2020-2021

Varsity

1: The United States should pass a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote to anyone with a felony conviction regardless of time served.

2: California should impose a cap on annual fire insurance rate increases.

3: The United States should pass a constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college and elect the president by national popular vote.

4: California citizens should pass Proposition 15, “Tax on Commercial and Industrial Properties for Education and Local Government Funding Initiative (2020).”

5: South Africa should substantially increase investment in the Expanded Public Works Programme.

O: The United States Federal Government should pass H.R. 6800, “The HEROES Act.”

Q: The University of California system should stop granting academic credit based on Advanced Placement exam scores.

S: The United States Federal Government should pass legislation outlining a legally binding right to explanation for all algorithm-led decisions.

F: China should abolish the hukou system.

Novice

1: The United States should pass a constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college and elect the president by national popular vote.

2: California citizens should pass Proposition 18, “Primary Voting for 17-Year-Olds Amendment (2020).”

3: The European Union should adopt the “New Pact on Migration and Asylum.”

4: California should ban the use of facial recognition technology by all state and local government agencies.

5: The United States Federal Government should provide universal basic income payments to all adult citizens until a vaccine for Coronavirus is widely available.

2018-2019

Varsity

1A. The USFG should sanction China under the Global Magnitsky Act for its treatment of Muslims in the Xinjiang region.

2A. The USFG should waive proof of ownership requirements for federal disaster relief for Heirs’ Property land holdings.

3A. The European Union should significantly increase funding to Italy and Greece to help settle refugee populations in those countries..

4A. The United Nations should fund the construction of seafloor walls to mitigate ice sheet collapse.

5A. The USFG should pass the National Multimodal and Sustainable Freight Infrastructure Act.

5B. California should increase the use of public-private partnerships to fund infrastructure development.

D. The USFG should significantly increase farm aid to offset effects of corn and soybean tariffs.

O. The U.S. FDA should require that direct-to-consumer genetic testing products include consultations with licensed genetic counselors.

Q. The European Union should formally adopt the the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.

S. The USFG should invest in lunar helium extraction.

F. The USFG should remove denuclearization as a condition of diplomatic relations with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

Novice

1A. The USFG should impose diplomatic sanctions on China in response to China’s use of social credit monitoring programs.

2A. The Federal Emergency Management Agency should significantly increase the percentage of funding it allocates to the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program.

3A. The European Union should suspend Poland’s EU voting rights.

4A. The USFG should significantly increase investment in waste-to-energy technologies.

5A. The USFG should build a nationalized 5G network.