ASNMSU 60th Senate- Rules Committee

Rules Committee Meeting #1

August 30th, 2016

Convened at 5:30 PM

  1. Roll Call
  • All Senators present
  • Quorum is met
  1. Business on the Chair’s desk
  • rundown on the responsibilities/expectations of the rules committee
  • look over bills before coming in

floor opens up for Vice-Chair elections

  • highlights of the responsibilities of the vice chair
  • Nomination of Senator Heins
  • Senator Heins obtains Vice Chair
  1. Bills for Rules Committee:

Bill #20- NMSU Floriculture Team

  • Amending of Lines 1,0, 20, 15, 12
  • Appropriation to the intercollegiate floriculture team
  • Questions on what the team is competing for
  • Discussion on the purpose of the competition
  • Questions on the number of registration fees
  • Conditional Do Pass pending proof of attendance to the event

Bill #33- NMSU public relations

  • Amending of Lines 0, 17, 21, 22
  • Appropriation to the account of public relations
  • Questions on plans to track money and return on investment
  • Questions and discussion on plans to ensure over-budgeting does not reoccur.
  • Do Pass

Bill #27- Critical Multicultural Educators Graduate Student Organization

  • Amendments to lines 0, 14
  • Appropriation to the account of the critical multicultural Educators graduate student organization
  • No discussion
  • Do Pass

Bill #1- Plant and Environmental Sciences Graduate Program

  • Amendments to lines 0, 30, 6, 11
  • Appropriation to the account of the environmental sciences graduate program
  • No Discussion
  • Do Pass

Bill #2-Critical Multicultural Educators’ Graduate Program

  • Amendments to lines 0, 2
  • Appropriation to the account of critical multicultural educators’ graduate program
  • No discussion
  • Do Pass

Sub Bill #3- Molecular Biology

  • Appropriation to the account of molecular biology
  • Amendments to lines 0
  • No discussion
  • Do Pass

Bill #4- Molecular Biology

  • Amendments to lines 0, 36
  • making an appropriation to the account of molecular biology
  • questions on the details of travel
  • Do Pass

Bill #5- Computer Science

  • Amendments to lines 0, 7
  • Appropriation to the account of the computer science graduate student program
  • Questions on the different hotel rates and number of nights being subsidized
  • Do Pass

Bill #6- Molecular Biology

  • Amendments to lines 0, 33
  • No discussion
  • Do Pass

Bill #7- Counseling and Educational Psychology

  • Amendments to lines 0
  • Appropriation to the account of counseling and educational psychology doctoral student association
  • Highlights of the prestigious work this association does for the university
  • Do Pass

Bill #8- Counseling and Educational Psychology

  • Amendments to lines 6,
  • Appropriation to the account of counseling educational psychology doctoral student association
  • No discussion
  • Bill Blocked
  • Conditional do pass pending a revision of the advisor letter

Bill #9- Counseling and Educational Psychology

  • Amendments to lines 0, 33, 81
  • Appropriation to the account of counseling educational psychology doctoral student association
  • Questions on the duration of the conference
  • Bill Blocked
  • Conditional do pass pending a revision of the advisor letter

Sub Bill #10- Mathematics Student Graduate Student Organization

  • Amendments to lines 0, 37
  • Appropriation to the mathematics student graduate student organization
  • Constituent will not appear in front of senate floor due to time constraints
  • Do Pass

Bill #12- American Society of Mechanical Engineers

  • Amendments to lines 0
  • Making an appropriation to the American society of mechanical engineers
  • No discussion
  • Do Pass

Sub Bill #11- Biology Graduate Student Organization

  • Amendments to lines 0, 69, 8
  • Appropriation to the account of the biology graduate student organization
  • Questions on when and where the constituent traveled
  • Do Pass

Bill #13- Tabled

Bill #14- Tabled

Committee goes into a 5-minute recess at 5:31 PM

Bill #15- Tabled do to lack of representation

Bill #16- Tabled do to lack of representation

Bill #17- Tabled per author’s request

Bill #18- Water and Science Management

  • Amendments to lines 0, 14, 16, 12
  • Appropriation to the account of the water and science management graduate student organization
  • No discussion
  • Advisor letter rejected due to the lack of dates
  • Conditional do pass pending revision of the advisor letter to state the dates of the event.

Bill #19- Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity

  • Amendments to lines 0, 5, 12, 27
  • Appropriation to the account of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity
  • Advisor letter rejected due to lack of names of the participating constituents
  • Conditional do pass pending revision of the advisor letter to state the names of the attendees of the conference and contact information of the advisor

Bill #21- Tabled

Bill #22- Amending sections 4-1-1 and 4-8-3 of the 2016-2017 ASNMUS lawbook

  • Amendments to lines 0, 1, 2, 5, 24
  • No discussion
  • Do pass

Bill #25- Creating the Position of ASNMSU Homecoming Chair

  • Amendments made to lines 0, 102
  • Question on hiring of the homecoming chair
  • Do Pass

Bill #26- Amending Sections 5-1 and 5-9 of the 2016-2017 ASNMU lawbook

  • Amendments to lines 0, 7, 139
  • No discussion
  • Do Pass

Bill #28- NMSU SigGraph

  • Amendments to lines 5, 30, 31, 26, 0, 14, 6
  • Appropriation to the account of NMSU SigGraph
  • Questions on names were amended out of the bill
  • Do Pass

Sub Bill #23- Sigma Chi Fraternity

  • Senator Cairnes added to “Introduced by Line”
  • Amendments to lines 0, 11, 16
  • Appropriation to the account of the sigma chi fraternity
  • Questions to why constituents drove
  • Do Pass

SubBill #24- Amending section 7-4-3-H, 7-4-3-I-1, 7-4-3-J-1, 7-4-3-K-1, 7-4-3-L, 7-4-3-M-1, 7-4-3-N-1, 7-4-3-O-1, and 7-5-4-D-5-C of the 2016-2017 ASNMSU lawbook

  • Amendments to lines 0, 1, 50, 51
  • Question on who proposed the bill
  • Discussion on how this bill will effect other bills
  • Do Pass

Resolution #1- Table

Resolution #13- Housing Department

  • Resolution to make freshman living on campus not mandatory
  • Amendments to lines 0
  • Question on field work done prior to the writing of the resolution
  • Resolution Tabled pending further research

Resolution #14- University Grading System

  • Resolution to change the fractional grading system
  • Amendments to lines 0
  • Questions on contents of the bill
  • Discussion on getting more support from the students
  • Resolution table pending further investigation

Resolution #15- Student Marital Status

  • Amendments to lines 0
  • Resolution Tabled
  1. Unfinished Business
  • No unfinished business
  1. Announcements
  • No announcements
  1. Adjourn at 10:56 PM