2012-2013/1.1 - Kentucky High School Speech League

KHSSL Handbook 69 2012-2013/1.1STUDENT CONGRESSNote: All National Forensic League (NFL) rules and guidelines apply to the KHSSL State CongressChampionship and the NFL rulebook will be followed. To reference rules and procedures, coaches andstudents should reference the NFL Congress handbook and District Tournament Operations Manual,currently found at http://www.nflonline.org/AboutNFL/LeagueManuals, and also at khssl.org.The following exceptions shall be applied to Student Congress at the KHSSL State Championship, and theseexceptions supersede any rules in the NFL guidelines:1. No school may enter more than ten entries.2. If there are enough entries to have two or more houses, the entries from each school shall beequally divided between the houses via blind draw. No Congress chamber will exceed 24 students,including the final chamber.3. There will be three preliminary sessions and one final session (Super Congress).4. The tournament director may appoint a parliamentarian who is affiliated with students in achamber; however, judges must remain unaffiliated with students who are within that chamber.5. Each school may submit a maximum of four pieces of legislation to the tournament director.For final session legislation, the tournament director will select from bills/resolutionssubmitted by different schools. These pieces of legislation will be set aside for use in the finalsession only, and the rest will be used in preliminary sessions.6. All legislation must be submitted at least two weeks prior to the state championship. Thetournament director will distribute legislation to participating schools at least one week prior to thestate championship.7. The top three entries for each school in Congress will count towards the debate sweepstakesaward. Three sweepstakes points will be awarded to each finalist. The first-place person will beawarded 12 points, second place 9 points, third place 7 points, fourth place 5 points, fifth place 4points, and sixth place 3 points.