MS Congress

OSDA Legislation Templates

Must Submit Via Google Docs!

OSDA Template for Resolutions

OSDA Template for Bills

OSDA Template for Amendments

Current Legistlation

OSDA Middle School

2022-2023 Part 1 Docket

This legislation is for the first part of the season.

Tournament Hosts can specify which items will be debated at their tournament.

Specific Tournaments

Preset Randomized Recency

Click Here for Explanatory Document

The Presiding Officers must use precedence and recency to determine the next speaker as well as the next questioner. Preset randomized recency must be used to determine each participant’s initial “recency” with respect to speeches and questioning. This will be established based on the seating chart order unless detailed otherwise. For speeches, the ordering is from low to high. For questioning, the ordering is from high to low. For example, in a chamber with 15 participants, the student listed in the first slot (1) has priority for the first speech (followed by 2, 3, 4, etc), whereas the student listed in the last slot (15) has priority for the first question (followed by 14, 13, 12, etc). As the chamber progresses, speakers and questioners must be selected correctly based on precedence and recency. If a PO selects the incorrect student as the next speaker or next questioner, this can only be addressed and remedied at that time (prior to the speech or questioning) by a student, the parliamentarian, or another judge in the chamber. A PO’s incorrect selection of the next speaker or questioner based on the preset randomized recency will not be grounds for a protest.

Judging Resources

Judging Rubric for Speakers and PO

Judging Instructions

Single Judge Ballot

Numbered Judge Ballots for Seating Charts

Past Legislation

Middle School

OSDA 2021-2022 MS Congress Docket

OSDA 2020-2021 MS Congress Docket

2019-2020 OSDA MS Congress Docket

2018-2019 OSDA MS Congress Docket

2018 OSDA MS Tournament Docket

2017-2018 OSDA MS Docket - Regular Season

Legislation Submission Overview

OSDA students are encouraged to submit legislation to their coach. All legislation shall follow guidelines set by the National Speech and Debate Association and be typed using the OSDA Legislation Templates and shared as a Google Document.

Coaches then share the Google Document with their OSDA District's Congress Liaison by the Legislation Deadline (see below).

Monthly dockets will be divided into weekly tournament sections. Tournament hosts should clearly communicate/confirm the legislation that will be on their tournament's docket.

For the OSDA Middle School Tournament, legislation will be posted online by February 15 in sections: preliminary and finals.