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Student senators unanimously passed a bill that would change the members of the Student Government Diversity and Programming Committee on Tuesday night.

The bill would have the Student Body vice president serve as the chairman of the committee, have the Student Body treasurer as a committee member and remove the Multicultural Affairs Cabinet Director. The cabinet director works under the diversity chair, who works under the Student Body vice president, making it redundant.

This was one of Impact Party’s Spring platform points. The bill has to be passed again at the next meeting before it changes the official code.

Student Body President-elect Ian Green said the change will help create a more inclusive environment.

“It was important for myself, David and Stefan because we don’t want to use ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ as a buzzword,” he said. “We want to make sure we’re men of our word and men of our action.”

The Senate unanimously passed two resolutions, which don’t make any change to policy, including one that encourages students to use fewer single-use plastic straws, said Zachary Amrose, the resolution’s author.

“It shows the Office of Sustainability and other relevant officials that the Student Senate and the students it represents want the administration to reduce the availability of straws on campus,” the 20-year-old political science senior said.

Four election codes revisions that would change some of the rules in the elections process were also unanimously passed during the second reading.

The SG organizational and academic budgets and Student Body Accessibility Act, which would require a transcript and captions for SG pre-recorded videos, were unanimously passed through a second reading. These codes and budget will now be enacted because they were passed twice.

Contact Christina Morales at cmorales@alligator.org. Follow her on Twitter at @Christina_M18

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