Senate Transparency, Accountability, and Reporting Act 2025

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Repealed by Senate motion and signed on 30 November 2025.

Senate Transparency, Accountability, and Reporting Act 2025

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The strike-through and red text is formatted exactly how it was in the original document passed by the Senate.

The Senate initially passed a Star Act on 11 August 2025 (per #law-change-announcements), which was vetoed by the President the same day (per #law-change-announcements).

This version is not a veto override, but rather from a different document named Copy of Senate Transparency, Accountability and Reporting Act, which was passed by the Senate on 12 August 2025 (per #law-change-announcements), and not vetoed by the President with 72 hours.

Author: Rein

Sponsored by: the amazing senator that proposed my bill (Lucas)

Preamble

This bill shall be known as the Senate Transparency, Accountability and Reporting Act, and may also be called the S.T.A.R. Act or STAR Act.

Whereas I got inspired by mypen’s campaign promise of weekly senator reports

Whereas the senate should be transparent and accountable to their constituents

Whereas the government has to publish reports, so why shouldn’t senators?

Article 1: Senate Reports

§1. All senators shall have 36 24 hours from the start of a CFC for a Senatorial Election to publish to the public, a personal senate report, where they can present, in any way, as long as it is in a document file, what they have achieved in the Senate.

§1.1. If a senator does not publish to the public their personal senate report, the Speaker shall warn them and give 12 more hours for them to do so.

§1.2. If a senator still does not publish to the public their personal senate report, it shall be recommended to the Senate, at the discretion of the Speaker, that the Senator is be put in Contempt of Senate.

§2. The Senate Clerk must compile copies of all senators’ personal senate reports into a folder that shall be published to the #senate-records discord channel, and may be forwarded to #government-announcements at the discretion of the Speaker of the Senate.

Article 2: Senate Offices

§1. Each senator in the Senate of SimDemocracy may choose to have a senate office.

§2. Each senate office shall have a forum post in a text forum channel called #senate-offices.

§3. The channel must be able to be seen and have permissions to chat in the forum post.

§3.1. The general public may not have permissions to chat in the forum post in the case of using a discord server for their personal senatorial business, at the discretion of the senator.

§4. In the case of using a discord sever:

§4.1. There must at all times be a link going to the discord server posted in their office forum post.

§4.2. There must be at least one (1) channel where the general public may be able to chat in.

§4.2.1. This subsection may not be followed in the case of using a border system, in which case there must be at least one (1) channel where people who made it past the border may be able to chat in.

§5. Each senate office shall have a channel in the SimDemocracy Discord Server, in a separate category from the main Senate discord category called “Senate Offices”

§6. They may choose to make their office channel either a:

§6.1. Normal Text Channel,

§6.2. Announcement Channel, or

§6.3. A Text Forum Channel.

§7. The channel must be able to be seen by the general public, but they may be removed from permissions to be able to chat in the channel, at the discretion of the senator.

§7.1. There must be at least one (1) area in the channel where the general public may be able to chat in, which can be the channel itself, a thread in the channel, or a forum post in the forum channel.

§8. The channel may be used on their own, or as a portal to a separate Discord Server where their senatorial business is done.

§8.1. The Discord Supervisor must own the separate Discord Server in the event of its usage, and the main purpose of the server shall be conducting that senator’s senatorial business.

§8.2. There must be at least one (1) channel where the general public may be able to chat in.

§8.2.1. This subsection may not be followed in the case of using a border system, in which case there must be instead at least one (1) channel where people who made it past the border may be able to chat in.