PRELIMS LEGISLATION. A Bill to Mandate all Children to be Vaccinated

PRELIMS LEGISLATION A Bill to Mandate all Children to be Vaccinated 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 SECTION 1. Every child under the age of 18 must receive the 13 vaccinations recommended by the CDC, with the exception of children who have medically required reasons for exempting. SECTION 2. Medical exemptions are defined as conditions diagnosed by licensed medical doctors and would place the child in danger if vaccinated. The 13 vaccinations are HepB vaccine, RV vaccines, DTaP vaccine, Tdap booster vaccine, Hib conjugate vaccine, IPV vaccine, Influenza vaccines, MMR vaccine, HepA vaccine, PCV vaccine, the Meningococcal conjugate vaccines, and the Varicella (VAR) vaccine. SECTION 3. The Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Internal Affairs will oversee the implementation of this bill. A. The CDC will create a national registry of children to monitor and manage vaccinations. B. The Department of Internal Affairs will impose a monetary penalty worth 1% of each parent s income per child for non-compliance to vaccinate. C. The funds collected from the penalty will be allocated to subsidizing vaccinations and to funding the national registry. SECTION 4. This legislation will go into affect January 1 st, 2017. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. Introduced for Congressional Debate by Carlee Goldberg of North Broward Preparatory School

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 A Bill to Abolish the Stand Your Ground Laws SECTION 1. Any and all current Stand Your Ground laws, will hereby be abolished from use, and will no longer be considered law. SECTION 2. Stand Your Ground laws shall be defined as any law that states that a person may use deadly force in self-defense without the duty to retreat when faced with a reasonable perceived threat. SECTION 3. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) shall oversee the implementation of this legislation. SECTION 4. This legislation shall take effect at the beginning of Fiscal Year 2016 SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. Introduced for Congressional Debate by Sen. Spencer Gorelick of J.P. Taravella High School

A Bill to Eliminate Sexism within the Education System 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 SECTION 1. A committee shall be established to fund, evaluate and eradicate sexism found within the Public Education system. SECTION 2. Sexism shall be defined as discrimination off the basis of sex or sexual orientation. Eradication shall be defined as the enforced punishment of instances deemed as sexually discriminatory. The removal of all sexually discriminative policy within the education system. SECTION 3. The department of Education will oversee the enforcement of this bill. A. Policy deemed discriminatory shall be amended. B. Citizens convicted of participating in sexually discriminatory deeds shall go through a disciplinary matrix to be further defined by the committee. C. Committee members convicted of sexual discrimination shall be temporarily suspended until an investigation has been concluded. SECTION 4. This bill shall be implemented in the school year of 2017. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. Introduced for Congressional Debate by Makenna Griffith South Broward High School.

Resolution to Grant Statehood to the District of Columbia 1. Wheras, Citizens of the District of Columbia are underrepresented in congress: and 2. Wheras, The people of the District are taxed in the same manner as those that 3. have full representation and voting privileges in Congress, and; 4. Wheras, the people of the district are currently only represented by a non-voting 5. representative, and; 6. Whereas, this violates many of our Nation s founding principles; now, therefore, be it 7. Resolved, that the District of Columbia should be granted full statehood and its citizens 8. all of the rights and privileges that it entails. Introduced for Congressional Debate by G. Holmes Braddock HS

A Bill to Revoke the No Child Left Behind Act 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 SECTION 1. The No Child Left Behind Act shall hereby be revoked. SECTION 2. The No Child Left Behind Act shall be defined as reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to boost student performance. SECTION 3. The Department of Education will oversee the enforcement of this bill. SECTION 4. This bill will be implemented by the beginning of the 2017/2018 school year. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. Introduced for Congressional Debate by South Broward High School.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 USA Future Defense Act SECTION 1. The United States will cut will be cut the defense budget by 25% SECTION 2. The money saved from this cut will be invested into the United States education system SECTION 3. No department of defense federal employees who are citizens of the United States will be unemployed by this this action. Foreign nationals and contractors will be the first to be excised. SECTION 4. The Department of Education will have one year from the time this bill is affirmed to identify a practical plan to use to this money to improve our public education system SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. Introduced for Congressional Debate by Ashton Bryan of Somerset Academy.

13 14 15 A Bill to Restrict For-Profit Educational Institutions 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 SECTION 1. SECTION 2. SECTION 3. A. For-Profit Educational institutions that provide an illegitimate education shall be excluded from federal financial assistance programs until they conform to regulations. B. These institutions will also have their advertising capabilities limited until they provide properly accredited degrees to students. C. Regulations shall prohibit For-Profit institutions from providing degrees without accreditation, creating false employment statistics, and charging unnecessary tuition fees onto students. A. "For-Profit Educational Institutions" shall refer to corporations that provide educational services without any official accreditation and for the purpose of gaining a profit. B. "Illegitimate education" includes false employment statistics, inadequate educational content, overly expensive tuition and fees, and predatory marketing tactics. C. "Federal financial assistance" include federal funding through special funding under the Workforce Investment Act, the Higher Education Act, and taxpayer expense. D. "Properly accredited degrees" include degrees that provide students with the same employment opportunity as degrees of the same value given by Non-profit institutions. The United States Secretary of Education shall carry out the provisions of this legislation. 33 34 SECTION 4. The provisions of this legislation shall be enforced at the start of the 2016-2017 academic year. 35 SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. 36 Introduced for Varsity Congressional Debate by Jason Orozco, McArthur High School

A Bill to Ban Book Censoring in the Public School System 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 SECTION 1. The public school system shall be unable to censor or ban books for student use. SECTION 2. Banned books shall be defined as any book that has been prohibited from publishing or circulation. Censoring shall be defined as editing and removing specific terms, scenes, or concepts from a book. SECTION 3. The Department of Education will oversee the enforcement and implementation of this bill. A. Each school shall be provided uncensored prints of literary material. B. A $500 fine per censored book to any school district that does not comply with this bill. SECTION 4. This bill will be implemented in the fiscal year of 2017. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. Introduced for Congressional Debate by South Broward High School.

A Bill to Prohibit the Open Carrying of Firearms in Public 1. SECTION 1. A) The carrying of firearms openly on or about his or her person in public 2. is hereby prohibited. 3. B) A person may openly carry for purposes of lawful self-defense: 4. 1. A self-defense chemical spray. 5. 2. A nonlethal stun gun or dart-firing stun gun or other nonlethal 6. electric weapon or device that is designed solely for defensive 7. purposes. 8. C) Any person violating this section commits a Class B federal 9. misdemeanor, punishable with a prison term ranging from 30 days to 6 10. months. 11. SECTION 2. Firearms include but are not limited to handguns such as pistols and 12. revolvers and long guns such as rifles and shotguns. 13. SECTION 3. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives of the United 14. States Department of Justice will oversee the implementation of this 15. legislation. 16. SECTION 4. This legislation will take effect immediately upon passage. 17. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. Introduced for Varsity Congressional Debate by Leslie Gonzalez of McArthur High School

A Bill to Mandate High School Athletics to Follow Professional Sports Safety Guidelines 1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS ASSEMBLED HERE TODAY THAT: 2 Section 1. This bill will require public schools to follow 3 professional sports safety guidelines when it comes to 4 their athletic teams. 5 Section 2. Professional Sports Safety Guidelines shall be defined 6 as the use of proper equipment and coaching 7 fundamentals set by the highest level of professional 8 competitions relative to the event. 9 Section 3. The National Federation of State High School 10 Associations shall oversee the implementation of this 11 bill. 12 Section 4. This bill shall be implemented in the school year of 13 2016-2017. 14 Section 5. All laws in conflict with this piece of legislation are 15 now declared null and void. Introduced for Varsity Congressional Debate by Tyler Plante of McArthur High School.

A Bill to Break up Large Financial Institutions SECTION 1. This bill will break up large financial institutions and prevent them from crashing the U.S. and World Economy and funding a bailout using tax-payer funds. SECTION 2. A large financial Institution is hereby defined as an establishment where money is managed, creditcards are given, and any other financial service. A bailout is hereby defined as an act of the U.S. Government giving money to stop a collapse. SECTION 3. The Department of Treasury, Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency shall oversee the enforcement of the bill along with the specific enforcement mechanism. A. The Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 shall be repealed and portions of the Glass Steagall Act of 1933 that were repealed shall now be herein reinstated. The aforementioned institutions shall be reauthorized to separate commercial and investment banking and to ensure consumer safety, and the economy is protected. B. The Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) shall be required in no later than 90 days to draft and submit a list of financial institutions that are large enough to cause another global economic crash to the Secretary of the Treasury who will then release the list to the U.S. Congress and the President of the United States. C. The Secretary of the Treasury in no later than 1 year of implementation of this legislation shall break up the financial institutions on this list in consultation with the appropriate regulatory agency. D. Financial institutions that are on this list are forbidden to utilize any federal funding made possible under the Federal Reserve Act. E. Any financial institution that is on this list shall not use any insured deposits for any actions not related to commercial banking, derivatives for speculative reasons, any actions related to the handling of derivatives, or any other type of speculative activity that regulators stipulate. SECTION 4. SECTION 5. This bill shall be implemented immediately upon passage. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. Introduced for Varsity Congressional Debate by Senator Michaelangelo Hamilton from McArthur High School.

A Resolution to Push for a Three-State Solution in Iraq 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 WHEREAS, WHEREAS, WHEREAS, RESOLVED, Sectarian tension and conflict between Sunni and Shia Arabs in Iraq fuels the civil war currently taking place there; and The Iraqi central government is directly responsible for the perpetuation of this sectarianism; and The ineffectiveness of the Iraqi central government forestalls both shortterm and long-term solutions to the conflict in the region; now, therefore, be it That the Congress here assembled push for a three-state solution in Iraq, in which the Sunni Arabs, the Shia Arabs, and the Kurds all receive their own respective states. Introduced for Congressional Debate by Owen Kalinic of Boca Raton Community High School.

A Resolution to Encourage a Two State Solution between Israel and Palestine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 WHEREAS, The Israeli Palestinian conflict is ongoing ; and WHEREAS, Palestinian people have suffered because of injustices; and WHEREAS, The conflict has caused destabilization in the Middle East; and WHEREAS, There needs to be recognition of the legitimate right of Palestinians to their own State, and of Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace and security; now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That the Congress here assembled urge Israel and Palestine to engage in meaningful negotiations about a two state solution and peace among the two nations. FURTHER RESOLVED, Politicians on both sides should avoid provocative actions and rhetoric and must expand on every effort to build upon existing agreement. Introduced for Congressional Debate by Gloria Grandpierre from McArthur High School

A Bill to Eliminate Affirmative Action to Promote Equity in College Admissions 1 2 SECTION 1. Universities and colleges that continue to use affirmative action 3 programs in their admissions process shall no longer receive 4 federal funds. 5 SECTION 2. Colleges and universities shall be defined as two- or four-year 6 institutions of higher education. Admissions process shall be 7 defined as the process through which individuals are accepted into 8 the institution, whether at a freshman, transfer, or graduate level. 9 Affirmative actions programs shall be defined as any policy 10 through which a candidate s race is used as a deciding factor in 11 admissions. 12 SECTION 3. The Department of Education shall be responsible for the 13 enforcement of this legislation. 14 A. The Department of Education shall conduct a review of the 15 admissions process of all universities and colleges receiving 16 federal funds. 17 B. Any institution that is determined to use race in admissions 18 will immediately cease to receive federal funding until 19 that policy is ended. 20 SECTION 4. This bill will take effect on January 1 st, 2016. 21 SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared 22 null and void. Introduced by Sen. Narrelle Gilchrist, Forest Hill Community School

A Bill to Limit Number of Terms on All Elected Federal Representatives 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 SECTION 1. SECTION 2. SECTION 3. SECTION 4. SECTION 5. Each person elected to the House of Representatives or the Senate shall Elected federal elected representatives shall be defined as either a Senator or congressman. The Federal Election Commission shall oversee the enforcement of this bill along with the specific enforcement mechanism. A. Any incumbents seeking reelection, despite they already have served two terms, shall have their election suspended. B. Any incumbents seeking reelection after their first term may do so. All current federal representatives who has served over two terms, may not be able to seek reelection after the passage of this bill. This bill will become effective immediately upon its passage. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. 14 Introduced For Debate By - G. Holmes Braddock HS

A Bill to Enact Compulsory Military Service 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 SECTION 1. All citizens upon graduating secondary school must serve within the Unites States military. SECTION 2. Citizens shall be defined as anyone over the age of 18 or has obtained a legal citizenship status. Serving shall be defined as fulfilling the minimum requirement of four years for enlistments. SECTION 3. The Department of Defense will oversee the enforcement of the bill. A. Citizens who are unable to serve shall be exempted from the requirements of this bill based off of medical conditions that shall be conducted annually. B. Citizens enrolled under the establishment of a four year institution shall be exempted from this bill. C. Citizens who do not comply shall be heavily fined or jailed. SECTION 4. This bill shall be implemented in the fiscal year of 2017 SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. Introduced for Congressional Debate by Makenna Griffith South Broward High School.

A Bill to Reform the Mental Health Care System SECTION 1. The United States government is to increase funding by $10 billion to the Department of Health and Human Services for the purpose of improving and building new mental health facilities. SECTION 2. Mental Health facilities will be defined as locations where mentally ill patients can receive help and care for their mental illness. SECTION 3. The department of Health and Human Services will oversee the implementation of this law. SECTION 4. This law will go into effect at the beginning of the following fiscal year. SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. Introduced for Congressional Debate by Andrea Zamora, Archbishop McCarthy

A Resolution to Amend the Constitution to Provide for Direct Popular Election of the President and the Vice President 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 RESOLVED, By two-thirds of the Congress here assembled, that the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states within seven years from the date of its submission by the Congress: ARTICLE -- SECTION 1. The President and Vice President shall be elected jointly by the direct vote of the citizens of the United States, without regard to whether the citizens are residents of a State. SECTION 2. The persons having the greatest number of votes for President and Vice President shall be elected, so long as such persons have a majority of the votes cast. SECTION 3. The voting shall be by secret ballot by means of instantrunoff voting. SECTION 4. This amendment shall apply with respect to any election for President and Vice President held after the expiration of the 1-year period which begins on the date of the passing of this amendment. Introduced for Congressional Debate by Bruce Glasserman, Cooper City High School.

A Bill to Aid Nigeria 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 SECTION 1. SECTION 2. SECTION 3. SECTION 4. SECTION 5. The United States will supply the country of Nigeria 900 million US dollars in order to provide humanitarian and military aid. Humanitarian aid to be defined as material or logistical assistance provided for humanitarian purposes, typically in response to humanitarian crises. Military aid to be defined as aid which is used to assist a country or its people in its defense efforts, or to assist a poor country in maintaining control over its own territory. The United States Department of Treasury and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will oversee the enactment of this bill. This bill will be implemented in the 2016 fiscal year. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. 14 Introduced for Varsity Congressional Debate by Sara Rendon from McArthur High School.

A Bill to Fix Yemen s Water Infrastructure Section 1. A. A comprehensive review of the World Bank, the GIZ, and the NWRA shall be conducted in order to find areas where resources are lacking, to identify what specific resources those areas need, and to identify corrupt officials. The resources needed will be provided contingent upon the identified corrupt officials being fired. B. 8 billion dollars shall be put towards the subsidization of projects within Yemen including but not limited to drip irrigation, small dam construction, alternative crop production, including return to traditional crops, improved water distribution systems, and wastewater reuse for irrigation and aquifer recharge. An additional 2 billion dollars will be provided for the creation and enhancement of remote sensing and GIS techniques, along with the distribution of information found with these techniques. This aid will be provided contingent upon the Yemeni government forcing the exportation of qat production, while its importation, distribution, and resulting economic benefits may be managed by the current group of producers. Section 2. Resource shall be defined as materials including but not limited to supplies and funding. Corrupt official shall be defined as an individual showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain. Fired shall be defined as the ending of employment. Subsidization shall be defined as a form of financial aid or support extended to an economic sector. Section 3. The Department of State shall be responsible for enforcing Section 1 A, and for conducting an annual review to ensure a lack of corruption and of qat production and, if any is found and not eliminated within three months, aid provided by Section 1 A or B, depending on which is found, shall be suspended and, if it is not eliminated by the next review, all aid given by the pertaining section shall be revoked. The Department of Agriculture shall be responsible for reviewing subsidization requests and, if it deems the request feasible, subsidizing 50% of the cost of the project with funding from the appropriate funding pool. Section 4. Sections 1 A and B shall be implemented independently, immediately after the contingency pertaining to each section is met. Section 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. Submitted by Senator Zachary Perrotta, Cooper City High School

A Bill to Abolish Jail Time for Drug Abusers 1 Section 1. As opposed to serving jail time, a drug abuser shall be administered 2 therapy from a reputable source. Individuals currently incarcerated who 3 have been identified as drug abusers shall be administered therapy as well. 4 Section 2. a. A drug abuser shall be defined as someone who uses illicit 5 substances yet is docile and not violent towards others or 6 themselves. 7 b. Therapy shall be defined as a short term residential program that 8 will provide support to the drug abuser. 9 c. A reputable source shall be defined as a qualified individual to 10 administer therapy, such as a substance abuse counselor. 11 Section 3. The Department of Justice shall deal with the implementation of this 12 legislation. 13 a. $300 billion shall be funded to the Department of Justice to 14 implement this legislation. 15 Section 4. This legislation will be effective upon passage. 16 Section 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. Introduced for Congressional Debate by Wellington High School

A Bill to Eliminate Barriers to Facilitate Adoption of Children by Same-Gender Couples Be it enacted by the Student Congress here assembled that: 1 Section 1 All state entities that receive Federal assistance and are involved with 2 adoption or foster care placements shall permit joint adoption by same- 3 gender couples and give them equal priority in adoption cases. Any public 4 child welfare agency receiving federal financial assistance will be 5 prohibited from discriminating against any potential foster or adoptive 6 family on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status. 7 Section 2 Joint-adoption refers to equal legal representation of both parents as the 8 guardian of the adopted child. Equal priority defines the prohibition of 9 heterosexual couples being given preferential treatment. 10 Section 3 The Office of the Administration for Children and Families, a division of 11 the Department of Health and Human Services, will be responsible for 12 overseeing the implementation of this legislation. If a state fails to comply, 13 the Secretary of Health and Human Services may withhold payment to the 14 state, to the extent the Secretary deems the withholding necessary to 15 induce the state into compliance with this section. 16 Section 4 This law will go into action on January 1, 2016 17 Section 5 All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. Introduced for Congressional Debate by Wellington High School

SUPERS LEGISLATION A Bill Providing Amnesty to Illegal Immigrants in the United States Be it enacted by this Student Congress here assembled that: 1 Section I. Amnesty and citizenship would be granted to illegal immigrants residing 2 within the borders of the United States. 3 Section II. Illegal immigrants who have been in the United States for five years or 4 more as of January 1, 2017, would be granted immediate amnesty. Those 5 who have been in the country between two and five years as of January 1, 6 2017, could travel to one of 16 ports of entry, where they would receive 7 amnesty and lawful work permits. These ports of entry would be at 8 locations to be determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security. 9 A) After receiving amnesty, illegal immigrants would spend six years 10 in a provisional status before attaining lawful permanent 11 residence (LPR) status. After five years in LPR status, they would 12 have the opportunity to become naturalized citizens. 13 B) Spouses and dependent children of current illegal immigrants 14 would have the right to enter the U.S. and become citizens. 15 Section III: Provisions of this bill will be handled by the Bureau of United States 16 Citizenship and Immigration Services. 17 Section IV. This legislation will go into effect as of January 1, 2017. 18 Section V. Any laws or portion of law in conflict with this legislation shall be 19 declared null and void. Introduced for Congressional Debate by the Flanagan Falcon Invitational

A Resolution Calling for a National Living Wage 1 Whereas: Millions of people work at low wage jobs; and 2 Whereas: Existing minimum wage laws are inadequate to provide basic needs; 3 and, 4 Whereas: Only comprehensive federal legislation can secure a realistic living 5 wage for all workers; and, 6 Whereas: Local governments and organizations have already adopted living wage 7 ordinances; 8 Therefore: be it resolved by this Student Congress here assembled that the Minimum 9 Wage Act of 1938 be amended to fix minimum hourly wages by a formula 10 that allows a full time worker s earnings to provide the most basic 11 personal consumption needs of a family of four and that Congress be 12 directed to extend the Medicare program for coverage for every working 13 family. Introduced for Congressional Debate by the Flanagan Falcon Invitational

A Resolution to Increase the Minimum Grade Point Average Requirement for Graduation 1 Whereas: Entrance requirements for post-secondary education continue to increase; 2 and 3 Whereas: The federal No Child Left Behind Act mandates higher student 4 achievement and more accountability by school districts, its employees, 5 and its stakeholders; and 6 Whereas: No Child Left Behind was instituted in an attempt to raise student 7 achievement levels, close student achievement gaps, and increase student 8 reading and writing proficiency; and 9 Whereas: While standardized test scores are used as an indicator of student 10 achievement and achievement, a stronger correlation of student learning 11 and achievement can be gleaned from day-to-day classroom assessments; 12 and 13 Whereas: The accepted minimum grade point average to graduate from a public 14 school system is currently 2.0; and 15 Whereas: This minimum benchmark does not accurately reflect a level of 16 preparedness by high school students embarking on futures in post- 17 secondary education, the military, or the work force; and 18 Whereas: Many post-secondary educational institutes mandate higher grade point 19 averages for financial aid and scholarship considerations; and 20 Whereas: Public education should focus on increasing all aspects of student 21 readiness indicators, including grade point averages; 22 Therefore, be it resolved by this here Student Congress here assembled that 23 beginning with the Class of 2020, the minimum grade point average 24 required for public high school graduates be increased to 2.5, with a 0.25 25 incremental increase each year until the minimum grade point average for 26 public high school graduates is 3.0. Introduced for Congressional Debate by the Flanagan Falcon Invitational