Amending proposed Bylaws amendments

[Guest Jane]

The organization's Bylaws state that they may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting, provided the proposed amendment has been submitted in writing and is read at the previous meeting. If these are followed, if there are amendments to the amendments, do they also require a two-thirds vote to adopt? RONR 11th ed., page 594, lines 33-35, about voting on amendments to the amendments says "a majority vote without notice..." I do not understand to what the "notice" applies.

[Dan Honemann]

The organization's Bylaws state that they may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting, provided the proposed amendment has been submitted in writing and is read at the previous meeting. If these are followed, if there are amendments to the amendments, do they also require a two-thirds vote to adopt? RONR 11th ed., page 594, lines 33-35, about voting on amendments to the amendments says "a majority vote without notice..." I do not understand to what the "notice" applies.

It means that such subsidiary amendments to proposed bylaw amendments can be adopted by a majority vote even although no previous notice of them has been given.

[Greg Goodwiller, PRP]

Just be sure you keep reading onto the next page. bylaw amendments can be amended by a simple majority vote without notice so long as the proposed amendment is not greater in scope than the original proposed amendment that was noticed to the body.

And then of course, the amendment "as amended" would still require the 2/3 vote that your bylaws require for amendment.