The process for posting items on residence hall doors may be clarified if a bill passes at tonight’s Inter-Residence Hall Association meeting.

The door policy, which must be updated each year, is a bill concerning what can be on residence hall doors, said Erin Link, Union Drive Association President. The bill was in parliament last month, but voting was delayed so members could gather suggestions and work out legal questions on what could be posted.

As author of the bill, Link said she cut down on the confusion of the policy.

“I looked at the one from two years ago, and it was way too wordy,” Link said. “I rewrote it so it was only a page long and then gave it to [Director of University Legal Services] Paul Tanaka, who changed it some more for the legal aspects.”

Another one of tonight’s bills that must be approved every year deals with the 2001 budget. It was delayed for a month because parliament members wanted to wait until after the IRHA elections.

IRHA bylaws state the budget must be presented to parliament by the 10th week of the spring semester.

Chris Benson, Birch-Welch-Roberts representative, said the bill should pass, but changes will be made due to recent shifts in the IRHA bylaws.

“Some of the positions [on IRHA] that are listed on the budget won’t exist next year,” Benson said.

Three other bills will be receiving their first read to parliament, said IRHA Vice President Jeff Greiner. One bill will alter some of the bylaws in the IRHA constitution. Those changes will include changes to election codes, committee structure and “a lot of clarification on a lot of things that already exist [in the bylaws],” Greiner said.

Authors of another bill said it will make it easier for new residence associations to join IRHA if it is passed. Currently, the constitution states that to be a member of IRHA, students must live in the three main associations — UDA, Towers Residence Association and Richardson Court Association.

Link, co-author of the bill, said it would make the transition into IRHA smoother for either Hawthorn Court or Buchanan Hall.

“It will allow Hawthorn Court to become a member much easier than before, if they want to [be a part of IRHA],” Link said.

Decorations in individual residence halls, such as posters, signs and murals, will be discussed in the last bill.

Brian Tekippe, TRA-at-large representative, said both the door policy and house personalization bills clear up any sort of loopholes detected by the Department of Residence and IRHA Internal Affairs.

“The DOR asked us to review them,” Tekippe said. “We tried to revise a lot of the wording to make it easier to understand and to just clear up the loopholes.”

The meeting will be at 7 p.m. in the South Ballroom of the Memorial Union.