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Title
1.  This act may be cited as the Declassification Amendment Act

Amendments
1.  Section 2 of the Declassification of Private Storting Discussion Procedure Act currently reads:
"All discussions are to be classified until 30 minutes before the end of the Session. During that time the Speaker of the Underhusen and the Chairman of the Overhusen shall release all classified documents."

It shall be amended to read:
"The Speaker and Chairman have discretion over which discussions will be declassified.  The Speaker can choose to declassify any documents created by a Skrifa, and the Chairman can choose to declassify any documents created by the Monarch or a Peer.  If there are documents that will remain classified, the Speaker or Chairman must outline their reasoning in the document."

2.  Section 3 shall be added to the Declassification of Private Storting Discussion Procedure Act, and it shall read:
"Discussions that are to be declassified must be displayed in a public space accessible to all Citizens of Wintreath at the conclusion of the nomination period for Underhusen candidates.  If a discussion was created by a Skrifa, it will be declassified by the outgoing Speaker.  If a discussion was created by the Monarch or a Peer, it will be declassified by the Chairman.  The Speaker or Chairman must give a count of the number of documents that remain classified when posting declassified documents."

3.  Section 4 shall be added to the Declassification of Private Storting Discussion Procedure Act, and it shall read:
"Any powers given to the Speaker or Chairman by this act will also be given to the Speaker Pro Tempore and Acting Chairman if they are empowered by their respective Procedural Rules.

Skrifa may vote AYE, NAY, or may choose to ABSTAIN from voting.

Aye.

Nay, in its current form it is potentially illegal and I would rather avoid such an important law be struck down.

Aye.

I believe I fixed the offending passage, and since debate stalled and no further comments were made, I assumed the problem was resolved. At any rate, I disagree with your interpretation of the law.

Aye

I agree with Point Breeze on this.  There were many fixes and plenty of time to debate whether there were more errors or not...time that was not used to its full extent as it was posted on the 13th, discussion lasted until the 18th when a motion to vote was made...but the last discussion happened on the 15th.  That's four days (including the rest of the 15th since the last post was late morning) of discussion that could have happened if there was more to talk about, but didn't happen.

Therefore, discussing its legality at this point is useless when it's being taken to a vote after 4 days of complete non-discussion.

Anyways I'll vote Aye on this.

And with 4 votes AYE and one vote NAY, this bill passes and will proceed to the OH, I'm assuming.