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**USoVietnam** · 07-24-2019, 09:47 AM

Accessibility should not be a problem if the old standards are used for normal discussions. Ideally we will have the CoA and deputies format the laws for archiving, either by hands or by scripting. In my opinion, the major issues are this proposal is attempting to address a problem that doesn't exist (What is the ultimate goal of this proposal? Why makes things more pretty if it doesn't help making legislation easier to read/write) and future CoAs may go full 2017-Glen (the whole ordeal led to the LegComm being created) due to the increasing workload being placed upon them.

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***sandaoguo*** · 07-24-2019, 11:52 AM

(07-24-2019, 06:26 AM)Amerion Wrote: Article 5, Section 2 of the Law Standards Act currently provides that "[the] Chair of the Assembly may bring proposed legislation into compliance with the standards outlined by this Act before bringing it to vote."

Yes, the Chair "may" do so, but is not required to do so. The "may" language was written to prevent charges of impropriety if the Chair uses their discretionary power to change the motioned text, as it was custom before that the Chair would bring bills to vote exactly how they were motioned. Having been the originator of the law, and then the first one to implement it as Chair IIRC, it hasn't been consistent practice that the Chair formats ill-formatted bills. I do recall motions being invalidated because the bills weren't properly formatted.

(07-24-2019, 07:47 AM)Belschaft Wrote: If we’re going to try and ape real world procedure, Local Government is a far better fit than the US Congress.

Local governments don't exact use different formatting. For example, my city's legal code: https://library.municode.com/oh/columbus..._CH101CICO

The formatting suggested here is highly reminiscent of the original formatting of our laws, which imo was bad and we should never return to. There's value in making our simulated government look more like government.

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**Belschaft** · 07-24-2019, 12:12 PM

I’m not suggesting a specific formatting Glen, just pleading for simplicity.

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**Amerion** · 07-25-2019, 02:23 AM

I will give serious consideration to the recommendations proposed in this thread and shall seek to present an improved one in the coming week.

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