## Technical Committee Affiliation

A Technical Committee may affiliate with at most one member section.

### For existing Technical Committees:

An existing Technical Committee must approve, via a Special Majority Vote, a request to affiliate with a Member Section.

Upon successful completion of the Technical Committee ballot, the Member Section Steering Committee must then approve the affiliation by a Member Section Steering Committee Special Majority Vote.

### For proposed Technical Committees:

1. The Member Section Steering Committee should review and provide any/all feedback to the Charter proposers prior to formal submission to the Technical Committee Administrator.
2. The proposed Charter must state that the Technical Committee "intends to affiliate with" the designated Member Section.
3. After delivery of the final Charter to the TC Administrator, the TC Administrator shall forward a copy of the final Charter to the Member Section Steering Committee, which shall then conduct a Member Section Steering Committee Special Majority Vote to approve affiliation of the proposed Technical Committee.
4. If the results of the Member Section Steering Committee Special Majority Vote are known prior to Call for Participation, the TC Administrator will ensure that the affiliation is duly noted (or deleted); if the results are not yet in or ballot hasn’t yet taken place, the previous “intends to affiliate” language remains in the charter as circulated.