119th Not-Congress — 1st Session of Futility
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6 bills in this category
It is allegedly illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament in the United Kingdom, reportedly because anyone who dies in a Royal Palace is entitled to a state funeral. Enforcement has proven challenging.
In the United Kingdom, it is illegal to handle a salmon in suspicious circumstances under Section 32 of the Salmon Act 1986. No, really. 'Suspicious circumstances.' For a fish.
Mandates that all political campaign advertisements include a mandatory disclaimer identifying every exaggeration, misleading statistic, and outright fabrication contained therein.
Requires all federal legislation to be written in plain English that a reasonably literate eighth-grader could understand, because apparently that needed to be a law.
Requires ICE to detain undocumented immigrants charged with theft or burglary, named after a nursing student killed in Georgia.
Makes daylight saving time permanent nationwide, ending the biannual clock-changing ritual that Congress has debated for literally decades.