Hello, there denizens of the General Assembly:
Ideas for General Assembly Proposals
Last Updated: January 12, 2022
Per the agreement of several General Assembly regulars in a recent symposium, we've set up this thread to help gather ideas for potential General Assembly proposal ideas that have not been covered by existing legislation, designed to help new writers find good and manageable topics to write about, as well as to connect with existing authors to potentially work with. We encourage regulars (and others) to submit/post any ideas they haven't gotten to, and might want to hand off to others, or any interesting ideas they've been thinking of. If they're willing to work with prospective authors on a variety of topics, they should indicate as much.
Note: This is inherently a subjective list. In addition to taking into account how hard to write something might be, how hard to pass something might be is also factored in.
Topics Proposed | Sorted by Difficulty
- Novice:
- Standards for international road freight (trucking) (RL e.g. CMR Convention, Schengen Agreement) - possible categories: Regulation/Safety, Free Trade
- Active reduction/destruction of space debris (intended replacement for GAR #595 "Active Reduction of Space Debris"/#303 "Debris Prevention"). Possible categories: International Security, Regulation/Safety
- Any one of a number of repeals. GAR#86 "Museums of Musical Heritage", GAR#397 "World Assembly Central Library Compact", GAR#417 "Restrictions on Hydraulic Fracking", and GAR#565 "Volcanic Activity Convention" might be relatively straightforward, especially if you're new!
- Consumer goods regulations. Possible category: Advancement of Industry/Commercial Enterprise or Regulation/Consumer Protection
- Sex work regulations. Possible category: Regulation/Labor Rights
Intermediate: - Proposals to help increase the incentives of World Assembly membership.
- Repeal (and potentially replace) GAR#9 "Prevention of Torture" and GAR #23 "Ban on Slavery and Trafficking"
- Contingency fees restrictions. Possible category: Reg/Legal Reform or Advancement of Industry/Tort Reform
- Mandatory social (old age) insurance. Possible category: Moral Decency/Social Justice(?)
- Regulation on remittances as a replacement for GAR#94 "Microcredit and Microgrants" (repeal draft here)
- Judicial reforms - criminalizing perjury, ensuring confessions are lawfully obtained, regulation of evidentiary standards. Potential category: Reg/Legal Reform.
- Require compensation for state actions against property. Potential category: Social Justice(?)/Civil Rights(?)
- Replacement for GAR#590 "LEO Force Restrictions"
- Create military exclusion zones. Potential category: International Security(?)
Advanced: - Repeal GAR#97 "Quality in Health Services"
- Repeal/replace GAR #302 "Individual Working Freedoms"
- Repeal GAR#355 "Rights of Sapient Species"
- Restrictions on cyber/electronic warfare. Potential category: Global Disarmament - Significant?
- WA INTERPOL-type organization. Potential category: International Security
- WA Constitutional Court. Potential category: International Security / Political Stability
- Animal welfare. Potential category: ???
Expert/Very Experienced: - Repeal/replace GAR#35 "The Charter of Civil Rights" (for better definition of what constitutes an allowable "compelling practical purpose")
- Repeal/replace GAR#300 "Child Pornography Ban"
Special thanks to United Massachusetts for originally creating this thread, Morover for taking it over and maintaining it from 2021 to 2022, Hulldom for taking it over and maintaining it from 2022 until 2023, as well as Tinfect, Sierra Lyricalia, and Bears Armed for being on the original help-team for this thread.