Chair of Internal Affairs Sean Tarver spoke in favor of the bill. The Senate needed its own voice, and Senate resolutions would provide that by allowing the Senate to go around the executive branch, Tarver said.
Bandoh said the senate resolutions would disrupt the balance of power.
“There should always be a balance of power across all three branches in the government. Giving the senate this power — while I understand they want to be able to state their own opinion — could subvert the power of the executive branch,” Bandoh said.
After voting to end all discussion, the senate passed the bill with 17 affirmative votes.
Next, a first reading was given of SGA Resolution 49008 in support of the 2012 Transgender Day of Remembrance. If passed, the resolution would recognize Nov. 17 as Transgender Day of Remembrance and bring awareness of the violence against transgendered people. The resolution was assigned to the Student Life Committee to review and edit.
Lastly, the senate approved the presidential appointment of Clement Agho-Otoghile to the University Hearing Board.
The next senate meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14 in the Rockwell Pavilion.
Edit at 11:30 a.m. on Monday: Senate resolutions can be passed without the executive branch not University bills.
Edit at 10:23 a.m. Tuesday: Senate resolutions are merely statements made by the Senate to show a separation of opinion between different bodies of the SGA.
Sounds a lot like a dictatorship in the making to me!
….there are no words.
First off, this wasn’t what the bill did at all. All that happened was that a fourth classification of bills was reinstated – the University Bill (assuming this bill is signed, the four classifications will be the SGA Bill, the SGA Resolution, the University Bill, and the Senate Resolution). Senate Resolutions have always been allowed and have existed without this bill. The Senate Resolution discussion was a side point, when President Bandoh indicated that he didn’t understand why that classification was necessary. It was an entirely irrelevant point in the debate about the bill. Perhaps the SGA needs to provide TDC with copies of proposed legislation to prevent inaccurate reporting.
That said, tossing in an edit at the bottom of the page isn’t sufficient when the headline and lede are both wildly inaccurate.
And to CrimsonRed, look up what a dictatorship means. Even if this story was at all accurate, it would be the exact opposite of a dictatorship.
Let me get this right. Cedric Bandoh, the Student Body President, wrote a bill to bypass Student Body President Cedric Bandoh? The senate resolutions don’t bypass the executive branch because they aren’t binding.