In the final meeting before Student Government elections, Senate passed a resolution proposing additions to rules and procedures.
After a presentation reviewing the changes to the SB2014-1016 Resolution Proposing Additions and Revision to the Rules and Procedures, senators adopted the resolution without objection.
Sen. Susan Webster, chairwoman for the special committee on rules and procedures, said coordinating the revisions was a long process that ended in triumph for the committee.
“We made a lot of great changes,” she said in her presentation. “We updated things we weren’t doing before and making sure what we were doing in Senate reflects what we are doing in codes.”
Some of the changes listed in the resolution included altering the quorum for senators during Summer semesters to be a majority of the total membership and requiring new senators to attend a mandatory orientation session.
Two bills approved funding for FACES Modeling Troupe and Sparks Magazine, with the organizations receiving about $4,300 and $2,500, respectively.
Sen. Davis Bean, chairman for the Allocations Committee, said the committee approved the budget for both groups after working with them for several weeks.
“To wait another week would have been us having to cancel their own events because of the eight-week period it takes to receive funding,” he said.
[A version of this story ran on page 4 on 2/12/2014 under the headline "Senate changes rules"]
