Supreme Soviet of Daytan People's Deputies

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The Supreme Soviet of Daytan People's Deputies is a unicameral parliament, and the supreme legislative body of Daytanistan. The legislation it enacts becomes national law, and overrides all provincial and regional laws.

A member of the Supreme Soviet is called a Daytan People's Deputy (often simply called a People's Deputy or Deputy). There are ninety six deputies in total, sixteen from each of Daytanistan's six provinces. The sixteen deputies from a given province are referred to as the delegation from that province, and are theoretically elected by the province's own soviet, although in reality the General Secretary of the Daytan Communist Workers Party appoints deputies and the provincial soviets simply ratify those appointments. A Daytan People's Deputy cannot also be a currently serving People's Deputy in a provincial or regional soviet.

The People's Deputies elect one of their own members as the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Daytan People's Deputies. The Chairman presides over the Supreme Soviet, adjudicating debates, calling and counting votes, and otherwise seeing to the procedural detail required for the legislature to function. The Chairman is the leader of the Supreme Soviet but is not an active participant in the legislative process, since upon election to the chair, he cannot vote, or speak in debates. All correspondence to and from the Supreme Soviet is handled through the Chairman, including sending bills to the Supreme Daytan People's Council for ratification or rejection.

The legislative process begins with the drafting of a bill, usually undertaken by an individual or group of deputies with the assistance of the Daytan People's Law Office. Once a bill is drafted, it must obtain the signatures of a deputy from each provincial delegation, and a member of the Supreme Daytan People's Council. These signatories to the bill are referred to as its sponsors. The sponsored bill is then sent to the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet, who has it copied and circulates copies to all deputies. Once it has been circulated, a deputy must move that the sponsored bill be adopted, and another deputy must second that motion. The motion is then put by the Chairman to the Supreme Soviet for debate. The Chairman calls on the senior deputy (the deputy who has served in the Supreme Soviet the longest) of a provincial delegation to speak on the motion, and moves through the rest of the delegation in order of seniority, allowing the delegation no more than one hour in total to speak on the motion. Once that time has expired, or all the deputies from that delegation have spoken on the motion, the Chairman moves onto the next delegation, until every delegation has had an hour to speak on a motion. In this fashion, no more than six hours of debate in the Supreme Soviet on a given motion to adopt a bill as law is possible. At the conclusion of this period of debate, the Chairman calls for a vote. If a majority of the deputies present vote in favour of the bill being adopted (i.e. vote for the motion), the Chairman forwards the bill to the Supreme Daytan People's Council to be ratified and enacted.