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In parliamentary procedure, a recess refers to a short intermission in a meeting of a deliberative assembly. The members may leave the meeting room, but are expected to remain nearby. A recess may be simply to allow a break (e.g. for lunch) or it may be related to the meeting (e.g. to allow time for vote-counting).
Once the mover has obtained the floor, the mover states the motion, normally prefixed with the phrase "I move." [7] For instance, at a meeting, a member may say, "I move that the group donate $5 to Wikipedia." Instead of being given verbally, a motion may be made in writing, in which case it is called a proposed or draft resolution. [8]
A matter that was voted on could be brought back again through the motion to reconsider.Under Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR), this motion must be made within a limited time after the action on the original motion: either on the same day or in the case of a multi-day session (such as a convention), on the next day within the session in which business is conducted.
A motion can be taken from the table at the same session (or meeting) or at the next session (or meeting) if that session occurs within a quarterly time interval. [15] Otherwise, the motion dies. [15] The use of the motion to lay on the table to kill a motion is improper; instead, a motion to postpone indefinitely should be used. [12]
In parliamentary procedure in the United States, a motion to postpone to a certain time (or postpone definitely or postpone) is used to delay action on a pending question until a different day, meeting, hour or until after a certain event. Then, when that time comes, the consideration of the question is picked up where it was left off when it ...
The purpose of requiring a second is to prevent time being wasted by the assembly's having to dispose of a motion that only one person wants to see introduced. [1] Hearing a second to a motion is guidance to the chair that they should state the question on the motion, thereby placing it before the assembly. [2]
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In the House, Rule XVII, clause 9, governs secret sessions, including the types of business to be considered behind closed doors. A motion to resolve into a secret session may only be made in the House, not in the Committee of the Whole.