Resolved, the House of _____ concurring, That Rule VII.21 on the Joint Standing Committee on Nominations in the Rules of Order be amended as follows:

21. Except for the Secretary and the Treasurer of the General Convention, the said Committee is instructed to nominate a number, equal to at least twice the number of vacancies, which shall be broadly representative of the constituency of this Church; to prepare biographical sketches of all nominees; and to include such nominations and sketches in the Blue Book, or otherwise to circulate them among Bishops and Deputies well in advance of the meeting of the next succeeding General Convention; this procedure, however, except for nominations for the Board of the Church Pension Fund not to preclude further nominations from the floor in the appropriate House of the General Convention.

EXPLANATION

This amendment will make explicit the current practice not to allow nominations from the floor for membership on the board of the Church Pension Fund (CPF). There is a conflict between Canon 1.8.2 "The General Convention at each regular meeting shall elect, on the nomination of a Joint Committee thereof, twelve persons to serve as Trustees of the Church Pension Fund" and Rule VII.21 (above) which states that its nomination process is "not to preclude further nominations from the floor in the appropriate House of the General Convention." In the past that conflict has been settled by rulings upholding the Canon. This amendment to the Rules of Order would make the exception about nominees to the Church Pension Fund explicit and allow it to be tested by the will of the General Convention.