The Legion of Black Collegians continued amending its constitution Wednesday, adding a policy for making financial requests and increasing the required GPA for officers.

According to Section 3a of the current LBC constitution, the cumulative GPA requirement for executive board members is a maintained 2.2. LBC Political Chair Whitney Williams proposed an increase in the cumulative GPA to 2.5 for executive board members, but after further discussion it was amended to increase to 2.7.

“The second change we went over was regarding funding requests from BSO’s (Black Student Organizations),” Williams said.

The funding request amendment is already an MU regulation that restricts LBC from funding events that are not student related or beneficial to MU students, Williams said during LBC’s meeting Wednesday.

Both changes will see their first reading during LBC’s next Senate meeting before further editing by the political committee and Senate’s approval during the second reading of the changes.

“All changes made to the constitution regarding the executive board should be made before the executive elections take place,” LBC President Lisa White said.

Executive board nominations will commence next week and elections will fall on April 15, White said.

Constitutional changes will continue throughout this semester, but LBC has no specific timeline, Williams said.

“Our political chair (Williams) has a list of changes she wants to propose to Senate,” White said. “We talk about them during executive board meetings and then bring those changes to Senate.”

Two changes have been confirmed this academic year.

“We changed how many seats are available in our Senate,” White said.

LBC harbors senators from each grade level as well as their umbrella organizations, she said.

“We prefer to have at least two senators from each class,” Williams said.

Senators are elected for the freshman, sophomore, junior and senior class and one seat is reserved for each umbrella organization, White said.

LBC also changed the use of general assembly meetings, Williams said.

According to constitutional act 2, LBC amended article VII of its constitution to increase the productiveness of Senate.

Williams said there will be more changes throughout the semester, but no changes are major.

“We are just trying to make sure the constitution is what we want it to be for next year,” Williams said.