{"id":18615,"date":"2026-05-28T15:58:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T19:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/?p=18615"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:00:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:00:50","slug":"results-of-the-acvs-bylaws-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/news\/results-of-the-acvs-bylaws-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Results of the ACVS Bylaws vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Thank you to the members who participated in the recent bylaws vote. The results are below.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p aria-level=\"3\"><strong><span style=\"color: #1b3e6f;\">APPROVED\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The following ballot items were approved by\u00a0the required two-thirds majority of\u00a0voting members:\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The adoption of the proposed bylaws (core components)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The ballot item granting the Board of Regents the authority to create nonvoting membership categories\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The ballot item reducing the membership tenure requirement for eligibility to serve on the Board of Regents<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #1b3e6f;\">NOT APPROVED\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The ballot item setting the\u00a0maximum\u00a0annual certification fee increase at 5 percent, replacing the current membership dues cap, was not approved. The current annual membership dues cap of 3.5 percent will remain unchanged.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">These updated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ACVS-Bylaws-January-2027.pdf\">bylaws<\/a> support the planned separation of certification functions and membership activities and will take effect on <strong>January 1, 2027<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In the coming months, ACVS will share\u00a0additional\u00a0details\u00a0with Diplomates\u00a0about what membership will look like under this new structure.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For more information and ongoing updates, please visit the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/about\/governance-change\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">governance change website<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to the members who participated in the recent bylaws vote. The results are below.\u00a0 APPROVED\u00a0\u00a0 The following ballot items were approved by\u00a0the required two-thirds majority of\u00a0voting members:\u00a0\u00a0 The adoption of the proposed bylaws (core components)\u00a0 The ballot item granting the Board of Regents the authority to create nonvoting membership categories\u00a0\u00a0 The ballot item [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diplomate","category-residency"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18848,"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615\/revisions\/18848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acvs.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}