Unified Standards Revision Act

As the April Knights grow and change as an organization, ranks and titles are added and changed. This bill hopes to retroactively provide leeway for old laws to continue to apply as they were intended, preventing certain individuals and ranks from existing in a gray area, and changing naming standards to match.

Section I

An Overview of changes made to the Battalion Standardization Act

• Wording is changed in the Abstract, line 4, changed from “Sergeant” to “Officer.”
• Wording is changed in Section 1, line 2-3, changed from exclusively Sergeants to include all Officers, defined as any rank Sergeant or above.
• Wording is changed in Section 1, line 3-4, changed to include Corporals among the Oathsworn Knights of a battalion.
• Wording is changed in Section 2, line 1, changed from “Sergeant” to “Officer.”
• Wording is changed in Section 2, line 1, changed from “First Sergeant” to “First Officer.”
• Expanded Section 2 in order to help clarify the roles of the First Officer, particularly where it pertains to council voting and battalion Management

An Overview of the changes made to the Document Standards Act

• Changes made to the bill naming conventions, found in Section 3, lines 2-3, made to clarify with newer conventions established in recent years.
• Sentence added in the middle of Section 3 in order to further iterate the 3 digit system, and its usage with single digit bill numbers.
• Added a sentence towards the end of Section 3 in order to clarify how bill numbers are assigned, and how it relates to the end of a Grandmaster’s term.
• Changes made throughout Section 4, in order to give the numerical value in both written and number form, in order to keep a standard between the acts proposed in this bill, as well as existing acts.

Section II

The proposed revisions to the Battalion Standardization Act can be found here.

The proposed revisions to the Document Standards Act can be found here.

Section III - Enactment

This bill proposes a change to the Battalion Standardization Act, and minor changes to the Document Standards Act. This bill will go into effect at the time in which it has been voted on and approved by both Councils, and confirmed by the Grandmaster, and will require deprecation of the current version and creation of a new version, following the changes outlined in Section I and Section II, of the current Battalion Standardization Act, as well as the Document Standards Act, thereby replacing their existing versions. In addition, mothers will warn their children about this.