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HC Bill 28-11

Fiscal Regulation Act of 2026

Constitutional Amendment · House of Commons · 28th Totemian Parliament

Introduced October 31, 2026Updated November 1st, 202611:41 PM UTC

Did not pass

Tribune Review

Tribune reviewNovember 1, 2026

The bill regulates public fund records, expiry and reversion, and requires public notices of implemented funding and completed reversions. It gives Parliament and qualifying Chancellery officeholders inspection access, establishes parliamentary investigations with compulsory evidence powers and safeguards, and creates a permanent public hearing record. It establishes the Statutes at Large and codification rules, clarifies the application of assented sovereign displacement, and entrenches a unified national judiciary that applies valid Imperial, subnational and local law.

An accountability and fiscal discipline measure that strengthens parliamentary oversight and procedural safeguards while reinforcing nationally administered courts.

What it does

  1. Ch. 1: Commences the Act upon Imperial Assent.
  2. Ch. 2 s. 1, new Ch. 9 Art. 1 ss. 1 and 2: Requires linked public fund records identifying legal authority, responsible organ, funding source, allocations, expiration and reversion destinations, while separating MOF fiscal instructions from authoritative IBTE banking transactions.
  3. Ch. 2 s. 1, Art. 1 ss. 3 to 5: Establishes the Treasury Reversion Fund as the default destination and authorizes automatic return of unexpended, unobligated money when an expressly time limited funding condition expires, without a new individual transfer approval.
  4. Ch. 2 s. 1, Art. 1 ss. 6 and 7: Protects continuing funds from implied expiration, reserves money for lawful existing obligations, blocks new expired programme commitments, and requires remaining money to revert before final closure or lawful reauthorization.
  5. Ch. 2 s. 1, Art. 2 ss. 1 to 3: Requires public Fiscal Implementation Notices and supplemental notices only after required transfers and reconciliation, identifying authority, funds, responsible organs, and authorized and completed amounts without creating new spending authority.
  6. Ch. 2 s. 1, Art. 2 ss. 4 to 6: Requires public Fiscal Reversion Notices after completed reversions and later released obligations, and delegates templates and procedures without permitting changes to appropriations, ownership or statutory conditions.
  7. Ch. 2 s. 1, Art. 3: Gives MPs a right to public fund information within recipients' lawful access and imposes a 1,000 SL fine for knowing refusal without lawful excuse; silence, confusion or lack of access alone does not establish liability.
  8. Ch. 3 s. 2, Art. 5: Gives serving MPs, the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor read only inspection of State Organ administrative systems or equivalent interfaces, denies mutation privileges, excludes control credentials and unrelated classified operations, and terminates access with office.
  9. Ch. 3 s. 2, Art. 6 ss. 1 to 5: Permits either House to authorize an investigation by simple majority Hearing Resolution or both Houses by identical Joint Hearing Resolutions, with defined topics, leadership, procedures and statutory evidence powers; unrelated provisions are void and severed.
  10. Ch. 3 s. 2, Art. 6 s. 6: Allows any serving MP to apply for hearing participation, including across Houses, subject to the resolution's admission rules and without obtaining a seat or vote in the other House.
  11. Ch. 3 s. 2, Art. 6 ss. 7 and 8: Permits invitations or summonses of materially relevant officials, private persons and organizations and production of specified records, with reasonable notice, privilege, legal prohibition and reasonable excuse protections and court enforcement.
  12. Ch. 3 s. 2, Art. 6 s. 8: Permits sworn or affirmed testimony and application of existing perjury law where its elements are met, while denying Parliament authority to imprison, impose judicial punishment or override protected privilege.
  13. Ch. 3 s. 2, Art. 6 ss. 9 and 10: Limits questioning to the authorized topic, bars unrelated personal harassment, caps hearings at seven calendar dates with an antiavoidance rule, and requires reasonable scheduling and breaks.
  14. Ch. 3 s. 2, Art. 6 s. 11: Requires a permanent public Official Parliamentary Hearing Record with authorization, votes, participants, witnesses and checked verbatim transcript, subject to superior law redactions and restrictions on unnecessary embedded media.
  15. Ch. 4 s. 3: Provides implementation duties, registration of existing funds' future expiration conditions where practicable, manual reversion through IBTE until automation exists, and continuity for previously lawful transactions.
  16. Ch. 5 s. 4: Adds uncodified Session Laws below the Civil Code in the ordinary hierarchy, protects them against unauthorized subordinate instruments, and preserves the existing sovereign effect of Imperial assent in irreconcilable conflicts.
  17. Ch. 5 s. 5: Requires complete authenticated Acts in a separate chronological Statutes at Large; permits Acts to contain constitutional amendments, Code amendments and uncodified provisions, and prevents defective editorial placement from suspending independently effective law.
  18. Ch. 5 s. 5: Allows the Emperor to make or orally or in writing delegate clerical corrections and placement decisions, limited to the enacted substantive effect and recorded with original text, basis, actor and date.
  19. Ch. 5 s. 6: Establishes searchable persistent Statutes at Large records, enactment and commencement status, amendment links and permanent originals, requires codification verification, and retains expired, completed and repealed provisions as historical records without renewed authority.
  20. Ch. 5 s. 7, new Art. 13 s. 6: Limits the existing Assented Sovereign Displacement doctrine to Acts for which Imperial assent is legally required and actually granted; measures not requiring assent follow their otherwise applicable constitutional authority.
  21. Ch. 5 s. 8: Amends constitutional resolution rules so hearing resolutions can activate investigative powers already conferred by statute without independently creating offenses, penalties or authority beyond law.
  22. Ch. 6 s. 9, new constitutional Art. 6 s. 13: Entrenches one unified national judiciary, prohibits separate subordinate court systems or local control of national courts, preserves valid local legislative competence, and requires national courts to apply each law that lawfully governs the matter.
  23. Ch. 6 s. 10, Art. 4 ss. 2 and 3: Clarifies that separate judicial hierarchies or tribunals cannot evade the existing subnational court prohibition and reserves appointments, administration, assignments and discipline to competent national authorities.
  24. Ch. 6 s. 10, Art. 4 s. 4: Authorizes lawful cross jurisdiction case assignments with reasonable attention to access, judges, parties and evidence; the hearing location does not change applicable substantive law.
  25. Ch. 6 s. 10, Art. 4 s. 5: Requires identification and concurrent application of valid Imperial, subnational and local law within its actual jurisdiction, preserves national procedure and superior law, and bars treating concurrent laws alone as a new offense, punishment or claim.
  • public finance
  • fund reversion
  • parliamentary oversight
  • hearings
  • public records
  • codification
  • statutes at large
  • constitutional law
  • judiciary
  • jurisdiction
EconomicFiscalCivil LibertiesCentralisationSocietySovereigntyWelfareRule of LawCrown AuthoritySecurity & DefenceJusticeChurch & StateNational IdentityLabour & CapitalEnvironment & DevelopmentPolitical EqualityDemocratic ParticipationTransparency & Accountability
An accountability and fiscal discipline measure that strengthens parliamentary oversight and procedural safeguards while reinforcing nationally administered courts.Strongest: Transparency & Accountability Open Accountability · hover an axis
Fiscal+30 · Restrained80% confidence
ExpansionaryRestrained

Ch. 2 returns unused expired programme money, blocks new commitments and closes spent authorities while protecting continuing funds and existing obligations, a moderate funding discipline measure.

From provision 3, provision 4

Civil Liberties+20 · Authoritarian65% confidence
LibertarianAuthoritarian

Ch. 3 extends compulsory parliamentary testimony and records production to materially relevant private persons and organizations, with privilege and court enforcement limiting the intrusion.

From provision 11, provision 12, provision 13

Centralisation+45 · Centralist85% confidence
DevolutionistCentralist

Ch. 6 constitutionally entrenches national court administration and cross jurisdiction assignments while preserving valid local legislation, reinforcing an already national judicial structure.

From provision 22, provision 23, provision 24, provision 25

Rule of Law-55 · Constitutionalist90% confidence
ConstitutionalistDiscretionary

Chs. 3, 5 and 6 bind hearings, corrections and legal application to statutory scope, privilege, courts and preserved substantive rules, providing substantial procedural safeguards.

From provision 9, provision 11, provision 12, provision 13, provision 17, provision 18, provision 20, provision 21, provision 24, provision 25

Crown Authority-25 · Parliamentarist75% confidence
ParliamentaristMonarchist

Chs. 3 and 5 expand Parliament's institutional oversight through statutory hearing and inspection powers activated by resolutions, while retaining the Crown's superior constitutional position.

From provision 7, provision 8, provision 9, provision 20, provision 21

Justice+10 · Punitive55% confidence
RehabilitativePunitive

Ch. 2 adds a specific 1,000 SL sanction for knowing refusal of lawful parliamentary financial information requests, a limited extension of penalties rather than general sentencing reform.

From provision 7

Transparency & Accountability-80 · Open Accountability95% confidence
Open AccountabilityOpaque Discretion

Chs. 2, 3 and 5 establish public fiscal notices, enforceable information rights, administrative inspection, permanent hearing transcripts and authenticated legislative history across government.

From provision 2, provision 5, provision 6, provision 7, provision 8, provision 14, provision 17, provision 18, provision 19

Calibrated by the bill's own provisions — magnitude reflects how strongly it acts on each axis.