Claremont Bargain Belt Invitational
2019 — Claremont, CA/US
Congress Legislation
Bargain Belt Legislation 2019
A Bill to Exclude Cell Phone Location Data from 4th Amendment Protection
- BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
- SECTION 1. Cell Phone location data refers to data regularly collected by cell phone
- service providers from cell-tower monitoring.
- SECTION 2. Cell phone location data collected and stored by service providers must be
- accessible to government police agencies upon request.
- SECTION 3. This data is no longer subject to a search warrant since the data is held by
- corporate agencies and not by individual persons.
- SECTION 4. This law takes effect January 1, 2020.
- SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
A BILL TO ADDRESS FAST FASHION
- BE IT ENACTED BY THE STUDENT CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:
- SECTION 1: The United States Federal Government shall enact a Textiles Extended
- Producer Responsibility Tax on all garments produced in the United States and all
- garments imported from foreign markets..
- A: The Textiles Extended Producer Responsibility Tax (TEPR) will be a
- Temporary five-year tax beginning January 1, 2021.
- B: The TEPR Tax will be 2 cents per garment produced domestically
- and 4 cents per garment produced in foreign markets.
- C: Tax revenue collected will be earmarked for research and development in
- clothing recycling and after-use repurposing.
- SECTION 2: After the five-year taxing cycle, producers who can prove they are
- manufacturing durable clothing that is viable for recycling and disassembly will be
- exempt, and the TEPR will be extended for producers failing to meet established
- industry standards.
- SECTION 3: The U.S. Department of the Interior will oversee the enforcement of this
- legislation.
- SECTION 4: This law takes effect January 1, 2021.
- SECTION 5: All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.
A Bill to Set a National Prisoner Minimum Wage
- BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:
- SECTION 1. Prison minimum wage is defined herein as the lowest hourly wage
- permitted by law for all incarcerated persons in all private, state and federal detention
- centers and prisons.
- SECTION 2. The United States federal government shall hereby establish a national prisoner minimum wage of
- $4.00 per hour
- SECTION 3. Any state or federal public prison or privately owned/operated detention
- center found to be in violation of the new prisoner minimum wage shall be fined
- $1 thousand dollars per violation and ordered to pay all required back wages to those
- individuals harmed..
- SECTION 4. This legislation shall be overseen by the Department of Justice in
- conjunction with the Department of Labor
- SECTION 5. This legislation will take effect January 1, 2021.
- SECTION 6. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void
A BILL TO SECURE AMERICA'S NUCLEAR WASTE
- BE IT ENACTED BY THE STUDENT CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED:
- SECTION 1: The United States Federal Government authorize long-term interim storage of radioactive spent
- nuclear fuel at private storage facilities. Additionally, the USFG will resume design and construction of the
- permanent storage site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada as the final and permanent storage site of all spent nuclear
- materials.
- SECTION 2: Temporary deep-water storage of spent nuclear fuel will continue at the nearly 80 nuclear facilities
- across the nation. Temporary storage of spent material shall not exceed 10 years; at which point material must be
- transferred to interim storage facilities.
- SECTION 3: The U.S. Department of Energy will license and regulate all private interim storage facilities and the
- U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency will supervise construction standards for all storage facilities.
- SECTION 4: Any construction of private interim storage facilities on Native Land will still be under the
- jurisdiction and regulation of U.S. government agencies.
- SECTION 5: This law takes effect January 1, 2021.
- 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
- WHEREAS,:More than 50 percent of children in Somaliland are not receiving primary
- Education, and
- WHEREAS: Somaliland is still facing social and economic instability in the wake of
- the independence conflict and severe drought, and
- WHEREAS: Significant research indicates a positive relationship between increased
- schooling of local populations and economic growth, and
- WHEREAS: Education rates also have a direct and positive impact on the development
- of democratic ideals and institutions, and
- WHEREAS: since its self-proclaimed independence, U.S. foreign aid to the country has
- been severely limited.
- THEREFORE BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED,
- that the USFG will Recognize Somaliland’s independence and diplomatically engage
- with Somaliland by offering a 5-year $100 million aid package centering on economic
- developments and the founding of a national education system.