Tabled Motion

[Guest Pamela]

When a motion has been tabled to the next meeting, how is that presented on the next agenda?  

[Rob Elsman]

No rule in RONR requires a motion that lies on the table to be included in an agenda.

[Richard Brown]

Just now, Guest Pamela said:

When a motion has been tabled to the next meeting, how is that presented on the next agenda?  

It is actually a misuse of the motion to “lay on the table” to “table“ something until the next meeting. The proper motion is to postpone the matter until the next meeting. At the next meeting, the item should come up automatically under “unfinished business and general orders”. A matter which has been postponed to a future meeting is actually a general order of business for the next meeting and comes up During “unfinished business and general orders”.
I would suggest that if a motion has been improperly “tabled” until the next meeting rather than postponed until the next meeting, the presiding officer should treat it as if it was a motion to postpone until the next meeting.

[Richard Brown]

Supplementing my answer immediately above, if a motion to “table” until the next meeting was actually adopted, and if the chair desires to treat it as a motion to “lay on the table” rather than as a motion to postpone, then, at the next meeting, a member will have to actually move to take the motion from the table. If it is not taken from the table by the end of that meeting, it dies.

[Richard Brown]

See FAQ No. 12 on the main website regarding the misuse of the motion to lay on the table for more information: https://www.robertsrules.com/faq.html#12