The house of delegates has passed its first piece of legislation and sent it to the student senate, but the bill wasn’t without its issues.
The senate moved Wednesday to table the bill indefinitely — effectively killing it — citing technical issues in the way it was written. To be enacted, the house of delegates’ legislation needs approval by the senate.
For example, the bill, which was intended to establish guiding procedure and stability to the house of delegates, failed to define what a delegate is, and it doesn’t delineate how it would share authority with student senate, said Chip Fallaw, the house’s new speaker.
“Not everything that was supposed to be tied up has been tied up in this bill,” Fallaw said.
The bill would eventually replace the 700 codes that were discovered in a legislative audit that took place last spring and lead to the formation of the house.
Fallaw said the house of delegates would make another attempt at the legislation at its next meeting, on Jan. 27. The last bill was passed in December under then-Speaker Josh Snead.