Is a restart required?

[Tomm]

The Board has a crazy rule that they must read and pass a motion at three consecutive meetings before it is finally approved as "passed".

On the third reading the motion was amended, the amendment was approved, then the amended motion was voted on and passed.

Question:

Once the motion was amended, shouldn't it be necessary too start the three-reading process all over again from the beginning?

[Bruce Lages]

Since RONR has no such three-reading rule, you won't find an answer here. For what it's worth, under RONR, a motion can be amended, even multiple times, and then voted on all at the same meeting.

[Richard Brown]

Agreeing with Mr. Lages, the three reading rule sounds rather like the procedure in legislative bodies where a bill frequently needs to be “read” two or three times on different days before it is finally adopted. Usually the third reading is the reading at which the bill is adopted and it can be and often is amended at that stage. Although I can’t speak for your organization, the purpose of a two reading rule or three reading rule is to prevent members from being taken by surprise and to see to it that a proposed bill or motion lays over for some period of time before it is finally adopted. In essence, the first and second readings are a type of previous notIce.