A021 - Rules of Order: Amending Rule 45 of the Rules of Order of the House of Deputies

* FINAL VERSION - Concurred

Resolution:	A021
Title:	Amending Rule 45 of the Rules of Order of the House of Deputies
Topic:	Rules of Order
Committee:	03 - Rules of Order
House of Initial Action:	Deputies
Proposer:	House of Deputies President's Council of Advice

Resolved, That Rule of Order 45 of the House of Deputies be amended to read as follows:

45. Messages from the House of Bishops shall be handed by the Secretary of this House to the President, to be laid before the House as early as may be convenient. All such Messages communicating any legislative action on the part of the House of Bishops shall be referred, without debate, to the proper committee, unless, without debate, the House shall decide to consider such Message without such reference. The report of the Committee upon any Message so referred shall be entitled to consideration as of the date and priority of the original receipt of such Message. The question of its immediate consideration, to be decided by two-thirds vote of the members present, shall be submitted to the House as soon as the report is presented.

EXPLANATION

The noted phrase was dropped in an earlier draft of the Canons (between 1991 and 1994.)

* Note: The final language, as well as the final status of each resolution, is being reviewed by the General Convention office. The Journal of the 76th General Convention and the Constitution and Canons will be published once the review process has been completed.