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As a counter example, I present Florida. Florida is a no-fault driving state. A couple years ago, the law that decided this expired for about a month before it
by bricestacey 17y ago
As a counter example, I present Florida. Florida is a no-fault driving state. A couple years ago, the law that decided this expired for about a month before it was renewed into law again. This sort of last minute law wrangling is a mess and requires millions of people reconsider their insurance temporarily. It's a "great idea," but it's terrible in practice.
- gommm 17y agoThis could be fixed though with a transition period after the law is expired, where the law is still valid for a few months while it's being discussed. I don't think any of those ideas can work perfectly with our existing democratic system right from the beginning, it needs to be used and modified over time as problem arise (the problem of course is that governments are not very good at this kind of continuous development)
- shrughes 17y agoThat doesn't really make sense. Having a transition period is the same as changing the expiration date.
- gommm 17y agoOf course, logically it's the same, but when dealing with people (and politicians are people), names are important, and naming it a transition period, means that it's clear that it should be discussed then.
- mseebach 17y agoThat's just incompetence. I'm not sure making it easier for politicians to be incompetent is a good idea. Also, if all laws expire automatically, the working rhythm of the legislative body would change to accommodate this. After all, stuff like passing budgets, which is time sensitive, tend to happen in time.
- anigbrowl 17y agostuff like passing budgets, which is time sensitive, tend to happen in time. I'm guessing you don't live in the state of California, where the opposite is true.