SO 2016-13 Parliamentary Procedure and Recruitment Amendment Act of September 2016

Article I: Introduction

This bill is intended to clarify certain parliamentary procedures currently unregulated by the Parliamentary Procedure Orders, and to amend by those rules SO#2015-8 (“Recruitment Act”).

Article II: Amendments

Section A: Parliamentary Procedure

1) We hereby move to renumber Articles III, IV, and V of SO#2016-3 ("Parliamentary Procedure Orders") to become Articles IV, V, and VI, respectively.

2) We hereby move to add the following as Article III of SO#2016-3 ("Parliamentary Procedure Orders"), to be entitled "Amendments to Acts of Parliament":
"Acts of Parliament may be amended by another Act of Parliament, however a two-thirds supermajority shall be require for a bill proposing amendments to pass."

3) This two-thirds threshold will apply to the subsequent part of this bill.

Section B: Recruitment

We hereby move to amend Article III, Section A, Clause 1 of SO#2015-8 ("Recruitment Act") to contain the following text:
"The NS++ Recruitment System will be used to automatically send recruitment telegrams, however the recruitment system may be changed at any time at the discretion of the Recruitment Council."

Article III: Conclusion

We, the Parliament of the Union, hereby enact the above provisions as law, and order the texts to be altered accordingly.

September 3, 2016
Abdoa, Senator
Libertarian Democracy, Senator

Debate will last for two days until September 5, 2016.

I don't think Article II, Section A, Clause 3 is clear enough. I propose eliminating it altogether and replacing it by simple changing Article III to "...the above provisions as law by a majority of two-thirds..."

Good idea: the following amendment to the bill is hereby proposed:

Amendment I: to remove Clause 3 of Article II, Section A, and to subsequently add "by a majority of two-thirds" after "as law" in Article III.

I approve, of course.

The debate is closed and the amendment put to a vote.