{"id":2179,"date":"2016-02-14T21:10:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T02:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdstudentcouncils.org\/?page_id=2179"},"modified":"2026-07-06T19:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T23:35:47","slug":"legislation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/masc-temp.on-forge.com\/index.php\/documents\/legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Students wishing to submit NEW legislation<\/strong><\/a> TEN DAYS before an event should complete this form.<\/p>\n

Spontaneous or Amendments<\/strong><\/a> –\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Preferential Voting – Robert’s Rules of Orders \/ MASC Procedures (PreferentialVotingProcedures<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>NOTE<\/strong>:\u00a0 If you cannot access a Google document and you are using a school system domain, you might have to use a personal or different internet browser to access it.\u00a0 Most files below are linked to Google files.\u00a0 If you request access, MASC is blocked by your school system from even replying to the request!!!<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

2026-2027<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>Pre-Filed:\u00a0 Legislation on which MASC will be taking action
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\"\"<\/a>Spontaneous Legislation:\u00a0 Legislation on which MASC will be taking action<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Passed: Legislation on which MASC has taken action for 2026-2027<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Failed: Legislation that has been brought to the floor and failed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>ARCHIVES:<\/span><\/h3>\n
NOTE<\/strong>:\u00a0 If you cannot access a Google document and you are using a school system domain, you might have to use a personal or different internet browser to access it.\u00a0 Most files below are linked to Google files.<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n

2025-2026<\/a>
\n2024-2025<\/a>
\n2023-2024<\/a><\/strong>
\n2022-2023<\/a>
\n2021-2022<\/a>
\n2020-2021<\/a>
\n2019-2020<\/a>
\n2018-2019<\/a>
\n2017-2018<\/a>
\n2015-2017<\/a><\/h3>\n


\n<\/strong>\"\"<\/a>MASC Constitution:\u00a0<\/strong>Articles about legislation<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Article XV
\nLegislation<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Section 1 <\/strong>Pre-filed \u2013 For a piece of legislation to be considered pre-filed, it must be submitted to the MASC President and Executive Director at least ten (10) days before a meeting of the Executive Board or session of the General Assembly. Further, this legislation must be published on the MASC Website and made available to notify MASC members at least nine (9) days before its presentation. When proposed legislation is presented to members of the General Assembly or the Executive Board, it shall pass by a majority vote of the voting members of the General Assembly or the Executive Board.<\/p>\n

Section 2 <\/strong>Spontaneous \u2013 Legislation submitted within ten (10) days of its presentation will pass with a two-thirds majority vote of the voting members of the General Assembly or Executive Board.<\/p>\n

Section 3 <\/strong>Amendments to Legislation \u2013 All amendments must follow the prescribed regulations as outlined in Article XVI of this document.<\/p>\n

Section 4 <\/strong>Effective Date of Legislation \u2013 Legislation passed by the General Assembly or Executive Board will be put into effect immediately unless otherwise specified by said Legislation. Legislation impacting the status of an election must be passed a minimum of two (2) months before that particular election, otherwise, it would not go into effect until the following election cycle.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Article XVI
\n<\/strong>Amendments<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Section 1 <\/strong>Pre-filed \u2013 When a proposed amendment to this document is pre-filed in the General Assembly with proper notification per Article XV of this document, it shall pass with a two-thirds vote of the General Assembly.<\/p>\n

Section 2 <\/strong>Spontaneous \u2013 Amendments made spontaneously during official meetings of the<\/p>\n

General Assembly shall pass with a four-fifths vote of the voting members of the General Assembly. If the original legislation was, in fact, pre-filed and an amendment is added, the legislation as a whole will proceed to be passed by a two-thirds vote.<\/p>\n

Section 3 <\/strong>For consistency in technical areas, the president, aided by the parliamentarian, shall review the Constitution and make any changes needed for the document to be correct, provided that the intent of the clause is not changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Students wishing to submit NEW legislation TEN DAYS before an event should complete this form. Spontaneous or Amendments – Preferential Voting – Robert’s Rules of Orders \/ MASC Procedures (PreferentialVotingProcedures) NOTE:\u00a0 If you cannot access a Google document and you are using a school system domain, you might have to use a personal or different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2179","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masc-temp.on-forge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masc-temp.on-forge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masc-temp.on-forge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masc-temp.on-forge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masc-temp.on-forge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":162,"href":"https:\/\/masc-temp.on-forge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15602,"href":"https:\/\/masc-temp.on-forge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2179\/revisions\/15602"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masc-temp.on-forge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masc-temp.on-forge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}