To be honest, I'm not even sure why we grant leaves of absence to people who don't hold any positions that they'd lose if they didn't meet the requirements to be a legislator. Just reapply when you're back to being active enough again. Not being a legislator doesn't mean you're not a TSPer. You have access to practically everything you did before, if you're away for a while and not consistently able to vote, but want to check in here and there. But it's very easy and simple to get your legislator status back so you can vote in the Assembly once you're back to regular activity.

For officials who, say, are going on vacation for a couple weeks, that's different. If there happens to be enough votes during their vacation that they end up missing too many to maintain legislator status, then they're also losing their office. Legislator status can be regained with a simple application, which will almost certainly be granted because you were a legislator recently... but to regain an office, you have to elected or appointed to it again, and some appointments require Assembly approval, etc.

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To be honest, I'm not even sure why we grant leaves of absence to people who don't hold any positions that they'd lose if they didn't meet the requirements to be a legislator. Just reapply when you're back to being active enough again. Not being a legislator doesn't mean you're not a TSPer. You have access to practically everything you did before, if you're away for a while and not consistently able to vote, but want to check in here and there. But it's very easy and simple to get your legislator status back so you can vote in the Assembly once you're back to regular activity.

I'm neutral on this proposal, but I would point out that there are some positions (e.g. the CRS) that require a certain length of continuous legislator status, and this could be interrupted even by a short period of inactivity if no LOAs were available.

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I'm neutral on this proposal, but I would point out that there are some positions (e.g. the CRS) that require a certain length of continuous legislator status, and this could be interrupted even by a short period of inactivity if no LOAs were available.

To be fair, members of the CRS need to prove their trustworthiness and activity requirements in order to be considered for a position in the CRS. If someone wants to apply for the CRS, then they know full well what the requirements for the position are (including maintaining activity). Besides, most (if not all) CRS members have also held other offices and gained the communities trust, so as Glen said, an LoA would protect office holders in a way that a regular legislator would not need those protections.

-Griffindor/Ebonhand
-Current Roles/Positions
-Legislator 2/24/20-
-High Court Justice 6/7/20-
-South Pacific Coral Guard 11/17/20-
-Minister of Engagement 6/17/22-

-Past Roles/Positions
-Legislator 7/3/16-4/10/18
-Secretary of State 4/3/20-2/24/21
-Chair of the APC 9/24/16-5/31/17
-Vice-Chair of the APC 6/1/17-4/10/18
-Local Council Member 7/1/17-11/17/17
-Citizen 5/2012-12/2014 and  2/26/16-7/3/2016

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