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Amendment to Article 8, Code of Laws - Unibot - 02-19-2015
The following amendment to the Code of Laws shall be considered.
Quote:Article 8: Sunshine Provisions
1. The discussions of the Cabinet shall be released every 8 months for public archival accessible to all citizens.
2. The Cabinet may institute a classification system to ensure that discussions that are still undergoing or discussions that would seriously threaten the security of the region are not released too early.
3. The Cabinet shall regularly update the classification status of its discussions and not abuse the classification system to prevent its discussions from being published.
4. The Cabinet may publish its discussions at earlier intervals if it wishes or has been petitioned to do so by a Citizen.
5. The Cabinet may refuse to publish a discussion that has been petitioned by a Citizen. The reasons for which as well as the discussions in questions must be made available to the High Court. The High Court may overturn the Cabinet refusal to publish a discussion.
6. In the event that Cabinet discussions older than 8 months have failed to be published, the current Cabinet must publish those discussions in a speedy manner.
It requires 50% support for passage - three days for voting. Voting ends 1:09 AM, Feb 22, 2015.
RE: Amendment to Article 8, Code of Laws - Unibot - 02-22-2015
This has passed, reaching the required 50% support for passage.