At the Section business meeting in New Orleans in August 1998, concern was expressed that there would be no Chair-elect during one-half of the Section Chair’s two-year term. Should the Chair need a stand-in to perform her or his duties, there would be no one duly designated to serve that role during the first year of the Chair’s term. The members in attendance at the meeting endorsed the idea of changing the bylaws to extend the term for the Chair-elect from one to two years. The following amendment to the Section bylaws will be voted upon at the annual business meeting in San Diego this coming August.

SECTION VI.1.b:
The first sentence, which currently reads:

The Chair-elect shall serve a one-year term as an apprentice Chair and, upon completion of this term, shall become the Chair of the Section,

shall be amended to read,

The Chair-elect shall serve a two-year term as an apprentice Chair and, upon completion of this term, shall become the Chair of the Section.

The second sentence of SECTION VI.1.b, which currently reads:

Elections for Chair-elect will occur every other year, i.e., at the end of the first year of the current Chair’s two-year term,

shall be amended to read:

Elections for Chair-elect will occur every two years.

In addition, the following motion will be offered to authorize the election of a new Chair-elect at the 2000 Section business meeting at the 2000 AAA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia:

Moved that a special election be held for Chair-elect in 2000 so that the two-year terms of Chairs-elect will henceforth correspond to the two-year terms of Chairs.

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