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An agenda lists the items of business to be taken up during a meeting or session. [3] It may also be called a "calendar". [4] A meeting agenda may be headed with the date, time and location of the meeting, followed by a series of points outlining the order in which the business is to be conducted.
A session is a meeting or series of connected meetings devoted to a single order of business, program, agenda, or announced purpose. [2] [3] An organization's bylaws may define a specific meaning of the term "session." In most organizations, each session consists of only a single meeting (i.e. "session" and "meeting" are equivalent terms in ...
State statutes typically do not prescribe a particular parliamentary authority to be used in corporate meetings. For instance, the Davis-Stirling Act, a California statute, provides that certain business meetings "shall be conducted in accordance with a recognized system of parliamentary procedure or any parliamentary procedures the association may adopt."
A quorum, or minimum number of members, is required to be present at a meeting in order to validly conduct business. The business that is to come up in a meeting could be listed in an order of business or an agenda. Each member could get a chance to speak through assignment of the floor and debate. Debate may be limited in the number of ...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Monday that a border security bill should be “the first order of business in the Senate Budget Committee.” “Stephen Miller was spot on when he said that the ...
The privileged motion to adjourn is used to end the meeting immediately without debate. If it is a main motion, it cannot interrupt pending business, and is amendable and debatable. If there is any unfinished business at the time of adjournment, it is carried over to the next meeting if that meeting is within a quarterly time interval. [3]
In Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR), a point of order may be raised if the rules appear to have been broken. This may interrupt a speaker during debate, or anything else if the breach of the rules warrants it. [1] The point is resolved before business continues. The point of order calls upon the chair to make a ruling. The chair may ...
Almost all standing committee meetings for transacting business must be open to the public unless the committee votes, publicly, to close the meeting. [9] Open committee meetings may be covered by the media. [9] In some cases, bills may be sent to select committees, which tend to have more narrow jurisdictions than standing committees.