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Vote: Senate Expansion Act (2014)
Topic Started: 24th April 2014 - 06:54 PM (259 Views)
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The following bill is up for vote. Voting opens now, and will close at 2:54pm (EST) on Apr. 26th.

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Senate Expansion Act (2014)

An Act to outline expanding the size of the Senate and amend the Senate Size Act (2014).

Short Title

(1) This act may be referred to as the Senate Expansion Act (2014).

Provisions

(2) This Act authorizes the Grand Chancellor to immediately expand the size of the Senate to nine (9) members.

(3) In this particular expansion of the Senate, the Grand Chancellor shall appoint the candidates most likely to have been elected to the newly created seats from the election of April 2014.

(4) This shall be determined by selecting the losing candidate in the final round and the last candidate to have been eliminated.

(5) The two aforementioned appointments may be made notwithstanding any other acts of the Senate.

Amendments

(5) The following amendments shall be made to The Senate Size Act (2014):

(6) Section (2) shall be amended thusly:

“(2) The number of seats in the Senate shall be nine (9)”

(7) Section (3) shall be amended thusly:

“(3) If there are fewer than ten (10) nominees for the Senate, the size of the Senate shall be reduced to seven (7).”

(8) Section (4) shall be amended thusly:

“(4) If there are fewer than eight (8) nominees for the Senate, the size of the Senate shall be further reduced to five (5).”

(9) The following section shall be added after Section (4):

"(5) If there are five (5) nominees for the Senate, then they shall all be appointed to the Senate."
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The required time having elapsed (by quite a bit, sorry), I declare this bill to have passed. The voting was as follows:

Aye- 5 votes
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Beatrice
Dijel

Nay- 0 votes

Abstentions- 0

Senators Not Voting:
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Edited by Elpidia, 27th April 2014 - 09:08 PM.
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