Pacifica External Affairs Committee Act (2019)

[Constie]

Pacifica External Affairs Committee Act (2019)

Section 1. Formation of the Pacifica External Affairs Committee

(1) The Pacifica External Affairs Committee (henceforth to be known as the PEAC) is hereby created.

(2) The President shall, at his or her discretion, appoint members to the PEAC to serve as advisers on foreign policy

(3) The President and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (or an equivalent office) shall serve on the PEAC along with four other members 

(4) The PEAC shall serve at the will of the President, and may be dismissed at any time.


(5) The PEAC may possess a private subforum or discord channel in order to carry out its functions



Section 2. Restrictions on the Pacifica External Affairs Committee


(1) The Chief Justice of the High Court may not serve as a member of the PEAC.

(2) Any member of the PEAC may be taken off the Committee by an absolute majority vote of the Regional Congress.

[Cormac]

A couple things:

I'm not sure I care for Section 1(1). The Chief Justice is already prevented from holding any other office, though if we wanted to explicitly say the Chief Justice can't serve on the PEAC just to be sure it's covered, I'm okay with that. I'm less okay with preventing Associate Justices. The idea behind the way we do Associate Justices is that the Chief Justice and the Regional Congress can decide on a case by case basis who to appoint to serve as Associate Justices, and in the event a member of the PEAC has a conflict of interest on a particular case, they just wouldn't be appointed to serve as Associate Justices on that case. So my preference would be not to have a blanket prohibition against PEAC members serving as Associate Justices. We can manage conflicts of interest that may arise on a case by case basis.

I don't love Section 2(3) either. If this is a committee to advise the President, I think the President should have primary discretion on who is added or removed. I think letting the Regional Congress remove a PEAC member is fine, but letting the committee itself do it seems excessive.

Aside from that, and a few spelling ("disgression" --> "discretion," "expell" --> "expel") and formatting errors, this looks like a pretty good bill.

[Constie]

Revised the bill with the relevant changes

[Toerana]

I've got no issues with this. It helps to set out clear guidelines for any future President/Foreign Affairs Sec.

[Cormac]

Other than the minor formatting errors of extra line breaks here and there, looks good to me.

[qwabourharbour]

Yet another committee lol.

But sounds good

[Constie]

I motion to vote on this

[Toerana]

^
I second this motion