The Associated Students of Madison passed an endorsement supporting the idea of creating a center that would provide legal assistance to students Wednesday night.
This endorsement, the Student Legal Services Center Endorsement, forms a group that will work to create the center.
The council appointed Chair Brandon Williams, Representative Tyler Junger, and Representative Cale Plamann to serve in the group.
Three members of the Student Services Finance Committee will be chosen at their meeting tomorrow to join the group.
Junger said although he supported the idea of creating this center, he feared ASM would not put enough thought into its creation.
""We need to know what's going on here because we can't just say ‘We support whatever is coming out of this working group,'"" Junger said.
In other business at the meeting, Chief Justice Kate Fifield proposed a bylaw change that would remove the requirement of the chief justice to attend student council meetings.
Fifield said the chief justice should remain unbiased toward the student council, and being required to attend weekly meetings with members of the student council makes it difficult to do so.
Members of ASM, including Williams and SSFC Chair Matt Manes said they feared this bylaw change could disconnect the Student Judiciary from ASM.
ASM will vote on the bylaw change next week.
Also at the meeting, Legislative Affairs Chair Sam Polstein introduced a resolution denouncing the proposed voter ID bill currently in the state Legislature.
Senate Bill Six would require a DMV-issued photo ID to vote. Since many students do not have a photo ID with a Madison address, they would not be able to vote while at school.
The bill would also eliminate same-day voter registration.
Polstein said his proposal, The Resolution to Protect Student Voting Rights, is something ASM needs to take a stance on.
At the meeting, Chair Brandon Williams announced Representative Jonah Zinn resigned. Zinn is studying abroad.
