Failed Amendment to the Legislative Archive Act (UL-002)

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A MOTION

To amend the bill "The Legislative Archive Act (UL-002)"
Introduced into the Senate of the Union of Democratic States on the 28th of February, 2022, by Guess and Check
As follows:
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RECOGNIZING that therein lie issues with the law dispatch’s maintenance,
NOTING that UL-002 contains references to now non-existent entities,
CONTENDING that corrective measures must therefore be taken,
BE IT ENACTED by the Senate:

Section 1: Amendments

1. UL-002 shall be reformatted to fall in line with the formatting guidelines laid down by the 2020 Formatting Committee, as shown here.

2. Section 2, Clause 1 of the Legislative Archive Act, alongside its sub-clauses, shall be replaced in full by the following:

“1. There shall exist a on-site dispatch or dispatch system, “the law dispatch”, for the purposes of storing Union law on-site. It shall be upkept by the President, or an appointee thereof, in cooperation with the Administration Team.

2. Only the Constitution must be placed in full within the law dispatch, alongside a link to the Constitution’s forum record. The forum records of all standing legislative acts and treaties shall be linked within the law dispatch.

3. Upon an amendment to the Constitution or repeal of a legislative act or treaty, the law dispatch shall be updated to reflect said changes.

4. Law dispatch updates should be fully coded by the President or appointee thereof before submission to an Administrator. The President or appointee shall notify the Administration Team whenever the law dispatch needs updating.”

3. All clauses in Section 3 of UL-002 shall be nullified and replaced in full by following:

“1. All laws passed by the Senate shall be conferred a serial number that shall begin with UL-### (Union Law).

2. Any resolutions passed by the Senate shall be numbered SR-### (Senate Resolution).”

4. A new Section 5 titled “The Archivist” shall be added after Section IV. Its clauses shall read as follows:

“1. The President shall appoint one Chief Archivist as a designated appointee to assist in the handling of all legislative archive matters.

2. The Chief Archivist may appoint one or more Archivists to help with their duties.

3. The Chief Archivist shall continue serving across Presidential terms, until they either resign or are explicitly and publicly removed by the President. The same shall be said for any Archivist, although Archivists may also be removed by the current Chief Archivist.”
 
Simplifies on-site dispatch, formally defines the Archivist position, and brings the bill to the modern day.

All I can say is let's please pass it.
 
I really should have caught this before you proposed it, and thusly I apologise, but:

- You can't just amend a bill to be reformatted according to the Format Guide without displaying how that would happen.
- Secondly, we physically can't reformat the bill in such a way if we're also amending Section 1, which in said Format Guide is taken up by the short title and definitions.

In other matters, the amended Section 1 is contradictory - claiming that only the Constitution ought to be kept onsight but having clauses which still cite other laws and treaties being included in said onsite archive. Additionally, why does there remain a separation between whoever the President tasks with upkeeping the onsite archive and the Archivist team? In practice they're gonna be the same people and, thusly, this is a redundancy.

Finally, the amended Section 3 effectively incorporates the entirety of the extant Section 4 and yet Section 4 is seemingly not removed - instead an explicit Section 5 is created after it.
 
I'd honestly recommend this bill being restructured as a repeal and replace in order to effectively provide for a less confusing means for you to achieve your aims here. I'd additionally recommend opening a dialogue with Glaciosia as he has apparent reforms in mind for changing our serial numbers for our laws
 
Fair. Ill motion to withdraw the bill then.
 
A motion to withdraw has been moved. If in the next twenty-four hours, beginning at the time of posting this message on the forum, there are no objections, the motion will stand and the bill will be withdrawn. Should any of you object, the Senate shall vote on the motion.
 
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