Governing Body

PTA bylaws provide for the transaction of business at all levels of the PTA by three bodies in the following order of authority:

1. The voting delegates to the annual convention
2. The board of managers
3. The executive committee

Voting Delegates to the Annual State Convention:

The Virginia PTA holds an Annual Convention, the voting power of which is vested in the Virginia PTA/PTSA Board of Managers and other accredited representatives from the state. In addition to their president or alternate, local unit PTAs are entitled to additional two delegates for the first 200 members or less and an additional delegate for each additional 100 hundred members, or major fraction thereof, as shown in the records of the Virginia PTA as of the previous June 30th. Read more about Official voting delegates in the Members Library.

Parliamentary Authority

Parliamentary law is a consistent set of rules that governs deliberative assemblies. The rules protect the rights of the individual, the minority, the majority, the absentee, and the association. They require courtesy to all while showing partiality to none. Parliamentary law provides for consideration of one subject at a time. Parliamentary law promotes and expedites business while ensuring justice and equality.

The current edition of Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised is the parliamentary authority adopted by the National PTA and required as the authority for all PTAs. Its rules govern the unit in all cases in which they are applicable and in which they are not in conflict with the bylaws of the unit or those of the state or National PTA or the articles of incorporation.

Board of Managers

The Virginia PTA Board of Managers consists of the state officers, elected by the convention body; the district director region representatives elected by the district directors; 21 district directors elected by the membership in each district as directed by unit bylaws; and the appointed chairperson of standing committees elected for a term of two years.

The Virginia PTA officers are the state president, president-elect, vice-president, a secretary and a treasurer.

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee includes the elected officers, the immediate past president, six district director representatives and two committee chairs.