On the bowl.com website are links to the recent legislation from the national convention.

To help sort through what may be difficult to read (that is, to cut to the chase: What is going to change?), I am providing this post.

Only eight (8) of the proposals were adopted; the remaining were rejected.

Those approved are:

Amendment No. LR2 (Approved) Rule 102c. Duties of the President, Item 3 Requires bank statements to be sent to the president.

Amendment No. LR3 (Approved) Rule 102f. Duties of the Treasurer, Item 7 Changes the time frame for retaining treasurer records from 120 days to one year from completion of the season.

Amendment No. LR5 (Approved) Rule 106a. Series - How Bowled Allows for each game or frame to be bowled on a different pair of lanes.

Amendment No. LR6 (Approved) Rule 111c. Gives leagues more flexibility for requesting pre/post bowling.

Amendment No. TR2 (Approved) Rule 319a. Conditions that Apply Treats all averages, including summer averages the same.

Amendment No. TR6 (Approved) Rule 320a. Two Lanes Required Allows for each tournament game or frame to be bowled on a different pair of lanes.

Amendment No. TR7 (Approved) Rule 329. Protests and Appeals
Changes the time frame for protesting rule infractions to 72 hours and the time frame for appealing tournament management’s decision to 10 days.

Amendment No. B1 (Approved) Article VI, Meetings Section A. Annual Meeting, Item 2 Provides for electronic balloting as the final system used for voting, unless the president determines the circumstances require a different method.

The above is gleaned from the legislative session highlights from the 2010 USBC Annual Meeting in Reno, NV, located here.

Full text of all rule proposals is located here. Rather than copy/paste all of the texts of the approved amendments, I will let readers use the above links to read and digest them on their own.