Parliamentary Procedure

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

*To receive all previous unedited Parliamentary Procedure E Bulletins (1 3), send your request to the author, Shane Dunbar: dunbar@northwest.net

*MNEMONICS are ways to assist your memory.

+A mnemonic for remembering classes of motions:

"My Sister Plays In Maine" (Use first letter of each word)

Main, Subsidiary, Privileged, Incidental, and Motions that Bring a Question Again Before the Assembly

+A mnemonic for remembering the nine articles of bylaws:

"NO MOME C PA" (An easy way to remember it is to say, "No Mommy see Pa.")

Name of the organization, its Object, Members, Officers, Meetings, Executive board, Committees, Parliamentary authority, Amendment of bylaws

*(Send in your favorite mnemonic to dunbar@northwest.net and it will be published in the next E Bulletin)

*Some ERRORS in the 10th edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised. Additional errors will be reported in future E Bulletins.

+Page 198, line 3: "not" should be "now"
+Page 230, footnote: "Adjourn to voted on" should be "Adjourn is voted on"
+Page 290, line 24: "amenable" should be "amendable"
+Page 558, line 5: "are to held" should be "are to be held"

* ORAL QUESTIONS from a National FFA Parliamentary Procedure CDE. Note that "a question" sometimes consists of several parts. Additional oral questions will be included in future E Bulletins.

+What are four of nine "rules of decorum" in debate?
+Name three items that could be specified in the subsidiary motion, to Commit or Refer.
+When is the motion to Recess considered a Main Motion?
+Describe the standard descriptive characteristics relating to debating and amending the motion to Postpone Definitely.
+Answer the following questions related to a Parliamentary Inquiry:
   -What is its purpose?
   -Can you appeal the chair's reply to a Parliamentary Inquiry? Why?
   -Can a Parliamentary Inquiry be made when a member has the floor?

* From the National FFA Parliamentary Procedure CDE Superintendent (Dr. JimConnors: connors.49@osu.edu)

+Forty three teams participated in the 2001 National FFA Parliamentary Procedure CDE at Louisville, Kentucky.
+Top Four Gold Medal Teams:
   -First: Sierra High School, California
   -Second: Stockton High School, Missouri
   -Third: Burns Junior/Senior High School, Wyoming
   -Fourth: Kuna High School, Idaho

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE SITES WORTH VISITING:*www.texasnaacp.org/parlproc.htm (Includes an overview of parliamentary procedure principles, a description of a deliberative assembly, a sample agenda, the procedure for handling amain motion, and the rules for the 13 ranking motions.)

*www.parli.com/newsletter/index.htm (Volume 7, Issue 3. A review on "Why Do I Need toKnow Robert's Rules of Order?")

*Sources and prices for the new paperback edition (October, 2000) of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised. Each charges approximately the same for shipping and handling.

+www.aipparlipro.org/ (American Institute of Parliamentarians, $17.00 + DE tax)
+www.parliamentarians.org (National Association of Parliamentarians, $16.00 + MO tax)
+www.barnesandnoble.com (Barnes And Noble, $14.40 + NJ/NV/NY/TN/VA/ tax
+www.amazon.com (Amazon, $13.60 + WA tax)
+www.ppimc.com (Parliamentary Procedure Instructional Materials Center, $12.95 + WA tax)

*www.ffa.org (Parliamentary procedure instructional materials for secondary school students that have been tested in the classroom)

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS:

Two questions are answered on each E Bulletin. Send them to dunbar@northwest.net. If questions that were submitted do not appear on an E Bulletin, they will be answered personally by E mail. All answers are based on the 10th edition (October, 2000) of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR).

Q:At a recent contest, a judge asked one of our team members to name three"unclassified motions." The member could not answer the question and Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised does not list them. Please explain what they are.

A:RONR does not currently recognize this class of motions. RONR (10th ed.), p. 56, l. 1 8. In earlier editions (see1951), unclassified motions were some of the motions that bring a question again before the assembly.

Q:Is a "secondary amendment" the same as a "secondary motion"?

A:No. All privileged, incidental, and subsidiary motions are classified as secondary motions. A secondary amendment is an amendment to a primary amendment (an amendment to an amendment). RONR (10th ed.), p. 56, l. 4 6 and p.126, l. 26 28.

TIPS ON TRAINING A TEAM FROM NATIONAL WINNERS:

*Have your team make up MNEMONICS to remember the motions within the five different classes of motions.

*Build a bank of ORAL QUESTIONS and answers from state and national contests by placing them on 3 x 5 inch index cards. You can start by placing the five oral questions listed on this bulletin on index cards!