Severability Amendment 2025

Severability Amendment 2025

Passed 17 July 2025

Whereas there has been some confusion into how amendments should work in relation to veto powers,

Believing there is a simple solution,

I, Justice Ivy Cactus NC, hereby propose the following amendment to the Senate Rules and Procedures Act (Pat edition):

Article 1: Amendment

§1. A new article titled “Severability” shall be inserted between articles six (6) and seven (7) of the Senate Rules and Procedures Act (Pat edition).

§2. The text of this new article shall be as follows:

“§1. A bill containing both statutory law and a constitutional amendment shall be known as a “stratified bill”
§2. When a Senator proposes a stratified bill they shall declare it as either “severable” or “inseverable”. An internal motion may be made to change the designation, subject to regular amendment motion procedures.
§3. Both types of bills shall be voted on and handled normally, although any Senator may propose an internal motion to split a severable bill into two debates and votes — one for the statutory law and one for the constitutional amendment — subject to simple majority vote. At the conclusion of debate a Senator may motion to rejoin a “severed” bill, subject to a simple majority vote.
§4. Statutory law included in a “severable” stratified bill shall take effect normally, regardless of the constitutional amendment’s progress, whereas in an “inseverable” stratified bill the statutory law shall take effect if and only if the constitutional amendment passes public referendum.”