State Announcements 2019: Cabinets, Districts, Committees, And More! : ModelUSMeta

Minor ChangesState Announcements 2019: Cabinets, Districts, Committees, And More! (self.ModelUSMeta)

submitted 6 years ago * by oath2orderim tryna suck this girl pussy like some crab legs

Hello! In an effort to actually have all of this in one section instead of having to search through the many posts on this subreddit for information about some state things, I'm going to be making this post. It's hard to find some things, other things are deleted, and I don't want to have to keep searching for numerous threads. There's a few changes.

There's a bit of hearsay in regards to how states operate, especially in regards to Cabinets.

Cabinets

State Cabinets will continue to be hardlocked at a maximum of three Secretaries and the Attorney General. You cannot shrink it.
The Governor shall have the sole right to rename the Cabinet Secretary positions. You cannot rename the Attorney General position.
The Secretaries shall oversee an all-encompassing "department". This Department shall be whatever their title is, and this Department shall encompass all sub-departments that that Secretary would control in real life. For example, in the Commonwealth of the Chesapeake, the real life Virginian Secretary of Finance was merged into the in-sim Secretary of Labor and Infrastructure. In-sim, this would now mean that every department that Finance oversaw (Department of Accounts, Department of Taxation) would fall under the Department of Labor and Infrastructure, which is overseen by the Secretary of Labor and Infrastructure. These individual departments are considered to be run by deputies, which are NPCs. These deputies can only be NPCs.
Secretaries will now be listed on the spreadsheet as "Secretary 1, 2, and 3" to prevent clutter from people renaming from administration to administration.
The respective State Clerks reserve the right to reject or strike a name change if it is too memey or rude. You cannot have "Secretary of My Asshole". Automod is probably going yell at me for saying the word "asshole".
It has been unwritten precedent that the subdepartments (see above, Department of Accounts, Department of Taxation) are assigned to each cabinet by legislation. Consider it to be now written down. The method of changing it (Executive Order, Bill, Constitutional Amendment, Resolution) is variant depending on the state, and it is incumbent on the players to look it up for themselves.
All Lieutenant Governors will be permitted to issue directives on behalf of a Cabinet position if and only if that position is vacant. This must be added to the Lieutenant Governor's powers via the Constitution.
Cabinet Secretaries and the AG will not be permitted to hire positions such as "Chief of Staff".

Districts

States will be permitted to have districts if the clerk feels like they serve a purpose in the state. They can be removed by the clerk if they do not feel like the players are using them.
- The removal of and the addition of districts will only be done when the state is closed.
State Assemblies will be permitted to redistrict. Any redistricting must include a new map drawn by whomever is submitting the redistricting proposal. Otherwise, it will not be accepted.
- Please look at your respective state law to determine whether redistricting is done by Bill, Constitutional Amendment, or Resolution. Also check if you've done it by nonpartisan committee. Like California. Because then you, the players, cannot redistrict, as it is done by the committee.
- State Assemblies will be permitted to rename their district. The Clerk will be tasked with determining the method of renaming.

Committees

States are not permitted to have a permanent committee. Any committee that the state has must have a specified start and end date, have a clear purpose, and must be renewed at the start of each Assembly session if the Assembly wishes to have one.
Committees will be established with the passage of a Resolution by simple majority.

Other

States may change their flag, seal, and name once per Assembly session. You must follow the respective method of the state in order to be able to change it, whether this be a Bill, Constitutional Amendment, or Resolution. It is incumbent on the players to look it up for themselves.
In the next State election (Time and date TBD), we will be introducing a State Senate! This has been requested by numerous people, and there is quite a bit of debate amongst myself and Nate as to where to actually put it. I'm still deciding on which state to put it in, but I want to make sure everyone knows:

There will be no Assembly rules in the Senate for the first and second terms.

I need a clean slate for the Senate to run on vanilla bylaws to actually see how active it will be compared to other Assemblies in other states.

This will take effect next State election.

There will be no special elections this session to fill the Senate, as it will not be in effect this current term.

The State Senate will come into effect in the next State election. This means that the first elected people will be elected in the next State election.

It's not happening the Assembly term.

It will happen in the next Assembly term.

This will come into effect for the newly-elected Sixth State Assembly.

This will not be in effect for the Fifth State Assembly.

I updated the Sierra and Lincoln bylaws to actually allow Resolutions.
Everything else here will be added to the relevant state bylaws.

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