House of Commons (EoGB Only - Autumn Session 2019)

by **The Founding Father** » Mon Oct 21, 2019 6:32 am

House of Commons

Autumn Session (1st September - 1st December 2019)

Monarch: ~~Her Majesty Queen Victoria~~
Speaker of the House: The Founding Father

The Right Honourable Members of the House

Member for Scotland: The Founding Father
Member for Wales: Gwerncyned
Member for Northern Ireland: Trymedesia
Member for Northern England: Colfax County
Member for Eastern England: VACANT
Member for The Midlands: VACANT
Member for Southern England: Newtopian Britain

Bills Passed by the House:

Bills Given Royal Assent:

by **The Founding Father** » Mon Oct 21, 2019 6:38 am

Right Honourable Members of the House,

I propose a Motion to allow the Prime Minister to address the House in order to update Members on the ongoing crisis regarding the monarchy.

I ask for another Member of the House to second my motion, so it can be put to a full vote as soon as possible.

by **Colfax County** » Mon Oct 21, 2019 6:52 am

I hereby second the motion of the Speaker.

by **Lunayria** » Mon Oct 21, 2019 10:14 am

I second this motion.

by **The Founding Father** » Mon Oct 21, 2019 12:17 pm

The motion has been seconded.

I ask Members of the House to vote Aye or Nay on whether to extend an official invitation to the Prime Minister to address the House.

The vote will last for thirty-six hours from now.

by **Gwerncyned** » Mon Oct 21, 2019 12:48 pm

by **Lunayria** » Tue Oct 22, 2019 12:31 am

by **Colfax County** » Tue Oct 22, 2019 5:03 am

by **Newtopian Britain** » Tue Oct 22, 2019 7:22 am

by **The Founding Father** » Wed Oct 23, 2019 7:11 am

The motion has passed.

I shall officially invite the Prime Minister on behalf of all Members to address the House at his earliest convenience.

Details will be forthcoming.

by **Not-Brittania** » Fri Oct 25, 2019 3:28 pm

Mr. Speaker, Honourable and Right Honourable Members of the House,
Thank you for allowing me to address you in person.

The Government's first priority in this time of crisis is regional safety.
The Speaker of the House has proposed a solution to the problem that does not require regional refounding and simply requires the loyalty of our WA members.
I invite honourable members to read this proposal here:

In the next several days, the government will be conducting a referendum to determine the will of the people in this matter. Whatever the decision is will require a vote of approval from the House. Once the government has this mandate, we will move forward accordingly.

Please refer to me any questions that you may have, and thank you very much again, Mr. Speaker, for the opportunity to address this illustrious House.

by **The Founding Father** » Sat Oct 26, 2019 2:33 am

The full text of the proposal titled ‘The Imperator Act’ for the consideration of the House. This would amend the Constitution and remove the Monarch.

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the ... id=1272951

by **Gwerncyned** » Sat Oct 26, 2019 5:17 am

From the quick read i had of the new Imperator bill I see no issue with the content. As far as i can tell this would bring the Empire into what is essentially an elective monarchy. In my opinion this would be a great step for the empire!

by **Lunayria** » Sat Oct 26, 2019 7:21 am

I also see no issue with this, does this mean that currently I am the defacto Imperator for the time being until an election is held?

by **Gwerncyned** » Sat Oct 26, 2019 11:03 am

Lunayria wrote:I also see no issue with this, does this mean that currently I am the defacto Imperator for the time being until an election is held?

From what I understand form the bill It would be the speaker who would be Defacto Imperator. However there would be an election at somepoint in which you could stand. (or alternitvily the election would begin immediatly as it is technically a new position)

by **Colfax County** » Sat Oct 26, 2019 2:18 pm

Right Honourable Members,

It is my belief that adopting an elected monarchy would be the best option for the Empire going forward. Therefore, I am happy to support this amendment to the Constitution.

Lunayria, I encourage you to stand as a candidate for Imperator once the amendment is adopted. I believe you have all the attributes required to serve as our head of state. Should you announce your candidacy, you shall have my endorsement.

In the meantime, I believe we should continue as we are until the amendment is passed and adopted.

by **The Founding Father** » Sun Oct 27, 2019 7:11 am

Gwerncyned wrote:
Lunayria wrote:I also see no issue with this, does this mean that currently I am the defacto Imperator for the time being until an election is held?

From what I understand form the bill It would be the speaker who would be Defacto Imperator. However there would be an election at somepoint in which you could stand. (or alternitvily the election would begin immediatly as it is technically a new position)

I believe a Special Election to fill the new position would be our best option.

by **The Founding Father** » Sat Nov 09, 2019 5:07 pm

I hereby call a vote on the amendment to the Constitution known as the Imperator Act. The vote will last for twenty-four hours.

I vote AYE.

by **Gwerncyned** » Sat Nov 09, 2019 5:18 pm

I vote AYE

by **Colfax County** » Sun Nov 10, 2019 8:26 am

I vote AYE.

by **Newtopian Britain** » Sun Nov 10, 2019 1:32 pm

I vote Aye!

by **Gwerncyned** » Sat Nov 16, 2019 5:32 am

*stands, Mr Speaker with your permission I would like to re-present my bill to the house as If I remember correctly the vote was not finished before the previous forum was blocked.

by **The Founding Father** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 10:39 am

Gwerncyned wrote:*stands, Mr Speaker with your permission I would like to re-present my bill to the house as If I remember correctly the vote was not finished before the previous forum was blocked.

I ask the Right Honourable Member to represent his Bill to the floor of the House.

by **Gwerncyned** » Sun Nov 17, 2019 4:23 pm

I thank the Speaker for his quick response and I once again commend this bill to the house,

“Standardisation, Streamlining and Scheduling of the House of Commons” Bill

Noting that, Previous Sessions of the House have been relatively disorganised and thus bills have been slow to pass through the house.

And that, the creation of a uniform parliamentary Schedule for the Commons to follow would heavily assist in organising RP within the House of Commons as well as allowing an efficient and fair queuing system for Bills/Amendments to be used.

I Propose,

1. That bills or Amendments to Bills should first be submitted to the Speaker simply as a TITLE in the Commons forum

2. The Titles for these bills or Amendments will then be queued for debate and vote by the Speaker in an official schedule.

3. The schedule should follow the example given at the bottom of this Bill (Time zone used is at the discretion of the Speaker).

4. The schedule for bills once made should then be presented by the speaker to the House of Commons ASAP so that MP’s are aware of when bills/amendments will be debated and voted on

5. If the Schedule is updated (e.g. A new bill/amendment is added to the end of the schedule) then the house of commons should be informed ASAP

6. MP’s/The government can appeal the timing of a debate/vote for a Bill/Amendment in the schedule with the Speaker

7. MP’s/The government may not appeal the ORDER of Bills/Amendments in the schedule with the Speaker

8. No more than one bill/amendment may be presented to the House for debate/vote at one time

9. The start time of a Debate for any bill/amendment will be announced by the Speaker prior to the debate in the Schedule

10. Once the Debate has officially begun only then will the FULL BILL will be posted onto the forum by the MP/GOVERNMENT MINISTER that proposed the Bill

11. The Maximum Debate time for any bill/amendment will not exceed 72 hours (Three full days) after the Start time declared by the speaker.

12. The Vote for any bill/amendment will be declared open by the Speaker immediately after the Debate time for the bill has elapsed.

13. The maximum time allowed for a vote will be 48 hours (Or until all MP’s have declared their voting intentions).

14. Votes will be declared as such, AYE for yes, NAY for No and Abstain (This is the traditional system used in the UK parliament)

15. That if at any time the house wishes to change the maximum debate or vote time then the change would have to be presented as an amendment to this bill and therefore should be queued by the Speaker in the same way as any other bill or amendment

16. That the only legal way for a Bill/Amendment to be removed entirely from the schedule is by a public declaration of the Withdrawal of the bill to the house by the MP/ GOVERNMENT MINISTER that initially proposed the bill to the Speaker.

17. That any bill can be withdrawn at any time PRIOR to or DURING a Debate but cannot be Withdrawn once the Vote on the bill/amendment has begun

18. That the only Legal way for a Bill/Amendment to be bumped up the Schedule by an MP/The Government is if the bill/ amendment in question is requested to become an EMERGENCY BILL/AMENDMENT.

19. The definition of an EMERGENCY BILL/AMENDMENT would be subjective, therefore as the Speaker has full control over scheduling he/she would have the final say as to whether a particular bill/amendment should be defined as an EMERGENCY BILL/AMEDMENT

20. If the EMERGENCY BILL/AMENDMENT is shifted up the list by the speaker then the Speaker should immediately inform the House of Commons as well as explain the reasoning behind the decision to define the bill/Amendment as an EMERGENCY BILL/AMENDMENT in order to ensure Parliamentary scrutiny of the decision.

21. That this bill if passed by the house take IMMEDIATE effect.

EXAMPLE TO EXPLAIN SCHEDULING:

This system will allow the organisation of a debating schedule by the speaker easy. For example if we combine the maximum debating time by the maximum vote time we get a total time for a bill to be debated and voted on as 5 days or 120 hours. This allows the speaker to know in advance when debates and votes will be over and thus queue in advance to the nearest hour when new bills will be presented to the house. It also prevents a bill being debated on endlessly preventing other bills being presented. It also prevents the bill in question never being voted on in the first place due to endless debate (Filibustering). An example of a schedule would work as such

Bill A: DEBATE START: 5:00 PM GMT 07/09/2019
DEBATE END: 5:00 PM GMT 10/09/2019
Vote Start: 5:30 PM GMT 10/09/2019
Vote End: 5:30 PM GMT 12/09/2019

Bill B: Debate Start: 6:00 PM GMT 12/09/2019

ETC.

As you can see in this example the maximum times means that both the speaker and MP’s can be certain of when the end of the debate for Bill A will be (72 hours after the speaker started the Debate ) and when the Speaker will end the vote on BILL A ( 48 hours after he started the Vote process). The fact that the speaker knows when the vote on Bill A ends means he can then schedule the Debate for bill B well in advance meaning there is no arguments as to what bill is being discussed at any particular time. This system will also mean that MP’s can see which Bills/Amendments are being debated and when and so can plan in advance as to whether they should attend the Debates/votes. This hopefully will help those members of the region who either work/study plan when to come online to debate/vote. The MP/ government who proposed Bill B for example would be able to appeal the scheduled timing of the debate. They could appeal to the speaker that the Debate for Bill B should take place 30 mins later or the next day. However they would not be able to appeal to the speaker to Debate Bill A before Bill B unless of course the MP who proposed Bill A to the Speaker publically declared the withdrawal of his bill to the House OR the person who proposed Bill B managed to convince the Speaker that Bill B should be considered as an EMERGENCY BILL/AMENDMENT.

by **Newtopian Britain** » Mon Nov 18, 2019 1:21 am

Mr. Speaker,
I would like to show my complete support for this bill, and I commend TRH Gwerncyned for commending this bill to the House once again. As serving as the first Speaker of the House in previous parliamentary sessions, I know how dire the situation could become with regards to the speed at which legislation is passed, and just the general organisation of the sittings. This bill would provide the basis for this desperately needed organisation, and I truly hope this is passed as soon as possible!

House of Commons (EoGB Only - Autumn Session 2019)

House of Commons (EoGB Only - Autumn Session 2019)

Invitation to the Prime Minister

Invitation to the Prime Minister

Invitation to the Prime Minister

Motion Passed

Imperator Act

VOTE ON IMPERATOR ACT

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