Four pieces of legislation were introduced at the student senate’s Wednesday meeting, including two resolutions to support efforts to lobby the state General Assembly.
One resolution supports a collaboration between USC and the legislature to keep tuition costs down, after years of tuition increases.
The second supports an effort to oppose the Anti-LEED Standards Bill, which would eliminate the state’s use of the LEED efficiency standards. The guidelines were used in the construction of the Honors Residence Hall, Patterson Hall and West Quad.
A bill that would let the senate finance committee divvy up funds for student organizations was also introduced. The bill would allow Student Government to change how it distributes money, moving away from one big bill to cover all student organizations each semester to a rolling funding model. The change would let organizations ask for money throughout the year.
In order to solidify the number of staffers and their roles for executive positions, the responsibilities and specifics of executive officers’ staffs were outlined in a bill that would revise and restructure the 100 codes, those pertaining to the three executive offices.
However, this legislation was carried over to next week’s meeting, due to changes that will be made this week.
Senate also tested a new voting system for the upcoming elections, which will take place on Self Service Carolina instead of the VIP system.