The Senate has voted unanimously to rewrite the power the President used to reopen the server’s join gate, capping it at forty-eight hours and putting its use expressly within reach of the courts.

SB28, the Border Wall Location Adjustment Act, passed without a vote against and was signed at 11:29am. Law Change

Only part of it needed the electorate. Article 2, which would have amended the Constitution, went to referendum and was rejected on 19 Aye to 19 Nay. The rest — Articles 1, 3 and 4, including everything below — is ordinary legislation, passed and signed, and in force.

What Article 3 now says

The Act replaces Article 3 of the Build the Wall Act 2025 — the article cited this week in the order restoring Apply to Join — with a considerably narrower power.

The President may still enable the feature, but only “when clear and convincing present or impending danger, subject to judicial review.” An activation now expires by itself forty-eight hours after the feature is switched on.

There is one way to hold it open. If a State of Caution or any higher state of emergency is declared and remains in effect, the feature may stay on for as long as that state lasts. When the emergency ends it “shall be disabled as soon as reasonably practicable.”

The border, and the Constitution

Article 2 of the Act would have amended the Constitution directly, rewriting Article 13 §3 so that presence in a Core Territory did not make a citizen of someone held at the Port of Entry. That was the one article the electorate had to approve, and on 2 August it refused, 19 Aye to 19 Nay against a two-thirds bar.

The rest of the Act stands without it.

Article 3 of the Act rebuilds the border system itself. It defines Immigrating Person, Border Channel, Port of Entry, Immigration Authority and Immigration Judge; puts a seven-day deadline on the Immigration Authority to accept or reject an application; and bars applicants from participating in any channel outside the Port of Entry before they are admitted.

The Act also entrenches itself. Under Article 4 §2, repealing or amending it requires five-sixths of Senators.

A drafting error survived the vote

The new Article 3 contains two sections numbered §3.

The first is the Apply to Join power, with its forty-eight hour limit and its three sub-clauses. The second appears after §3.4 and reads: “The President may allow Immigrating Persons to bypass the border channel for a set period of time or until reversed.”

Nothing in the text distinguishes them. The duplication passed unanimously and was signed, and it is now the operative text.

SB25 falls

The New User Guide Act failed 2–3–1 in the same sitting.

It would have added §6.2.1 to Article 5 of the Executive Departments Act 2025, tasking the Department of Integration with updating the New User Guide every month on both the Miraheze wiki and the National Archives. Its preamble put the case in seven words: the guide is “very old,” and “newbies need to know how SD works.”

A second article would have corrected every instance of “Simdemocracy” in that Article to “SimDemocracy”. It falls with the rest.