Ideas for General Assembly Proposals

[Araraukar]

For some reason I'm thinking of some minor legislation capable of regulating the soda and soft drink industry,

If you are thinking of a specific kind of (not interested in checking the link) legislation to prevent some specific kind of food industry "wrong", then I suggest looking at real world, whether there is a specific law for such a thing, or if it is caught within the general legislation for foods and drinks. The WA already has resolutions about food/drink safety (and unless it got repealed or I misremember it passing in the first place, labeling), so I would think that soft drinks would be included in that.

Also consider whether the problem you wanted to address is a very rare occurrence (like, say, using water from a specific spring) or an industry-wide issue. Only really industry-wide issues should get addressed by WA laws, as they have real international legislational value.

[The Wonderland Meh]

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Ideas for General Assembly Proposals
Last Updated: April 27, 2019

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Hello, there denizens of the General Assembly:

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.

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Topics Proposed | Sorted by Difficulty

Novice:
1. Standards for international road freight (trucking) (RL e.g. CMR Convention, Schengen Agreement) - possible categories: Regulation/Safety, Free Trade
2. Active reduction/destruction of space debris (intended supplement to GAR #349/#303) - possible categories: International Security, Regulation/Safety
3. Replace "Access to Science in Schools"
4. Replacement protections for war correspondents (see GAR #282)
5. International radio communications regs (replacement of GAR #75) - possible categories: Regulation/Safety, Free Trade
6. Abolition of debtors' prisons, rights of debtors/bankrupted persons - possible categories: Social Justice, Furtherment of Democracy
7. Regulations for labor union agency fees (i.e. fees paid to unions by non-members who are covered by a collective bargaining contract negotiated by that union) possible categories: Regulation/Labor Rights or Adv. of Ind/Labor Deregulation, depending which way you go
   
   Intermediate:
8. International Criminal Court replacement - possible categories: International Security
   
   Advanced:
9. Repeal/replace GAR #302 (in progress -- United Massachusetts)
   
   Heroic (do not attempt):
10. Repeal/replace NAPA ("wrong hands")
11. Repeal/replace Rights & Duties of WA States
12. Repeal/replace 'The Charter of Civil Rights' (for better definition of what constitutes an allowable "compelling practical purpose")

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[Untecna]

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Ideas for General Assembly Proposals
Last Updated: April 27, 2019

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Hello, there denizens of the General Assembly:

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.

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Topics Proposed | Sorted by Difficulty

Novice:
1. Standards for international road freight (trucking) (RL e.g. CMR Convention, Schengen Agreement) - possible categories: Regulation/Safety, Free Trade
2. Active reduction/destruction of space debris (intended supplement to GAR #349/#303) - possible categories: International Security, Regulation/Safety
3. Replace "Access to Science in Schools"
4. Replacement protections for war correspondents (see GAR #282)
5. International radio communications regs (replacement of GAR #75) - possible categories: Regulation/Safety, Free Trade
6. Abolition of debtors' prisons, rights of debtors/bankrupted persons - possible categories: Social Justice, Furtherment of Democracy
7. Regulations for labor union agency fees (i.e. fees paid to unions by non-members who are covered by a collective bargaining contract negotiated by that union) possible categories: Regulation/Labor Rights or Adv. of Ind/Labor Deregulation, depending which way you go
   
   Intermediate:
8. International Criminal Court replacement - possible categories: International Security
   
   Advanced:
9. Repeal/replace GAR #302 (in progress -- United Massachusetts)
   
   Heroic (do not attempt):
10. Repeal/replace NAPA ("wrong hands")
11. Repeal/replace Rights & Duties of WA States
12. Repeal/replace 'The Charter of Civil Rights' (for better definition of what constitutes an allowable "compelling practical purpose")

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People to Contact for Help:

United Massachusetts
Tinfect
Sierra Lyricalia
Bears Armed

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This thread is maintained by United Massachusetts. Please contact his main account directly for concerns about the thread.

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[Sicilianzo]

i'm considering drafting legislation to ban adding chemicals to water. i assume there is no law like this in place currently seeing how the last bill to be voted on in the assembly was about adding fluoride to water. if there is any legislation on banning the addition of chemicals to the water supply, can someone inform me?

[Untecna]

i'm considering drafting legislation to ban adding chemicals to water. i assume there is no law like this in place currently seeing how the last bill to be voted on in the assembly was about adding fluoride to water. if there is any legislation on banning the addition of chemicals to the water supply, can someone inform me?

I found this looking through:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=30&p=35370849&hilit=water#p35370849
It only covers groundwater though.
I used "water" as my keyword, try using that and look for more.
Edit: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=30&p=3123158&hilit=water#p3123158
This resolution seems to cover water contamination.
Edit 2: The resolution above only vaguely talks about contamination, but never places rules or regulations. It appears a proposal for that kind of thing would be a great idea.

[Sicilianzo]

i'm considering drafting legislation to ban adding chemicals to water. i assume there is no law like this in place currently seeing how the last bill to be voted on in the assembly was about adding fluoride to water. if there is any legislation on banning the addition of chemicals to the water supply, can someone inform me?

I found this looking through:
viewtopic.php?f=9&t=30&p=35370849&hilit=water#p35370849
It only covers groundwater though.
I used "water" as my keyword, try using that and look for more.
Edit: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=30&p=3123158&hilit=water#p3123158
This resolution seems to cover water contamination.
Edit 2: The resolution above only vaguely talks about contamination, but never places rules or regulations. It appears a proposal for that kind of thing would be a great idea.

alright thankyou. ill write up the proposal tomorrow.

[Sicilianzo]

i am attempting to write a proposal for the world assembly that would ban any tainting of drinking water with any chemicals, but I've never done this before, so i need advice. this is what i have so far.

RECOGNIZING the importance of clean drinking water

COMMENDING acts by previous legislation, such as act #107, that guarantee water to all citizens

SHOCKED at recent failed proposals that would taint public water supplies

HEREBY all states within the World Assembly shall:

1. Refuse to taint public water supplies in any capacity

2. Punish any citizens or corporations that attempt to taint water supplies

also I'm not quite sure which category to put it under.

[Untecna]

i am attempting to write a proposal for the world assembly that would ban any tainting of drinking water with any chemicals, but I've never done this before, so i need advice. this is what i have so far.

RECOGNIZING the importance of clean drinking water

COMMENDING acts by previous legislation, such as act #107, that guarantee water to all citizens

SHOCKED at recent failed proposals that would taint public water supplies

HEREBY all states within the World Assembly shall:

1. Refuse to taint public water supplies in any capacity

2. Punish any citizens or corporations that attempt to taint water supplies

also I'm not quite sure which category to put it under.

Okay, getting there, make a drafting thread for this though. Also, add more to it, look at other resolutions!

[Greater Cesnica]

Perhaps a replacement for GA #500 International Criminal Accord? I'm working on a repeal: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=495832

[Cirrus Azale]

So, I tried working on that Honor Death Wish resolution, but halfway in I realized how hard it would be to enforce, and how it couldn’t carry into law. Does anyone have any ideas? That was my only one.

[Tinhampton]

So, I tried working on that Honor Death Wish resolution, but halfway in I realized how hard it would be to enforce, and how it couldn’t carry into law. Does anyone have any ideas? That was my only one.

Why exactly could your proposal not "carry into law?"

[Cirrus Azale]

So, I tried working on that Honor Death Wish resolution, but halfway in I realized how hard it would be to enforce, and how it couldn’t carry into law. Does anyone have any ideas? That was my only one.

Why exactly could your proposal not "carry into law?"

Maybe I should have worded it better. Some things could easily be made into a law that everyone can obey and get punished for breaking, like for example, a ban on drugs such as cocaine, but this can’t. The bill focused on honoring people’s death wishes. I’ll let you figure out why.

[Honeydewistania]

Why exactly could your proposal not "carry into law?"

Maybe I should have worded it better. Some things could easily be made into a law that everyone can obey and get punished for breaking, like for example, a ban on drugs such as cocaine, but this can’t. The bill focused on honoring people’s death wishes. I’ll let you figure out why.

If you break any WA law, you get punished, so this isn't a problem, unless it was full of legally exploitable loopholes

[Cirrus Azale]

Maybe I should have worded it better. Some things could easily be made into a law that everyone can obey and get punished for breaking, like for example, a ban on drugs such as cocaine, but this can’t. The bill focused on honoring people’s death wishes. I’ll let you figure out why.

If you break any WA law, you get punished, so this isn't a problem, unless it was full of legally exploitable loopholes

I mean, the idea just doesn’t seem plausible to enforce. Do you think people are gonna prosecute someone because they violated something about relatives whose names start with K drinking cranberry juice on a Tuesday. That’s exaggerated, but you get my point. Think of all the death wish overlap, too. Everything would be illegal. If you think it can pass, I’ll begin work on it again, but I’m stumped on how. Again, I’m looking for ideas for better proposals.

[Potted Plants United]

Think of all the death wish overlap, too. Everything would be illegal. If you think it can pass, I’ll begin work on it again, but I’m stumped on how. Again, I’m looking for ideas for better proposals.

If you are really stumped on it, you could put it on the back burner for now, and maybe do more RL research on the topic, before having another look at it?

[Honeydewistania]

Time to out this thread to good use...


A good idea would be to repeal and replace the GA proposal at vote if it passes. I can't be arsed to do it myself and there are repeal hooks all over the place, plus it shouldn't be too hard to replace either, so a newbie could take this on.

[Cirrus Azale]

Time to out this thread to good use...


A good idea would be to repeal and replace the GA proposal at vote if it passes. I can't be arsed to do it myself and there are repeal hooks all over the place, plus it shouldn't be too hard to replace either, so a newbie could take this on.

DIBS!!!

[Untecna]

Is there a proposal or resolution that covers oil tankers?

[Separatist Peoples]

Is there a proposal or resolution that covers oil tankers?

There is a thread for passed proposals with a search bar.

[Hookah Castle]

Think of all the death wish overlap, too. Everything would be illegal. If you think it can pass, I’ll begin work on it again, but I’m stumped on how. Again, I’m looking for ideas for better proposals.

Once everything is illegal, nothing will be. Accelerate and amplify. I say go with the proposal.

[Kenmoria]

Every nation has principles and every nations constitution should be respected by the world assembly. Each nation can choose atleast 2 laws to disregard that are passed by the world assembly because the world assembly can take away core principles of a nation. This is for the sake of people choosing to be less or more on the spectrum.

Pres. Bram W. Schirkophf

A proposal of that nature would be irrevocably illegal as per the rules. It would definitely be contradiction, since allowing nations to violate mandates contradicts those mandates, and probably something else as well. Proposals impose mandates or encouragements on member states, rather than affecting other proposal.

[Untecna]

Idea: Declaration of Rights

Unless this has already been done. I didn't see anything when I looked, though.

[Sierra Lyricalia]

Idea: Declaration of Rights

Unless this has already been done. I didn't see anything when I looked, though.

Like what did you have in mind? There are a whole lot of rights guaranteed by individual resolutions on particular topics. See GAR #35, 91, 344, 28, 9, 18, 27, 37, 43, 57, 84, 109, 128, 286, 499, 229, etc., etc., etc. If you mean a grand statement like the Declaration of the Rights of Man, or the preamble to the US Declaration of Independence, those haven't really been done but they're broadly pointless in the GA context, where post-COCR (GA Res. #35), the rest of what's needed is sort of fill-in-the-gaps type of stuff, or else the expansion of human rights to non-human beings (e.g. #344, 345, and the various attempts at animal liberation cruelty prohibitions).

[Texkentuck]

The poor will always be amongst us but in order to close the gap would like to propose nations with citizens making over $100,000 enter a world wide WA Assembly tax of not making the extra $1,000 according to each nations currency. Because their nation is in the WA and the WA puts the money towards citizens in closing the gap by each nation citizens getting a $1,000 dollar stimulus. This in the long run will make our economies more strong and more will become closer to making over $100,000. My nation is capitalist but I know the rich in my nation won't miss that money and in the long run they know they will get more rich because they can raise prices. For once think as bureaucrats in the WA as we already are to close our gaps and our nations prosper more. This will create people to think that their human rights are cared for because they have more money with out the realization they will lose it do to the rich raising prices. Or we can can close that loop hole they can't raise the price.

Pres. Bram W. Schirkophf
Texkentuck Federation

[WayNeacTia]

The poor will always be amongst us but in order to close the gap would like to propose nations with citizens making over $100,000 enter a world wide WA Assembly tax of not making the extra $1,000 according to each nations currency. Because their nation is in the WA and the WA puts the money towards citizens in closing the gap by each nation citizens getting a $1,000 dollar stimulus. This in the long run will make our economies more strong and more will become closer to making over $100,000. My nation is capitalist but I know the rich in my nation won't miss that money and in the long run they know they will get more rich because they can raise prices. For once think as bureaucrats in the WA as we already are to close our gaps and our nations prosper more. This will create people to think that their human rights are cared for because they have more money with out the realization they will lose it do to the rich raising prices. Or we can can close that loop hole they can't raise the price.

Pres. Bram W. Schirkophf
Texkentuck Federation

Which would be illegal had you bothered to do any research at all.