[54] in UA Senate
Re: Writing Senate Legislation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Dehnert)
Fri Oct 9 20:01:26 2009
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:00:36 -0400
From: Alex Dehnert <adehnert@MIT.EDU>
To: Paul Baranay <pbaranay@mit.edu>
CC: ua-senate@mit.edu, ua-treasurer@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <71c951390910091648x2f376340j322810a57f2a0b69@mail.gmail.com>
Paul Baranay wrote:
> - Legislation should be sent to the Speaker and Vice-Speaker (
> ua-senate-officers@mit.edu) at least *two days* before the meeting so it
> can be placed on the agenda. This is a requirement of the bylaws; while
> it's possible to bring up new legislation during the meeting, it's somewhat
> frowned upon.
I'd also encourage you to send financial legislation (eg, Senate
discretionary allocations) to me (ua-treasurer@mit.edu) early as well
--- I can give you tips on how to write the legislation, or make
suggestions of other sources of funding which might also be available
(and in some cases, might be a better match for your request).
> - Ideally, I'd actually encourage you to send us the legislation *three
> or four days* in advance so we can give you feedback on the bill and
> suggest improvements before it goes before the entire Senate.
> - You are highly encouraged to use the bill/resolution templates at
> http://ua.mit.edu/senate/#templates. If you write the legislation in
> LaTeX (which is encouraged if you know how), please send in the raw .tex
> file, not the .pdf file.
If you're using LaTeX, you actually want the templates at
http://ua.mit.edu/senate/#latex, though that'll probably be the same
place unless you've got a really small screen...
~~Alex
