Amended Pseudo-Real Cosa Act and Amendment

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

I'm saving my amended version of @Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP 's bill here, for future reference and possible return.  Currently, the effects here are split up into two bills, and it would be fairly disastrous if the referendum portion didn't pass.  So this version is designed to avoid that problem.

THEREFORE, be it enacted that the following provision be added to el Lexhatx as subsubsection H.4.1.1:

The total number of party seats is twenty.

FURTHERMORE, Org.IV.4, which currently reads:

1. In addition to the seats apportioned between parties after a General Election, the Secretary of State shall assign one Cosa seat to any citizen who becomes eligible to vote after the most recent Election Deadline but before the dissolution of the Cosa, upon the request of such citizen, up to a maximum number as this Organic Law might provide. Any additional seat so assigned shall cease to exist should its holder vacate or be removed from the seat and shall not be subject to the procedures for filling vacancies in the Cosa, and shall also cease to exist upon the dissolution of the Cosa.. (sic)
2. The maximum number of seats that may be assigned to new citizens between general elections shall be 7.5% of the seats apportioned between parties, rounded up to a whole number of seats.

shall be struck from the law.

FURTHERMORE, Section 5 of Article IV, which currently reads:

Each person holding one or more seats is a representative known as a "Member of the Cosa" (MC). MCs may not be removed from office except by a two-thirds vote by the Cosa and approval by the King. An MC vacates his seats if he fails to vote on two consecutive Clarks, or if he resigns from office or dies. The seats of any MC who is removed or vacates shall be reassigned according to Section 4, above.

shall be renumbered as Section 4 and altered to instead read:

Each person holding one or more seats is a representative known as a "Member of the Cosa" (MC). MCs may not be removed from office except by a two-thirds vote by the Cosa and approval by the King. An MC vacates his seats if he fails to vote on two consecutive Clarks, or if he resigns from office or dies. The seats of any MC who is removed or vacates shall be reassigned according to Section 3, above.

FURTHERMORE, Section 6 of Article IV shall be renumbered as Section 5,

FURTHERMORE, Section 7 of Article IV shall be renumbered as Section 6,

FURTHERMORE, Section 8 of Article IV shall be renumbered as Section 7,

FURTHERMORE, Section 9 of Article IV shall be renumbered as Section 8,

FURTHERMORE, Section 10 of Article IV shall be renumbered as Section 9,

FURTHERMORE, Section 12 of Article IV shall be renumbered as Section 10,

FURTHERMORE, all the changes described in this bill shall only take effect after ratification by referendum and after a full calendar year has passed, and will otherwise be considered to be null and void.

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

If it's any consolation, I suspect the referendum will have a much higher chance of passing than the Pseudo-Real Cosă Act.

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

That also wouldn't be good... they should pass together or not at all, in my opinion.

Is this version acceptable to you?

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

That also wouldn't be good... they should pass together or not at all, in my opinion.

Is this version acceptable to you?

I don't really understand. Having a 7.5% worth of seats taken up by unelected new citizens would be a problem no matter how many default Cosă seats there are, so what is the harm of the referendum passing without the seat reduction bill?

[Baron Alexandreu Davinescu]

I guess you're right -- now that I think about it, there's no harm to that.  I was thinking the other which way.

[King Txec]

I know this bill is currently in the Clark, (The Pseudo-Real Cosa Act) but as I do try to understand the laws I may be asked to assent to, I'm having trouble understanding this provision: "The total number of party seats is twenty."

Can someone explain it to me? How would this affect the size of the Cosa?

Thanks
-Txec R

[Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP]

I know this bill is currently in the Clark, (The Pseudo-Real Cosa Act) but as I do try to understand the laws I may be asked to assent to, I'm having trouble understanding this provision: "The total number of party seats is twenty."

Can someone explain it to me? How would this affect the size of the Cosa?

The Organic Law (OrgLaw IV.2.1) states that "The party seats shall total 200, or another number which may be set by law, [...]". What this provision does is overwrite the Organic default and set the size of the Cosă to 20 by default instead.

[King Txec]

Ah, thanks. I think the word "party" threw me off.

-Txec R

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

Ah, thanks. I think the word "party" threw me off.

That was written to exclude the 1 seat which we've been giving to new immigrants.