Lobbying Regulation Bill

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Section 1: Definitions
Article 1: "Lobbying" is defined as the act in which a citizen, organization, or group uses coercive persuasion or pressure to convince or force a politician into politically favoring a certain group or organization.
Article 2: "Politician" is defined as a citizen who is actively, or has in the past, participated in government elections of any kind, whether by serving a position or campaigning with the intent to serve.
Section 2: Terms
Article 1: Forcing or coercing a politician into favoring a certain person, group, or organization, shall be illegal under Teen Government law.
Article 2: Force or coercion may be defined as threats of any kind to the politician's safety, wellbeing, or political/general reputation. Force and coercion can also imply legally-binding contracts or non-disclosure agreements that intend to use the politician's loyalty to gain an advantage or benefit politically.
Article 3: Benefit includes the following:

(a) Asking the politician, like a councilmember, for example, to vote a specific way that contradicts how they would normally vote in order to protect, give advantage to, or otherwise support the offending citizen, group, or organization.

(b) Asking the politician, like an Ombudsman, for example, to disregard evidence of wrongdoing or to fabricate evidence against another party in order to protect, give advantage to, or otherwise support the offending citizen, group, or organization.

(c) Asking the politician, like a minister, for example, to hand over classified information such as voter codes in order to protect, give advantage to, or otherwise support the offending citizen, group, or organization.

Article 4: In the event that lobbying is uncovered, the politician is to immediately face impeachment and the offending party, along with the politician, is to be punished under criminal law.
Article 5: Any contract that states a politician will take a specific stance on bills based on another signatory's discretion shall be null and void.
Article 6:

(a) A contract may be nullified if it is found, by a court of law, that the signatory was pressured into signing it under duress or otherwise was made to feel they "need to sign it right away, or else".

(b) In the case the contract is an NDA the signatory can request, and privately provide access to contents sealed by the NDA, expressly to the justices of the court, for the purposes of determining via simple majority vote if the request for a trial to be held has any standing

(c) Once either a vote is taken by justices in the case of an NDA, or in the case of a public contract a trial was simply requested a trial shall be held through normal mechanisms.

(d) In the case of an NDA the trial shall be private. With the additional stipulation information about the NDA and trial *may* be released once a verdict is reached if that verdict invalidates the contract.

(e) If the court finds a contract to be signed under duress it shall be immediately voided.

Section 3: Enactment
Article 1: This proposition shall immediately take affect upon passing.
Article 2: So-far as it's not ex-post-facto criminalization the provisions listed in the document shall affect past, present, and future.
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Metadata

Internal ID: 630
Type: legislation/bill
API access: /630.json
Bill proposed(Unix Epoch): 1782352646
Proposer: Zeedith-
Original link: LOBBYING REGULATION BILL
Approval link: N/A
ARPD-Curator: John Rock Brown
Recorded by tracker: 2026-06-26 02:19:10

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