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[Guest Candy]

Can you amend a motion to reconsider? If so, does it also require a two-thirds vote?

[Weldon Merritt]

Reconsider cannot be amended, and its adoption requires only a majority vote. This assumes you are referring to the motion to Reconsider as defined in RONR (pp. 317-335). 

[Chris Harrison]

A motion to Reconsider is a proposal to bring a previously decided motion back before the assembly.  Until the assembly decides to bring the motion back there is nothing to amend.  Also, unless the reconsideration is to be held in a committee meeting it only requires a majority vote (in a committee it does take a 2/3 vote unless everyone who voted on the prevailing side are either present or had been previously notified that the Reconsideration will be moved).

[Richard Brown]

Can you amend a motion to recoonsider? If so, does it also require a two-thirds vote?

To elaborate upon the correct answers by Weldon Merritt and Chris Harrison, the "Motion to Reconsider" cannot be amended.  However, if the motion to reconsider is adopted, then the original motion which is being reconsidered is back before the assembly in the same form it was in at the time it was originally adopted.  It is just as if the motion is being proposed for the very first time (but in the form it was in when when adopted).  It is therefore subject to debate and amendment just as any new new motion is.

 

The motion "to reconsider" is just the first step of a two step process.  It is the method by which the motion that you want reconsidered gets back before the assembly.

[Josh Martin]

 

It is therefore subject to debate and amendment just as any new new motion is.

 

Well, it is debatable and amendable if the original motion was debatable and amendable just before it was adopted. Reconsider can be applied to a wide variety of motions, not all of which are debatable or amendable. It is also possible that an unexhausted order to Limit Debate or for the Previous Question is in effect.