Senate reviews possible changes for student organizations

The Student Action Team may have its budget separated from that of the Student Senate.

Changes to the Student Senate, Apportionment Board and Student Action Team bylaws are on the table at the Student Senate meeting tomorrow night.

One of the major changes in the SAT bylaws is that they would require the SAT to propose a budget request to the student body president by the first week in February.

The SAT budget is currently a line item on the Student Government’s budget, which is used for travel expenses. The SAT will be requesting its own budget through the bylaw revisions.

Changes to the Student Senate bylaws were discussed last week and are being carried over to this week’s meeting.

Changes to the Student Senate Article III bylaws were discussed and passed last week, but were vetoed by the office of the Student Body President.

The bylaws were vetoed because the Student Senate did not thoroughly discuss the bylaw changes to areas such as emergency legislation, correspondence of the senate, budget expenditures and suspension of the bylaws.

“I completely agree with (bringing the vetoed bill back to the table) because the Senate kind of rushed through it,” said Kenney Kozik, co-chair of tuition and fee review committee.

This is the first week the AB and SAT bylaws are being reviewed, and the Student Senate bylaw reviews are only halfway through, Kozik said.

Kozik said nothing major needed to be changed in the AB bylaws.

“There was a lot of stuff in there that we didn’t need and some wording needed to be changed,” said Kozik.

He also said no major changes are being made to the Student Senate bylaws.

“There are a lot of little things that need to be changed. A lot of it was reworked,” Kozik said.

Three more sections of the Student Senate bylaws are left for review at tomorrow’s meeting.

The Student Senate meets at 7 p.m. every Wednesday in the Arcola-Tuscola room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.