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Ideas for General Assembly Proposals
Last Updated: February 29, 2024
Per the agreement of several General Assembly regulars in arecenthistorical symposium, this thread has been set up 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 such.
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 DifficultyNovice:
- Any one of a number of repeals. GA #397 "World Assembly Central Library Compact" and GA #565 "Volcanic Activity Convention" might be relatively straightforward, especially if you're new!
- Consumer goods regulations. Potential category: Advancement of Industry/Commercial Enterprise or Regulation/Consumer Protection
- Regulate student loan programs; potential policies include banning liens thereon, subsidising such programs, and capping minimum payments. Potential category: Regulation/Consumer Protection
- Restrictions on cyber/electronic warfare. Potential category: Global Disarmament - Significant?
Intermediate:- Active reduction/destruction of space debris (intended replacement for GA #595 "Active Reduction of Space Debris"). Possible categories: International Security, Regulation/Safety
- Proposals to help increase the incentives of World Assembly membership
- Replacement for GA #590 "LEO Force Restrictions". Possible category: Civil Rights
- Repeal (and potentially replace) GA #9 "Prevention of Torture" and GA #23 "Ban on Slavery and Trafficking"
- Contingency fees restrictions. Possible category: Regulation/Legal Reform or Advancement of Industry/Tort Reform
- Mandatory social (old age) insurance. Possible category: Moral Decency / Social Justice(?)
- Judicial reforms - criminalising perjury, ensuring confessions are lawfully obtained, regulation of evidentiary standards, etc. Potential category: Regulation/Legal Reform.
- Repeal/replace GA #711 "Prevention of Hate Crime"
- Replacement for GA #302 "Individual Working Freedoms"
Advanced:- Repeal/replace GA #97 "Quality in Health Services"
- Repeal/replace GA #355 "Rights of Sapient Species"
- Repeal GA #94 "Microcredit and Microgrants"; replace with a regulation on remittances
- Create military exclusion zones. Potential category: International Security / Global Disarmament
- Share policing information between member nations a la Interpol. Potential category: International Security
- WA Constitutional Court. Potential category: International Security / Political Stability
- Animal welfare. Potential category: Environmental - Agriculture / Moral Decency (depending on the particular protections)
Expert/Very Experienced (do not attempt):- Policing international waters. Category: International Security
- Repeal/replace (or potentially supplement) GA #300 "Child Pornography Ban" for not criminalising viewing (as opposed to eg possessing) child pornography
Special thanks to United Massachusetts for originally creating this thread; Morover, Hulldom and Greater Cesnica as former owners of this thread; and Tinfect, Sierra Lyricalia and Bears Armed for being on the original help-team for this thread.