NSCTA Nebraska State Debate Championships
2016 — NE/US
Congress Bills
2016 Congressional Debate Docket
NSCTA State Debate Championships
Preliminary Congress
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1. A Bill to Close the Loophole in Trans Fat Labeling |
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2. A Bill to Lower the Number of Incarcerated People |
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3. A Bill to Require all Schools to Have Cameras in Their Classrooms |
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4. A Bill to Increase Foreign Aid to Pacific Alliance Countries |
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5. A Bill to Require all US Public Schools to Hire Armed Security Guard |
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6. Bill to Ban Assault Weapons |
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7. A Resolution to Abolish “Guilty but Mentally Ill” Verdicts |
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8. A Bill to Increase School Sanitariness |
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9. A Bill to Ban Maternal Drug Testing |
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10. A Bill to Lower the Legal Age for Body Modification to Fifteen Years of Age |
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11. A Bill to Mandate Labeling of Foods Containing Genetically Modified Organisms. |
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12. The “21st Century” Glass-Steagall Act of 2016 |
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13. A Bill to Abolish the Printing of Big Currency Notes |
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14. A Resolution Concerning Marriage Counseling |
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15. A Resolution to Increase the Readability of Legal Documents |
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16. A Bill to Exempt Current Military Members from No Gun Zones
Super Congress |
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1. A Bill to Ban Civil Judicial Forfeiture |
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2. A Bill Concerning Replacing Government Officials who Deny Same-Sex Marriage Licenses |
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3. A Bill to Require a Law Enforcement Back Door to Electronic Devices |
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4. Bill to Establish a Single-Payer Health Care System |
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5. A Resolution to Establish a Longitudinal Study of Immigration |
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6. A Bill to Criminalize Euthanasia in Order to Protect the Sanity of Terminally Ill Patients |
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7. A Bill to Improve College Student Debt by Paying it Forward |
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8. A Resolution to Create Heath Care Competition Across State Lines |
#1 -- PRELIMS
A Bill to Close the Loophole in Trans Fat Labeling
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
Section 1. Nutritional informational panels and/or the nutritional facts label on edible products must contain the amount of trans fatty acid in the product rounded to the nearest tenth of a gram. Trans fatty acid levels of less than one half of a gram shall not be rounded to zero grams and must display the true amount of trans fatty acid rounded to the nearest tenth of a gram.
Section 2. The nutritional informational panel or the nutritional facts label shall be defined as a label that provides health information about a specific edible product. Trans fatty acid shall be defined as the unsaturated fats occurring in oils, shortening, and margarine.
Section 3. The Food and Drug Administration shall oversee the enforcement of this bill.
SECTION 4. This legislation shall go into effect on January 1, 2017.
Section 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void
Introduced for Congressional Debate by Lincoln East High School.
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A Bill to Lower the Number of Incarcerated People
1 Section 1a. All incarcerated people in prisons and jails convicted of a misdemeanor
2 charge and are in jail for more than one month are subject to participate in community
3 service which may lower their the amount of time they are actually in prison.
4 Section 1b. A misdemeanor is defined as a crime which is punishable by up to a year in
5 jail time and a crime which is not an infraction or a felony. Community service shall be
6 defined as service that benefits the community in which the incarcerated person’s prison
7 is in.
8 Section 2a. The United States Department of Justice will enforce this legislation.
9 Section 2b. The individual public prisons and jails will determine how they will allow
10 incarcerated people to participate in community service. States and municipal
11 legislatures can also pass legislation supporting this bill.
12 Section 3. Prisons and jails that fail to carry out this law will receive â…“ less funding that 13 they get from the government every year that they do not comply.
14 Section 4. This bill will be in effect January 1st, 2018.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
Section 1. All U.S. Public Schools will be required to hire a minimum of one specially trained security guard for surveillance and safety management of school grounds.
Section 2. Security Guard will be defined as a protective agent who is paid to protect assets including, but not limited to property, people, and money by utilizing preventative measures. Armed will be defined as equipped with or carrying a weapon or weapons.
Section 3. The International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators along with the U.S. Department of Education will oversee the enforcement of this bill.
A. All U.S. public schools in violation of this bill will be fined $20,000 for every day a security guard isn’t contracted to work.
SECTION 4. This bill be implemented after a 180 day grace period after passing, after which the $20,000 fine will take effect
Section 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
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Bill to Ban Assault Weapons
Submitted by: Lincoln North Star High School
1. Be it enacted by the Federal Student Congress here assembled that:
2.Section 1: Assault weapons are banned for purchase by the public.
3.Section 2a: Assault weapons shall be defined as semi-automatic firearms with a 4.detachable magazine and a pistol grip, and other features such as a flash suppressor 5.or barrel.
6.Section 2b: Public shall be defined as any resident belonging to a community.
7.Section 2c: Purchase shall be defined as acquire by paying.
8.Section 3a: Assault weapons are now retroactively illegal. All of those currently in 9.possession will not be punished but must turn over to local authorities.
10.Section 3b: Local authorities will have safe gun return programs.
11.Section 4a: 20 million dollars will be allocated nationwide from the United States 12.Defense Budget for safe gun return programs at the municipal level.
13.Section 4b: Those failing to return their assault weapons within a year of 14.implementation will be given jail time of no more than 30 days for each weapon 16.found if found in possession of the weapon(s).
17.Section 4c: This law will go into effect six months upon passage.
18.Section 5: All laws that are in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null 19.and void.
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A Resolution to Abolish “Guilty but Mentally Ill” Verdicts
Whereas, The Insanity plea is meant to allow for persons who were unable to control their
actions at the time of the crime committed to be reformed in order to return to society.
Whereas, The Insanity plea is rarely used in the United States court system and is not easily abused.
Whereas: “Guilty but Mentally Ill” verdicts undermine the reformation purpose of the Insanity Plea
Therefore be it resolved by the Student Congress here assembled, The verdict of “Guilty but Mentally Ill” shall be removed in its entirety from US legal system.
Creighton Prep
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
Section 1. All required maternal drug testing will be banned.
Section 2. Maternal will be defined as of or relating to a mother during pregnancy or shortly after birth. Shortly shall be defined as a year after birth. Drug testing shall be defined as any test given to detect the presence of an illicit drug or any other illegal substance.
Section 3. The Department of Health and Human Services shall oversee the enforcement of this legislation.
SECTION 4. This legislation shall go into effect on January 1, 2017.
Section 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.