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PARLIAMENT VOTE: 5-0-0
1 - Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the 'Legislative Branch Act.'
(2) This Act may be numbered as P.B.00-001
(3) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.
(4) This Act has been authored by Deputy Prime Minister TheReal42Person.
2 - Reasons
(1) There must be standards for the legislative branch of government.
(2) The legislative process currently has no outline or requirements.
(3) Note: This act is heavily based on Redmont’s Legislative Standards Act.
3 - Seat of Government
(1) The Capitol Building of Alexandria shall serve as the seat of government. The entirety of this building shall remain free from political branding, excluding within individual offices.
4 - Standing Orders
(1) Upon each new term of Parliament, the Speaker of Parliament shall propose a set of Standing Orders, which must be approved by a majority of the Parliament.
(2) These Standing Orders shall include the rules of debate, rules of Parliament, and general decorum for the Parliament.
(3) The Standing Orders shall be considered legally binding for the duration of the Parliamentary term.
5 - Office of the Speaker
(1) The Office of the Speaker shall be a group of individuals appointed by the Speaker, with consent of the Parliament, to advise and provide administrative support to Members of Parliament and the Speaker.
(2) The Office of the Speaker shall have the following responsibilities:
(a) Ensuring the public accessibility and knowledge of law changes, current laws, and results of voting on bills and motions;
(b) Assisting the Speaker with the administration of the Parliament;
(c) Assisting Members of Parliament with drafting bills, wording, and correcting grammatical issues;
(d) Managing and publishing Parliamentary transparency reports.
(3) The Office of the Speaker shall consist of the following positions:
(a) Clerk
(i) Responsible for updating and physically amending laws;
(ii) Responsible for maintaining the Parliamentary journal and record of motions;
(iii) Responsible for assisting the Speaker in other activities as requested.
(b) Parliamentarian
(i) Responsible for assisting Members of Parliament with drafting bills, wording, and correcting grammatical errors;
(ii) Ensure new Members of Parliament are aware of all procedures of Parliament;
(iii) Assist the Speaker of Parliament with enforcing the rules of debate.
(4) The Office of the Speaker must make announcements regarding significant events. These include but are not limited to:
(a) Government Formation;
(b) Government Dissolution;
(c) Censures, votes of no confidence, and impeachments;
(d) Changes to crimes, taxation, or other major laws.
(5) All members of the Office of the Speaker serve at the pleasure of the Speaker and may be removed at any time.
6 - Bills
(1) Members of Parliament have the ability to propose bills in Parliament, regardless of being part of the government or opposition.
(2) A rejected bill or bill of similar intent may not be proposed for a period of 14 days unless a motion of reconsideration has been approved by Parliament.
(3) If the number of ayes and nays on a bill are equal, excluding the abstain option, the vote shall be reconducted without an abstain option. If a tie occurs again, the bill shall be rejected.
(4) The template for bills will be annexed to this act in a separate thread.
(5) All bills proposed must have an identifier attached with the following format:
(a) P.B.<Parliament ##>-###
(i) Example: P.B.01-001 or P.B.07-035
(ii) ‘P.B.’ is an abbreviation for ‘Parliament Bill’.
(iii) The final number shall be the number of bills proposed in that term of Parliament. Government formations and resolutions do not count towards this number.
(6) All bills passed by Parliament must have an identifier assigned by the Office of the Speaker with the following format:
(a) A.P.###
(i) Example: A.P.074
(ii) ‘A.P.’ is an abbreviation for ‘Act of Parliament’.
7 - Resolutions and Statements
(1) Parliament may pass non-binding resolutions as requests towards specific Ministries or entities regarding topics.
(2) Parliament may pass an official statement regarding certain events, bills, decisions, or foreign actions.
(3) The formats for resolutions and statements will be annexed to this act in a separate thread.
8 - Legislative Process
(1) The bill is posted to forums by the sponsoring Member of Parliament as a draft. The bill shall be posted to #bills by the same Member of Parliament.
(2) After at least 24 hours of public feedback and editing period, the bill shall be read and debated in the chamber.
(a) For a bill to be ‘read’, a post in the #bill-reading channel in the Parliament of Alexandria discord must be created.
(b) The purpose of a debate is to encourage discussion relating to the bill. This gives opportunity for amendments, alternative solutions, and identifying errors.
(c) The Speaker may not participate in discussion unless it is relating to formatting, spelling or grammar errors, or the bill is redundant.
(d) Parliament may motion to skip debate for any specific bill with a simple majority.
(e) Bills of urgent consideration automatically skip the reading and debate process.
(3) After 48 hours of debate or a successful motion to skip reading, the bill must be put up to a vote in the Parliament.
(a) This voting period lasts 48 hours.
(b) Members of Parliament may change their votes and must provide a reason for why they voted a specific way.
(4) After the 48 hours of voting have concluded, one of the following circumstances will be presented:
(a) If a bill has either not reached quorum or did not reach the majority requirement to pass, the bill shall be marked as rejected and moved to the appropriate forum.
(b) If a bill receives a majority of aye votes, it shall be marked as passed and shall be presented to the Monarch for royal assent.
(c) Passage shall be considered as a simple majority, unless otherwise provided by law, of ayes out of all non-abstention votes cast, and rejection shall be a failure to reach such a majority.
(d) No bill shall pass unless 50% of the sitting Members of Parliament have voted on the bill.
(i) A motion of reconsideration may be made for bills that fail due to not meeting quorum.
9 - Acts of Parliament
(1) When amending a law, anything being changed must be highlighted in the following way:
(a) Any text being added to a law must be in green and bold.
(b) Any text being removed from a law must be in red and bold.
(c) Any changes to wording of the text or grammar in a law must be in yellow and bold.
(2) When an amendment to a law passes, it will be added as a reply to the original act’s thread.
(3) The results of a vote must be written at the top of a bill, above the long title, in order to preserve accurate voting records.
(a) Results to voting must also be kept in the Parliamentary journal.
10 - Recordkeeping
(1) A post on the forums must be made, titled ‘Journal of the <#st/nd/th> Parliament’.
(a) Within this journal, the Clerk shall periodically record and transcribe debates, bill proposals, bill votation results, and official statements.
(i) Each post replying to this journal should be an individual event listed above.
(2) An optional post on the forums may be made, titled ‘Record of Motions of the <#st/nd/th> Parliament’.
(a) Within this record, the Clerk shall periodically record and transcribe all motions and how each Member of Parliament voted on the motions.
11 - Parliamentary Hearings
(1) To ensure transparency and accountability, all hearings must be summarised in writing by the Office of the Speaker and published.
(2) Hearings may take place in-game or in the #hearings channel on discord.
(3) Parliament may subpoena any citizen to appear before a hearing.
(4) Where the subpoena relates to a Government or business entity, the subpoenaed citizen may offer an alternative representative to attend in their place.
12 - Prime Minister’s Questions
(1) At least once per month, an in-game or discord session must take place where members of the Opposition, represented by the Leader of the Opposition, may ask questions and debate the Prime Minister.
(2) If occurring in-game or in a voice chat, the event must be recorded and made public. Otherwise, it must take place in a publicly accessible hearing channel.
(3) Prime Minister’s Questions shall be presided over by the Speaker of Parliament.
13 - Index of Parliamentary Motions
(1) Unless otherwise required, all motions must meet a simple majority to pass.
(2) Motion of No Confidence
(a) A motion of no confidence may be made against a specific individual in the government (not the opposition) or against the government as a whole.
(b) Members shall have an opportunity to respond to the motion as follows:
(i) When made against a specific member of the government, the individual in question has 12 hours to provide a written response to the motion in #parliament-floor. This response will be posted along with the vote.
(ii) When made against the government as a whole, the Prime Minister must provide a written response within 12 hours in #parliament-floor. This response will be posted along with the vote.
(iii) If no response is made, the Speaker shall put the motion to vote with no response.
(c) If the motion against an individual passes, the individual in question shall be stripped of all positions except for Member of Parliament.
(d) If the motion against the whole government passes, the entirety of the government shall be forced to resign. If a new government is not formed within 7 days, a general election shall be called.
(e) This motion requires a supermajority (or two-thirds majority) to pass.
(3) Motion of Removal
(a) Parliament may remove a member using this motion for one of the following reasons:
(i) Repeated failure to participate in discussions or provide reasoning when voting on bills;
(ii) Repeated failure to vote on bills and motions;
(iii) Repeated censures;
(iv) Over one month without logging into the server or sending a message on discord;
(v) Other reasons approved by the Speaker of Parliament through Standing Orders.
(b) This motion requires a supermajority (or two-thirds majority) to pass.
(4) Motion to Fund
(a) Parliament may allocate funds through a simple majority vote, following budgetary regulations.
(b) Funds must relate to legislative operations, emergency government funding, or to fund specific projects as requested by the government.
(5) Motion to Censure
(a) Any Member of Parliament may move a motion of censure against an individual or entity to publicly condemn their actions. Censure does not impose penalties but serves as a formal reprimand.
(b) A motion to censure may only target one individual or entity at a time. Multiple individuals or entities cannot be censured under a single motion; separate motions must be filed. However, government departments or agencies may be censured collectively.
(7) Motion of Replacement
(a) If a Member of Parliament is removed or resigns, a citizen belonging to the same party as the former Member of Parliament must be selected.
(b) If Parliament cannot agree on a replacement within 72 hours, a special election will be held.
(8) Motion of Reconsideration
(a) If a bill fails due to not meeting quorum or another reason, the sponsor or a co-sponsor of the bill may motion to reconsider it.
(b) If the motion to reconsider passes, the bill may either be re-proposed with changes or re-voted in its current form.
(i) The motion must specify which of these two options is being pursued.
(9) Motion to Skip Reading/Debate
(a) If a bill is projected to have no reasonable or constructive discussion, Parliament may skip the reading and debate process for a bill and go directly to the voting phase.
(b) This motion cannot be used on constitutional amendments.
(11) Motion to Amend
(a) If an amendment is discovered to be necessary on a bill while it is in the voting phase, Parliament may vote on a specific amendment through a simple majority.
(12) Motion to Urgently Consider
(a) Any Member of Parliament may motion to urgently consider any bill.
(i) Appropriations (or budgets) automatically have urgent consideration status.
(b) When a bill has urgent consideration status, the following privileges are granted to the bill:
(i) Automatic skipping of the reading and debate phase;
(ii) The voting time is lowered from 48 to 24 hours;
(iii) The bill only must sit a minimum of 12 hours for public feedback.
(c) Although budgets are urgently considered, all budgets must go through the reading and debate phase.
14 - Voting Definitions
(1) Conflict of Interests. If or when there is a motion against or relating specifically to a member of Congress, their vote shall not be included (e.g. nomination, no confidence, removal).
(2) Abstentions. An abstention vote must be submitted during voting if the member is not voting for or against the matter before congress. Failure to vote at all will be considered a non-vote and for the purposes of all other acts will be counted as an abstention.
15 - Congressional Funds
(1) Spending remains subject to all bills regarding appropriations, including the logging and transparency of such spending.
(2) The Office of the Speaker is responsible for appropriating the proper funds once a motion is passed, unless otherwise directed in such a motion.
(3) Congressional members are barred from appropriating themselves and or accepting bonuses for the purpose of extra remuneration.
(4) Any official gifts made to a Member of Parliament are to be property of the state and should be surrendered to the Speaker's Office at the member's first opportunity.
(a) The Speaker's Office may choose to display or simply retain and archive these gifts.
16 - Redundancy
(1) A ‘Rescinded’ bill shall be defined as a bill that has not been voted on and the sponsor no longer wishes to pursue the bill.
(2) A ‘Repealed’ act shall be defined as a passed Act of Parliament that was removed by a later law.
(3) A ‘Redundant’ bill/act shall be defined as any Act of Parliament or bill proposed that has provisions already in effect and is not amending another bill.
(a) The Speaker may choose to not put Redundant bills up for vote.
17 - Peer Review
(1) A co-sponsor is required on all bills, resolutions, and official statements.
(a) This co-sponsor may not be the poster of the bill, and must be a current sitting Member of Parliament.
(2) If a listed co-sponsor claims that legislation was introduced without their consent, it is to be withdrawn from consideration at the discretion of the Speaker unless evidence of consent is provided. Consent may not be withdrawn once legislation is introduced.
(3) A bill shall not be put up for a vote until it has a co-sponsor.
18 - Oath of Office
(1) A swearing-in ceremony must be conducted at the start of each new term. This ceremony may take place in-game or in a publicly accessible voice chat or channel.
(2) All Members of Parliament shall be sworn in by the Speaker or a Clerk with the following oath: 'I, <username>, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the Kingdom of Alexandria for the people, and that I shall faithfully support and defend <his/her> majesty the <king/queen>. So help me End and Tech.'
(a) Parliamentary staff may be sworn in by the Speaker with the same oath.
(3) If a new Member of Parliament is elected or appointed to replace a former one, they shall say this same oath before assuming legislative or executive duties.
(4) Congressional swearing-ins are entirely ceremonial and shall have no legal effect.
Originally proposed on Discord 3/16/2025. Voting concluded 3/24/2025 with 5 Ayes, 0 Nays, 0 Abstentions. 2 MPs did not vote. Bill was presented to His Majesty King WackJap on 3/24/2025.
A
Bill
To
Define the legislative process and lay out foundations for the legislative branch of government
Bill
To
Define the legislative process and lay out foundations for the legislative branch of government
1 - Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the 'Legislative Branch Act.'
(2) This Act may be numbered as P.B.00-001
(3) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.
(4) This Act has been authored by Deputy Prime Minister TheReal42Person.
2 - Reasons
(1) There must be standards for the legislative branch of government.
(2) The legislative process currently has no outline or requirements.
(3) Note: This act is heavily based on Redmont’s Legislative Standards Act.
3 - Seat of Government
(1) The Capitol Building of Alexandria shall serve as the seat of government. The entirety of this building shall remain free from political branding, excluding within individual offices.
4 - Standing Orders
(1) Upon each new term of Parliament, the Speaker of Parliament shall propose a set of Standing Orders, which must be approved by a majority of the Parliament.
(2) These Standing Orders shall include the rules of debate, rules of Parliament, and general decorum for the Parliament.
(3) The Standing Orders shall be considered legally binding for the duration of the Parliamentary term.
5 - Office of the Speaker
(1) The Office of the Speaker shall be a group of individuals appointed by the Speaker, with consent of the Parliament, to advise and provide administrative support to Members of Parliament and the Speaker.
(2) The Office of the Speaker shall have the following responsibilities:
(a) Ensuring the public accessibility and knowledge of law changes, current laws, and results of voting on bills and motions;
(b) Assisting the Speaker with the administration of the Parliament;
(c) Assisting Members of Parliament with drafting bills, wording, and correcting grammatical issues;
(d) Managing and publishing Parliamentary transparency reports.
(3) The Office of the Speaker shall consist of the following positions:
(a) Clerk
(i) Responsible for updating and physically amending laws;
(ii) Responsible for maintaining the Parliamentary journal and record of motions;
(iii) Responsible for assisting the Speaker in other activities as requested.
(b) Parliamentarian
(i) Responsible for assisting Members of Parliament with drafting bills, wording, and correcting grammatical errors;
(ii) Ensure new Members of Parliament are aware of all procedures of Parliament;
(iii) Assist the Speaker of Parliament with enforcing the rules of debate.
(4) The Office of the Speaker must make announcements regarding significant events. These include but are not limited to:
(a) Government Formation;
(b) Government Dissolution;
(c) Censures, votes of no confidence, and impeachments;
(d) Changes to crimes, taxation, or other major laws.
(5) All members of the Office of the Speaker serve at the pleasure of the Speaker and may be removed at any time.
6 - Bills
(1) Members of Parliament have the ability to propose bills in Parliament, regardless of being part of the government or opposition.
(2) A rejected bill or bill of similar intent may not be proposed for a period of 14 days unless a motion of reconsideration has been approved by Parliament.
(3) If the number of ayes and nays on a bill are equal, excluding the abstain option, the vote shall be reconducted without an abstain option. If a tie occurs again, the bill shall be rejected.
(4) The template for bills will be annexed to this act in a separate thread.
(5) All bills proposed must have an identifier attached with the following format:
(a) P.B.<Parliament ##>-###
(i) Example: P.B.01-001 or P.B.07-035
(ii) ‘P.B.’ is an abbreviation for ‘Parliament Bill’.
(iii) The final number shall be the number of bills proposed in that term of Parliament. Government formations and resolutions do not count towards this number.
(6) All bills passed by Parliament must have an identifier assigned by the Office of the Speaker with the following format:
(a) A.P.###
(i) Example: A.P.074
(ii) ‘A.P.’ is an abbreviation for ‘Act of Parliament’.
7 - Resolutions and Statements
(1) Parliament may pass non-binding resolutions as requests towards specific Ministries or entities regarding topics.
(2) Parliament may pass an official statement regarding certain events, bills, decisions, or foreign actions.
(3) The formats for resolutions and statements will be annexed to this act in a separate thread.
8 - Legislative Process
(1) The bill is posted to forums by the sponsoring Member of Parliament as a draft. The bill shall be posted to #bills by the same Member of Parliament.
(2) After at least 24 hours of public feedback and editing period, the bill shall be read and debated in the chamber.
(a) For a bill to be ‘read’, a post in the #bill-reading channel in the Parliament of Alexandria discord must be created.
(b) The purpose of a debate is to encourage discussion relating to the bill. This gives opportunity for amendments, alternative solutions, and identifying errors.
(c) The Speaker may not participate in discussion unless it is relating to formatting, spelling or grammar errors, or the bill is redundant.
(d) Parliament may motion to skip debate for any specific bill with a simple majority.
(e) Bills of urgent consideration automatically skip the reading and debate process.
(3) After 48 hours of debate or a successful motion to skip reading, the bill must be put up to a vote in the Parliament.
(a) This voting period lasts 48 hours.
(b) Members of Parliament may change their votes and must provide a reason for why they voted a specific way.
(4) After the 48 hours of voting have concluded, one of the following circumstances will be presented:
(a) If a bill has either not reached quorum or did not reach the majority requirement to pass, the bill shall be marked as rejected and moved to the appropriate forum.
(b) If a bill receives a majority of aye votes, it shall be marked as passed and shall be presented to the Monarch for royal assent.
(c) Passage shall be considered as a simple majority, unless otherwise provided by law, of ayes out of all non-abstention votes cast, and rejection shall be a failure to reach such a majority.
(d) No bill shall pass unless 50% of the sitting Members of Parliament have voted on the bill.
(i) A motion of reconsideration may be made for bills that fail due to not meeting quorum.
9 - Acts of Parliament
(1) When amending a law, anything being changed must be highlighted in the following way:
(a) Any text being added to a law must be in green and bold.
(b) Any text being removed from a law must be in red and bold.
(c) Any changes to wording of the text or grammar in a law must be in yellow and bold.
(2) When an amendment to a law passes, it will be added as a reply to the original act’s thread.
(3) The results of a vote must be written at the top of a bill, above the long title, in order to preserve accurate voting records.
(a) Results to voting must also be kept in the Parliamentary journal.
10 - Recordkeeping
(1) A post on the forums must be made, titled ‘Journal of the <#st/nd/th> Parliament’.
(a) Within this journal, the Clerk shall periodically record and transcribe debates, bill proposals, bill votation results, and official statements.
(i) Each post replying to this journal should be an individual event listed above.
(2) An optional post on the forums may be made, titled ‘Record of Motions of the <#st/nd/th> Parliament’.
(a) Within this record, the Clerk shall periodically record and transcribe all motions and how each Member of Parliament voted on the motions.
11 - Parliamentary Hearings
(1) To ensure transparency and accountability, all hearings must be summarised in writing by the Office of the Speaker and published.
(2) Hearings may take place in-game or in the #hearings channel on discord.
(3) Parliament may subpoena any citizen to appear before a hearing.
(4) Where the subpoena relates to a Government or business entity, the subpoenaed citizen may offer an alternative representative to attend in their place.
12 - Prime Minister’s Questions
(1) At least once per month, an in-game or discord session must take place where members of the Opposition, represented by the Leader of the Opposition, may ask questions and debate the Prime Minister.
(2) If occurring in-game or in a voice chat, the event must be recorded and made public. Otherwise, it must take place in a publicly accessible hearing channel.
(3) Prime Minister’s Questions shall be presided over by the Speaker of Parliament.
13 - Index of Parliamentary Motions
(1) Unless otherwise required, all motions must meet a simple majority to pass.
(2) Motion of No Confidence
(a) A motion of no confidence may be made against a specific individual in the government (not the opposition) or against the government as a whole.
(b) Members shall have an opportunity to respond to the motion as follows:
(i) When made against a specific member of the government, the individual in question has 12 hours to provide a written response to the motion in #parliament-floor. This response will be posted along with the vote.
(ii) When made against the government as a whole, the Prime Minister must provide a written response within 12 hours in #parliament-floor. This response will be posted along with the vote.
(iii) If no response is made, the Speaker shall put the motion to vote with no response.
(c) If the motion against an individual passes, the individual in question shall be stripped of all positions except for Member of Parliament.
(d) If the motion against the whole government passes, the entirety of the government shall be forced to resign. If a new government is not formed within 7 days, a general election shall be called.
(e) This motion requires a supermajority (or two-thirds majority) to pass.
(3) Motion of Removal
(a) Parliament may remove a member using this motion for one of the following reasons:
(i) Repeated failure to participate in discussions or provide reasoning when voting on bills;
(ii) Repeated failure to vote on bills and motions;
(iii) Repeated censures;
(iv) Over one month without logging into the server or sending a message on discord;
(v) Other reasons approved by the Speaker of Parliament through Standing Orders.
(b) This motion requires a supermajority (or two-thirds majority) to pass.
(4) Motion to Fund
(a) Parliament may allocate funds through a simple majority vote, following budgetary regulations.
(b) Funds must relate to legislative operations, emergency government funding, or to fund specific projects as requested by the government.
(5) Motion to Censure
(a) Any Member of Parliament may move a motion of censure against an individual or entity to publicly condemn their actions. Censure does not impose penalties but serves as a formal reprimand.
(b) A motion to censure may only target one individual or entity at a time. Multiple individuals or entities cannot be censured under a single motion; separate motions must be filed. However, government departments or agencies may be censured collectively.
(7) Motion of Replacement
(a) If a Member of Parliament is removed or resigns, a citizen belonging to the same party as the former Member of Parliament must be selected.
(b) If Parliament cannot agree on a replacement within 72 hours, a special election will be held.
(8) Motion of Reconsideration
(a) If a bill fails due to not meeting quorum or another reason, the sponsor or a co-sponsor of the bill may motion to reconsider it.
(b) If the motion to reconsider passes, the bill may either be re-proposed with changes or re-voted in its current form.
(i) The motion must specify which of these two options is being pursued.
(9) Motion to Skip Reading/Debate
(a) If a bill is projected to have no reasonable or constructive discussion, Parliament may skip the reading and debate process for a bill and go directly to the voting phase.
(b) This motion cannot be used on constitutional amendments.
(11) Motion to Amend
(a) If an amendment is discovered to be necessary on a bill while it is in the voting phase, Parliament may vote on a specific amendment through a simple majority.
(12) Motion to Urgently Consider
(a) Any Member of Parliament may motion to urgently consider any bill.
(i) Appropriations (or budgets) automatically have urgent consideration status.
(b) When a bill has urgent consideration status, the following privileges are granted to the bill:
(i) Automatic skipping of the reading and debate phase;
(ii) The voting time is lowered from 48 to 24 hours;
(iii) The bill only must sit a minimum of 12 hours for public feedback.
(c) Although budgets are urgently considered, all budgets must go through the reading and debate phase.
14 - Voting Definitions
(1) Conflict of Interests. If or when there is a motion against or relating specifically to a member of Congress, their vote shall not be included (e.g. nomination, no confidence, removal).
(2) Abstentions. An abstention vote must be submitted during voting if the member is not voting for or against the matter before congress. Failure to vote at all will be considered a non-vote and for the purposes of all other acts will be counted as an abstention.
15 - Congressional Funds
(1) Spending remains subject to all bills regarding appropriations, including the logging and transparency of such spending.
(2) The Office of the Speaker is responsible for appropriating the proper funds once a motion is passed, unless otherwise directed in such a motion.
(3) Congressional members are barred from appropriating themselves and or accepting bonuses for the purpose of extra remuneration.
(4) Any official gifts made to a Member of Parliament are to be property of the state and should be surrendered to the Speaker's Office at the member's first opportunity.
(a) The Speaker's Office may choose to display or simply retain and archive these gifts.
16 - Redundancy
(1) A ‘Rescinded’ bill shall be defined as a bill that has not been voted on and the sponsor no longer wishes to pursue the bill.
(2) A ‘Repealed’ act shall be defined as a passed Act of Parliament that was removed by a later law.
(3) A ‘Redundant’ bill/act shall be defined as any Act of Parliament or bill proposed that has provisions already in effect and is not amending another bill.
(a) The Speaker may choose to not put Redundant bills up for vote.
17 - Peer Review
(1) A co-sponsor is required on all bills, resolutions, and official statements.
(a) This co-sponsor may not be the poster of the bill, and must be a current sitting Member of Parliament.
(2) If a listed co-sponsor claims that legislation was introduced without their consent, it is to be withdrawn from consideration at the discretion of the Speaker unless evidence of consent is provided. Consent may not be withdrawn once legislation is introduced.
(3) A bill shall not be put up for a vote until it has a co-sponsor.
18 - Oath of Office
(1) A swearing-in ceremony must be conducted at the start of each new term. This ceremony may take place in-game or in a publicly accessible voice chat or channel.
(2) All Members of Parliament shall be sworn in by the Speaker or a Clerk with the following oath: 'I, <username>, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the Kingdom of Alexandria for the people, and that I shall faithfully support and defend <his/her> majesty the <king/queen>. So help me End and Tech.'
(a) Parliamentary staff may be sworn in by the Speaker with the same oath.
(3) If a new Member of Parliament is elected or appointed to replace a former one, they shall say this same oath before assuming legislative or executive duties.
(4) Congressional swearing-ins are entirely ceremonial and shall have no legal effect.
Originally proposed on Discord 3/16/2025. Voting concluded 3/24/2025 with 5 Ayes, 0 Nays, 0 Abstentions. 2 MPs did not vote. Bill was presented to His Majesty King WackJap on 3/24/2025.
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