Proposed Amendment to SBA Constitution
Submitted by: Lana Maier and Peter Hartley
New York University
Student Bar Association
Bill No. 04-02
Proposed Amendments
Legislative History
Originally Drafted and Presented to the Board of Governors by Lana Maier. Approved by 11 members of the Board of
Governors on September 28, 2004.
Reference
SBA Constitution Article 17 Amendments to the Constitution
Committee Notes
The Amendment creates a Transfer Student Representative Position on the SBA Board of Governors
Proposed Amendments:
Article 8, Section 1 shall be amended by adding the following sentence. “The transfer students
shall be represented on the Board of Governors by one (1) representative. This representative
shall be elected in his/her first semester as a transfer student at NYU. Only transfer students in
their first semester as transfer students at NYU will be permitted to vote in the election.”
Article 8, Section 3 shall be amended by adding the following to the end of the last sentence:
“and, the transfer representative shall hold office from the announcement of the final results of
his/her election until his/her successor has qualified.
Article 9, Section 8.2 shall be amended from “The election of first year, LL.M., and M.C.J.
representatives shall be held…” to “The election of first year, LL.M., M.C.J., and transfer
representatives shall be held…”
Article 9, Section 3 shall be amended by adding to the end of this section, which outlines the
petition process by which non-transfer students register their candidacy, an additional sentence
stating, “This provision shall not apply to the transfer representative position.”