Parliamentary Committees Act

An Act to create the Committee System of the League of Christian Nations Parliament.

I. Purpose

The Committees shall serve as a means to recommend, edit, and revise bills before they shall enter the voting floor. This shall be to ensure the clarity of each bill as well as to solve any issues within its text.

II. Members

Each committee shall consist of three members. This is to ensure viability of view points as well as that a committee shall never be "hung."

III. Types

There shall exist only two types of committees

A. Standing

This type of committee shall be permanent in nature. They shall serve in areas such as the budget that are necessary to the functionality of the regional government.

B. Select

Select Committees shall serve purposes temporary in nature. These shall include emergencies and investigations.

IV. Committee Creation

A new standing committee may be created upon application to the Secretary-General or the Founder. Upon the consensus of the Founder and Secretary-General.

A Select Committee may be formed unilaterally by the Founder or Secretary-General or by three members of Parliament coming together with a chosen chairperson, so long as the members in question shall not already be members of two other committees. The Founder or Secretary-General may break up a self-created select committee of they deem it inappropriate or counter-productive

V. Prescribed Committees The committees listed below shall become effect pending the appointment of the two other members. The member listed shall serve as the Chairman/Chairwoman of the committee. The chairperson title is purely ceremonial in nature.

Committee on Regional Relations The Republic of Providence and Port Hope

Budget and Appropriations Committee The Republic of Xzaeron

Committee on International Justice and Law Enforcement The Constitutional Empire of Statsen

Committee on Human Rights The Federation of The United Pacific Territories

Committee on Health and Education Chemung

VI. Process

Any bill to be introduced to Parliamentary vote may first, but is not required to be, submitted to a committee. The committee shall then review and edit or make additions to the bill. The committee may then either "kill" the bill, introduce it to the floor, or submit it to another pertinent committee. Should a bill be killed, the author may reintroduce the bill directly to the floor.

Any committee may also draft it's own legislation, required it is germane to the committee's purpose.