Amendments

To create a new membership category of “community ally” and charge the NEA Board of Directors with adopting rules for implementation, while prohibiting such members from nominating, voting for, or holding any elected or appointed Association office or position.

To allow an individual re-joining the Association as an Active member after the commencement of the membership year to pay a pro-rated portion of dues for that year.

To provide for solicitation of Active member voluntary contributions to a strike/work action fund.

To set one year as the minimum term length for delegates to the NEA Representative Assembly.

To permit the Association, under limited circumstances, and pursuant to the same protections that apply to state affiliate trusteeships, to establish a trusteeship over a local affiliate.

To establish specific procedures by which a state or local affiliate may terminate its affiliation with the National Education Association.

To allow for deferral to the subsequent day any motion for which proposed amendments are difficult to display in full on screen, and to provide delegate access overnight to any such deferred language.

To strike language permitting delegates to yield any unused portion of allotted speaking time.

To prohibit on the Representative Assembly floor the display of signs lobbying for or against specific action items, other than signs used by a state caucus for the purpose of communicating with that state’s delegates.

To amend the preamble to add the word “secular” before “public education.”