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Senate General Body Meeting #3 — Minutes (09/08/26)

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114th Johns Hopkins Student Government Association

Senate Meeting #3

September Day, 2026 / 07:00 PM / BSC 404

MINUTES

  1. Call to Order and Attendance (1 min)

    1. Absentees:
      1. Excused: Veda, Yash
      2. Unexcused:
    2. Present

  2. Convening Business (30 min)

  3. Amendment and Approval of the Agenda (1 min)

  4. Public Input (3 min)

  5. Reports (5 min)

    1. Cabinet Reports (4 mins)
      1. Student Body President - Jason
      2. Student Body Vice President - Sumi
        1. How was Agora cafe?
        2. Secret buddy
      3. Secretary - Nora
        1. Bring paper for name tags
        2. Join the iclickr
      4. Treasurer - Amy
        1. 200k for finance committee
      5. Chair of Programming - Grace
      6. President of the Senate - Jazz
        1. Initiative track sheet
    2. Advisor Report (2 min)
    3. Senator reports
      1. Oluwanifemi
        1. Increase black visibility and retention of black students on campus
        2. 25 Black student orgs on campus
      2. Kai
        1. Working on finance and event grants
        2. First student service meeting and liaisons to different JHU departments assigned
        3. Working on receiving more clarity on CharMar meal swipes
        4. Meeting with Hopkins Dining on why they are getting rid of certain cultural foods
        5. Data center educational tabling event
      3. Mamadou
        1. Trying to get athletic trainers for smaller sports clubs to prevent injury (preventative training and on-site staff)
        2. Narcan around campus
  6. Non-Legislative Business (30 min)
    1. Confirmation of the CSE
      1. Introductions
        1. Grace Yang: sophomore, experience in CSE, majoring in public health
        2. Sajiv Harikrishnan: part of SGA last year, majoring in biomedical engineering
        3. Anahat Goraya: Junior majoring in public health
        4. Jazlyn Sandhu
      2. Motion to vote, passed
        1. Opposed: Jackson, damari

  7. First Reading (20 min)

    1. Accountability Act
      1. Tracks who has proposed initiatives to keep people accountable and active
      2. Absences
        1. Split into GBM and Committee absences
      3. Moderated caucus
        1. Peter: no impeachment trial and replace with meeting with Advisor at 3 absences
        2. Kai: do absences need to be supplemented with a reason (Yes)
        3. Jackson: agree with Peter, is there any clause to recognize circumstances outside of the listed in the Rules Bill
        4. Damari: where to find the document (in agenda)
        5. Mahima: for notification at half of absences is it provided at 1 or 2 (2)
        6. Sienna: is leaving early an absence or something else (clarification needed)
      4. Cole: Motion to move to IA, passed (no abstentions, no opposed)

  8. Second Reading (10 min)

    1. Fast-Forward Finance Bill
      1. Requests under certain monetary cap can just skip first reading
      2. Two changes made in IA:
        1. up to $250 in funding over the summer for promotional materials (ie. for SIF)
        2. Limited funding cap moved from $500 to $1000
          1. Jason: $1000 is a lot of money
          2. Jazz: passed with recommendation from IA and finance committee
          3. Demari: we trust finance experts
          4. Andrei: what proportion of funding requests are under $1000, peter: that is why it changed from $500
    2. JHUMA Funding Bill
      1. Passed in finance committee
      2. Jason: motion to pass
    3. ClerPa
      1. No transfer student and LGBTQIA+ rep
      2. No minimum needed for finance
      3. Constitutional amendments must go through first and second reading, needs ¾ vote of entire senate (not just people present)
      4. Leave caucus senators titled caucasus but not required to hold caucuses - consultative committee of ten
        1. Alternate events/outreach
      5. Petition can inspire negligence review
      6. Vacancies appointed SGA, entire student body will get notification
        1. Jackson: change language so that appointed or elected senators can make changes
        2. Kevin: status of AAPI representative
        3. Sophia: clarify responsibilities during election
        4. Nifemi: status on two Black caucus reps
          1. Cole: other representative not interested (word of mouth)

Cohort time

  1. Prep for judiciary
  2. Motion or not to motion (10 min)

Prospective Legislation & Announcements (5 min)

Adjournment (Estimated 9:00 PM)

Time-length and adjournment estimates are provided for the benefit of guests at Senate meetings. However, SGA meetings are always slated to extend until 9:00 PM and SGA members are expected to remain in the Senate chamber until official adjournment by motion, whether before or after the adjournment estimate.