Online Repositories
- Mia LeFevere, Interim Archivist
- Eric Cannon, Recorder of Congress
- Jordyn Froehlke, Clerk of the Supreme Court
- Mia LeFevere, Congressional Secretary
SGPO is required to publish all records to IU's Archives of Institutional Memory within 45-days after:
- Each executive administration
- Each session of Congress
- Each judicial term (by calendar year)
- Each general election
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The Measures At Large are the volume(s) of all bills, constitutional resolutions, and resolutions adopted during a term of Congress created no later than 30 days after the end of a Congressional session.
(see R.B. § 2-7-5)
Citing from Measures at Large
Citations are in the form of # M. at L. #, with the first # indicating the volume number of the Measures at Large and the second # indicating the page on which the measure is printed. When citing a specific page, cite it as # M. at L., #, #, with the third # indicating the specific page. For example, 3 M. at L. 65, 68 refers to volume 3, starting at page 65 of the specific measure and indicating page 68 (i.e., quoted from page 68).
Every enrolled act of Congress, after being enacted as statute, shall be numbered consecutively by congressional term and may be cited as "Pub. L. No. X-Y." The X represents the term of the congressional session, and the Y represents the consecutive number. All statutues enacted by Congress in the same term will share the same X number, but no two enrolled acts will have the same Y number.
(see R.B. § 1-2-1(b))
No later than five calendar days after the Measures At Large for a term of Congress are certifed, the Archivist shall deliver a paper or electronic copy of the following:
- Measures at Large for that term of Congress
- The latest version of the IUSG Constitution
- The latest version of the IUSG Bylaws
to
- The Clerk of the Supreme Court
- The Clerk of any and every other IUSG Court
(see R.B. § 1-3-4)
For bills that become effect upon enactment or a date before the sine die adjournment of the current term of Congress, no later than 48 hours after a bill is enacted, the Recorder shall deliver a paper or electronic copy of the enacted version of the bill to the Congressional Secretary for distribution.
(see R.B. § 1-3-4.5)
For bills that are effective at a date after the sine die adjournment of the term of Congress that they were passed and enacted in, no later than 5 calendar days after the Measures at Large for that term of Congress are certififed:
- the Archivist shall deliver a paper or electronic copy of all bills in which this applies to
- Clerk of the IUSG Supreme Court
- Clerk of any and all other IUSG Courts
- The Department of Treasury (if the bill contains an appropriation or rescission)
- the Archivist shall deliver a paper or electronic copy of all bills in which this applies to that amends R.B. §§ 4, 5, or otherwise amends the duties or powers to the Members of IUSG whose departments or office is or duties or powers are amended by the bill.
(see R.B. § 1-3-5)
No later than 30 days after the conclusion of a term of Congress, the Recorder shall deliver to IU Archives a paper or electronic copy of the following:
- IUSG Acts for that term of Congress
- the Journal of each session that occurred during that term
- latest version of the IUSG Constitution
- latest version of the IUSG Bylaws
- any other documents the Recorder considers necessary
(see R.B. § 2-7-7)
The volume of the minutes of an entire session of Congress is known as the journal of that session. The Recorder of Congress is responsible for the preparation and indexing of the minutes of the meetings of Congress.
No later than 30 calendar days after a legislative session adjourns sine die, the Archivist shall
- Complete the compilation and indexing of the journal for that session, as approved by Congress
- Publish the journal in the Congressional Repository
- Publish the journal in Institutional Memory
As soon as the preparation of the Measures At Large are done for a given term, the Speaker, Recorder, and Archivist shall certify that the bills, resolutions, and constitutional resolutions have been compared with the enrolled versions and find them to be corrected printed.
A certification in paper or electronic form is required attesting to the accuracy of the Measures At Large, signed and dated by the Speaker, Recorder, and Archivist.
(see R.B. § 2-7-6)
All nominations to executive positions or Election Director by the President shall simultaneously sent to:
- Recorder of Congress;
- Congressional Secretary;
- Archivist;
- Clerk of the Supreme Court;
- Clerk of any other IUSG Courts.
Each nomination shall include the name, position, signature of the President, and date of signing. The President may withdraw any nomination prior to action by Congress on confirmation vote. Any and all withdrawals must be sent as a communicataion with the same information required as the nomination made and sent to the same people.
(see R.B. § 4-1-3)
All Executive Orders, Proclamations, and Memoranda must be submitted to the Archivist, Congressional Secretary, Recorder of Congress, and Clerk of all IUSG Courts.
(see R.B. § 4-2-5)
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