06-09-2011, 07:45 AM
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<strong class='bbc'>Preamble</strong>
This bill is to clarify the manner in which a bill may be written, and how the bills should be named.
<strong class='bbc'>Article I: Bills</strong>
Clause I: The title must be a descriptor of what the bill is intended to do. The title must be politically neutral, although it may refer to a region in it.
Section A: If the Chair of the Assembly finds the title of the bill to not be politically neutral, the Chair may edit the title of the bill.
Clause II: The bill must be divided into the following parts: preamble, articles, clauses, sections, amendments, repeals.
Section A: Preamble describes briefly what the bill sponsor hopes to achieve with the bill being proposed.
Section B: Articles are the main sections of the bill.
Section C: Clauses contain the proposals within each Article, divided up by context.
Section D: Sections clarify points proposed by the clauses.
Section E: The Chair of the Assembly may edit the bill to fit into this format.
Clause III: All bill sponsors must have regard to previous legislation and add amendments and repeals as and when necessary.
Section A: If this clause is not followed, the Chair of the Assembly may amend the bill to take account of this clause and/or the bill may be ruled as out of order.
<strong class='bbc'>Article II: Amendments</strong>
Clause I: Amendments must be presented in such a way as to make it clear as to which bill and to which clause it refers.
Clause II: The bill sponsor must present the current wording of the bill to be amended and present the proposed changes to the bill.
Section A: Proposed changes to sections of current bills must be in bold.
Section B: The Chair of the Assembly may edit the amendment to insert bold tags around the proposed changes in the amended version of the bill being proposed.
<strong class='bbc'>Article III: Repeals</strong>
Clause I: If a bill supersedes a previous bill, it must be stated that the previous bill is to be repealed.
Clause II: If the bill is a straight repeal, the repeal must be divided as follows: Intent of the bill to repeal a previous law followed by the text of the law to be repealed.
Section A: A straight repeal is defined as an repeal that is not within a bill.
<strong class='bbc'>Article IV: Naming of Bills</strong>
Clause I: All bills passed by the Assembly will have a Capital Letter and a number for a prefix.
Clause II: All bills must have a name which can be comprehended by an English language speaker.
Clause III: The Chair of the Assembly will be responsible for deciding which letter best fits a bill.
Section A: 'F' will be designated for Finance bills.
Section B: 'D' will be designated for Defence and Regional Security bills.
Section C: 'P' will be designated for Public Services such as Health and Education.
Section D: 'J' will be designated for Justice bills.
Section E: 'R' will be designated for Foreign Affairs bills.
Section F: 'L' will be designated for bills affecting procedure in the Assembly.
Section G: 'G' will be designated for any other bill which doesn't fit into the above categories.
Clause IV: The Chair of the Assembly will assign the prefix number to the proposed bill.
Section A: All prefixes for each category will start with the number '1', and will increment by '1' for each additional bill in that category.
Section B: The number assigned by the Chair of the Assembly doesn't necessarily have to follow the chronological order in which the bill was passed.
Section C: The number may not be re-assigned, even if a previous bill with the same prefix number has been repealed.
Clause V: Any previously passed bills may be edited by the Chair of the Assembly to fit this format, as long as there are no changes to the actual content of the bill.
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Firstly, I'd like to give credit to the citizens of Liberalia for authoring the original bill, and Lichentia for authoring the amendment in Article IV to include the Letter-Number system. If I made any contextual mistakes importing the bill, please let me know.
I think you can see from this bill which format I'm trying to standardize. I recently read over all of the current bills on the books here, and to me at least, they seem hard to read and sort through quickly.
<strong class='bbc'>Preamble</strong>
This bill is to clarify the manner in which a bill may be written, and how the bills should be named.
<strong class='bbc'>Article I: Bills</strong>
Clause I: The title must be a descriptor of what the bill is intended to do. The title must be politically neutral, although it may refer to a region in it.
Section A: If the Chair of the Assembly finds the title of the bill to not be politically neutral, the Chair may edit the title of the bill.
Clause II: The bill must be divided into the following parts: preamble, articles, clauses, sections, amendments, repeals.
Section A: Preamble describes briefly what the bill sponsor hopes to achieve with the bill being proposed.
Section B: Articles are the main sections of the bill.
Section C: Clauses contain the proposals within each Article, divided up by context.
Section D: Sections clarify points proposed by the clauses.
Section E: The Chair of the Assembly may edit the bill to fit into this format.
Clause III: All bill sponsors must have regard to previous legislation and add amendments and repeals as and when necessary.
Section A: If this clause is not followed, the Chair of the Assembly may amend the bill to take account of this clause and/or the bill may be ruled as out of order.
<strong class='bbc'>Article II: Amendments</strong>
Clause I: Amendments must be presented in such a way as to make it clear as to which bill and to which clause it refers.
Clause II: The bill sponsor must present the current wording of the bill to be amended and present the proposed changes to the bill.
Section A: Proposed changes to sections of current bills must be in bold.
Section B: The Chair of the Assembly may edit the amendment to insert bold tags around the proposed changes in the amended version of the bill being proposed.
<strong class='bbc'>Article III: Repeals</strong>
Clause I: If a bill supersedes a previous bill, it must be stated that the previous bill is to be repealed.
Clause II: If the bill is a straight repeal, the repeal must be divided as follows: Intent of the bill to repeal a previous law followed by the text of the law to be repealed.
Section A: A straight repeal is defined as an repeal that is not within a bill.
<strong class='bbc'>Article IV: Naming of Bills</strong>
Clause I: All bills passed by the Assembly will have a Capital Letter and a number for a prefix.
Clause II: All bills must have a name which can be comprehended by an English language speaker.
Clause III: The Chair of the Assembly will be responsible for deciding which letter best fits a bill.
Section A: 'F' will be designated for Finance bills.
Section B: 'D' will be designated for Defence and Regional Security bills.
Section C: 'P' will be designated for Public Services such as Health and Education.
Section D: 'J' will be designated for Justice bills.
Section E: 'R' will be designated for Foreign Affairs bills.
Section F: 'L' will be designated for bills affecting procedure in the Assembly.
Section G: 'G' will be designated for any other bill which doesn't fit into the above categories.
Clause IV: The Chair of the Assembly will assign the prefix number to the proposed bill.
Section A: All prefixes for each category will start with the number '1', and will increment by '1' for each additional bill in that category.
Section B: The number assigned by the Chair of the Assembly doesn't necessarily have to follow the chronological order in which the bill was passed.
Section C: The number may not be re-assigned, even if a previous bill with the same prefix number has been repealed.
Clause V: Any previously passed bills may be edited by the Chair of the Assembly to fit this format, as long as there are no changes to the actual content of the bill.
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Firstly, I'd like to give credit to the citizens of Liberalia for authoring the original bill, and Lichentia for authoring the amendment in Article IV to include the Letter-Number system. If I made any contextual mistakes importing the bill, please let me know.
I think you can see from this bill which format I'm trying to standardize. I recently read over all of the current bills on the books here, and to me at least, they seem hard to read and sort through quickly.
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Tsrill I think the letter will only be used as a type of category designation, it might actually help in the wind up to get people to take a look at the existing laws instead of running amok saying that we need to "change" this or "approve" that when it is already there in the Charter.just a thought, but I do understand what you are saying.