Process after removing item from table

[Guest Ethan Finni]

Hello,

I have a question about the process *after* there has been an approved motion for an item to be taken off the table. Must there be another motion made (ex. "to approve the expenditure X") or, the motion that was in discussion before the item was placed on the table still stands?

Thanks,

Ethan

[George Mervosh]

"When a question is taken from the table, it is before the assembly, with everything adhering to it, exactly as it was when laid on the table." RONR, p. 292

No further action is required to resume its consideration.

[Kim Goldsworthy]

I have a question about the process *after* there has been an approved motion for an item to be taken off the table.

Must there be another motion made (ex. "to approve the expenditure X") or, the motion that was in discussion before the item was placed on the table still stands?

Impossible to answer, because you are using terms in the opposite way The Book uses terms.

• "Take from the table" is a motion which re-activates another motion which had been temporarily set aside via the motion "Lay on the Table."

Once the motion "take from the table" is adopted, and thus the inactive motion becomes the immediately pending question, then, that immediately pending question is treated as it was just before it was "laid on the table".

• If there were pending amendments, the chair continues the processing of the amendments.

• If any other parliamentary motion was pending or was adhering at the moment of the original "laying on the table", the chair picks up the procedure at that point.

There is no extra motion to be made, as you had implied in your question.