Proposed Amendments to the Association Constitution and Bylaws
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION, BYLAWS AND HOUSE RULES OF PROCEDURE
Proposed amendments to the Constitution, Bylaws and House Rules of Procedure of the American Bar Association summarized below have been duly filed with the Secretary of the Association by the indicated sponsoring members of the Association for consideration by the House of Delegates at the 2016 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California. Copies of the full text of these proposals will be published in the E-book of resolutions to the House of Delegates and are also available on the ABA’s Website on the House of Delegates Leadership Page at: http://www.americanbar.org/groups/leadership/house_of_delegates/2016-san-francisco-annual-meeting.html (click on Summary of Resolutions). These proposals are also available to any member upon request to the Division for Policy Administration at the American Bar Association, 321 N. Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60654; 312/988-5230.
Notice is hereby given that Edward Haskins Jacobs proposes to amend §1.2 of the Association’s Constitution to include the following language as one of the purposes of the Association: “to defend the right to life of all innocent human beings, including all those conceived but not yet born.”
Notice is hereby given that Roberta D. Liebenberg, Co-Chair, Palmer Gene Vance II, Co-Chair (Principal Sponsors), Members: Michelle Behnke, Deborah Enix-Ross, Laura V. Farber, Ellen J. Flannery, Michael E. Flowers, Allen C. Goolsby, Honorable James S. Hill, Kay H. Hodge, Tommy Preston, Jr., Beverly J. Quail, Carlos A. Rodriguez-Vidal, Neal R. Sonnett, Robert N. Weiner, H. Thomas Wells, Jr., and Honorable James A. Wynn Jr., and Board of Governors Liaison William R. Bay propose to amend §2.1 of the Association’s Constitution to realign the districts for representation on the Board of Governors.
Notice is hereby given that David S. Houghton (Principal Sponsor), Sidney Butcher, F. John Garza, Janet Green-Marbley, Sandra R. McCandless, Robert D. Oster, Ethan Tidmore, and Mary T. Torres propose to amend §2.1 and §6.3 of the Association’s Constitution to define “accredited” and to clarify that the person elected as State Delegate must be accredited to the state for which elected.
Notice is hereby given that Anthony Ciolli (Principal Sponsor), Roula Allouch, Samuel Edmunds, Matt Fryar, Miriah Holden, Dana Hrelic, Alicia Mears, Shenique Moss, Mark Nichols, Elizabeth Overmoe, and Alena Shautsova propose to amend §6.4(a) of the Association’s Constitution to provide the United States Virgin Islands with a Young Lawyer Delegate in the House of Delegates.
Notice is hereby given that Dynda A. Thomas (Principal Sponsor), John J. Beardsworth, Jr., Peter V. Lacouture, Mark C. Darrell, Michael A. McGrail, N. Beth Emery, Linda L. Randell, David R. Poe, Thomas P. Gadsden, Steven H. Brose, Robert B. Pringle, Patricia Dondanville, and Robert L. Brubaker propose to amend §10.1(a) of the Association’s Constitution to change the name of the Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law to the Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section.
Notice is hereby given that Clyde J. (“Butch”) Tate II (Principal Sponsor), Dwain Alexander II, William S. Aramony, Michelle Leatrice Raven, Danielle Reyes, Gregory L. Ulrich and Chloe Woods propose to revise the jurisdictional statement of the Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel to expand the size of the Standing Committee to not more than ten members.
Notice is hereby given that David K.Y. Tang (Principal Sponsor), Darrell Mottley, Rew R. Goodenow, Glenn Lau-Kee, Don S. De Amicis, Hon. Delissa A. Ridgway, Kenneth B. Reisenfeld, Edward Mullins, Robert E. Lutz, Carole Silver, Timothy Brightbill, Glenn P. Hendrix, Stephen P. Younger, Thomas G. Wilkinson, Jr., Laurel S. Terry, Erik Wulff, Erica Moeser, Eugene Theroux, Hon. Gerald W. VandeWalle, and William P. Smith propose to amend §31.7 of the Association’s Bylaws to create a Standing Committee on International Trade in Legal Services.
Respectfully Submitted,
Mary T. Torres Secretary
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