Bills

This is bill id#1314 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

WHEREAS, it is estabilished practice that Clark votes are only accepted via Wittenberg or the Database; and

WHEREAS, some parts of el Lexhatx don't reflect that at the moment; and

WHEREAS, nobody wants to prosecute the Chancery for not allowing postal votes on the Clark;

THEREFORE Lex.H.3, which reads:

3. All MCs must vote for themselves, and not through surrogates. They have innumerable options to communicate their own votes to the Secretary of State or to Undersecretaries of State, including postcards, letters and phone calls. MCs are responsible for casting their own votes with their own assigned seats, and cannot cast votes for other MCs. If an MC will be unavailable to vote for some reason during any particular month, they may inform the Secretary or an Undersecretary that they wish to vote exactly as another, named MC. That will be considered the sole justification for MC surrogate voting.

is amended to read:

3. Members of the Cosa and Senators shall vote on the Clark and any other business for themselves; but Members of the Cosa that might be unavailable to vote during any particular month may inform the Chancery that they wish to vote exactly as another specific Member of the Cosa. Each House may estabilish their own rules for proxy voting, but solely for the purpose of Living Cosas and the Senate equivalent.

This is bill id#1315 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

WHEREAS it is estabilished parliamentary practice that one may not submit duplicate bills in the same parliamentary session; and

WHEREAS "strong suggestions" have no place in law;

THEREFORE Lexh.H.10, which reads:

10. It is strongly suggested that MCs limit their bill submissions to five at the very most for each Clark.

is struck in full and replaced with the following:

10. The same bill can not be submitted to the Clark more than once in the same Cosa, unless the original bill was vetoed, the original bill had been retired or voted down by its main sponsor during the voting period, or the bill has been substantially amended, as judged by the Secretary of State.

This is bill id#1316 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

WHEREAS, some months ago, a very well known former Talossan was blocked from receiving a citizenship petition; and

WHEREAS, that block was entirely lawful; and

WHEREAS, nevertheless, a healthy discussion arose about the state of the current law, which allows as little as 1/3 of either House to unilaterally block a petition; and

WHEREAS, there was broad agreement that the current law was a bug rather than a feature; and

WHEREAS, obviously no proposal was later made to the Ziu to address that; so

THEREFORE Lex.E.8's first sentence, which reads:

8. At any time before a Grant of Citizenship is conferred, the Sovereign, or members representing at least one-third of the Cosâ by seats, or members representing at least one-third of the Senäts, or any single Justice of the Uppermost Cort may petition the Chancery that the said Grant of Citizenship shall not be issued until such issuance shall be ordered by an act of the Ziu. [...]

is amended to read:

8. At any time before a Grant of Citizenship is conferred, members representing at least an absolute majority of the Cosâ by seats, or members representing at least an absolute majority of the Senäts, or at least half of the sitting Justices of the Uppermost Cort may petition the Chancery that the said Grant of Citizenship shall not be issued until such issuance shall be ordered by an act of the Ziu. [...]

This is bill id#1317 (this information has no legal importance and is technical in nature.

Hopper Thread

WHEREAS in days of old when knights were bold, the application process for citizenship of Talossa included the requirement of identification materials, so as Talossa could know who we were admitting, and the sponsor of this bill remembers photocopying her birth certificate since she had no photo ID at that stage of her life;

AND WHEREAS this continued until the end of the Talossan Republic, but was at some stage abolished within the Kingdom;

AND WHEREAS this enabled a certain prankster to commit massive immigration/electoral fraud, as we all remember;

AND WHEREAS the Immigration laws (Section E of El Lexhátx) clearly envisage that all applicants for Talossan citizenship should give their real identification details, as reinforced by El Lexhátx A.16.1;

AND WHEREAS there is absolutely no way for the Immigration authorities, at the moment, to know whether any prospective citizen is telling the truth about what their name is, unless they find out by accident;

AND WHEREAS no-one is suggesting that people should use their "street names" in easily Google-searchable Talossan forums, but that the Kingdom should have confidence that everyone here is a real person with a first name, hind name and address (to quote Ezra Pound), even if this is not publicly disclosed;

BE IT ENACTED by the King, Cosâ and Senäts of Talossa in Ziu assembled that El Lexhátx E.2 shall be amended by addition of the following portions in bold: