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If you give previous notice, does that create an order of the day for the next meeting (assuming next meeting falls within a quarter and there's no adjourned meeting)? And if so, is that item of business a special order, general order or new business? If new business, presumably it would have precedence over any spur of the moment motions made?

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If you give previous notice, does that create an order of the day for the next meeting (assuming next meeting falls within a quarter and there's no adjourned meeting)?

And if so, is that item of business a special order, general order or new business?

If new business, presumably it would have precedence over any spur of the moment motions made?

The Book says, "No."

Giving notice only gives any member the right to bring up the issues with a lower vote threshold requirement. (Or, as a necessary part of the process, as it would be to create or amend a special rule of order.)

It does not add it to an agenda.

It is not yet a motion, necessarily. -- Notice only requires purport and scope.

Notice does not require the full text of the motion.

Sure, giving the full text of the intended motion is more than good enough for the purpose of giving notice.

But you don't have to have the full text ready when you give notice.

So the chair may not know the actual motion to be moved, if the notice was given with the minimum data (viz. purport and scope).

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The Book says, "No."

Giving notice only gives any member the right to bring up the issues with a lower vote threshold requirement. (Or, as a necessary part of the process, as it would be to create or amend a special rule of order.)

It does not add it to an agenda.

It is not yet a motion, necessarily. -- Notice only requires purport and scope.

Notice does not require the full text of the motion.

Sure, giving the full text of the intended motion is more than good enough for the purpose of giving notice.

But you don't have to have the full text ready when you give notice.

So the chair may not know the actual motion to be moved, if the notice was given with the minimum data (viz. purport and scope).

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If you give previous notice, does that create an order of the day for the next meeting (assuming next meeting falls within a quarter and there's no adjourned meeting)? And if so, is that item of business a special order, general order or new business? If new business, presumably it would have precedence over any spur of the moment motions made?

" When notice has been given of a bylaw amendment, it becomes a general order for the meeting at which it is to be considered. " RONR, p. 578

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If you give previous notice, does that create an order of the day for the next meeting (assuming next meeting falls within a quarter and there's no adjourned meeting)? And if so, is that item of business a special order, general order or new business? If new business, presumably it would have precedence over any spur of the moment motions made?

Is it a bylaws amendment, or an ordinary main motion?

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Sorry. What do you mean?

It likely that this rule will not appear in the 11th edition, which may be available sometime later this year.

The fact is, the giving of previous notice does not make an order of the day in any of the three ways that orders of the day are made, as described in RONR (10th ed.), p. 354, ll. 8-23. That's the salient point, I think.

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It likely that this rule will not appear in the 11th edition, which may be available sometime later this year.

The fact is, the giving of previous notice does not make an order of the day in any of the three ways that orders of the day are made, as described in RONR (10th ed.), p. 354, ll. 8-23. That's the salient point, I think.

Good point. I'll be happy to be the hippest person on my board. ;)

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