The Student Association Internal Affairs Committee discussed Wednesday the Student Committee On Financial Aid’s bylaws and decided to recommend categorical and wording changes to the SA senate.

SCOFA was designed to help students learn about available financial aid so it can help students, SA Sen. Anne Rapp said.

IAC will recommend the removal of SCOFA responsibility from the SA academic affairs adviser. It also will recommend the SA president or his designee be chairman of the committee.

IAC member Paula Graunke said academic affairs already has enough responsibility and SCOFA would not be as effective in that category.

Rapp said SCOFA should be a committee of the SA and not a subcommittee of a committee of the SA.

Wording in SCOFA membership bylaws also was changed from all “full-time fee paying students” can be eligible for financial aid to include all “fee-paying students in good academic standing,” Davis said.

Graunke said usually those who are part-time students do not qualify for financial aid because they have jobs. However, they are eligible.

The IAC also discussed revisions of the elections portion of the bylaws. The wording to describe the elections commisioner was revised to explain that he shall remain publicly uncommitted to any candidate or issue, Davis said.

The IAC discussed the monetary fine policy for candidates who exceed spending limitations during campaigning. The candidate is fined three times the amount of money he exceeds during campaigning, Davis said.

The fine is not a punishment for exceeding limitations but it acts as a deterrent to overspending, he said.

Graunke said even if the fine was increased, some people can afford to pay the price and might take the chance. She said the committee should change the fine structure and suggested the inclusion of a poster removal policy 24 hours before election day.

Davis said the policy is each candidate is required to submit campaign receipts after the polling is completed, and spending totals are recorded prior to the counting of the ballot.