Exhibit 77Q1
Item 77Q(a) - Material amendments to the registrant's charter:
COLUMBIA FUNDS VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST
AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
AGREEMENT AND DECLARATION OF TRUST
WHEREAS, Section 5(e) of Article III of the Second Amended and Restated
Agreement and Declaration of Trust (the "Declaration of Trust") of Columbia
Funds Variable Insurance Trust (the "Trust"), filed with the Office of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on April 28, 2006, authorizes
the trustees of the Trust to amend the Declaration of Trust to change the
designation of any Series of Shares without the approval of Shareholders.
The undersigned, being at least a majority of the trustees of the Trust, do
hereby certify that we have determined to change the designations of the Series
of the Trust as set forth below, and that we have authorized the following
amendment to the Declaration of Trust:
The first paragraph of Section 6 of Article III is hereby deleted and
replaced in its entirety with the following:
Without limiting the authority of the Trustees set forth in Section 5,
inter alia, to establish and designate any further Series or classes or
to modify the rights and preferences of any Series or class, the
following Series shall be, and are hereby, established and designated:
Columbia Federal Securities Fund, Variable Series
Columbia International Fund, Variable Series
Columbia Large Cap Value Fund, Variable Series
Columbia Mid Cap Value Fund, Variable Series
Columbia S&P 500 Index Fund, Variable Series
Columbia Variable Portfolio - Asset Allocation Fund
Columbia Variable Portfolio - Large Cap Growth Fund
Columbia Variable Portfolio - Money Market Fund
Columbia Variable Portfolio - Small Cap Value Fund
Columbia Variable Portfolio - Small Company Growth Fund
Columbia Variable Portfolio - Strategic Income Fund
The foregoing amendment, executed as of February 15, 2011, is effective upon
filing with the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hands, as of the
date set forth above.
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