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BYLAWS COMMITTEE REPORT

2019-2020

Delegates to the 2019 Annual Business Meeting overwhelmingly approved amendments to the AMT
National Bylaws that will:

1. Allow each state or international society to seat one Allied Health Instructor (AHI) or Clinical
Laboratory Consultant (CLC) delegate at each annual business meeting; and
2. Formally add the Molecular Diagnostics Technologist (MDT) discipline as a membership class
entitled to full membership privileges.

AHI/CLC Amendments – Previously, AHI and CLC members were ineligible to serve as delegates to the
national convention. At the 2018 Resolutions Committee meeting in Washington, D.C., the committee
adopted a resolution sponsored by the Ohio State Society recommending that the bylaws be revised to
allow one AHI member from each society to be seated as a delegate annually. The resolution was
referred to the Bylaws Committee, which concurred in the concept but took the proposal a step further
by proposing that societies be allowed to name one AHI or CLC delegate each year. The Board of
Directors agreed to formally propose those amendments, and they were published in the March and
June issues of AMT Events.

As amended, the Bylaws allow each state or international society to name one AHI or CLC delegate
annually. Each society can seat a delegate from either of those membership categories, but not both. A
society may not use AHI or CLC members to fill empty delegate seats from other membership classes.

MDT Amendments – The delegates unanimously adopted bylaw revisions that formally incorporate the
new MDT discipline into the membership structure. Specifically, the amendments: (1) list the MDT as a
membership class with full membership privileges in Article III, Section 2; (2) make MDT members
eligible to serve as delegates to the annual business meeting under Article IV, Section 2(a)(1); (3) make
MDT members eligible to serve on the Board of Directors under Article V, Section 2(a)(1); and (4)
establish annual renewal dues at the same level as for MT and MLT members in Article VIII, Section 1.

MDT members are be grouped together with MT and MLT members for purposes of delegate
representation. MDT members are grouped with MT, MLT, COLT, and CMLA members for purposes of
Board representation.

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