Amendment of the articles of a member-based nonprofit corporation requires a vote of its members and acceptance by the Secretary of State, a process that would take most nonprofits over two months.
"The case begins to speak for itself, " the committee member said, adding that the proposed articles are in the drafting stage and have not yet been signed off by the committee's chairman, Rep. Henry Hyde.
He is an editorial board or correspondent member of a number of academic journals, has published numerous articles, reviews and books and supervised many doctoral students.