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Motion made and voted on by six person Board. The vote is 3 - 3, tie vote. Can the Motion be brought up again at the same meeting or must it wait until the next regularly scheduled meeting for reconsideration?

A tie vote means the motion was defeated. It can only be Reconsidered before the meeting is adjourned, and it can't be Renewed (made again) until the next meeting, unless it has been substantially changed so as to become essentially a new question anyway.

So, next meeting - the motion can be made again (Renewed) as though it had never been considered at all previously. But it's too late for Reconsideration, which has a specific meaning in parliamentary terms.

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Motion made and voted on by six person Board. The vote is 3 - 3, tie vote. Can the Motion be brought up again at the same meeting...

Yes. A motion to reconsider could be made by someone who'd voted on the prevailing (i.e. voted against it) side.

... or must it wait until the next regularly scheduled meeting for reconsideration?

At the next meeting that would not be a motion reconsider, as has been noted. At that point anyone could make/renew the motion.

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Yes. A motion to reconsider could be made by someone who'd voted on the prevailing (i.e. voted against it) side.

At the next meeting that would not be a motion reconsider, as has been noted. At that point anyone could make/renew the motion.

The reply assumes, of course, that the vote on the motion in question can be reconsidered. But, take a look RONR (10th ed.), tinted page 47, for those rejected motions to which a motion to Reconsider cannot be applied.

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