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2A State Congress PRELIM Legislation Item Legislation Authoring ESC P1 A Bill to Increase Funding for the United States Coast Guard to

Purchase Five Additional Heavy Ice Breaker Ships 7

P2 A Resolution to Terminate Animal Testing to Protect Animal Rights 12 P3 A Bill to Reduce the Legal Alcohol Consumption Age to 18 14 P4 A Bill to Enforce Mandatory Voting to All That Are Able 16 P5 A Bill to Create Educational Tracks to Assure that America Will Have

a Stable Work Force 17

P6 A Bill to Ban Mandatory Minimum Sentencing for Non-‐Violent Drug Offenders

*

P7 A Resolution to Mandate the Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods * P8 The Ukraine Support and Security Recovery Act of 2016 * P9 A Bill to Re-‐fund and Repurpose the National Aeronautics and Space

Administration to Achieve Feats *

P10 A Resolution on Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave *

2A State Congress FINALS Legislation Item Legislation Authoring ESC F1 A Resolution to Require Military Service 2 F2 A Bill to Increase the Number of Voters to Participate in the Elections

of the United States 3

F3 A Resolution to Replace Usual Observation Tactics in the S.P.O.T. Program with Thermal Imaging Cameras

5

F4 A Bill to Require Police Officers to Wear Body Cameras 11 F5 A Resolution to Give Doctors More Flexibility and Treatment Options

in the Care of Terminally Ill Patients 15

F6 A Bill to Offer Four-‐Year College for No Tuition * F7 A Bill to Send American Soldiers to Latin America to Promote

Humanitarian Aid and Peace *

F8 A Bill to Lift the Zero Tolerance Policies to Lessen Extreme Punishments for Minor Breaches

*

F9 A Resolution to Encourage the Creation of a Federal Shield Law * F10 A Resolution to Urge States to Mandate the Appointment of Special

Prosecutors in the Case of Officer-‐Involved Fatal Shootings

*

Chambers may set the order of their docket. Legislation does not belong to the chamber until it has first been introduced by the author or sponsor. ESC authorship is designated. If none is designated (indicated by *), the legislation will be introduced by the State Congressional Debate Clerk and thus is open to a sponsorship speech by any school.

A Bill to Increase Funding for the United States Coast Guard to Purchase Five Additional Heavy Ice Breaker Ships

BE IT ENACTED BY THIS UIL CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT: 1

SECTION 1. Funding for the United States Coast Guard will be increased to a sufficient 2

amount to allow the purchase of five heavy ice breaker ships for use in 3

the Arctic Ocean. 4

SECTION 2. A heavy ice breaker is defined as an ice breaker capable of performing 5

the duties currently being conducted by the Coast Guard Polar Star and 6

Polar Sea ships. 7

SECTION 3. The United States Coast Guard will oversee the purchase of the ships. 8

SECTION 4. Funding will be available to the United States Coast Guard to purchase 9

the ships on October 1, 2016. 10

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

P1

Introduced for UIL Congressional Debate by ESC 7.

A Resolution to Terminate Animal Testing to Protect Animal Rights

WHEREAS, An estimated over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, 1

and abused in US labs every year; and 2

WHEREAS, According to the Humane Society International, animal testing is cruel 3

and inhumane (force feeding, forced inhalation, food and water 4

deprivation, prolonged periods of physical restraint, etc.); and 5

WHEREAS, The Animal Welfare Act doesn’t protect the majority of the animals 6

currently used in research (rats, mice, fish, birds, etc.); and 7

WHEREAS, Animals are different from human beings and thus, do not give reliable 8

predictions for human use or benefit; and 9

WHEREAS, 92% of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals fail in 10

human clinical trials because they are too dangerous or don’t work; now, 11

therefore, be it 12

RESOLVED, That the UIL Congress here assembled terminate animal testing by all U.S. 13

research and contract research facilities. 14

P2


A Bill to Reduce the Legal Alcohol Consumption Age to 18 BE IT ENACTED BY THIS UIL CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT: 1

SECTION 1. The Federal Uniform Drinking Age Act of 1984 will be amended to reflect 2

the minimum drinking age decreased to 18 years of age. 3

SECTION 2. The Federal Uniform Drinking Age Act of 1984 prevents any person under 4

the age of 21 from buying or publically possessing alcoholic beverages. 5

SECTION 3. The United States government will be in charge of diminishing the legal 6

age for drinking, while: 7

A. Allowing individual states the opportunity to set the lowered age or 8

keep the already regulated age. 9

B. Without decreasing the federal funding for highways from any states 10

that choose to lower the age as written the Federal Uniform Drinking 11

Age Act of 1984. 12

SECTION 4. The bill will be fully effective by January of 2017 to allow time for states 13

to choose to opt in or out. 14

SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.15

P3


A Bill to Enforce Mandatory Voting to All That Are Able


SECTION 1. All U.S citizens at the age of 18 or older, will be required to register 2

and vote in national elections. Any citizen eligible to vote (all citizens 3

18 or older) are hereby required to vote; failure to do so will result in 4

a fine. 5

SECTION 2. In 2012, 218 million were eligible to vote in the U.S. Approximately 6

57.5 percent actually voted, meaning roughly over 40 percent of the 7

eligible population did not vote. 8

SECTION 3. The Department of Justice will oversee the implementation and 9

enforce all fines. 10

A. The penalty imposed for not voting will be between $200.00 and 11

$1,000.00 based on the number of years the regulations have been 12

violated. 13

SECTION 4. This law will take effect within six months of passage. 14

SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and 15

void.16

P4


A Bill to Create Educational Tracks to Assure that America Will Have a Stable Work Force


SECTION 1. All eighth graders will be administered a test by the Department of 2

Education. Anyone in the bottom 20 percentile will be going into a trade 3

school to learn a skill that will prepare them to get a job in the work force 4

at a later date, while the top 80 percentile will go to college prep high 5

school and pursue a life of higher education in hopes for a college degree. 6

SECTION 2. A. Track is hereby defined as “two separate school systems that students 7

will be placed in” and 8

B. Stable work force is hereby defined as “a work force to keep a stable 9

national economy.” 10

SECTION 3. The Department of Education will oversee and implement this bill. 11

SECTION 4. This bill will be implemented the year of 2016-‐2017. 12


P5


A Bill to Ban Mandatory Minimum Sentencing for Non-‐Violent Drug Offenders


SECTION 1. All federal laws requiring a mandatory minimum sentence for non-‐violent 2

drug offense are hereby repealed. 3

SECTION 2. A mandatory minimum sentencing law is a statute that restricts the 4

judiciary to issue a minimum sentence for certain crimes, regardless of 5

extenuating circumstances. A non-‐violent drug offender is a person 6

convicted of a federal or state drug violation including, but not limited to, 7

possession and distribution of a controlled substance. 8

SECTION 3. The United States Department of Justice will oversee implementation and 9

enforcement of this bill. 10

A. Current federal prosecutions shall continue under the new provisions 11

of this bill. 12

SECTION 4. This bill will take effect immediately. 13


P6

A Resolution to Mandate the Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods

WHEREAS, There has been an increasing concern over Genetically Modified Foods; 1

and 2

WHEREAS, This concern is spreading throughout the United States; and 3

WHEREAS, According to the World Health Organization, genetically modified foods 4

have had their genetic material unnaturally modified, which can 5

potentially cause harm to those who consume it, and consumers are 6

often unaware of the lasting effects it has on their health; and 7

WHEREAS, Consumers have a right to know what items they are purchasing in order 8

to make informed decisions about their health; now, therefore, be it, 9

RESOLVED, That the UIL Congress here assembled mandate the labeling of 10

genetically modified foods.11

P7

The Ukraine Support and Security Recovery Act of 2016


SECTION 1. The United States Federal Government shall allocate humanitarian and 2

military aid to the Ukrainian Government over the course of the year. 3

A. Humanitarian aid worth of $200 million will be dispersed to 4

devastated communities by US troops. 5

B. $300 million worth of military aid will be supplied to the Ukrainian 6

Government and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 7

SECTION 2. Humanitarian aid is defined as supplies and essentials to alleviate 8

destroyed communities in Ukraine. 9

A. Military aid is defined as the both non-‐lethal and lethal aid such as 10

radar equipment, anti-‐tank systems, missiles, etc. 11

SECTION 3. The Department of Defense shall be responsible for the transaction of 12

military aid to the Ukrainian government along with the implementation 13

of US troops to disperse aid to regions within Ukraine that are in need. 14

SECTION 4. This bill will take effect at the beginning of 2016, and aid will continue on 15

an annual basis until 2019. All aid will cease if deemed ineffective or 16

unnecessary after the first annual year of passage. 17


P8

A Bill to Re-‐fund and Repurpose the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

to Achieve Feats

BE IT ENACTED BY THE UIL CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT: 1

SECTION 1. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) be given 2

exponentially more funding than it presently receives and that it be 3

repurposed. 4

SECTION 2. “Repurpose” means that a re-‐evaluation of staff, procedures, methods, 5

policies and goals shall occur. NASA will not be focused on geopolitical 6

schemes like it has been in the past. It will be required to instate more 7

efficient policies and mechanisms. “Re-‐fund” means that NASA’s total 8

budget for the next twenty years at minimum shall be at least 200 billion 9

dollars, and the percentage of this budget that is spent on science, 10

research and space exploration shall not fall below 60 percent of the total 11

budget. 12

SECTION 3. The NASA and the Department of the Interior and the US Air Force shall 13

oversee and assist with the reform of NASA. 14

A. NASA shall be the primary agency to oversee this reformation. 15

B. NASA shall have sent at least one manned mission to Mars by 2030. 16

C. NASA shall have sent at least five deep – space probes into the far 17

reaches of space by 2035. 18

D. NASA is to increase research and focus on its Asteroid Redirect 19

Program and asteroid detection programs exponentially by 20

developing “Armageddon” contingency plans. 21

SECTION 4. The reformed NASA must be fully operational by January 1st 2017. 22


P9

A Resolution on Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave

WHEREAS, Current workers within the United States workforce are guaranteed 12 1

weeks of unpaid leave; and 2

WHEREAS, Some workers cannot afford to go 12 weeks without pay; and 3

WHEREAS, Parents need at least 3 months to transition to life with a child; and 4

WHEREAS, It is within a child’s best psychological interest to have at least 3 months 5

to create a healthy bond with its parents; now, therefore, be it 6

RESOLVED, That the UIL Congress have assembled amend the Family and Medical 7

Leave Act of 1993 to read that all workers be guaranteed 12 weeks of 8

9 paid leave for child care, reimbursed at 100% of their salary.

P10

A Resolution to Require Military Service

WHEREAS, The United States currently does not require military service from its 1

male citizens; and 2

WHEREAS, All men in the United States are required to register with Selective 3

Service upon reaching the age of 18; and 4

WHEREAS, Military service helps to build strong character, develop leadership and 5

technical skills, and instill a sense of national pride; and 6

WHEREAS, America, more than ever, needs a strong military to protect our nations’ 7

interests both domestic and foreign; now, therefore, be it 8

RESOLVED, by the UIL Congress here assembled that all male American citizens, upon 9

reaching the age of 18 and completing high school, be required to serve 10

for a minimum of two years in any one of the five branches of the 11

American military.12

F1


A Bill to Increase the Number of Voters to Participate in the Elections of the United States


SECTION 1. Citizens of the United States shall have the option to register to vote and 2

cast a vote in Federal and State elections at any polling-‐site on the same 3

day as the proposed election date; 4

SECTION 2. “Citizen” as defined by the residency requirements for a citizen of that 5

state or jurisdiction thereof. Polling-‐site is defined as any place where an 6

eligible citizen may cast a vote as prescribed in the state or jurisdiction in 7

which said citizen has established residency. 8

SECTION 3. The U.S. Department of Justice through its Civil Rights Division and its 9

Federal Observance and Elections Monitoring Commission will ensure 10

that all Citizens of the United States will have access to an effective 11

registration process affording said citizen to vote on said day of election. 12

A. Same day voter registration and vote casting shall be permitted. 13

B. States shall provide for a hassle-‐free process for registration in order 14

that citizens may vote on Election Day. 15

SECTION 4. This process shall be in place and in effective working order by no later 16

than the 2016 Federal Elections. 17


F2


A Resolution to Replace Usual Observation Tactics in the S.P.O.T. Program with Thermal Imaging Cameras

WHEREAS, We have expended nearly one billion on the S.P.O.T. program (Screening 1

Passengers by Observation Techniques); and 2

WHEREAS, S.P.O.T. has not caught a single terrorist; and 3

WHEREAS, In the status quo S.P.O.T. relies on human observation which is by nature flawed; 4

and 5

WHEREAS, Thermal imaging cameras have been used in independent studies and have been 6

successful in catching suspicious behavior; now, therefore, be it 7

RESOLVED, That the UIL Congress here assembled make the following recommendation to 8

replace all human observation with thermal imaging camera in the S.P.O.T. 9

program in order to increase efficiency, surveillance, and safety of all airline 10

passengers and decrease racial discrimination. 11

F3


A Bill to Require Police Officers to Wear Body CamerasBE IT ENACTED BY THIS UIL CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT: 1

SECTION 1. The United States federal government will require all sworn, uniformed, state, 2 county and municipal officers to wear body cameras while on duty. 3

SECTION 2. This requires all officers to activate their cameras when making contact with the 4 public, not limited to traffic stops and radio calls. 5

SECTION 3. The Department of Homeland Security will provide a budget of $230 million for 6 equipment and training. 7

A. It is the responsibility of each individual agency to archive the data for at 8 least 50 years. The archives should be placed in a secured area. 9

B. Failure to properly secure data, whether intentional or through 10 negligence, that causes damage to, or loss of, data will result in 11 prosecution. 12

SECTION 4. All agencies affected by this statute are required to be in full compliance with 13 this statute within two years of it being signed into law. 14

SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby null and void.15

F4


A Resolution to Give Doctors More Flexibility and Treatment Options in the Care of Terminally Ill Patients

WHEREAS, Doctors should have the right to a greater flexibility of treatment options in 1

regards to terminally ill patients; and 2

WHEREAS, A terminally ill patient is generally regarded in the medical community as a 3

patient expected to die in six months; and 4

WHEREAS, Five states have recognized the need to allow doctors to practice active, 5

voluntary euthanasia on terminally ill patients that wish to end their suffering; 6

and 7

8 WHEREAS, These patients endure suffering and a loss of the quality of their lives, and the

cost of medical care is often a great burden to families; and 9

WHEREAS, Without legal protection to practice voluntary, active euthanasia, physicians see 10

the pain of the patients and their families; yet cannot act except to prolong 11

suffering; now, therefore, be it 12

RESOLVED, That the UIL Congress here assembled calls on all states to pass laws allowing 13

physicians to collaborate to provide active, voluntary euthanasia.14

F5


A Bill to Offer Four-‐Year College for No Tuition


SECTION 1. Students will receive four years at a public college free of tuition. 2

SECTION 2. Any student wishing to receive a bachelor degree at a public college may do so 3

without paying tuition. Any student wishing to receive a higher degree, attend 4

classes at a private university, or spend more than the allotted four years in 5

college shall pay the added amount of tuition. A public college refusing to 6

adhere to these standards shall lose any government or public funding. 7

SECTION 3. This legislation will be overseen by the U.S. Department of Education. Funds 8

shall come through a slight increase in public taxes and the re-‐appropriation of 9

current college loan programs. 10

SECTION 4. This legislation will be brought into effect by June 30, 2016. 11


F6

A Bill to Send American Soldiers to Latin America to Promote Humanitarian Aid and Peace

BE IT ENACTED BY THE UIL CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT: 1

SECTION 1. American soldiers will be sent at the request of Latin American countries to bolster 2 humanitarian aid and help keep and maintain peace. 3

SECTION 2. To further strengthen ties with Latin American countries, The U.S. will send troops 4 to help governments keep peace within any nation struggling to support itself. 5

SECTION 3. The U.S. will send military forces into Latin American countries that are deemed to 6 be in need of humanitarian intervention and support. 7

SECTION 4. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs will have jurisdiction and will see the 8 implementation and enforcement of the bill. The United States will send troops at 9 the request of a foreign Latin American government given that these soldiers will 10 receive immunity within the country and be properly protected. A country that 11 requests humanitarian intervention agrees that military land and naval bases set-‐12 up within the borders of said country is temporarily U.S. soil, therefore local and 13 state laws don’t apply 14

SECTION 5. A majority vote of the U.S. Congress is needed in order to approve the request of 15 the use of U.S. troops on foreign soil. 16

SECTION 6. The President of the United States will be able to veto the use of U.S. troops if 17 proof is given that it hurts foreign policy. 18

19 SECTION 7. This bill will be implemented on January 31, 2016.

SECTION 8. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. 20

F7

A Bill to Lift the Zero Tolerance Policies to Lessen Extreme Punishments for Minor Breaches


SECTION 1. All schools, with the exception of private schools, will drop Zero 2

Tolerance Policies to decrease the number of unreasonable suspensions 3

per school year. 4

SECTION 2. Zero Tolerance Policies shall be defined as the policy of applying laws or 5

penalties to any infringements of a code in public schools in order to 6

reinforce its overall importance and enhance deterrence. Unreasonable 7

suspension shall be defined as suspension when no danger or other 8

reasonable cause is present. 9

SECTION 3. The Department of Education shall oversee the implementation of this 10

bill. 11

a. The Department of Education will run pilot programs in the cities of12

the top two major cities in each state.13

b. If pilot programs show positive results, this bill will be implemented in14

all public schools in America.15

SECTION 4. The implementation of this bill will begin at the beginning of the 2016-‐17 16

school year. 17


F8

A Resolution to Encourage the Creation of a Federal Shield Law

WHEREAS, News organizations and reporters in the United States currently do not 1

enjoy Federal protection from unjust record subpoenas and unlawful 2

confiscation of confidential information; and 3

WHEREAS, The United States Federal government has, in recent years, both taken 4

and withheld sensitive information from news organizations without due 5

process of law, reasonable suspicion or timely explanation of reason or 6

cause, violating first amendment protection of freedom of speech and 7

press; and 8

WHEREAS, The confidentiality and anonymity of sources and individuals who 9

disclose information to the press is threatened by the confiscation of said 10

materials, subsequently damaging the success of free media and greatly 11

limiting information available to the American people, harming 12

democracy in the United States; and 13

WHEREAS, 49 states have already passed legislation regarding the protection of 14

reporters and the media, yet the Federal government has taken no such 15

action; now, therefore, be it 16

RESOLVED, That the UIL Congress here assembled make the following 17

recommendation for the creation of a Federal “Shield Law” to protect 18

both reporters and the media from injustices associated with the forceful 19

disclosure of personal, sensitive or otherwise confidential information; 20

and, be it 21

FURTHER RESOLVED, That this here assembled congress make the recommendation 22

that the United States Federal government discontinue the use of those 23

24 aforementioned unlawful and damaging practices immediately.

F9

A Resolution to Urge States to Mandate the Appointment of Special Prosecutors in the Case of Officer-‐Involved Fatal

Shootings

1 WHEREAS, The current process of indictment for state police officers creates a 2

conflict of interest between local prosecution and the officers they are tasked 3

with indicting; and 4

WHEREAS, From 2005 to 2011, 2,718 cases of officer-‐involved fatal shootings were 5

ruled “justified homicides” in comparison to 41 cases ruled to be criminal 6

homicide; and 7

WHEREAS, These statistics, fueled by the conflict of interest between local 8

prosecutors who are tasked to prosecute the officers they work with, has led to 9

an increasingly strong public mistrust for local police actions; and 10

WHEREAS, This mistrust of police actions has created an environment that questions 11

the use of force by police officers by the public; now, therefore, be it; 12

RESOLVED, That the UIL Congress here assembled that: states be encouraged to 13

establish a dedicated special office of prosecution for the investigation and 14

indictment process. 15

F10

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