The new constitution for the Government of the Student Body, which went into effect April 22, voided nearly all of the GSB bylaws in the process. As a result, GSB members currently are planning new bylaws.

A committee of GSB senators and at-large representatives was formed at the April 22 GSB meeting. The committee must meet throughout the summer and prepare a proposal for new bylaws to be presented to the senate at the first meeting of the fall 1998 semester.

Jeremy Williams, at-large member of the bylaws committee and GSB finance director, said the bylaws will be rewritten because of contradictions between the present bylaws and the constitution.

“They always made things confusing,” he said.

The old bylaws were overturned by the senate, and Williams said bylaws really do not exist at this time. Bylaws are important because they are the rules that GSB has to follow, he said.

Bylaws include specifications such as the operations for the entire financing process, the senate and all positions in the executive branch.

Williams said the new bylaws will make GSB more user-friendly.

“In the long run, once everybody learns the new bylaws, it will make GSB more efficient and easy to understand,” he said. “Right now the bylaws are kind of bureaucratic, and that’s something I want to get away from.”

Williams also said anyone who wants to learn about GSB and its operations will be able to pick up copies of the new bylaws. The committee will form the new bylaws by looking at the old ones and also at examples of bylaws from other universities.

“[The new bylaws] will probably be similar to the old ones,” Williams said. GSB plans to change and modernize content and phrasing to be clear and consistent, hopefully eliminating some loopholes that were troublesome in the old bylaws, he said.

Members of the committee also include Michel Pogge, at-large member, Marcia Johnson, senator, and Jennifer Spencer, senator. Alternates are Jillene Hamill-Wilson, senator, and Rodney Morris and Robert Wiese, at-large members.

Bryan Burkhardt, GSB president, and Jamal White, vice president, also will be part of the committee.

The senators will meet tonight at 7, starting their weekly Tuesday night meetings that will be scheduled throughout the summer.

“It will probably take the majority of the summer to get it all done,” Williams said.

In the fall, the committee will take the new bylaws to the senate to be read and voted upon; the committee will be present to answer questions.