2000 Iowa Conference Journal

PLAN OF ORGANIZATION AND RULES OF ORDER I.D.4.
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individual members of the Annual Conference in Legislative Committees or at
any session of the Annual Conference. Reports, recommendations, proposals
and resolutions of the Board of Pensions will be assigned to the appropriate
legislative committee for informational purposes only. Conference directed
items shall go, in their entirety, to the Annual Conference for action.
5. When the Legislative Committees report their recommendations to the
Annual Conference, a representative of the Conference Council on Ministries
will be available to speak on behalf of its coordinated program.
6. The Legislative Committees may amend or revise sections of the reports
projecting programs and proposals and shall report to the Conference on all
matters assigned to them.
7. Consent Calendar. When the reports of the Legislative Committees and
other reports are made to the Annual Conference, those items which have
gone through the legislative process without substantive changes may be
placed on the Consent Calendar by majority vote of the Legislative Committee.
All Consent Calendar items will be listed and identified by number at the
beginning of each Legislative Committee’s printed report. Consent Calendar
items will be acted upon by vote without reading or discussion. Any member
may move that an item be lifted from the Consent Calendar. If that motion is
seconded and if at least 25 members vote to have it removed, it will be
removed and considered in sequence with the rest of the report.
8. Defeated Items. When the reports of the Legislative Committees and other
reports are made to the Annual Conference, those items which have gone
through the legislative process and have been defeated will be placed on a list
to be reported to the Conference as ‘Item defeated.’ All defeated items will be
listed and identified by number at the beginning of each Legislative Committee
report, and may be reconsidered in numerical sequence by an affirmative vote
by at least 25 members of the plenary.
9. Matters requiring legislative action shall be given priority within a Legislative
Committee’s scheduled time. Informational reports not completed in the
allotted time shall be presented as miscellaneous business on the final day of
the Conference Session or at such times as may be possible.
10. A minority report may be presented when approved by one-tenth of the
members of the Legislative Committee.
11. Summary reports dealing primarily with agency and institutional
achievements shall be accepted for printing in the Iowa Annual Conference
Journal without being read to the conference.
12. Reports from the Legislative Committees which involve substantial
changes from the Pre-Conference Manual shall be prepared in printed form
and distributed to the Conference before consideration.
13. During a regular session of the Annual Conference, a meeting of a
Legislative Committee may be called only by a majority vote of the Annual
Conference.
E. Equalization of Conference Membership Between Laity and Clergy.
1. Lay members of the Iowa Annual Conference shall be members of a United
Methodist Church within the Iowa Annual Conference. (30)
2. Those filling the following positions, if lay persons, shall be additional
members of the Iowa Annual Conference: