Section I

1.1 WHEREAS during the 2019-2020 academic year, the Senate Executive Committee initiated a review of the Senate Bylaws to determine if any amendments were needed and, if so, what those amendments might be; and,

1.2 WHEREAS the Executive Committee, in concert with the members of the Rules Committee, has identified several clauses of the bylaws which it believes would benefit from appropriate amendments; and,

1.3 WHEREAS the Executive Committee deemed it appropriate that this first revision that it is proposing should concern the bylaws amendment process itself; and,

1.4 WHEREAS the current majority requirement for amending the bylaws is not aligned with Robert’s Rules of Order in that it does not allow for amendment of the bylaws by a two-thirds vote with adequate notice; and,

1.5 WHEREAS Robert’s Rules of Order, dictates that bylaws “...may be amended at any regular business meeting by a vote of the majority of the entire membership; or, if the amendment was submitted in writing at the previous regular business meeting, then they may be amended by a two-thirds vote of those voting, a quorum being present,” and goes on to state that, “each society should adopt rules for the amendment of its constitution, by-laws, and rules of order, adapted to its own case, but always requiring previous notice and a two-thirds vote,” [RRO 68]; and

1.6 WHEREAS other clauses of the bylaws, i.e., Sect. 3.7, require sufficient previous notice for any motion;

Section II

2.1 BE IT SO MOVED that the first sentence of Section 3.11 of the Senate Bylaws entitled "Modification of the Senate By-Laws" shall be amended as follows:

• "These by-laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote of those voting, a quorum being present."