{"id":442673,"date":"2026-09-21T06:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442673\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T06:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T06:12:09","slug":"sg-passes-organization-funding-appropriations-in-special-assembly-the-daily-texan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442673\/","title":{"rendered":"SG passes organization funding appropriations in special assembly \u2013 The Daily Texan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student Government held a special session Wednesday to approve organization funding<\/a> for the fall semester.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Appropriations were not voted on in a standard public assembly because they had not been finalized by this week\u2019s planned meeting time. Appropriations were set to be voted on at Tuesday\u2019s public assembly, but Charlie Weiner, SG speaker of the assembly, said they had not been finalized and decided to cancel the assembly.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we did not do this, it would be another week that all the organizations on campus who came to (SG) asking for funding \u2026 would have been delayed,\u201d said SG President Kiera Dixon at the meeting.<\/p>\n

Student organizations received approximately $25,000 of the $35,000 originally allocated in the SG budget<\/a> passed on Sept. 1. The remaining funds will be reserved for spring appropriations.<\/p>\n

The SG Financial Affairs Committee allocates funding on a points scale, evaluating organizations\u2019 applications and deciding how much of the budget they can give based on the amount requested. All organizations that applied for funding, were listed on HornsLink, were in good standing and used the SG budget sheet, will receive appropriations, wrote Ainsley Stutes, University-wide representative and member of the Financial Affairs Committee, in an email.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe scoring system scores the merits of applications based on impact to student body, track record, commitment, etc. and these are also used to decide funding in addition to the items the student orgs request on their budget sheet,\u201d Stutes wrote.<\/p>\n

Stutes said at the meeting that the Financial Affairs Committee started at around $300 for each organization, allocating more or less depending on the organization\u2019s eligibility and request.<\/p>\n

After these allocations, SG had about $600 leftover of the original budget and divided this money among the highest-scoring organizations, which were Texas Roundtable<\/a>, TX Votes<\/a> and Texas THON<\/a>. Roundtable received $449.60 for an event called \u201cHex Rally,\u201d TX Votes received $449.60 for their \u201cVoterpalooza\u201d and Texas THON received $389.60 for their \u201cPancake Night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last spring, SG debated<\/a> appropriating funding to UT\u2019s chapter of Turning Point USA, a political organization aiming to \u201ceducate students about the importance of free market and other conservative values through well-planned, effective activism initiatives,\u201d according to their website.<\/p>\n

Some SG members opposed passing appropriations because the UT catalog<\/a> prohibits University-sponsored organizations from engaging in political speech. Other members disagreed, arguing that the bill would only fund select TPUSA events, not the organization as a whole.<\/p>\n

This fall, the proposed appropriation bill allocated $30 to TPUSA for a watch party for the mid-term elections. The bill passed unanimously.<\/p>\n

According to text from the bill, SG members \u201cdiscussed the organization\u2019s watch-party programming and whether political content affected eligibility,\u201d but \u201cdetermined that registered organizations should be evaluated according to the merits and eligibility of the application.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Student Government held a special session Wednesday to approve organization funding for the fall semester.\u00a0 Appropriations were not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-442673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}