Committee vs commission

[Guest Lue]

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[Gary Novosielski]

You bet.

[Josh Martin]

On 8/13/2023 at 9:26 AM, Guest Lue said:

☺️Committee vs. Commission

More details beyond a vague title and a smiley face would be helpful, but to the extent the question is asking about the difference between a committee and a commission, RONR does not have any assistance in this regard, as RONR does not use or define the term "commission." The commission is likely in the nature of either a committee or a board. See RONR (12th ed.) Sections 49 and 50 for more information concerning boards and committees, respectively.

Generally speaking, my experience is that a commission is a committee with a fancy name. But you'd need to review the organization's rules to say for sure what the nature of a particular commission is.

Edited August 14, 2023 at 11:30 AM by Josh Martin

[Gary Novosielski]

Well, it doesn't define it, but it does use it once, in the Form and Example in the last line of 10:41.

To answer the OPs quasi-question, In my experience a general observation would be that subordinate committee-like bodies created by an assembly tend to be called committees when they are populated by members of the assembly, and tend to be called commissions when populated by outside persons.

But this is not in the nature of a rule at all, it is not supported by and actually contradicted by, certain provisions in RONR, and so does not even rise to the level of a guideline.