Currently, when a bill arrives in the Lords, the first stage it goes to is an "amendment submission" stage, where the only thing allowed to be posted beneath the bill is amendments. Debate is prohibited (unless the bill is a Lords Bill).

This is stupid.

Allowing debate at these readings does not add any extra time to the bill process, and people debate anyway. For instance, on this bill I posted today: https://www.reddit.com/r/MHOL/comments/lv5o0b/b1144_ministerial_and_other_salaries_deputy_prime/

You can see /u/DrLancelot has debated, as it's the first time we've seen this bill in the Lords. But technically speaking, he's not allowed. If I were a strict woolsack, I would delete his comment and warn him, but in reality, none of the DLSs actually care if you debate at 2nd reading, as it's not hurting anyone.

I move that we formally allow what is already happening: allow Lords to debate when bills are first introduced to the house (and rename the "amendment submission" stage to "2nd reading" as that makes more sense with this change).