Student Senate Clerk applications open

Posted on: 4/8/2015; Updated on: 4/8/2015
By Student Editor

Applications are now being accepted for Student Senate Clerk.  The duties of the Clerk of Senate, as outlined in the Student Government Codes, are:

1. Posting current copies of all legislation received to the Student Government Blackboard site and any other necessary locations and regularly notifying senators of current legislation to be considered.

2. Creating a floor-use copy of all Student Senate legislation, while maintaining a certified copy of each piece of legislation coupled with a status form intended to track the legislation throughout the legislative process.

3. Transmitting Student Senate legislation to the chair or any committee to which it has been referred, thereafter retrieving legislation from the committee chairs for second reading. Compiling all amendments and applying those amendments to the legislation at all necessary point throughout the legislative process.

4. Presenting all legislation passed by the Student Senate to the Student Body President and any other necessary individuals and receiving any necessary legislative response from the Office of the Student Body President.

5. Reading, during the meetings of the Student Senate, received legislation, legislation placed on either reading calendar, amendments to legislation, communications from the Student Body President or Student Body Treasurer, applications to the Senate and any other received documents or communications

6. Calling the roll at the beginning of each Student Senate meeting, making note of the late arrivals or early departures of Senators during a meeting of the Student Senate and maintaining an accurate docket of Senator absences.


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