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Is a motion from the nominating committee concerning the officers of the executive committee treated as a main motion, subject to amendment, debate, etc? Or is it treated as another class of motion, not subject to amendment?

Neither; it is merely a commitee report, which has the effect of nominating those mentioned. After the nominating committee's report, the chair should call for additional nominations from the floor.

In any case, nominations are not main motions as such. They require no second, and no vote*. But they are debatable, presumably with respect to the qualifications of the candidates. RONR is hazy about exactly how debate should be handled. It makes sense to wait until nominations are closed, and then allow debate on the question of who should be elected. But other things might also make sense to your group.

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*There is a vote during the election, of course, but there is no vote to accept or reject a nomination, once made. It is simply made, and that person is nominated.

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Is a motion from the nominating committee concerning the officers of the executive committee treated as a main motion, subject to amendment, debate, etc?

No.

Committee reports are treated as reports.

The report itself is not to be moved or adopted, except in very exceptional circumstances.

(Example: The report of a Historian of the society might indeed move that his report be adopted, since every word in the report is intended to be an official statement of the society. Yet such a report contains zero recommendations.)

The recommendations within a report, if any, are the things which can be moved, amended, debated, adopted.

For you, a report out of a Nom. Comm. contains nothing but nominations.

There is nothing to adopt.

There is nothing to amend.

There is nothing to debate (yet).

(When the chair calls for nominations from the floor, the applicable rule changes. Debate is then possible.)

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These two responses leave me puzzled.

Why wouldn't "a motion from the nominating committee" be treated as a motion? Can't a motion be made by the reporting member of a nominating committee in the committee's behalf? Is an assumption being made that no motion made in behalf of a nominating committee can possibly be in order?

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These two responses leave me puzzled.

Why wouldn't "a motion from the nominating committee" be treated as a motion? Can't a motion be made by the reporting member of a nominating committee in the committee's behalf? Is an assumption being made that no motion made in behalf of a nominating committee can possibly be in order?

Ah!

You are assuming that the Nom. Comm. in question is making a motion.

If the Nom. Comm. is indeed making a motion, then of course the motion is to be treated as a motion.

But I, and the first respondent (GN), are assuming that the original poster is referring to a normal nominating committee, and the normal behavior of a nominating committee.

It is rare that a nominating committee is charged with any duty other than "... to produce a list of candidates." or "to generate a slate of nominees."

The chances that a nominating committee is making a motion out of the blue is low -- a blue-moon, hen's teeth kind of probability.

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In the same way we assume that posters who describe ...:

• Tabling to the next meeting

• Reconsidering a year later

... are mistaken.

That is, the description they are using is a mis-match of what the parliamentary situation really is.

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Why wouldn't "a motion from the nominating committee" be treated as a motion?

But it would.

Can't a motion be made by the reporting member of a nominating committee in the committee's behalf?

Yes.

Is an assumption being made that no motion made in behalf of a nominating committee can possibly be in order?

No.

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Ah!

You are assuming that the Nom. Comm. in question is making a motion.

If the Nom. Comm. is indeed making a motion, then of course the motion is to be treated as a motion.

But I, and the first respondent (GN), are assuming that the original poster is referring to a normal nominating committee, and the normal behavior of a nominating committee.

It is rare that a nominating committee is charged with any duty other than "... to produce a list of candidates." or "to generate a slate of nominees."

The chances that a nominating committee is making a motion out of the blue is low -- a blue-moon, hen's teeth kind of probability.

***

In the same way we assume that posters who describe ...:

• Tabling to the next meeting

• Reconsidering a year later

... are mistaken.

That is, the description they are using is a mis-match of what the parliamentary situation really is.

***

Why wouldn't "a motion from the nominating committee" be treated as a motion?

But it would.

Can't a motion be made by the reporting member of a nominating committee in the committee's behalf?

Yes.

Is an assumption being made that no motion made in behalf of a nominating committee can possibly be in order?

No.

Try reading what the original poster posted.

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