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IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Bylaws ChangesTom RubinsteinFrom time to time, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Board of Governors (BoG) finds it necessary to amend the Society’s bylaws. An amendment requires a two-thirds vote of the BoG plus approval of IEEE’s Vice President for Technical Activities (VP-TA). At its 22 June 2023 meeting, the BoG approved a number of changes. The VP-TA approved the changes on 19 September. This change is unique in that the VP-TA’s approval was for a two-year period. Following that period, there may be further changes, or the affected portions of the bylaws may return to their former status.The following is the full text of the additions to and deletions from the bylaws. For brevity, inconsequential changes, additions, and deletions that do not affect the meaning are not shown here. Additions are underlined. Deletions are shown in ~~strikeout~~ type.Article III—Board of GovernorsSection 2.2Prior to their election, all elected Board of Governors must have been a member of the Society for at least the immediate past five years as well as a participant, during the most recent seven years, in two or more of the positions listed below. Participation, whether simultaneous or sequential, may occur as either one two-year term or two one-year terms. Service in two different positions, whether simultaneous or sequential, is counted as additive unless specified otherwise.

General Chair or Technical Program Committee Chair for either of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference or the IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference.

Senior editor (Editor in Chief, Associate Editor in Chief, Area Editor or their equivalent) of a Society’s own publication. Positions for the same publication are counted as one.

Member of Executive Committee (as defined in Article VIII, Section 3.13), each of three technical Vice Presidents, or Treasurer.

Chair of an active standing or ad hoc committee.

Regional Chapter Coordinator.

Chair of a chapter other than student chapter. A Chapter Chair that did not submit an end-of-year report is excluded from consideration.

Participation of a similar nature in the Society as deemed suitable on a candidate-by-candidate basis by a majority of the Nominations Committee. This may be regarded as fulfillment of one of the position requirements.

The changes will take effect 30 days after the publication of this article. Those wishing to have a full copy of the VTS bylaws can view a copy on the VTS website at https://vtsociety.org/about/governing-documents/bylaws.—Tom Rubinstein, chairVTS Constitution and Bylaws CommitteeDigital Object Identifier 10.1109/MVT.2023.3318908CoverVTC2024-SpringMastheadFrom the EditorPresident's MessageVTSMobile RadioTransportation SystemsFrom the Guest EditorsWhen Connected and Automated Vehicles Meet Mobile CrowdsensingSparks of Generative Pretrained Transformers in Edge Intelligence for the MetaverseHow Does a Digital Twin Network Work Well for Connected and Automated VehiclesDigital Twin and Artificial Intelligence-Empowered Panoramic Video StreamingAi-Assisted Edge Caching for Metaverse of Connected and Automated VehiclesFederated Learning-Assisted Vehicular Edge ComputingEnhancement of Satellite-to-Phone Link BudgetAerial Base Stations for Global ConnectivityWireless-Powered Interference NetworksInductive Power Transfer in Electric VehiclesConnected and Automated VehiclesAutomotive ElectronicsSociety NewsAwardsVTC2024-FallTechRxivArchives