Procedural amendments to avoid reconciliation

[Pronoun]

I’d like to propose a few amendments to the organizing resolution of this Great Council. My goals are to:

• Explicitly allow amendments to (and therefore repeals of) proposals adopted by the Great Council, and
• Allow us to end the Great Council with an omnibus bill that does not include all previously adopted proposals.

Great Council Convening Resolution of 2022

A resolution to to convene a Great Council for the purposes of altering the Coalition

The Assembly of the Coalition:

[…]

5. Determines the following agenda and rules of order, which may altered by majority vote of the Great Council at its discretion:
   a. The Chair of the Great Council shall limit the first week of the Great Council to debate of procedures, admittance of non-legislators, and identification of problems to be resolved.
   b. Following that week, the Chair of the Great Council shall open general debate on proposals. Proposals may propose any combination of new legislation, amendments to existing legislation, or amendments to proposals already adopted by the Great Council.
   c. Proposals must be debated for five days before a participant motions to vote.
   d. Upon recognition of a motion to vote by the Chair or Deputy Chair, the proposal will be brought to vote for five days and adopted according to Article XIV, Section 5.
   e. A motion to end general debate with a given omnibus bill may be called no sooner than four weeks after of the convening of the Great Council. The motion should specify the adopted or outstanding proposal(s) to be included in the omnibus bill. Upon recognition of the motion by the Chair or Deputy Chair, the motion shall be brought to vote for five days and adopted in favor by three-fifths of the Great Council. No new proposals may be submitted once the motion is recognized, unless and until the motion shall be rejected by the Great Council. One day following adoption, all outstanding proposals named in the motion will be brought to vote for five days, unless retracted by the original proposer prior to voting starting, and adopted according to Article XIV, Section 5.
   f. Should adopted proposals named in the motion contain conflicting or contrary language, the Great Council will enter into a reconciliation period, wherein all conflicts will be resolved. Each conflicting proposal will be brought to a competing vote for five days, and the proposal favored by the greater number of participants will be adopted.
   g. Following a reconciliation period, or in the absence of the need for one, the Chair of the Great Council shall combine all amendments named in the motion to end general debate into an omnibus and bring the omnibus to a final vote for five days. The final omnibus shall be adopted according to Article XIV, Section 5.
   h. The Chair of the Great Council shall publish the final product of the Great Council, and recognize a motion by a participant to adjourn sine die. The motion to adjourn sine die shall be adopted by majority vote, and the final product shall be presented to the Chair of the Assembly for recording.

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[ProfessorHenn]

If we’re specifying what bills exactly we want to pass in the omnibus, why go through the voting process in 5.g, 5.h, or the last sentence in 5.e? I’m okay with leaving 5.f in there in the event of contradictory laws, but I’m personally hoping we would resolve these things before a motion to ending general debate is being voted on.

[Pronoun]

Here’s a new draft.

Great Council Convening Resolution of 2022

A resolution to to convene a Great Council for the purposes of altering the Coalition

The Assembly of the Coalition:

[…]

5. Determines the following agenda and rules of order, which may altered by majority vote of the Great Council at its discretion:
   a. The Chair of the Great Council shall limit the first week of the Great Council to debate of procedures, admittance of non-legislators, and identification of problems to be resolved.
   b. Following that week, the Chair of the Great Council shall open general debate on proposals. Proposals may propose any combination of new legislation, amendments to existing legislation, or amendments to proposals already adopted by the Great Council.
   c. Proposals must be debated for five days before a participant motions to vote.
   d. Upon recognition of a motion to vote by the Chair or Deputy Chair, the proposal will be brought to vote for five days and adopted according to Article XIV, Section 5.
   e. A motion to end general debate adopt a given omnibus bill and adjourn sine die may be called no sooner than four weeks after of the convening of the Great Council. The motion should specify the adopted or outstanding proposal(s) to be included in the omnibus bill. Upon recognition of the motion by the Chair or Deputy Chair, the motion shall be brought to vote for five days and adopted in favor by three-fifths of the Great Council. No new proposals may be submitted once the motion is recognized, unless and until the motion shall be rejected by the Great Council. One day following adoption, all outstanding proposals named in the motion will be brought to vote for five days, unless retracted by the original proposer prior to voting starting, and adopted according to Article XIV, Section 5.
   f. Should adopted proposals named in the motion contain conflicting or contrary language, the Great Council will enter into a reconciliation period, wherein all conflicts will be resolved. Each conflicting proposal will be brought to a competing vote for five days, and the proposal favored by the greater number of participants will be adopted.
   g. Following a reconciliation period, or in the absence of the need for one, the Chair of the Great Council shall combine all amendments named in the motion to end general debate into an omnibus and bring the omnibus to a final vote for five days. The final omnibus which shall be adopted according to Article XIV, Section 5. The adopted text shall be published by the Chair of the Great Council as the final product of the Great Council and presented to the Chair of the Assembly for recording.
   h. The Chair of the Great Council shall publish the final product of the Great Council, and recognize a motion by a participant to adjourn sine die. The motion to adjourn sine die shall be adopted by majority vote, and the final product shall be presented to the Chair of the Assembly for recording.

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[ProfessorHenn]

That works.

[ProfessorHenn]

Mr. Chair, I move that this amendment be brought to a vote.