ARTICLE IV: THE BUDGET

Section 1. The Senate may appropriate funds to all eligible law student organizations requesting access to funds from the central Law Student Activities Fund through a budgeting process conducted in accordance with this Constitution and procedures adopted by the Senate.

1. When budgeting all law student organizations, the Senate shall also take up the draft budget of the Student Bar Association as prepared and presented by the Treasurer of the Student Bar Association.
2. The budget of the Student Bar Association shall include the budgets of all committees, councils, commissions, boards, task forces, and agencies of the Student Bar Association, with such exceptions as the Senate may establish.
3. The budget of the Student Bar Association and any law student organization shall be adopted by a simple majority of the Senate.

Section 2. Funds that are not allocated at the time budgets are formally adopted by the Senate, shall only be disbursed from the central Law Student Activities Fund with a simple majority vote of the Senate.