Thanks for the responses! I ask because I'm trying to determine the vote requirement to amend a "standing rule" that created a committee that has an ongoing responsibility to establish standards for and and provide/arrange for most of the continuing education sessions at regular meetings for members of a professional association. The rule provides very specific guidance on how the committe should go about doing this, but the committee appears to have the authority to fully implement. So, to determine the vote requirement, I need to know if this standing rule is actually a special rule of order in the manner referenced in the first bullet point. This doesn't seem like something in the nature of a special rule of order, but I don't understand situations the first bullet point is attempting to address.