2024 Amendments Passed

At the August 5, 2024 Business Meeting of The Catholic Biblical Association of America, the Full Members of the Association unanimously voted to approve the following amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws proposed by the Executive Board.

MOTION
That the Constitution and By-Laws be amended to include the General Editor and Editorial Board of the Biblical Studies from the CBA (BSCBA) in the following manner:

• the addition of “the General Editor of the Biblical Studies from the CBA (BSCBA)”  to Article IV Section 2 to read
  “Between annual general meetings the Association shall be governed by an Executive Board consisting of the Chair, the President, the immediate Past President, the Vice-President, the Executive Director (ex officio, non-voting), the General Editor of The Catholic Biblical Quarterly (CBQ), the General Editor of Old Testament Abstracts (OTA), the General Editor of the Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series (CBQMS) and Catholic Biblical Quarterly Imprints (CBQI), the General Editor of the Biblical Studies of CBA (BSCBA), the Chair of the Committee on Finance and Investment, and four Consultors who serve as non-officer members."
   
• the addition of the following to Constitution Article V 
  Section 8: The duties of the General Editor of the Biblical Studies from the CBA shall be:
  (a) To serve as Chair of the BSCBA Editorial Board; 
  (b) To accept, after due consultation with members of the Editorial Board, manuscripts for the BSCBA and to prepare them for publication.
   
• the current Constitution Article VI, Section 3 be renamed Section 4, so that the following may be added
  Section 3. Members of the BSCBA Editorial Board shall be duly elected as specified in the By-laws and serve under the direction of the General Editor of BSCBA; their function shall be to assist the General Editor in planning and developing the series.
   
• the current sections By-Laws 3.5.8. and 3.5.9. be renamed so that the following be added:
  3.5.8. At each annual general meeting at least two Associate Editors of the BSCBA, upon recommendation by the Editorial Board, shall be elected by the majority vote of the Full Members for a term of four years. Associate Editors may not serve more than two consecutive terms.