BARA PECS Act

[Danku-Chan - Kmaujk]

This legislation is up for scrutiny until 4/12/2024.

Category: Legislation

Author: Danku-chan

Co-sponsors:

Chapter I: General Provisions

1. This act may be referred to as the Bureaucracy-Averse Regulation Against Persnickety Elimination of Cartographed States Act, or the "BARA PECS Act".
2. This act will come into force upon passage.

Chapter II: BARA PECS Act

1. Posession of an extant NS nation is no longer a requirement to remain present on the Regional Map, instead being based solely upon RP activity within relevant venues, whether the RMB, Regional/Associated Discord servers, or the Regional Forum.
2. Establishment on the regional map, as well as expansion, shall still require an extant NS nation. Map nations who CTE will continue to be present on the map only in the form of the last map update in which their nation existed.
3. Map nations that have not engaged in regional RP shall still be removed upon CTE.

[Kanoshu]

This has my support.

[studentloandebt]

I have two responses, one being the casual response between hobbyists and the other the official response between Congress members.

To speak in unofficial terms:

This could have just been a community discussion. We have a discord channel dedicated to talk about ways to improve RP features. It's a bit of an escalation to skip that and go straight to legsilative action. We've changed map policy before through simple discussion and we can just do that with this bill's goal

To speak in official terms:
This is not a legislative issue but an administrative one.

The Charter grants Congress the following authority:

Establish and amend rules and procedures for legislative and electoral processes;

Congress created the Executive Appointments document and have control over that document as a legislative and electoral process. However, the Executive Appointments document states that discretion is given to the Council on what departments exists, what their responsibilites are, and what policies they create. Charter authority squarely puts this as outside of Congress's authority as an administrative process. The most that the Executive Appointments document grants Congress is found in Section 1.2, subsection 1.2.1, Paragraph 2, which only grants Congress the ability to create or abolis Departments, not their amendment.

"Any Members of Congress may write a document detailing the introduction of a Department and it's functions or the abolishment of a Department, and present this to the Cabinet."

The Council has their own document that we adhere to with department specifics, which can be found here. The legal way to approach this would be to petition the Council to alter this administrative document.

[taliand]

I would vote no on this.