Four are related to the structure of the Society's committees, one to the submission of papers to APS meetings, and one to the reporting of unit councillor election results. Taking member comments into account, the Council will take a second vote on these revisions in the fall and those it approves will be adopted into the Bylaws.
Revisions appear below with text proposed for deletion in strikeout and new text in italics .
Although the bylaws presently state that the COE has 12 members, in fact it has been operating with nine members, as do almost all of the other outreach committees. The size was set at 12 while the committee was setting up the Forum on Education, which is now well established. When it was in existence, COMP was charged with oversight of APS News, which is now a responsibility of the Committee on Membership, and with that of the APS Bulletin, which is now assigned to the Committee on Meetings. The Committee shall propose guidelines and rules for the organization and operation of all meetings of the Society and its units and shall provide oversight for meetings-related publications, including the Bulletin of the American Physical Society. The Committee shall recommend procedures for the Society sponsorship of other meetings.