Congress Bills

Tab will choose what bills you debate per round. Any of the 6 below may be chosen for any round.

A Bill to Ban Domestic Short-Haul Flights

1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:

2 SECTION 1. No commercial passenger airline shall operate a regularly scheduled route between two

3 destinations that are connected by a reliable land route that can, under normal conditions,

4 be traversed in fewer than six hours, as determined by the Federal Highway Administration

5 (FHA).

6 SECTION 2. Any airline found to be in violation of this legislation shall be fined $100,000 per infraction.

7 Upon the third infraction, the airline shall lose its license to operate commercial flights for a

8 period of one year.

9 SECTION 3. This legislation shall be overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

10 SECTION 4. This legislation shall take effect on January 1, 2027.

11 SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

A Bill to Increase Access to Non-Athletic Competitive Extracurriculars

1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:

2 SECTION 1. Congress shall establish an annual fund of $250 million to be dispersed to middle schools

3 and high schools around the nation to promote their ability to participate in non-athletic

4 competitive extracurricular events, including but not limited to speech & debate, Model

5 United Nations, math team, Quiz Bowl, and robotics.

6 SECTION 2. The Department of Education shall oversee this legislation and shall be responsible for

7 establishing a process by which schools may apply for funding, as well as for determining

8 which schools receive funding and how much funding goes to each recipient. Congress

9 encourages the Department of Education to prioritize support for schools that

10 disproportionately struggle to compete due to geographic and economic disadvantages.

11 SECTION 3. This legislation shall take effect on August 1, 2024.

12 SECTION 4. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

A Bill to Block Advanced Creative AI Websites and Apps

1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:

2 SECTION 1. All domestic internet service providers (ISPs) are directed to block websites and apps that

3 utilize artificial intelligence to enable users to produce art, writing, and other creative

4 works based on original prompts.

5 SECTION 2. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) shall be

6 entrusted with determining and publicizing which websites meet this criteria and must be

7 blocked, as well as with overseeing implementation of this legislation generally.

8 SECTION 3. Any ISPs found to be in violation of this legislation shall be fined a minimum of $5,000 and

9 maximum of $50,000 per infraction. Repeated violations (more than five in a one-year

10 period) shall result in the revocation of that ISP’s license to provide internet services.

11 SECTION 4. This legislation shall take effect on January 1, 2024.

12 SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

A Bill to Invest in Namibia’s Oil Fields

1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:

2 SECTION 1. For the next ten years, Congress shall direct $1 billion annually to Namibia to be utilized to

3 help that nation take advantage of its recently discovered offshore oil reserves.

4 SECTION 2. The Department of State will oversee this legislation and in particular to work actively and

5 carefully with Namibia to promote the equitable distribution of the wealth produced from

6 these oil fields among the Namibian people.

7 SECTION 3. Funding for this legislation shall be drawn from a 0.5% tariff increase on imports of oil and

8 petroleum products.

9 SECTION 4. This legislation shall take effect at the start of the next fiscal year.

10 SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

A Bill to Require that Fees for Curbside Garbage Collection be Levied by Weight

1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:

2 SECTION 1. Municipalities and companies which provide curbside garbage collection services must

3 charge for these services proportionally based on the amount (measured by weight) of

4 garbage each household or business needs to have taken away. Municipalities and

5 companies may set their own rates for these services.

6 SECTION 2. For the purposes of this legislation, garbage is defined as any waste product put out by

7 households or businesses to be taken to a landfill. Curbside recycling and composting

8 pickup shall not be impacted.

9 SECTION 3. Congress shall allocate $1 billion to create a fund to support municipalities and companies

10 in installing scales and any other equipment and technology necessary to enable garbage

11 trucks to weigh waste promptly and reliably.

12 SECTION 4. This legislation, including the disbursement of funds as described in Section 3, shall be

13 overseen by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

14 SECTION 5. This legislation shall take effect on January 1, 2025.

15 SECTION 6. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

A Resolution to Amend the Constitution to End Penal Slavery

1 RESOLVED, That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United

2 States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when

3 ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from

4 the date of its submission by the Congress:

5 ARTICLE —

6 SECTION 1. The phrase “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly

7 convicted” shall be stricken from the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

8 SECTION 2. Henceforth, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in any form within the

9 United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

10 SECTION 3. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.