PARLIAMENT VOTE #30: Senate Guidelines Revision #1 - VOTE PASSED

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Parliament Vote #30:
Senate Guidelines Revision #1

With the passing of this legislation, the following will occur:
The revisions to the Senate of VillageCraft Official Guidelines stated below will be adopted.

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FULL TEXT HERE: https://gitlab.com/luisc99/legislation-changes/-/commit/c98e45266bac820bba6106a0b795d30092fecda7
The new text in the above link is what will be adopted. The link includes the full text of the revisions, side-by-side with the old text for comparison.

CHANGE LIST:
-States that the Senate is a body of the Parliament (there has been some confusion over this)
-Clears up votes with regards to investigations of Staff (there was some confusion over this a few months ago)
-Clears up terms and adds some terms, such as "Selection Event" to make things easier to follow
-Clears up some ambiguity about resignations, and the removal of the CM (who can still be eligible for selection)
-Adds a section "C.5: Sortition" to explain sortition in one spot
-Adds language to officially adopt the publicly-auditable and viewable Sortition Method and randomized daily Selection Lists developed by Ako and Luis
-Adds language to make sure orders to fill seat vacancies occur the following day (UTC) so no strategy/"cheating"  with selecting new Senators can occur
-Closes the "Upcoming Sortition List" 24 hours before the new session to give buffer time for the new list to be updated for the new Senate to be selected
-States that orders to fill vacant seats may not occur within the last 72 hours of a Senate Session (to sync with the above 24 hour buffer, and also because it would be odd)
-Places a (soft) limit of a maximum of 3 Staff members on the Senate, to avoid Staff dominance. Technically adding a player to the Staff who is a Senator can exceed this limit, but this is the only way.
-Requires the CM to choose whether to accept a Senate seat 1-10 days PRIOR to the start of a Senate Session, now removing their ability to slightly delay a session by not deciding.
-Makes it clear that Senate Votes last 5 days or until all Senators have voted, at the Speaker's discretion (there was some confusion about this)
-Makes it clear that System Admins are counted as 1 of the 3 staff required for consent (there was a question recently whether it was 3+1 admin or whether the admin counted)
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This vote has been brought to Parliament by the passing of Senate Vote #6 - https://bit.ly/3w5HN8n
Discussion took place on Discord in #senate

This vote was initiated by senate nominations from Speaker Legend and Senator Allison
Staff approval from: Admin Ako, Admin Yvette, Admin Luis, and SM Octo

If "yes" is majority, The Senate Guidelines will be revised with the new text.
If "no" is majority, the revisions will not be added.

All Members of Parliament may vote.
For the act to pass, a majority of voting MPs must vote in favor.

If you are indifferent, please abstain.

[OctoGamer]

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