First Reading: September 9, 2014 Second Reading: September 16, 2014 Pass: Yes Fail: Other: Bill 2-14-F. Funding for the Identification Vouchers Program PURPOSE: For the Student Government Association of Western Kentucky University to allocate $500.00 for the creation of a pilot program for identification vouchers. WHEREAS: The money will come from the legislative discretionary budget, and WHEREAS: The Student Government Association will pay for $10.00 of a normally priced identification card, and WHEREAS: The identification voucher pilot program will partially cover the cost of 50 (fifty) student identification cards, and WHEREAS: Identification cards are a necessary item that all students of Western Kentucky University need to possess to take advantage of requirements from professors, meal plans, and to enter residence halls, and WHEREAS: The identification voucher will only be available to students of Western Kentucky University, and that have identification cards that normally cost $20.00 through the ID Center, and WHEREAS: The identification voucher will only be available to students who have never lost their identification card before, and WHEREAS: The identification voucher will not be available to students that have lost their identification card more than one time, and WHEREAS: Students will have to come to the Student Government Association office to receive the identification voucher, and WHEREAS: After receiving the voucher from the Student Government Association office the student will have to go to the ID Center to redeem the voucher, and WHEREAS: The ID Center will check their system to ensure that the student redeeming the identification voucher has never lost their identification card, and WHEREAS: The ID Center, in correlation with the Student Government Association office, will keep records of the students who have redeemed the identification voucher, and WHEREAS: By a week after the end of both the fall and spring semesters, the Student Government Association of Western Kentucky University will forward the amount of money that is owed to the ID Center, based on the number of identification vouchers redeemed that semester. THEREFORE: Be it resolved that the Student Government Association of Western Kentucky University will allocate $500.00 to fund the identification voucher program. AUTHORS: Kasey Glasgow SPONSOR: Student Affairs CONTACTS: Gary Meszaros Belinda Higginbotham Stephanie Scott Liz Koehler Nicki Seay