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2024 Proposed Amendments Mar/Apr 2024 | Vol. 81 No. 2

BE AMENDED AS
# WHICH NOW READS IF ADOPTED WILL READ
FOLLOWS

CATEGORY I — CONSENT
PAs that move policies and procedures from Constitution and ISR to Guidelines and Policies/Procedures
(GAPP)
1 ISR 5 | Organization Inserting after Constitution: ISR 5 | Organization
5.1 Coordinating Council GAPP 5.1 Coordinating Council
Consent Organization (Optional) Organization (Optional)
5.11 Each coordinating council Moving: 5.12 and 5.13 to GAPP 5.11 Each coordinating council
shall adopt rules that are consistent shall adopt rules that are consistent
with the Constitution and its state with the Constitution, GAPP, and
organization bylaws. its state organization bylaws.
5.12 Each participating chapter shall 5.12 Activities of coordinating
be represented on the coordinating councils shall be financed as
council by the chapter president approved by the state organization
and at least one (1) other chapter executive board.
member.
5.13 Participating chapters shall
approve the activities of the
coordinating council.
5.14 Activities of coordinating
councils shall be financed as
approved by the state organization
executive board.
Rationale: This level of detail more appropriately belongs in the Guidelines and Policies/Procedures (GAPP). Fiscal Impact: None.
Submitted by: Connie Rensink, TX, First Vice President on behalf of the Administrative Board Administrative Board Recommendation:
to adopt
2 ISR 5.5 | Forums Moving: 5.53 and 5.54 to GAPP ISR 5.5 | Forums
5.51 Annual planning meeting 5.51 Annual planning meeting
Consent costs and communication expenses costs and communication expenses
for the Canadian, European, Latin for the Canadian, European,
American, and United States forums Latin American, and United
shall be funded in the Available States forums shall be funded in
Fund budget. The Canadian, the the Available Fund budget. The
European, and the Latin American Canadian, the European, and the
forums shall each be funded at three Latin American forums shall each
thousand dollars (U.S. $3,000) be funded at three thousand dollars
per year. The United States Forum (U.S. $3,000) per year. The United
shall be funded at ten thousand States Forum shall be funded at ten
dollars (U.S. $10,000) per year. thousand dollars (U.S. $10,000)
Annual budgets and accounting per year. Annual budgets and
reports of funds shall be submitted accounting reports of funds shall
to the president and to the assigned be submitted to the president and
professional staff. to the assigned professional staff.
5.52 The funds shall be used 5.52 The funds shall be used
to communicate with state to communicate with state
organizations and members in the organizations and members in
forum unit to allow each forum unit the forum unit and to allow each
to have meetings of representative forum unit to have meetings of
groups for the purposes of planning representative groups for the
and may be used to take action on purposes of planning and may be
educational activities that are of used to take action on educational
concern to the forum unit.

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