Student Senate will consider redistricting its seats at tonight’s meeting.

A proposal to change the Student Senate Bylaws has been submitted to change how many student senators serve each district. Currently 10 student senators are in the at-large, off-campus and on-campus districts.

With the proposed change, that number will increase to 14 students who will represent the at-large district, while eight will represent the off-campus district and eight for the on-campus district. At-large student senators are not required to live on- or off- campus.

“The change maintains the balance by keeping the same number (of off-campus and on-campus student senators),” said Carolyn Beck who submitted the bill along with Kenney Kozik.

The number of on-campus students who want to participate in Student Senate is greater than that of off-campus students, said Beck.

At the beginning of the semester, Student Senate Speaker Kent Ohms received 20 applications for three open on-campus Student Senate seats, but he only received six applications for six off-campus openings.

“This change would make it easier to fill open seats with on-campus students, and if the interest of off-campus students rises and the on-campus interest decreases this would still adjust to that,” Kozik said.

There will be no vote on the bylaw change, but when the vote happens at next week’s meeting, it will require a two-thirds vote to pass.

Other business to be addressed will be the final vote on Homecoming funds, which includes bringing Dennis Haskins from ‘Saved by the Bell” to Eastern.

There will also be a vote on approving funds for two students to attend the Illinois Higher Board of Education Student Advisory Committee meeting this weekend.

Tonight’s meeting starts at 7 p.m. in the Arcola-Tuscola Room in the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.