woman is permanently incapacitated (i.e. in a coma, or on life-support), a doctor, medical facility, or abortion clinic cannot force the woman to continue the pregnancy.
b) If the woman is permanently incapacitated (i.e. in a coma, or on life-support), the woman's medical wishes as designated by an advanced medical directive shall be honored. If no advanced medical directive has been signed, a person who has been designated as having power of attorney for the woman, either medical or general, shall have decision making authority. If there is no advanced medical directive or power of attorney, authority shall be transferred to her partner, or legal guardian if she is unpartnered and a minor.

[Dragomerian Islands]

I'd like to submit this for the queue:

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Right to Choose Act

Author: Sen. Sebastián Luc Morales (Atlanticatia | DemLeft)
Sponsors: Encarnacion Diaz (Lykens | LDP), Cristobal Araullo (Argentario | LDP), People Who Say Ni (DL), Mari Castro (Gothmogs | LDP), Jean-François Rochefort (Soviet Canuckistan | LDP)
An act to uphold a woman's right to choose, and ensure the availability of safe, legal, and rare abortions.

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Definitions

• Abortion - the medical procedure of terminating a pregnancy
• Abortion clinc - a medical facility that provides abortion services

Purposes

The purposes of this Act are as follows,

• To protect a woman's right to choose.
• To ensure abortion is safe, and rare.
• To ensure abortion remains legal, without arbitrary restrictions.

§ 1 - The Right to Choose

a) Only the mother, and the mother alone, has the right to make the decision to have an abortion.
b) A woman may not be forced to have or not have an abortion.
c) No parental involvement or consent has to be given for a minor to obtain an abortion.
d) Abortion shall be available unconditionally, and on demand.

§ 2 - Abortion Providers

a) Abortions may only be performed by a licensed medical doctor.
b) A woman cannot be forced to undergo counseling by her abortion provider. It must be the woman's choice.
c) An abortion provider may not show false, misleading, or altered images, videos or text regarding the abortion to the woman.

§ 3 - Safety Protections for Women

a) A 'buffer zone' around all abortion clinics, and all patients and staff, and abortion providers' and clinic staffs' homes shall be established.

i.) The buffer zone shall be a 20m (66 ft) fixed area around an abortion clinic, a 40m (132 ft) fixed area around a hospital, and a 120m (396 ft) fixed area around the homes of abortion providers and abortion clinic staff.
ii.) Protesters are not allowed to protest within the protected 'buffer zone'.
iii.) Any form of harassment that is designed to intimidate the woman seeking an abortion is explicitly banned within the buffer zone.
iv.) Carrying a weapon while within the 'buffer zone' of an abortion clinic is explicitly banned.

b) Damaging the property of an abortion clinic is explicitly banned.
c) Forming a 'blockade' that is designed to block entry to an abortion clinic is explicitly banned.

§ 4 - When the Woman is Incapacitated

a) If a woman is permanently incapacitated (i.e. in a coma, or on life-support), a doctor, medical facility, or abortion clinic cannot force the woman to continue the pregnancy.
b) If the woman is permanently incapacitated (i.e. in a coma, or on life-support), the woman's medical wishes as designated by an advanced medical directive shall be honored. If no advanced medical directive has been signed, a person who has been designated as having power of attorney for the woman, either medical or general, shall have decision making authority. If there is no advanced medical directive or power of attorney, authority shall be transferred to her partner, or legal guardian if she is unpartnered and a minor.

Dragomere said, "I motion to permanently table this bill, for the following reasons:

• This bill was made after a extremely similar bill which was being changed with large input on the changes coming largely from the sponsors themselves;
• The bill that was already out there concerning this subject already contained their input on the issue; and
• This bill was largely made for the purpose of spiting me and enraging me."

[Atlanticatia]

Dragomere said, "I motion to permanently table this bill, for the following reasons:

• This bill was made after a extremely similar bill which was being changed with large input on the changes coming largely from the sponsors themselves;
• The bill that was already out there concerning this subject already contained their input on the issue; and
• This bill was largely made for the purpose of spiting me and enraging me."

"This bill was written as I, and many other Senators, believed that your bill had a range of problems, which you refused to address. The largest issue was that you would not remove the clause that gave the father the right to decide whether a woman could have an abortion. That would be an attack on bodily sovereignty, which you refused to remove after many negotiations. The bill that I have proposed, and submitted to the Chamber, has an entirely different ethos, that is designed to protect and expand the right to choose - including things like buffer zones, expanded legal rights, and expanded rights for the woman. Many senators had voiced concerns, and had asked me to draft a bill which ensured a more liberal position on abortion rights that strongly protects the right to choose. This bill is not similar to your bill. It is also outrageous to suggest that I would bother drafting a bill to 'spite or enrage you'. I wholly oppose your motion to permanently table the bill - that would be an attack on representative government as this bill has achieved the necessary support to enter the Chamber. That is the truth, Senator!"

[Argentarino]

I'd like to submit this for the queue:

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Right to Choose Act

Author: Sen. Sebastián Luc Morales (Atlanticatia | DemLeft)
Sponsors: Encarnacion Diaz (Lykens | LDP), Cristobal Araullo (Argentario | LDP), People Who Say Ni (DL), Mari Castro (Gothmogs | LDP), Jean-François Rochefort (Soviet Canuckistan | LDP)
An act to uphold a woman's right to choose, and ensure the availability of safe, legal, and rare abortions.

---

Definitions

• Abortion - the medical procedure of terminating a pregnancy
• Abortion clinc - a medical facility that provides abortion services

Purposes

The purposes of this Act are as follows,

• To protect a woman's right to choose.
• To ensure abortion is safe, and rare.
• To ensure abortion remains legal, without arbitrary restrictions.

§ 1 - The Right to Choose

a) Only the mother, and the mother alone, has the right to make the decision to have an abortion.
b) A woman may not be forced to have or not have an abortion.
c) No parental involvement or consent has to be given for a minor to obtain an abortion.
d) Abortion shall be available unconditionally, and on demand.

§ 2 - Abortion Providers

a) Abortions may only be performed by a licensed medical doctor.
b) A woman cannot be forced to undergo counseling by her abortion provider. It must be the woman's choice.
c) An abortion provider may not show false, misleading, or altered images, videos or text regarding the abortion to the woman.

§ 3 - Safety Protections for Women

a) A 'buffer zone' around all abortion clinics, and all patients and staff, and abortion providers' and clinic staffs' homes shall be established.

i.) The buffer zone shall be a 20m (66 ft) fixed area around an abortion clinic, a 40m (132 ft) fixed area around a hospital, and a 120m (396 ft) fixed area around the homes of abortion providers and abortion clinic staff.
ii.) Protesters are not allowed to protest within the protected 'buffer zone'.
iii.) Any form of harassment that is designed to intimidate the woman seeking an abortion is explicitly banned within the buffer zone.
iv.) Carrying a weapon while within the 'buffer zone' of an abortion clinic is explicitly banned.

b) Damaging the property of an abortion clinic is explicitly banned.
c) Forming a 'blockade' that is designed to block entry to an abortion clinic is explicitly banned.

§ 4 - When the Woman is Incapacitated

a) If a woman is permanently incapacitated (i.e. in a coma, or on life-support), a doctor, medical facility, or abortion clinic cannot force the woman to continue the pregnancy.
b) If the woman is permanently incapacitated (i.e. in a coma, or on life-support), the woman's medical wishes as designated by an advanced medical directive shall be honored. If no advanced medical directive has been signed, a person who has been designated as having power of attorney for the woman, either medical or general, shall have decision making authority. If there is no advanced medical directive or power of attorney, authority shall be transferred to her partner, or legal guardian if she is unpartnered and a minor.

Dragomere said, "I motion to permanently table this bill, for the following reasons:

• This bill was made after a extremely similar bill which was being changed with large input on the changes coming largely from the sponsors themselves;
• The bill that was already out there concerning this subject already contained their input on the issue; and
• This bill was largely made for the purpose of spiting me and enraging me."

"Senator Dragomere, this bill is of Senator Morales' design. This bill received five sponsors, your's did not. There is no reason to table this. Stop complaining like a child, or you will continue to be treated like one."

[Heraklea-]

"Senator Dragomere, this bill is of Senator Morales' design. This bill received five sponsors, your's did not. There is no reason to table this. Stop complaining like a child, or you will continue to be treated like one."

Six, in point of fact, and a seventh has also voiced their sponsorship.

[Dragomerian Islands]

Dragomere said, "I motion to permanently table this bill, for the following reasons:

• This bill was made after a extremely similar bill which was being changed with large input on the changes coming largely from the sponsors themselves;
• The bill that was already out there concerning this subject already contained their input on the issue; and
• This bill was largely made for the purpose of spiting me and enraging me."

"This bill was written as I, and many other Senators, believed that your bill had a range of problems, which you refused to address. The largest issue was that you would not remove the clause that gave the father the right to decide whether a woman could have an abortion. That would be an attack on bodily sovereignty, which you refused to remove after many negotiations. The bill that I have proposed, and submitted to the Chamber, has an entirely different ethos, that is designed to protect and expand the right to choose - including things like buffer zones, expanded legal rights, and expanded rights for the woman. Many senators had voiced concerns, and had asked me to draft a bill which ensured a more liberal position on abortion rights that strongly protects the right to choose. This bill is not similar to your bill. It is also outrageous to suggest that I would bother drafting a bill to 'spite or enrage you'. I wholly oppose your motion to permanently table the bill - that would be an attack on representative government as this bill has achieved the necessary support to enter the Chamber. That is the truth, Senator!"

"I already took out that portion at least 2 hours prior to your creation of that bill. I shall not stand for your insults and severe lies. Your bill is almost a replica (minus the change in wording and the one extra section of yours). Calaverde needs true democracy, not lies and corruption, which by the way, you need to stop doing. If your bill was not to spite and enrage, then I am the Pope."

[Maklohi Vai]

"This bill was written as I, and many other Senators, believed that your bill had a range of problems, which you refused to address. The largest issue was that you would not remove the clause that gave the father the right to decide whether a woman could have an abortion. That would be an attack on bodily sovereignty, which you refused to remove after many negotiations. The bill that I have proposed, and submitted to the Chamber, has an entirely different ethos, that is designed to protect and expand the right to choose - including things like buffer zones, expanded legal rights, and expanded rights for the woman. Many senators had voiced concerns, and had asked me to draft a bill which ensured a more liberal position on abortion rights that strongly protects the right to choose. This bill is not similar to your bill. It is also outrageous to suggest that I would bother drafting a bill to 'spite or enrage you'. I wholly oppose your motion to permanently table the bill - that would be an attack on representative government as this bill has achieved the necessary support to enter the Chamber. That is the truth, Senator!"

"I already took out that portion at least 2 hours prior to your creation of that bill. I shall not stand for your insults and severe lies. Your bill is almost a replica (minus the change in wording and the one extra section of yours). Calaverde needs true democracy, not lies and corruption, which by the way, you need to stop doing. If your bill was not to spite and enrage, then I am the Pope."

OOC: You do understand that what he did is entirely legal, right? If your character wants to get whiny IC about it, that's fine, but I want to make sure you're on the same factual page.

[United Provinces of Atlantica]

Aye to both laws at vote.

[Dragomerian Islands]

"I already took out that portion at least 2 hours prior to your creation of that bill. I shall not stand for your insults and severe lies. Your bill is almost a replica (minus the change in wording and the one extra section of yours). Calaverde needs true democracy, not lies and corruption, which by the way, you need to stop doing. If your bill was not to spite and enrage, then I am the Pope."

OOC: You do understand that what he did is entirely legal, right? If your character wants to get whiny IC about it, that's fine, but I want to make sure you're on the same factual page.

OOC: It is ICly legal, but borders on ooc disrespect and inappropriate behavior.

[Costa Fierro]

Nay to both bills.

[Heraklea-]

"This bill was written as I, and many other Senators, believed that your bill had a range of problems, which you refused to address. The largest issue was that you would not remove the clause that gave the father the right to decide whether a woman could have an abortion. That would be an attack on bodily sovereignty, which you refused to remove after many negotiations. The bill that I have proposed, and submitted to the Chamber, has an entirely different ethos, that is designed to protect and expand the right to choose - including things like buffer zones, expanded legal rights, and expanded rights for the woman. Many senators had voiced concerns, and had asked me to draft a bill which ensured a more liberal position on abortion rights that strongly protects the right to choose. This bill is not similar to your bill. It is also outrageous to suggest that I would bother drafting a bill to 'spite or enrage you'. I wholly oppose your motion to permanently table the bill - that would be an attack on representative government as this bill has achieved the necessary support to enter the Chamber. That is the truth, Senator!"

"I already took out that portion at least 2 hours prior to your creation of that bill. I shall not stand for your insults and severe lies. Your bill is almost a replica (minus the change in wording and the one extra section of yours). Calaverde needs true democracy, not lies and corruption, which by the way, you need to stop doing. If your bill was not to spite and enrage, then I am the Pope."

My esteemed colleague, please. The bill that has earned sponsorship by so many of us was excellent to start with, and underwent only one minor edit to achieve its current form. It protects a woman's right to choose without compromising the rights of young women and it goes further to protect patients and medical professionals from harassment. This is a better bill, a stronger bill. I recommend you get on board because this will be the law of Calaverde. I will readily say that you started the push for these protections because it is true. You began the push. For some reason you decided to argue yourself back and begin limiting things when there was no need to, which is unfortunate. But you can reclaim that leadership by joining into a broad base of support for a strong bill protecting a woman's right to choose.

[Dragomerian Islands]

"I already took out that portion at least 2 hours prior to your creation of that bill. I shall not stand for your insults and severe lies. Your bill is almost a replica (minus the change in wording and the one extra section of yours). Calaverde needs true democracy, not lies and corruption, which by the way, you need to stop doing. If your bill was not to spite and enrage, then I am the Pope."

My esteemed colleague, please. The bill that has earned sponsorship by so many of us was excellent to start with, and underwent only one minor edit to achieve its current form. It protects a woman's right to choose without compromising the rights of young women and it goes further to protect patients and medical professionals from harassment. This is a better bill, a stronger bill. I recommend you get on board because this will be the law of Calaverde. I will readily say that you started the push for these protections because it is true. You began the push. For some reason you decided to argue yourself back and begin limiting things when there was no need to, which is unfortunate. But you can reclaim that leadership by joining into a broad base of support for a strong bill protecting a woman's right to choose.

"Minor edits my, YEAH RIGHT, senator, the only parts of my bill that stayed the same was 2 sentences, one defining human and one legalizing abortion."

[Kralta]

Senator Thoraval smiles as his esteemed colleague charges towards a windmill.

[Beta Test]

I'm going to end this current round of voting early as we have some urgent business to attend to.

That is, electing our new permanent presiding officer, the speaker. The process for the election is not clearly set out in the GEA. However it has been stated by the incoming government that they intend to support Boris Johnson (The Nihilistic view) for the position.

As such, I will initiate now a vote on confirming Boris Johnson as the chamber's new presiding officer. This vote will go for 48 hours. I will announce a count and the results of the last vote in a little while.

Vote Aye or Nay to confirming him as speaker accordingly.

[Beta Test]

I vote Aye

[Jinwoy]

Nay

[Malgrave]

Aye

[People Who Say Ni]

AYE

[Great Nepal]

Aye

[Dejanic]

Aye.

[Divitaen]

AYE

[United Great Britian]

I vote AYE to affirm Boris Johnson