In response to the disbanding of residence hall association-level governments, legislation has been presented to the Government of the Student Body that has prompted concerns and discussion in the senate.

The Union Drive Association Student Government officially disbanded Friday at the order of the Inter-Residence Hall Association, and the Richardson Court Association Student Government is scheduled to be completely dissolved by May 6.

“It’s going to hurt IRHA’s representation. We’re having to reassign our representatives from IRHA,” said Ryan Doll, GSB senator for the Towers Residence Association. “We just set up Buchanan as a constituency council a month ago, but now they want to change everything again.”

Doll said he is against the dissolution of RCA and UDA because of the changes GSB will have to make to accommodate this shift in representation.

“I think that on the IRHA level, we can determine how we pick our representation,” said Brandon Gray, former RCA president and GSB senator for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. “I realize they won’t have the specialized constituency council that they had when the associations were around, but under IRHA they’re representing the entire residence hall students.”

A bill authored by Brad Weed, GSB senator for the College of Engineering, and Drew Larson, GSB senator for the College of Business, is scheduled to be read at Wednesday’s GSB meeting. The bill proposes to change the recognized residence areas as stated in the group’s constitution by replacing UDA, RCA, and TRA with IRHA.

By making IRHA a constituency council, Doll said he believes it would promote an imbalance of representation in the residence halls.

“If you look at the current makeup of IRHA, a good portion of it is from [Barton-Lyon-Freeman-Fisher/Nickell halls],” Doll said. “What’s to stop all four or five of their representatives from coming from one area?”

Gray said he believes this to be an unsupported concern, and because representation for academic colleges is not determined by individual departments, representation for IRHA should not be determined by individual halls.

“There are definitely concerns that we’ve thought about and taken into account,” he said.

Weed said he noticed not many people in GSB were supporting Doll’s concerns.

“IRHA has been working on this for months. [Doll’s] concerns are falling on deaf ears,” Weed said. “As of Friday, RCA and UDA don’t exist. It’s been in the paper, so I don’t understand how these concerns are coming up now.”

Doll said IRHA has discussed the possibility of removing the association-level governments for three years, and this year it passed nearly unanimously.

“I don’t know where the sudden change came from,” he said. “I don’t know what IRHA’s doing.”

Gray said the changes will benefit students.

“It was thought to be an extra level that took extra student fees for something that we thought other groups could do. With tuition and everything going up so much, we really thought we should cut any of the extra weight out of student government that we can,” he said. “We’re cutting a couple dollars a semester from each student’s fee just from not having them around, so I don’t think we’re going to see a loss in the benefits.”