Legislative Procedure Act

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Section 2 of the Legislative Procedure Act was amended by the Assembly on the 11th of January, 2024.

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Legislative Procedure Act

An act to define the procedural rules of the Assembly

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2. Office of the Chair

(1) Only legislators shall be eligible to serve as Chair of the Assembly.

(2) The Assembly shall choose the Chair by resolution.

1. Every resolution to adopt a Chair shall identify the legislator who shall serve as Chair and the length of the term for which that legislator shall serve as Chair.
2. In no event shall any resolution to adopt a Chair provide for a term of service longer than twelve months.

(3) The Chair shall serve until the expiration of the term specified in the motion adopting them as Chair, adoption by the Assembly of a resolution to vacate the chair, resignation, recall, loss of citizenship, or loss of legislator status.

(4) In the event that the Chair of the Assembly office is vacant, the senior-most Deputy Chair of the Assembly, by order of appointment and availability, shall become Chair of the Assembly.

2. Powers and Responsibilities of the Chair

(65) The Chair may freely appoint any number of deputies, who will be authorized to perform those legislative duties of the Chair that the Chair permits. Any changes in the roster of deputies must be posted publicly.

(16) The Chair is responsible for creating voting threads and recording votes. In the event that the Chair does not perform these duties in a reasonable time frame, any legislator may create voting threads and record votes.

(27) The legislative history of each law will be recorded by the Chair. Legislative history will include reference to debate threads, voting results, and amendment history.

(48) The Chair may correct typographical errors, grammatical errors, naming or formatting inconsistencies at any time, as long as these corrections do not alter the original intent of the law, following a three day period in which the corrections are presented to the Assembly for comments. Any such corrections must be recorded with the legislative history of each law.

(59) The Chair may delay votes for a reasonable time frame if done for the purposes of vote scheduling or to avoid preemption of active debate by a vote.

(310) The Chair must document the use of their discretionary powers including a rationale for using those powers in the relevant debate thread.

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