Proposing a new legislation.

Question

If you were to propose a new law, what would that be and why?

Answer 1

It would depend on the country that you were in for a start.

It would also depend on what you wanted the law to be about.

If you wanted a change to taxation law for instance - it may only take an amendment to one of the present tax acts. Parliament need not draw up a whole new bill and enact it.

On the other hand, if it is a whole new area that needs to be dealt with, then there may be a committee of enquiry set up. That area of interest will be researched and studied in detail first before parliamanet even considers writing a law in relation to it. Some lobbying takes place also. This is a growing industry in Austalia and has very considerable influence on the formation of government legislation but is much more low profile than in the US.

After considerable discussion, unless there is an emergency, a Bill will be drafted and put forward for members to peruse. Once it has been reviewed and if they are happy with it, the bill may pass the lower house - the House of Representatives.

The Bill then proceeds to the Senate where the members again peruse it and decide if it is fit to pass. If amendments are to be made this usually happens in the Senate in Australia. Finally after a lot of "Horse Trading" the Bill is enacted into law in something like the form that it was originally intended if it is lucky.

The Act is then taken to the Governor General (GG) (Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain's representative - Australia is a British Dominion - so her representative OK's all our legislation) and the GG signs all our legislation into law in the same way as the President of the United States or France does.

Ideally, Australia would have a new law that would protect our inland river system - the Murray - Darling River System - and would make it  the property of the people of Australia. It would not be for private sale. The Murray - Darling River System is critically close to collapse and is one of the largest river systems in the world. This is why we are so concerned about it. It would therefore not be environmentally abused if it was not so commercialised and the rights to water from it could not be sold by private enterprise.

Hope this makes my views clear re a new law for Australia.

Cheers!!!

Answer 2

It would be an old law, and it would be more than one of them.  They would be all the laws regulating corporations, and especially banks, that FDR sponsored and that his "admirer" sabotaged in 1981.  Since then, we've had S&L implosions, Enron, Tyco, MCI/Worldcom, predatory lending, and lots more scams coming every day.