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The UF Student Government Senate might advocate for on-campus early voting locations soon.

On Sunday afternoon, the Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a resolution advocating for on-campus early voting locations at Florida universities. A resolution is a document through which the Senate expresses an opinion or takes a stance. The committee also tabled four bills that intend to revise SG codes.

Senator Katelyn Hernandez (Impact, District C), who co-wrote the resolution, said it advocates for increased early voting accessibility and promotes civic engagement for students.

“We have so many students that want to be politically engaged, and I think that accessibility is a huge part of that,” she said.

Judiciary committee chair Nick Adams said he hopes the resolution passes the Senate vote Tuesday night. If approved, the resolution will be sent to several Florida universities as well as politicians, including Gov. Rick Scott and Secretary of State Ken Detzner.

The committee was originally scheduled to address four code-revision bills presented by Senator Richard German (Inspire, District D). However, Adams deemed the bills unconstitutional because each had merged revisions, and he wanted an individual bill for each revision.

Instead of failing the bills, Adams decided to table them for future discussion, he said. German submitted the code revisions in separate bills Sunday. The committee will most likely look at the bills April 8, German said.

The suggested code revisions, if passed by Senate, would make changes to how SG information is disseminated, including requiring the judiciary branch notices to be advertised by Action SG, an agency that promotes SG activities. Code changes would also add closed captioning to prerecorded SG videos, and live-stream State of the Campus Address and SG debates.

“I’m just really looking forward to seeing them get signed into law,” German said.

Contact Amanda Rosa at arosa@alligator.org. Follow her on Twitter at @AmandaNicRosa

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