Table or withdraw motion

[Guest callanator]

When a committee chair makes a motion that is seconded can that motion be tabled without a second or a vote, or should it be withdrawn? A question about point of order was made about which committee should actually be making the motion during discussion.

[jstackpo]

First question/sentence: tabled without...? No. Withdrawn?: if the assembly agrees.

I'm not clear what you are asking in your second sentence, if anything.

[Guest Guest]

When a committee chair makes a motion that is seconded can that motion be tabled without a second or a vote, or should it be withdrawn? A question about point of order was made about which committee should actually be making the motion during discussion.

Carification - Tabled by the mover(committee chair)

[jstackpo]

Still No. A motion to table requires a majority vote. Is "tabling" what you really mean? Why are you tabling something?

[Guest callanator]

The second sentence was to inform you about what led to the need to table or withdraw. So, now that we have done something out of order do we let it go or does it need to be corrected at the next meeting?

[Guest Edgar]

Is "tabling" what you really mean? Why are you tabling something?

See FAQs #12 and #13 for some guidance.

[Guest callanator]

Still No. A motion to table requires a majority vote. Is "tabling" what you really mean? Why are you tabling something?

We shouldnt have tabled it. It should have been withdrawn.

[David A Foulkes]

When a committee chair makes a motion that is seconded can that motion be tabled without a second or a vote, or should it be withdrawn? A question about point of order was made about which committee should actually be making the motion during discussion.

What do you mean by "which committee"? Is there more than one committee involved in the deliberation of this (single) motion? Or is it the first committee is considering a motion that is, or should be, under the authority of another existing committee?

[Rev Ed]

Assuming that seconds are required, then yes both a mover and a seconder would be required to lay on the table. RONR p.210 l. 18 to p.212 l. 22

Although you probably mean that the group wants to Postpone Indefinitely (which essentially kills the motion) or Postpone Definitely (which means that you want to revist the motion at a later date, normally another meeting.)

To postpone indefinitely, someone would need to move "That the motion be postponed indefinitely."

To postpone to another day (such as the next meeting), someone would need to mote "That the motion be postponed until the next meeting (or whatever meeting or date you desire)."

[Tim Wynn]

When a committee chair makes a motion that is seconded can that motion be tabled without a second or a vote, or should it be withdrawn? A question about point of order was made about which committee should actually be making the motion during discussion.

It sounds like, during an assembly meeting (perhaps a board meeting, or general membership meeting) a motion was made by a member on behalf of a committee, and, as the motion was being considered, a point of order was made regarding the making of the motion. Is that about right?

From here, I'm trying to guess what point of order was made. Whenever a motion is pending, a Call for the Orders of the Day is not in order, unless the neglect of a special order is involved.

Do you have a rule that this particular motion may only originate from a certain committee, or was this a motion that was referred to and still in the hands of a committee?

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