New Bylaw Changes Approved by Division Vote

March 7th, 2021

Division 33,

Voting results have been tabulated and the proposed changes to the Division 33 Bylaws were overwhelmingly approved! Thanks to everyone for your participation as well as your understanding with the challenges presented by voting during the ongoing pandemic. As a reminder, here is a summary of the newly adopted changes to the Division Bylaws:

1. Updated member class options to be in line with APA.
2. Added graduate student affiliate members to the Executive Committee so that we could strengthen graduate student voices in the Division.
3. Established Website Committee (previously ad-hoc committee) to ensure that information and services offered through our website are up to date, relevant, and meaningful for our members.
4. Established the Developmental Disabilities and Criminal Justice System Committee (previously ad-hoc committee) given our Division’s ongoing commitment to support this important topic.
5. Streamlined process for committee selection and Division awards to be more efficient.
6. Allowed for electronic voting of Bylaw changes by members going forward to allow us to more easily gather opinions from our members and update Division Bylaws.
7. Added the President-Elect as a member who is able to sign checks, given the role of this person as the Division 33 Program Committee Chair of the APA Convention program.