Guest Betsey Lee Posted April 13, 2011 at 04:41 PM Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 at 04:41 PM Can a Constituion and Bylaws Committee kill a resolution even before it hits the floor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert B Fish Posted April 13, 2011 at 05:08 PM Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 at 05:08 PM You need to provide more details before we can respond. Normally committees only make recommendations to the assembly but your organization could have granted the committee some powers such as screening resolutions and determining which ones come before the assembly. -Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Betsey Lee Posted April 13, 2011 at 06:25 PM Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 at 06:25 PM The Constitution and Bylaws does not stipulate whether or not a committee can or can't kill the resolution nor does it grant the committee any other special powers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted April 13, 2011 at 08:36 PM Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 at 08:36 PM The Constitution and Bylaws does not stipulate whether or not a committee can or can't kill the resolution nor does it grant the committee any other special powers.Then the committee has no powers to do anything other than make recommendations, which are not binding upon the assembly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Goldsworthy Posted April 13, 2011 at 09:30 PM Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 at 09:30 PM The Constitution and Bylaws does not stipulate whether or not a committee can or can't kill the resolution nor does it grant the committee any other special powers.Your procedures are too customized, and too out of kilter with the default rules of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR 10th ed.) for us to cite a page from RONR and "prove" that your particular committee can or cannot kill resolutions.• Some committees are empowered to kill resolutions, to act as a "filter" or "first line of defense."• Some committees are not empowered to kill resolutions, and must pass 100% of their business "upstairs" to the superior body.Under the default rules of Robert's Rules of Order, committees are powerless, and must pass everything they got up to the superior body, and cannot kill anything.Which kind of committee is YOUR committee?I don't know.I haven't read your rules.I haven't read your minutes.Your organization will have to interpret your unique rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David A Foulkes Posted April 13, 2011 at 09:38 PM Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 at 09:38 PM Your procedures are too customized, and too out of kilter with the default rules of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR 10th ed.)....Well, to be fair, the only thing we know about them is that there is nothing in them that addresses the authority of a Committee to kill a resolution, nor do they give the Committee any "other special powers." I don't think that's enough to declare them "too customized" or "too out of kilter" with RONR. For all we know, they are just fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Goldsworthy Posted April 13, 2011 at 09:59 PM Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 at 09:59 PM Well, to be fair, the only thing we know about them is that there is nothing in them that addresses the authority of a Committee to kill a resolution, nor do they give the Committee any "other special powers." I don't think that's enough to declare them "too customized" or "too out of kilter" with RONR. For all we know, they are just fine.F.Y.I.My eyeballs lit up when I read that this committee obtained its own resolution from an unknown source.Where did this "resolution" come from, since it definitely did not come from the empowering body?THAT is what struck me as doubleplus ungood (see George Orwell's Newspeak in his novel "1984"). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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