To Make Those Elected to Seats 16-20 in the Undergraduate District and the Graduate Districts Voting Members on Senate Committees
Senate Bill 1-SC-2

Submitted for consideration: 16 February 1996
Action requested: Approval; requires two-thirds majority

WHEREAS
a transition committee was formed to address issues of transition from the 1969 constitution to constitution Œ96, and

WHEREAS
the transition committee consisted of all members of the Association in attendance at each meeting of the transition committee, and

WHEREAS
the transition committee unanimously put forth a set of recommendations as a transition plan, and

WHEREAS
the transition committee recommendations were unanimously approved by the XXVIth Senate, and

WHEREAS
the transition committee took into consideration the inherent conflict between the elections results which were produced under the 1969 constitution senate structure and the desire to immediately implement the senate structure under constitution Œ96, and

WHEREAS
non-voting Senators under the 1969 constitution had voting rights in Senate committees, and

WHEREAS
the transition committee recommended that those elected to seats 16-20 in the undergraduate district and to seats 16-20 in the graduate districts under the 1969 constitution be made ex-officio members of the XXVIIth Senate and be assigned to and given voting privileges on Senate committees,

THEREFORE
be it enacted by the Senate of this Association

THAT
Article II.5.B.1 of the bylaws of the Senate of the Association

Alternate Senators shall have full privileges in all Committees of the Senate

be replaced with

For the Duration of the First Senate, those elected to seats 16-20 in the graduate districts, as determined by differences in seat allocations for graduate districts between the 1969 constitution and constitution Œ96, and those elected to seats 16-20 in the undergraduate district shall have full privileges in all Committees of the Senate.

and,

THAT
upon the dissolution of the First Senate, Article II.5.B.1 of the bylaws of the Senate of the Association be struck.

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