Congressional Packet

I  A Bill to Eliminate the Physical Education Requirements Across
High Schools
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
SECTION 1. No state, school district, or other entity may require a student to take a
physical education as a requirement to graduate.
SECTION 2. A physical education class is defined as a class that focuses on physical
motion and/or health-related topics.
SECTION 3. The Department of Education shall oversee this legislation be taken into
action.
SECTION 4. This legislation will take effect on July 1st, 2024 for all new high school
students.
SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
Introduced for Congressional Debate by Aidan Voyles.

II  A Bill to Make a Fairer GPA Across the Nation
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
SECTION 1. High school Grade Point Average (or GPA as it will be defined henceforth)
will be calculated the same nationwide according to the following
guidelines:

A. Unweighted GPA is calculated using a scale where an A=4, B=3, C=2,

and F=0. Unweighted GPA is found using the average of all high-school
credit classes that a student has taken.

B. Weighted GPA is calculated by adding .5 to each “honors” level class,

and 1.0 to each Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, or
Dual Enrollment Class.

C. The new GPA for this bill will then add 0.03 to the GPA described in step

B for every class on the transcript in order to prevent students with
4.5+ GPAs from having their GPAs lowered by getting an A in a class.

D. In order to prevent section C from having unwanted consequences,

students will be limited to having 35 classes on their transcripts.
SECTION 2. The Department of Education shall oversee this legislation be taken into
action.
SECTION 3. This legislation will take effect on July 1st, 2024 for all new high school
students. Students who have taken high school credit classes in middle
school will have their GPAs altered if necessary.
SECTION 4. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
Introduced for Congressional Debate by Aidan Voyles.

III  A Bill to Ban Research into Artificial Intelligence
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:
SECTION 1. Further research into artificial intelligence (AI) is hereby banned.
SECTION 2. The US strongly encourages all other nations to enact similar bans and
warns those nations that fail to do so that the US will consider a variety of 4 consequences to
bring about a global end to AI research.
SECTION 3. The use of foreign AI technology is also banned. Any company,
organization, or individual found to be utilizing foreign AI technology will be fined $1 billion
and the responsible party/parties shall be imprisoned for no fewer than 10 years.
SECTION 4. This legislation shall be overseen by the Department of Defense.
SECTION 5. This legislation shall take effect Jan. 1, 2023.
SECTION 6. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

IV  A Bill to Repeal the Espionage Act
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:
SECTION 1. 18 U.S.C. ch. 37 (introduced in the House during the 65th US Congress on
2 June 1917 as H.R. 291 and popularly known as the Espionage Act) is hereby repealed.
SECTION 2. Any persons previously convicted of violating the Espionage Act are
hereby exonerated, their sentences to be terminated immediately, and their records expunged of
criminality related to this law. Any ongoing investigations and trials into violation of the
Espionage Act shall also be terminated immediately.
SECTION 3. This legislation shall be overseen by the Department of Justice.
SECTION 4. This legislation shall take effect immediately upon passage.
SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

V  A Bill for Federal Bail Reform
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any provision of Federal law, no justice, judge, or other judicial
official in any court created by or under Article III of the Constitution of the United States may
use payment of money as a condition of pretrial release in any criminal case.
SECTION 2. Any persons currently charged with a “qualifying offense” shall be released
without bail while they await their day in court and released with no conditions unless it is
proven that conditions are necessary to ensure court appearance. The conditions of release must
be nonmonetary and the least restrictive to reasonably assure return to court.
SECTION 3. A person charged with a qualifying offense who is released to await trial in
the community can be subject to bail or pretrial detention at a later point if he or she persistently
and willfully fails to appear in court, violates an order of protection, is accused of witness
tampering or intimidation, or is charged with another felony while awaiting trial for a felony.
SECTION 4. “Qualifying offenses” include all misdemeanors (except sex offenses and
16 contempt of court charges related to an allegation of domestic violence), all non-17 violent
felonies (except witness intimidation and tampering, sex offenses, and 18 conspiracy, terrorism,
and contempt charges).
SECTION 5. This legislation will be implemented upon passage. All laws in conflict
with this 20 legislation are hereby declared null and void.

VI   A Bill for Pay Transparency
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
SECTION 1. This Pay Transparency Act requires employers to provide certain employee
applicants 2 with pay transparency.
SECTION 2. A. An employer or an employment agency shall not
(a) seek the wage or salary history of an applicant for employment; and shall not
(b) rely on the wage or salary history of an applicant to determine:
(1) whether to offer employment to an applicant; or
(2) the rate of pay for the applicant; or

(c) refuse to interview, hire, promote or employ an applicant, or discriminate or retaliate
against an applicant if the applicant does not provide wage or salary history.

B. An employer or an employment agency shall provide to an applicant
for employment who has completed an interview for a position, the wage
or salary range or 13 rate for the position, including the wage and salary
that was previously paid to the 14 person occupying the employment
position for which the applicant is applying.
C. Nothing in this section prohibits an employer or employment agency
from asking an applicant for employment about his or her wage or salary
expectation for the position for which the applicant is applying.
SECTION 3. The U.S. Department of Labor will be responsible for the oversight of this
legislation.
SECTION 4. The U.S. Department of Labor may impose against any employer or
employment agency or any agent or representative thereof that is found to have violated any

provision of this section an administrative penalty of not more than $10,000 for each such
violation.
SECTION 5. This legislation will take effect on July 1, 2023. All laws in conflict with
this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

VII  A Bill to Change the Draft Eligibility
BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
SECTION 1. Section 1-101 of the Military Selective Service Act will be amended to
read: “All citizens of the United States and residents in the United States, unless exempted by
the Military Selective Service Act, as amended, who were born on or after 4 January 1, 1960,
and who have attained their eighteenth birthday, shall present themselves for registration in the
manner and at the time and places as hereinafter provided.”
SECTION 2. The Selective Service System will be in charge of implementing this bill.
The SSS is already preparing for an expansion but will receive a $5 million budget 9 increase
for the next fiscal year for increased registration management. All language within the Military
Selective Service Act will be amended slightly to include all citizens and residents in the United
States. Those who newly qualify under Section 1 will have until January 2024 to register.
SECTION 3. This bill will go into effect on January 1, 2023. All laws in conflict with
this legislation are hereby declared null and void.