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Executive committee recommends Board of Directors approve a motion. Board tables it and fails to take it from the table in a timely fashion. If raised again as a new motion, must it go back to Executive Committee who approved it once or can it go straight to the Board of Directors for consideration?

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I am recommending on this forum that folks stop using "table" as a verb in the context of parliamentary procedure in the United States.  It turns out that most instances, including this one, are really misuses of the subsidiary motion, Lay on the Table.  I think some of the problems being experienced will disappear when the Board of Directors forgets about "tables".

Edited by Rob Elsman
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Getting back to the question, which apparently sounds like the board laid the motion on the table and left it there (properly): That particular motion could still be taken from the table until the adjournment of the next session, if the next regular meeting is within a quarterly interval of the one where it was laid on the table.

If that time has expired, this motion is dead. It can be renewed.

Do your rules require a motion to be approved by the executive committee before they are brought to the board (there is nothing in RONR that would require this)? If so, then I would say yes, a new motion does need to come from executive. If not, then any member of the board can make the motion anew.

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On 9/29/2021 at 4:57 PM, Guest Marvin said:

Executive committee recommends Board of Directors approve a motion. Board tables it and fails to take it from the table in a timely fashion. If raised again as a new motion, must it go back to Executive Committee who approved it once or can it go straight to the Board of Directors for consideration?

This sounds like some custom rule.  RONR does not require that a motion placed before the Board of Directors must first have been approved by the Executive Committee. 

And if the question here is: must this be done upon renewing the motion simply because it was done that way the first time it came up, the answer is no.  It can be moved as a new main motion whenever and wherever it is in order to make motions of this sort.

Edited by Gary Novosielski
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