Parliamentary Procedure

1. Parliamentary Procedure

2. Reasons • Focus on one thing at a time • Extend courtesy to everyone • Observe the rule of the majority • Ensure the rights of the minority

3. Gavel Taps • Two Taps: • One Tap: • Announcement of adjournment • Be seated

4. Voting • Voice Vote • Rising Vote • Secret Ballot • Roll call

5. What is a quorum? • Half or more of the active membership present to conduct business

6. Simple majority • Half of voters present, plus one voter • When do you need to use need simple majority of the votes? • In your learning logs, write three votes that you think need simple majority

7. Simple Majority Votes • Fix the time to which to adjourn • Adjourn • Recess • Lay on the table • Postpone to a certain time • Commit or refer • Amend • Postpone indefinitely

8. Continued • Main motion • Appeal • Division of assembly • Objection to the consideration of a question • Withdraw a motion • Reconsider • Rescind with prior notice • Take from the table

9. Two-thirds vote • Two-thirds of voters present • In your learning logs, write down what you think would be votes that would require a two thirds majority

10. Two Third Votes • Previous Question • Limit or extend limits of debate • Objection to the consideration of a question • Rescind a motion that hadn’t been given prior notice

11. Kinds of motions • Question of privilege • Makes the meeting better • Such as Could you close the windows in here?, Open the doors?, Can you please speak up?, Can we remove our FFA jackets? • Chair grants

12. Commonly Used Motions • Main motion • Postpone indefinitely • Lay on the table • Refer to committee • Point of order • Adjourn • Amendments • By addition • By substitution • By striking out

13. Call for orders of the day • Agenda • Stops everything and reviews the agenda • No vote required

14. Lay on the table • Puts it on the side to come up at the next meeting • Then you need to move it from the table at the next meeting, you need a second to do this • If nothing happens at the third meeting it dies • Requires a majority vote

15. Previous Question • It calls for the previous question (motion) • 2/3 of the members must vote in favor of it • If that vote passes you vote on the motion immediately

16. Postpone • You postpone the motion to a future time • Usually it is used when you need more information to make a decision • Majority vote

17. Limit or Extend Debate • Move to limit debate to __ more speakers • It needs a 2/3 majority to pass since it limits a members rights • If the motion to limit debate passes then you vote on the motion after the set number of people have spoken

18. Commit or refer • Refers to a committee • Majority vote

19. Amend • Majority Vote • It changes the motion in someway

20. Postpone Indefinitely • Motion Dies • Majority Vote

21. Appeal the decision • Membership votes on the decision • Majority Vote • It is usually used on voice votes

22. Division of Assembly • Revote using a rise vote • This type of motion does not need to be voted on, it doesn’t need a second, and is not amendable, and is not debatable

23. Division of Question • It is used to separate a motion that has two distinct parts • For example “ I move to hold a horse show and a tractor pull on December 25, 2005 • It is a majority vote

24. Object to Consideration • It is a 2/3 vote • It kills a crazy motion if passes

25. Parliamentary Inquiry • It doesn’t require a second, it is non debatable, it is not amendable, no vote is required, and it can’t be reconsidered • You would ask how to do something

26. Point of Order • A member may rise to point of order to draw attention to a violation of the rules and insist on the enforcement of the proper rules • Chair rules

27. Suspend the rules • It requires a second, is undebatable and unamendable, and requires a two-thirds vote to pass • You can’t suspend parliamentary procedure

28. Withdraw the motion • Majority vote, no second required, not debatable, and not amendable

29. Reconsider a motion • You are rethinking a motion that was already done • Majority vote

30. Rescind a motion • Take back a motion that happened • It requires a majority if it had prior notice or a 2/3 if no notice was given

31. Take from the table • It requires a second • Majority vote • You are taking from the table a motion that was tabled at a prior meeting to now be voted on.

32. Ways to kill a Motion • Postpone Indefinitely • Vote it down • Withdraw the motion • Lay on the table, not “take from the table” • Motion dies for lack of a second • Object to consideration of question

33. Who breaks a Tie? • In your learning logs, write down who breaks a tie • The president breaks a tie

34. Taps • 1 tap • Completion of a business item • Follows the announcement of adjournment • Prompts the members to sit down • 2 taps • Calls the meeting to order • 3 taps • Indicates members should stand in unison on the third tap

35. What is your part in a meeting? • Write down three ways you can play a part in a FFA meeting? • Make a motion • Second a motion • Vote • Participate in the opening ceremony • Can you think of any others?

36. Members part in the opening Ceremony To practice brotherhood, honor agricultural opportunities and responsibilities and to develop those qualities of leadership which an FFA member should possess

37. Agenda • Opening Ceremonies • Secretary’s report • Treasurer’s report • Committee report • Old business • New Business • Announcements • Closing Ceremonies • Adjournment

38. What is the FFA Salute? • Pledge of Allegiance