Hatchet Staff Writer Madeleine Morgenstern wrote this report.

The Student Association Senate will convene in a special meeting on Sunday to reconcile two different sets of bylaws, Executive Vice President Jason Lifton said Monday.

Lifton said last year’s EVP Kyle Boyer could not locate the bylaws that had existed under the 2007-2008 EVP Brand Kroeger, and therefore worked using the bylaws used by the 2006-2007 EVP Joshua Lasky.

Boyer, however, said he used the set of bylaws given to him by Kroeger.

“I was using a new set of bylaws provided at transition,” he said, adding that Lasky’s would have been outdated. “I provided (Jason) an updated set of bylaws at my transition.”

The Senate bylaws are kept in a binder along with complete copies of passed and failed legislation for that year and are passed down to the new Executive Vice President at the end of each year, Lifton said.

In an e-mail to the Senate late Sunday night, Lifton called the two sets of bylaws “theoretically both valid, but both inconsistent.”

An example of this is the Graduate Affairs Committee, which was established under the 2007-2008 Nicole Capp administration. Its existence is not recognized under the bylaws that were used by Boyer, Lifton said. Capp also created smaller executive appointments that have been filled by current SA President Julie Bindelglass, but need to be reauthorized under a new set of bylaws.

This week, the SA Rules Committee will examine both sets and combine them into a complete and consistent version, which must be approved by a full Senate vote.

Members of the Senate discovered the discrepancy Sunday, Lifton said, calling it “a silly mistake that needs to be fixed.”