By Signe K. Skinion

Registered Student Organizations have a new funding policy to follow if they wish to receive money for next year after the Undergraduate Student Government passed a bill creating stricter guidelines for funding Wednesday night.

The bill, effective July 1, 1996, will not allow general funding in excess of $200 to be given to RSOs who do not fill out the annual allocation fee forms, which determine their fuding for next year, during the proper time.

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Eric Bottom, College of Business senator and author of the bill, said there are many problems with the RSO funding system, but the misuse of general funding is a major problem.

The idea behind general funding is to help an RSO fund a special event or activity, Bottom said. We only fund one-time special events through general funding. National Conventions that groups go to every year should be allocated during the annual allocation time.

Bottom said this bill is to create a more fair system of funding for USG and the RSOs.

It’s unfair for the RSOs who go through the annual allocation to receive their money, and other RSOs just to wait and go through general funding, Bottom said. If we don’t know about all the RSOs who need funding, they may not get what they need. The problem is there is never enough money out there.

President of USG Duane Sherman said the bill is not to reduce the money RSOs receive but to reduce the misuse of the funding.

What the bill does is reduce the amount of general funding allowed throughout the year, not the funding of the RSOs at the beginning of the year, Sherman said. We’ll actually be giving out more money at the beginning but less throughout the year.