To prevent reoccurring mistakes in our laws, I propose the following resolution on how we handle amendments and repeals in the Assembly. It would be a standard way to do both, so that we should never run into any clerical issues with legislators accidentally using old/wrong copies of the law. This is also a much more readable format, and highlights specifically what's being added/removed for our laws.

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A resolution on Assembly procedures
Adopting a standard format for amendments and repeals

The Assembly of the Coalition of The South Pacific hereby adopts the following rules & procedures:

1. The standard format for an amendment will be to note which section of a law is being amended, and to quote only that part of the law. Additions of words will be formatted in green text. Subtractions of words will be formatted in red text with a strike-through.

2. The Chair will not put to vote an amendment that copies an entire law, when only individual parts of the law are being amended.

3. If a legislator moves to repeal only specific sections of a law, then the amendment procedure must be used. Otherwise, if a legislator moves to repeal an entire law, the Chair will quote the entire law and note that the entirety of it will be repealed.

Addendum-- Example of an amendment


The following is a proposed amendment to Article IV, Section 7 of the Charter:

Amendment to Article IV, Section 7 Wrote:7. The Local Council representative will have the power to cast have an additional weighted block vote worth of one-fifth 20% of all non-abstaining votes cast on bills, not including the block vote, giving them a one-sixth share of the total vote, excluding abstentions. The Chair will calculate how many votes are allotted to the representative at the close of each vote, rounding them to the nearest whole number, and will then add the representative’s total votes to the final tally.