[A-2025-39] Amendment to the Law Standards Act

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Deputy Provost @Ladona has moved to amend https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/law-standards-act/17710. This was motioned to vote on Tuesday, September 2, 2025 3:44 AM and seconded by Provost @AC5230 on Tuesday, September 2, 2025 3:47 AM.

Be it known that that the invalid date defined in 3.1.1. will be amended to reflect the date that these amendments are accepted into law should they pass this vote and any potential veto.

Section I. CITATION

  1. This Act shall be referred to as the “Law Standards Act”.

Section II. DEFINITIONS

  1. “Format of this Act” refers to the section, clause, and subclause style used by this Act.

  2. “Legislative Proposal” or “Proposal” refers to a proposal to exercise legislative action through a Bill.

  3. This Act uses the same definitions for each category of Bill that can be found in the Standing Orders of the Magisterium.

  4. This Act uses the same definition for “Sponsor” that can be found in the Standing Orders of the Magisterium.

Section III. FORMATS

  1. Unless specified elsewhere in this Act, the Standing Orders of the Magisterium, as well as all legislation and amendments thereto, must be written according to the Format of this Act.
    …1. Until it is amended, any legislation that was passed on or before Invalid date does not need to comply with this Act.

  2. All amendments being brought to vote must be made with the [add][/add] and [remove][/remove] tag pairs to indicate where changes are being made.
    …1. If the amendment is a rewrite that requires the entire Legislative Proposal to be considered as a whole, then tag pairs are not mandatory, especially if their inclusion affects readability or comprehension.

  3. Nominations, Repeals, Removals, and Overrides are not required to follow a particular format. The Sponsor must clearly identify the target of the Legislative Proposal and why they introduced it.

  4. Resolutions should be written with the first section being titled “CITATION”, the second section being titled “FINDINGS”, and a third section titled “RESOLUTIONS”.

  5. Treaties and Declarations of War must use the Format of this Act where practical.
    …1. Sections may be referred to as Articles instead.

Section IV. RESPONSIBILITIES

  1. The Sponsor is responsible for formatting a Legislative Proposal according to the standards defined in this Act.

  2. The Office of the Provost may, at its discretion, request that a Sponsor reformat a Legislative Proposal to comply with the standards defined in this Act.

  3. The Office of the Provost may reformat a Legislative Proposal to comply with the standards defined in this Act before the Proposal is brought to a vote.

Section V. ALTERATIONS

  1. A Sponsor may alter their implementation of the Format of this Act as necessary. They must provide a justification for the alteration.

  2. The Office of the Provost may alter a Legislative Proposal’s implementation of the Format of this Act as necessary. They must provide a justification for the alteration.

  3. The Office of the Provost must not make unreasonable alterations when reformatting a Legislative Proposal to comply with this Act, including changing the intended meaning of a Resolution or the legal effect of a binding Legislative Proposal.
    …1. The Conclave may, by majority vote, reverse any edit that violates this paragraph of this Act.

INFORMATION

This amendment needs a majority of voting Magisters and a 50% quorum to pass.

IMPORTANT

A one week voting period will occur between the following period:
Tuesday, September 2, 2025 4:00 AM→Tuesday, September 9, 2025 4:00 AM

Choices for voting: Vote AYE or FOR if you are in favor.
Vote NAY or AGAINST if you are against.
Vote PRESENT or ABSTAIN if you cannot make a decision.


Vote:
  • AYE | FOR
  • NAY | AGAINST
  • PRESENT | ABSTAIN
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List of Active Magisters - 25
! Forum Name TEP
1 A_mean_old_man A mean old man
2 AC5230 ArenaC
3 Arleat Arleat
4 Art_Sokala Sokala
5 Asendavia Asendavia
6 Atrocha Atrocha
7 burgerkingfootlettuce Estande
8 Cretox Cretox State
9 CyberiumShadow Cyberstrom
10 Domais New Domais
11 GioSivo Pledonia
12 Ladona Ladonatalacton
13 lime_30000 Jakun
14 Lucklife Lucklife
15 Mangegneithe Aivintis
16 Marrabuk Marrabuk
17 McStooley Dragons Blood
18 Merlo Merlovich
19 Sammy23 New Leganes
20 SourKingland Sour Kingland
21 stygian549 Belrille
22 theclockworkvixen The Clockwork Multiverse
23 Virgolia Weewooweewooweewoo
24 Voli Volinovia
25 Zukchiva Zukchiva
List of Inactive Magisters - 2
! Forum Name TEP Notes
1 Cappedore Cappedore Suspended 14 Aug 2025
2 Lointland Lointland Suspended 14 Aug 2025

EDIT: Corrected a mistake where I forgot to include Arleat in the list of Active Magisters after their LOA ended. The number of Active Magisters increases from 24 to 25.