ASNMSU 60th Senate- Rules Committee
Rules Committee Meeting #8
January 31st, 2017
Convened at 5:33 PM
A. Roll Call
o All senators present
B. Business on the Chair’s desk
o Potential attorney general reports
C. Bills for Rules Committee:
Bill #128- Model United Nations
o Amendments to lines 16, and 18, grammar change
o Font size on the introduced by lines reduced
o Dateline font sizes reduced
o Line 14, to read “New York”
o Line 14, grammar change
o Questions on inner city travel
o Line 21, stricken from the bill
o No discussion
o Do pass
Bill #127- Collegiate National Association for Music Educators
o Amendments to line 6, to read “attend the international music conference”
o Senator Guajardo, Pilley, and Dhakal added to the by line
o Line 7, to read “2017”
o Line 15, to read “1 room @ $79.00/night x 5 nights x 2 rooms”
o Line 31, to read “Jane Kelley, Joseph Baca, Kameron Lozano, Shawn Marquez, William
Martinez, Mark Vigil will attend the 2016 international music conference”
o line 14, grammar change
o line 16 stricken from the bill
o line 12, to read “transportation fee”
o questions on the the hotel rooms
o line 26, grammar change
o line 15, stricken from the bill
o Do Pass
Bill #134- Amending Sections 7-4-3-I-2 of the ASNMSU Law Book
o Amendments to line 35, grammar change
o Line 43, font change
o Line 45, grammar change
o Discussion on changing the rationale to further clarify the purpose of the bill
o Line 30, to read “an academic or professional organization shall be limited to eight
attendees so long as all attendees are members of that organization. The rules committee
shall be responsible for determining an organizations membership for purposes of
legality.”
o Do pass
Bill #129- Amending Chapter 2 of the ASNMSU Law Book
o Line 1 amended to read “2”
o No questions
o No discussion
ASNMSU 60th Senate- Rules Committee
Rules Committee Meeting #8
January 31st, 2017
o Do pass
Bill #130- Amending Sections 6-4-4, 6-4-6-D, 6-4-7-B, 6-5-4-A, 6-6-1, and 6-6-5 of the
ASNMSU Law Book
o Amendments to line 1, to remove the “D” in 6-5-4-D-A
o Line 28, grammar change
o Do pass
Bill #131- Amending section 6-1 of the 2016-2017 ASNMSU Law Book
o Amendments to lines 28, grammar change
o Line inserted after line 9
o Line 30, “[]” removed
o Line 59, to add the word “the”
o Line 53, to read “two”
o Do pass
Bill #132- Biology Graduate Student Organization
o Bill tabled
Bill #133- Counseling and Educational Psychology Graduate Student Organization
o Tabled
Resolution #23- Concerning Amendments to the Rules of the Senate
o Amendments to line 73, to read “and shall be emailed to the senate body within TwentyFour hours of the conclusion of each senate meeting”
o Resolution tabled per author’s request
Resolution #24- Concerning the Drafting Manual Proposed by the Winter Law Book
Committee
o font size in the datelines reduced
o Senator Koppner put at the beginning of the by line
o Line 11, grammar change
o Favorable recommendation
Resolution #25- Concerning the implementation of a Senate Ethics Committee
o Bill Tabled
Resolution #26- Concerning the Continuation of the Student Technology Fee
o Amendments to the title line to read “2016-2017”
o Introduced by date amended to read “1/24/2017”
o Committee names added to the referred to line
o Line 28, to read “72.00 and 80.00”
o Amendment to line 1 to read “concerning the continuation of the”
o Line 44, to read “72.00 and 80.00”
o Senator Jones added to the by line
o Line 41, grammar change
o Line 61, grammar change
o Line 61, grammar change
o Line 69, grammar change
o Favorable recommendation
Bill #107- Hispanic Professional Engineers
o Amendments to line 5 to read “compete”
o Senator Nasirian removed from the by line
ASNMSU 60th Senate- Rules Committee
Rules Committee Meeting #8
January 31st, 2017
o Subsection B added to the bill
o line 35 to read “1 ticket”
o line 17, to remove “2 tickets”
o proof of competition rejected
o Bill Withdrawn
Bill #112- Bill Withdrawn
Bill #111- Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Organization
o Senator Nasirian removed from the by line
o Lines 13 and 15, grammar change
o Line 14, to read “.535”
o Line 22, to read “no funds allocated”
o Line 36, grammar change
o Questions on why no documentation has been submitted
o Conditional do pass pending the submission of documentation
Bill #126- NMSU Dance Sport
o Bill tabled per author’s request
Bill #123- Sri Lankan Students Association
o Bill Tabled
Bill #118- Withdrawn
D. Unfinished Business
o Bills 123, 124, 125
E. Announcements
o Retreat is next weekend
Adjourn at 10:03