A Bill to Support Professional Minority Businesses

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BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

SECTION 1. The United States shall provide, annually, $25 million in funds in

competitive categorical grants to support the development of

minority-owned professionally-licensed businesses.

SECTION 2. A. Minority-owned professionally-licensed businesses shall be defined as

businesses majority-owned by African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and

Pacific Islanders, or American or Alaska Natives, where the principal

owner(s) are required to possess a state or federal professional license to

provide the business’s services.

B. Competitive categorical grants shall be defined as money awarded to

specific organizations with specific limitations on how that money is to be

spent.

SECTION 3. A. The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) shall oversee the

implementation of this legislation and allocate all required funds.

SECTION 4. This bill shall take effect starting in Fiscal Year 2020.

SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

Introduced for Congressional Debate by James Madison Memorial High School.

A Bill to Eliminate Itemized Tax Deductions

BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

SECTION 1. Eliminate all Schedule A Itemized Tax deductions from individual income taxes.

SECTION 2. Schedule A Income Tax deductions include: Charitable donations, State and local

income taxes or general sales taxes, real estate and personal property taxes, mortgage

interest paid, Medical and dental expenses, Casualty and theft losses, Deductible

investment interest, and Miscellaneous itemized deductions.

SECTION 3. The Internal Revenue Service will oversee the implementation of this legislation.

SECTION 4. This legislation takes effect starting fiscal year 2021.

SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void.

Introduced for Congressional Debate by Madison West High School

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A Resolution to Support the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative

WHEREAS, China’s Belt and Road Initiative supports economic growth and development of

developing nations; and

WHEREAS, The BRI offers trillions of dollars of investments into necessary infrastructure; and

WHEREAS, The BRI offers a way to expand internet and e-commerce to underserved communities

worldwide; and

WHEREAS, The BRI offers the best way for the US to cooperate with China on green energy and

fighting climate change; and

WHEREAS, The existing policy of the US State Department is to condemn the BRI in confrontation

with China rather than cooperation; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, By the Congress here assembled that the US State Department should endorse and

support China’s Belt and Road Initiative and OPIC should seek to cooperate with China

on BRI projects.

Introduced for Congressional Debate by Madison West High School

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A Bill to Create a Universal Basic Income 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE STUDENT CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT:

SECTION 1. The United States shall create a universal basic income for citizens and

legal permanent residents of $1000 per month for adults and $500 per

child under the age of 18.

SECTION 2. A 12% Value Added Tax shall be implemented to fund UBI payments.

SECTION 3. Further funding will be diverted from ending non-school based means

tested food benefits; adjusting eligibility for housing vouchers to include

only Very and Extremely Low income categories; and reducing Federal

Medicaid eligibility levels by 25% (ie if the current eligibility is 133% of

the poverty line, the new eligibility is at 108%).

SECTION 4. The VAT will begin with Fiscal Year 2023 with the first year’s taxes

paying for transitional programs; the payment of benefits and changes to

existing programs will begin with Fiscal Year 2024.

SECTION 5. All other laws that are in conflict with this law shall hereby be declared

null and void.

Respectfully submitted for the JMM Congress

A Resolution to Eliminate Self-Contained Special Education Classrooms Be it enacted here by this Congress that: Whereas, Students in the special education track have been kept in self-contained

classrooms; and Whereas, Are not provided with basic classroom interactions present in highschools with a

more inclusive approach; and Whereas, Studies have shown that inclusive classroom settings improve students’ abilities

to learn; and Whereas, It is the duty of the United States Federal Government to back an inclusive

approach to special education programs; and Further By this congress assembled that the United States requires inclusive Resolved, classrooms in all special education programs.

Introduced for Congressional Debate by Sheboygan South High School

A Resolution to Reform Education

Be it enacted here by this Congress that: Whereas, Playtime is a necessarily hidden curriculum in our schools to provide social and

cognitive development; and

Whereas, Schools have been furthering the amount of structure in the time that a child is at school which is lessening their exploration of their world and limits their social interaction; and

Whereas, Teachers are now expected to begin teaching them how to read and do math at younger ages; and

Whereas, Children are growing up not knowing how to effectively communicate and are making for a less empathetic world; and

Resolved, By this congress it should be mandated that children in the first grade and below should be allocated 2 hours of unstructured playtime throughout the day.

Respectfully submitted by Sheboygan South High School

A Bill to Human Compost Unclaimed Bodies

BE IT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS HERE ASSEMBLED THAT: 1

SECTION 1. Any unclaimed bodies in the United States shall be disposed of 3 months 2

after the determined date of death or after use as a cadaver in a medical 3

school program via human composting. 4

SECTION 2. Unclaimed bodies are defined as deceased humans with no known next 5

of kin or where the next of kin did not claim the deceased. Human 6

composting is defined as a method of dead body disposal in which 7

organic materials, such as straw and woodchips, are used to convert 8

bodies to soil. 9

SECTION 3. The Department of Health and Human Services shall oversee the 10

enforcement of this bill. 11

SECTION 4. This legislation shall go into effect starting in the 2021 fiscal year. 12

SECTION 5. All laws in conflict with this legislation are hereby declared null and void. 13

Introduced for Congressional Debate by Sheboygan North High School