1) The first proposal is put forward collectively by members of the Delegates Assembly:
Section 1. The Delegate Assembly shall be the governing body of the organization. The Assembly shall consist of the officers of the organization and two the representatives from each office program, which shall include at least one legal worker and one attorney. The members of each program shall be the shop. The shop shall elect attorney and legal worker delegates with parity except that, upon good cause shown concerning a skew in the ratio of attorneys or legal workers in a program, the DA may permit an attorney delegate position to be occupied by a legal worker or vice versa. The shop shall also elect at least one attorney alternate-delegate and at least one legal worker alternate delegate who shall not normally vote but who, as needed, may vote in place of the regular delegate. The shop may also elect co-alternate delegates as needed in order to respond to needs within the shop. Delegates shall be elected by a majority vote of members of LSSA in each office program and shall serve a term of one year. The names of the people so elected shall be submitted to the President within ten (10) days of the annual meeting of LSSA and their term shall begin on the first day of the month following the annual meeting. and within ten (10) days of any vote by the members of the program to replace a delegate or fill a vacancy.
(New Section) Section 2. Semi-Proportional Representation.
Programs with less than 20 shop members shall have two voting delegates. Programs with 20 to 39 shop members shall have four voting delegates. Programs with 40 or more shop members shall have six voting delegates. Programs with the right to elect four or more voting delegates may, with good cause and permission of the DA, elect fewer and have the same votes by having some voting delegates designated by the shop to cast two votes at the DA. Programs with members on different floors or offices are strongly encouraged to allocate their voting delegates and/or alternates by location and in such a manner as to make it easier for members to meet with a delegate.
(New Section ) Section 3. Members At Large.
The DA may elect up to two additional voting members of the DA from the membership for the purpose of making the DA more inclusive of the whole of LSSA. This may include legal workers or persons of color if underrepresented, or some other portion of the membership which the DA finds to be underrepresented on the DA.
(Old Sections 2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9 are renumbered 4, 5,6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 respectively)
Article VI – Section 9. (Old Section 7)
One-third (⅓) of the voting members of the Delegate Assembly, not counting unfilled voting delegate positions, shall constitute a quorum. Said quorum shall be necessary to transact all business except scheduling matters to a new meeting time or date. In the event that any other provision of these bylaws requires that a quorum be a larger number of the members of the Delegate Assembly, that provision shall govern with respect to the purposes of that section. Adoption of any proposal before the Delegate Assembly requires a majority of those voting, however any provisions within these bylaws requiring a larger than majority vote for adoption, that provision shall govern with respect to the purposes of that section.
2) The Manhattan program has put forward an alternative proposal: