Voting on Amendments to SO 2017-20

Amendment I, The Hon. Nassau-Windsor, MP LSM:
To Article I: To remove the following words: "this bill will establish the legitimacy of our new map and a new official to go with it." and to replace them by the following: "We do hereby adopt the aforesaid map as Our Regional Map.".

Amendment II, The Hon. Nassau-Windsor, MP LSM:
To Article II: To remove the following word: "entitled" and to replace it by the following: "styled".

Amendment III, The Hon. Nassau-Windsor, MP LSM:
To Article II: To remove the following word: "assign" and to replace it by the following: "appointed".

Amendment IV, The Hon. Nassau-Windsor, MP LSM:
To Article II: To remove the following words: "this official" and to replace them by the following: "him from this position".

Amendment V, The Hon. Nassau-Windsor, MP LSM:
To Article II: To add the following provision, to be styled "II." (and then, the other provision is to be styled "I.) "The reasons valid for removing the official as outlined in section I. of this Article, shall be defined and listed by the Minister of Development."

Amendment VI, The Hon. Nassau-Windsor, MP LSM:
To Article III: To change the following Article III.I.A into the following: "Granting and removing territories upon Our Regional Map, according to Law, as well as taking into consideration all applications that involve a new grant, a removal or a change to any territory of land by a Member of Our Region.".

Amendment VII, The Hon. Nassau-Windsor, MP LSM:
To Article III: To add at the end of Article III.I.C the following: "when they are willing to do so.".

Amendment VIII, The Hon. Nassau-Windsor, MP LSM:
To Article III: To add at the end of the first sentence of Article III.I.D the following: "when they are participating.".

Amendment IX, The Hon. Nassau-Windsor, MP LSM:
To Article III: To remove the last sentence of Article III.I.D.

Amendment X, The Hon. Abdoa, MP LSM GSM:
To Article IV: To amend Article IV.A to read as follows: "Requesting a piece of land through the Role Play Moderator, which will be reasonably equal in size to other allocations."

Amendment XI, The Hon. Abdoa, MP LSM GSM:
To Article V: To strike the following language from Article V as referencing officially non-existent regulations:"like the ones already established by the founder".

Amendment XII, The Hon. Abdoa, MP LSM GSM:
To Article V: To insert the word "and" before "they must receive", and the phrase "if they disregard those rules and regulations" after "following punishments".

Amendment XIII, The Hon. Abdoa, MP LSM GSM:
To override Amendment 9, and to replace the words "mods" in Article III with the words "Role Play Moderator".


This is an informal vote, so as soon as a majority has been reached one way or another on all of the amendments, Parliament will proceed to vote on the entirety of the bill, amended or not as the case may be.

Abdoa votes in favor of amendments I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, X, XI, XII, and XIII.
Abdoa votes in opposition to amendment IX. (I'm not voting for amendment 9 because it strikes an essential part of the legislation on a technicality, which is itself fixed by amendment 13).

Thomolia votes in favor of all the submitted amendments.

The United Terran Empire hereby votes in favor of all amendments II-XIII, withhold vote on Amendment 1 for the time being.

Hashkin votes in favor of all amendments

LibDem votes in favor of amendments I, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, X, XI, XII, and XIII.

We vote against amendment II because the word "entitled" is more appropriate than the proposed "styled".

We vote against amendment IX for the reasons mentioned by the Hon. Abdoa.

Aralunya votes in favor of all amendments except IX.

Sepharich votes in favor of all amendments except for IX and II.

The results are as follows:
Amendment I: 6 in favor; 1 abstention PASS
Amendment II: 5 in favor, 2 in opposition PASS
Amendment III: 7 in favor PASS
Amendment IV: 7 in favor PASS
Amendment V: 7 in favor PASS
Amendment VI: 7 in favor PASS
Amendment VII: 7 in favor PASS
Amendment VIII: 7 in favor PASS
Amendment IX: 3 in favor, 5 in opposition FAIL
Amendment X: 7 in favor PASS
Amendment XI: 7 in favor PASS
Amendment XII: 7 in favor PASS
Amendment XIII: 7 in favor PASS

Majorities (5 votes) has been reached on all amendments. All amendments but Amendment IX are adopted.The bill as amended will be put to a vote later, once the chair has a computer to make all these changes. The Chair thanks the Hon and Rt Hon members for their diligence in voting on all these items simultaneously.