Congress Legislation

Bargain Belt Legislation 2019

A Bill to Exclude Cell Phone Location Data from 4th Amendment Protection

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
2. SECTION 1.  Cell Phone location data refers to data regularly collected by cell phone
3.  service providers from cell-tower monitoring.
4. SECTION 2.  Cell phone location data collected and stored by service providers must be
5.  accessible to government police agencies upon request.  
6. SECTION 3.  This data is no longer subject to a search warrant since the data is held by
7.  corporate agencies and not by individual persons.  
8. SECTION 4. This law takes effect January 1, 2020.
9. SECTION 5.  All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. 

A BILL TO  ADDRESS FAST FASHION

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE STUDENT CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:
2. SECTION 1: The United States Federal Government shall enact a Textiles Extended
3.  Producer Responsibility Tax on all garments produced in the United States and all
4.  garments imported from foreign markets..
5.           A: The Textiles Extended Producer Responsibility Tax (TEPR) will be a
6.             Temporary five-year tax beginning January 1, 2021.
7.           B:  The TEPR Tax will be 2 cents per garment produced domestically
8.           and 4 cents per garment produced in foreign markets.
9.          C: Tax revenue collected will be earmarked for research and development in
10.          clothing recycling and after-use repurposing.
11.  SECTION 2:  After the five-year taxing cycle, producers who can prove they are
12.  manufacturing  durable clothing that is viable for recycling and disassembly will be
13.  exempt, and the TEPR will be extended for producers failing to meet established
14.    industry standards.
15. SECTION 3: The U.S. Department of the Interior will oversee the enforcement of this
16.  legislation.
17.  SECTION 4: This law takes effect January 1, 2021.
18. SECTION 5: All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

A Bill to Set a National Prisoner Minimum Wage 

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
2. SECTION 1. Prison minimum wage is defined herein as the lowest hourly wage 
3. permitted by law for all incarcerated persons in all private, state and federal detention
4.  centers and prisons.
5. SECTION 2. The United States federal government shall hereby establish a national prisoner minimum wage of
6. $4.00 per hour 
7. SECTION 3. Any state or federal public prison or privately owned/operated detention
8.  center found to be in violation of the new prisoner minimum wage shall be fined 
9. $1 thousand dollars per violation and ordered to pay all required back wages to those
10.  individuals harmed..
11. SECTION 4. This legislation shall be overseen by the Department of Justice in
12.  conjunction with the Department of Labor
13. SECTION 5. This legislation will take effect  January 1, 2021.
14. SECTION 6. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void

A BILL TO SECURE AMERICA'S NUCLEAR WASTE

1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE STUDENT CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:
2. SECTION 1: The United States Federal Government authorize long-term interim storage of radioactive spent
3. nuclear fuel at private storage facilities.  Additionally, the USFG will resume design and construction of the
4. permanent storage site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the final and permanent storage site of all spent nuclear
5. materials.
6. SECTION 2: Temporary deep-water storage of spent nuclear fuel will continue at the nearly 80 nuclear facilities
7. across the nation.  Temporary storage of spent material shall not exceed 10 years; at which point material must be
8. transferred to interim storage facilities.  
9. SECTION 3: The U.S. Department of Energy will license and regulate all private interim storage facilities and the
10. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency will supervise construction standards for all storage facilities.  
11. SECTION 4: Any construction of private interim storage facilities on Native Land will still be under the
12. jurisdiction and regulation of U.S. government agencies.  
13. SECTION 5: This law takes effect January 1, 2021.
14. SECTION 6: All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

A Resolution to Recognize the Independent Republic of Somaliland 

and to Supply Economic and Educational Foreign Aid

1. WHEREAS,:More than 50 percent of children in Somaliland are not receiving primary 
2. Education, and
3.  WHEREAS: Somaliland is still facing social and economic instability in the wake of 
4. the independence conflict and severe drought, and 
5. WHEREAS: Significant research indicates a positive relationship between increased 
6. schooling of local populations and economic growth, and
7. WHEREAS: Education rates also have a direct and positive impact on the development
8.  of democratic ideals and institutions, and 
9. WHEREAS: since its self-proclaimed independence, U.S. foreign aid to the country has
10.  been severely limited.
11. THEREFORE BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED,
12. that the USFG will Recognize Somaliland’s independence and diplomatically engage

13.  with Somaliland by offering a 5-year $100 million aid package centering on economic

14.  developments and the founding of a national education system.