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In this scenario, chapters submit resolutions to the national office that are to be considered by delegates at a national convention. The normal progression is for the resolutions to be referred to a convention committee which, after thorough consideration and amendments if deemed appropriate, makes a recommendation to the assembled delegates to accept or reject the resolution.

Absent a specific bylaw authorization or other well known rule that has been adopted by the body, can an executive board or a member of same remand a resolution back to the submitting chapter because it does not like the resolution? The remand is not based on some technical requirement such as improper completion of the submission or for any of the things mentioned in RONR as being disqualifying. The resolutions are critical of the board members for actions they have taken and, essentially ask that they stop doing certain things going forward. One requests an apology for what is perceived to have been an egregious act. Even so, what would be the authority, if any, for this kind of remand? r

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Absent a specific bylaw authorization or other well known rule that has been adopted by the body, can an executive board or a member of same remand a resolution back to the submitting chapter because it does not like the resolution?

No. (RONR, 10th ed., pg. 465, lines 26-30)

Even so, what would be the authority, if any, for this kind of remand?

Any such authority would need to come from the assembly's own rules. It isn't in RONR.

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