Short Title: Reapportionment Rule (Senate)

Sponsored by: Senator Fabricius

First Reading: February 27, 2002 Version Date: February 20, 2002

Referred to: __________________________________________________________.

BE IT RESOLVED, by the North Carolina State University Student Senate that:

Section 1. Upon the adoption of this Rule, Government Bill 67, the Corrective Reapportionment Act shall be considered postponed indefinitely, and all subsidiary motions thereof shall be considered defeated.

Section 2. Immediately upon the adoption of this rule the Senate shall enter a period of structured consideration of Government Bill 82, the FTE Apportionment Act. Such structured consideration shall have the characteristics further accorded to it by this Rule.

Section 3. Structured consideration shall begin with a presentation by the Chairman, Standing Committee on Government Operations, not to exceed ten (10) minutes, of the enrollment numbers obtained from the University and the mathematics associated with utilizing them. Questions in this period shall be restricted to those regarding the numbers and their analysis.

Section 4. Consideration of the FTE Apportionment Act shall be divided into a period of general debate, a period of amendment consideration, and a period of final debate. No points-of-order regarding the applicability of the bill to the constitution or statutes, or regarding comments concerning such, shall be entertained prior to the conclusion of the period of final debate.

Section 5. General debate shall commence after the presentation of enrollment numbers. General debate shall consist of two eight minute rounds, equally divided between positive and negative. No subsidiary motion shall be in order during this period.

Section 6. There shall be a period of amendment consideration following general debate. The Senate shall conclude consideration of amendments to any given section of the FTE Apportionment Act before considering amendments to a subsequent section. Amendments to the title shall be in order only after the all amendments to the body have been considered. No amendment to change which portion of the Statutes a section of the act affects shall be in order, nor shall any amendment to create a new section of the act be in order. There shall be no prohibition on amendments that amend text previously amended, unless the amendment is substantially the same as one previously considered.

Section 7. Final debate shall follow the period of amendment consideration. Final debate shall consist of two eight minute rounds, equally divided between positive and negative. No subsidiary motion shall be in order during this period.

Section 8. The vote on final adoption of the FTE Apportionment Act shall be by roll call, not withstanding general consent otherwise.

Section 9. The ruling of the Student Senate President on the matter of the constitutionality of an amendment to the Corrective Reapportionment Act shall be vacated, and shall hold no precedence in the Student Senate.

Section 10. Whenever this Rule and the Standing Rules of the Senate might conflict, this rule shall govern.