[A-2025-44] Amendment to the Law Standards Act

[Lucklife]

Deputy Provost @Lucklife proposed an Amendment to the Law Standards Act. This was motioned to vote by Deputy Provost @Lucklife on Wednesday, October 15, 2025 2:22 AM and seconded by Deputy Provost @ernestdrake on Wednesday, October 15, 2025 2:24 AM.

The proposed amendments read as follows

Section I. CITATION

1. This Act shall be referred to as the “LawFormatting 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.

5. “The Forums” refers to https://forum.theeastpacific.com

Section III. LAW 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 Tuesday, September 9, 2025 4:13 AM 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. DATE AND TIME FORMATS

1. All dates and times used for official purposes on the Forums shall follow “Discourse Standard”, defined as YYYY-MM-DD.
2. Where applicable, dates must be expressed using the [date] tag for an individual date, or the [date-range] tag for a range of dates.
3. All uses of the [date] and [date-range] tags should, when applicable, represent individual dates as YYYY-MM-DD, individual times as hh:mm:ss, combined datetimes as YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss, and the timezone as tz.
   …1. YYYY is the year the event will occur;
   …2. MM is the month the event will occur;
   …3. DD is the day that the event will occur;
   …4. hh is the hour the event will occur, in 24-hour notation;
   …5. mm is the minute that the event will occur;
   …6. ss is the seconds that the event will occur, typically 00; and
   …7. tz is the appropriate timezone for the event.
4. Compliant examples and a list of timezones have been included in Appendix A.

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 VI. 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.

Appendix A. COMPLIANT EXAMPLES

• Individual date & time: [date=2023-02-07 time=11:30:00 format="LLLL z" timezone="UTC"]
• Date & time range: [date-range from=2023-01-07T11:30:00 to=2023-01-07T11:30:00 format="LLLL z" timezone="America\Los_Angeles"]
• A list of appropriate timezones can be found here: List of tz database time zones - Wikipedia

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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:
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 3:35 AM→Wednesday, October 22, 2025 3:35 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

List of Active Magisters - 24

#	Forum Name	TEP Name
1	AC5230	ArenaC
2	A_mean_old_man	A mean old man
3	Arleat	Arleat
4	Art_Sokala	Sokala
5	Asendavia	Asendavia
6	Cappedore	Cappedore
7	Cretox	Cretox State
8	CyberiumShadow	Cyberstrom
9	Domais	New Domais
10	GioSivo	Pledonia
11	Ladona	Ladonatalacton
12	Lucklife	Lucklife
13	Mangegneithe	Aivintis
14	McStooley	Dragons Blood
15	Merlo	Merlovich
16	Sammy23	New Leganes
17	SourKingland	Sour Kingland
18	Ulmer	Lionsroar
19	Virgolia	Weewooweewooweewoo
20	Zukchiva	Zukchiva
21	ernestdrake	Hemogard
22	krill6034	Kriilatia
23	lime_30000	Jakun
24	stygian549	Belrille

List of Inactive Magisters - 5

#	Forum Name	TEP Name	Notes
1	Lointland	Lointland	Suspended from 2025-08-14T00:00:00Z
2	Atrocha	Atrocha	Suspended from 2025-10-03T00:00:00Z
3	Marrabuk	Marrabuk	Suspended from 2025-10-03T00:00:00Z
4	burgerkingfootlettuce	Estande	Suspended from 2025-10-03T00:00:00Z
5	Voli	Volinovia	Suspended from 2025-10-03T00:00:00Z

[Ladona]

This vote automatically closed at Wednesday, October 22, 2025 3:35 AM

20 of the 23 active Magisters have voted making this vote QUORATE.
NOTE The number of active magisters decreased due to A_mean_old_man assuming the position of Delegate before the vote concluded.

Vote Breakdown

FOR	AGAINST	ABSTAIN
AC5230
Arleat
Asendavia
burgerkingfootlettuce
Cappedore
CyberiumShadow
Domais
ernestdrake
GioSivo
Ladona
lime_30000
Lucklife
Mangegneithe
Merlo
Rudak
Sammy23
SourKingland
Ulmer
Virgolia
Zukchiva
Total: 100.0%	Total: 0.0%

REMINDER

Abstentions only count towards determining if a quorum was reached; they are not counted in the final result. Invalid votes according to the Standing Orders of the Magisterium are not counted at all.

Results

With 100.0% voting FOR, this amendment has PASSED. The Executive will be notfiied.

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List of Slackers

Art_Sokala
Cretox
Lointland
Marrabuk
McStooley
Atrocha
Voli
stygian549
krill6034