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Hello Broncos, this is Brydon Black with The Arbiter’s ASBSU update
Last Wednesday on Sept. 28, a total of four bills and four resolutions were discussed, with two bills and three resolutions passing in both the Senate and Assembly
ASBSU Bill 1 was a $935 bill regarding zoom equipment that would have made ASBSU meetings hybrid and Bill 3 had to do with purchasing $275 worth of ‘polo shirts’ for ASBSU members, both bills were withdrawn
ASBSU Bill 5, was passed by both the Senate and Assembly. This bill will allocate $65 to the ASBSU Executive Council for a local political debate planned to be held on campus November 1st from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. So far, only Republican candidates for the Senate and Legislature have accepted the invitation.
Bill 6, was passed by both the Senate and Assembly, it will allocate $945 for ASBSU Executive Council Officers to travel to Lewis and Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho for the Idaho State Board of Education meeting on Oct. 19-20.
Resolution 1, was amended and passed in both the senate and the Assembly on Sept. 14. The bill has to do with concerns over campus visitors, requesting among other points that all visitors act in accordance to University policies while visiting campus and not approaching students who do not display clear interest in speaking with them.
Resolution 2, which was introduced by Honors College Senator Ethan LaHaug, called for an ASBSU Constitutional Convention. It was withdrawn by a majority vote of the entire Assembly. LaHaug said last Wednesday that this resolution was withdrawn for what he described as non-constructive and accusatory language.
The language likely being referred to was in section 2 of Resolution 2 where the resolution said the following about the The Inclusive Excellence Student Council
Quote, “the current constitution allows money and other resources to flow to a partisan branch designed for self-described ‘student activists’“ going on to say that “Article 10 of the current constitution is designed to insulate these “student activists” from changes to the constitution and to their branch of government by giving them veto power over any proposed changes to the IESC.” End quote.
Now, this language has been removed in addition to eight other ASBSU members signing onto the new resolution calling for a constitutional convention in Resolution 3.
Resolution 3, was passed by a two-thirds majority in both the Senate and Assembly. The aim of the constitutional convention is to correct substantive errors such as problems with how the senate is apportioned to minor troubles like grammatical mistakes and typos.
Lastly, ASBSU Resolution 4, which calls for action from the ASBSU Ethics Officer, was passed in both the Senate and Assembly. The resolution formally directs the Ethics Officer, as a member of the Executive Council, to execute code changes, to initiate a complete review of all ASBSU code for errors and to submit a report to the Executive Council, Senate, and Assembly within two (2) weeks. And third, it serves as a formal recommendation to the upcoming constitutional convention that there should be a process specifically outlined in the Constitution for the Legislature to initiate code changes.
This has been your ASBSU update, I’m Brydon Black with the Arbiter and I hope you have a great homecoming weekend. Go Broncos.
