Table of Rules Relating to Motions: Debatable

Question 1

is main motion or question debatable

Answer 1

yes

Question 2

is Adjourn, ordinary case in societies debatable

Answer 2

no

Question 3

is Adjourn at or to a future time, or in advance of a time already set, or when the assembly will thereby be dissolved debatable

Answer 3

yes

Question 4

is adopt, accept, or agree to a report debatable

Answer 4

yes

Question 5

is adopt bylaws or constitution, initially in forming a society debatable

Answer 5

yes

Question 6

is adopt revised bylaws or constitution debatable

Answer 6

yes

Question 7

is adopt special rules of order debatable

Answer 7

yes

Question 8

is adopt ordinary standing rules debatable

Answer 8

yes

Question 9

is adopt parliamentary standing rules in a convention debatable

Answer 9

yes

Question 10

is adopt agenda or program debatable

Answer 10

yes

Question 11

is amend a pending motion debatable

Answer 11

if motion to be amended is debatable (debate on motion must be confined to its merits only, and cannot go into the main question except as necessary for debate of the immediately pending question)

Question 12

is amend an amendment of a pending motion debatable

Answer 12

if motion to be amended is debatable (debate on motion must be confined to its merits only, and cannot go into the main question except as necessary for debate of the immediately pending question)

Question 13

is amend something previously adopted, general case, including ordinary standing rules debatable

Answer 13

yes

Question 14

is amend parliamentary standing rules in a convention, when they are not pending debatable

Answer 14

yes

Question 15

is amend adopted agenda or program with reference to items not yet reached debatable

Answer 15

yes

Question 16

is amend bylaws or constitution, when not pending debatable

Answer 16

yes

Question 17

is amend special rules of order, when not pending debatable

Answer 17

yes

Question 18

is appeal, general case debatable

Answer 18

yes (debate on motion must be confined to its merits only, and cannot go into the main question except as necessary for debate of the immediately pending question)

Question 19

is appeal, relating to indecorum or transgression of rules of speaking, or to the priority of business, or if made when an undebatable question is immediately pending or involved in the appeal debatable

Answer 19

no

Question 20

is ballot, to order the vote on pending question to be taken by debatable

Answer 20

no

Question 21

is blank, to create by striking out debatable

Answer 21

no

Question 22

is, blanks, proposal for filing debatable

Answer 22

if filling a blank in a debatable motion (debate on motion must be confined to its merits only, and cannot go into the main question except as necessary for debate of the immediately pending question)

Question 23

is change or depart from adopted convention agenda or program, immediately to take up a matter out of its proper order debatable

Answer 23

no

Question 24

is commit, refer, or recommit a pending question debatable

Answer 24

yes (debate on motion must be confined to its merits only, and cannot go into the main question except as necessary for debate of the immediately pending question)

Question 25

is committee, to refer a matter that is not pending to debatable

Answer 25

yes

Question 26

is consider informally debatable

Answer 26

yes (debate on motion must be confined to its merits only, and cannot go into the main question except as necessary for debate of the immediately pending question)

Question 27

is consider by paragraph or seriatim debatable

Answer 27

no

Question 28

is continue speaking after indecorum, to grant permission to debatable

Answer 28

no

Question 29

is debate and amendment, to obtain immediate closing of debatable

Answer 29

no

Question 30

Debate, to limit or extend limits of, on a pending question debatable

Answer 30

no

Question 31

is debate, to limit or extend limits of, for the duration of a meeting

Answer 31

yes

Question 32

is discharge a committee debatable

Answer 32

Yes; debate can go into question in hands of the committee

Question 33

is discharge a committee, when it has failed to report at prescribed time, or while assembly is considered partial report of committee debatable

Answer 33

yes; debate can go into question in hands of the committee

Question 34

is division of the assembly (call for verification of a voting result by an uncounted rising vote) debatable

Answer 34

no

Question 35

is count of vote on division, to order, if chair does not do so debatable

Answer 35

no

Question 36

is division of a question debatable

Answer 36

no

Question 37

is call for separate vote on a resolution which is one of a series on different subjects offered by a single motion debatable

Answer 37

no

Question 38

is duty, to be excused from debatable

Answer 38

yes

Question 39

is effect, fix time for taking debatable

Answer 39

yes

Question 40

is extend time for consideration of pending question, or time until announced or scheduled adjournment or recess debatable

Answer 40

no

Question 41

is fix the time to which to adjourn, if moved while a question is pending debatable

Answer 41

no

Question 42

is fix the time to which to adjourn, if moved while no question is pending debatable

Answer 42

yes

Question 43

is information, request for debatable

Answer 43

no

Question 44

is lay on the table debatable

Answer 44

no

Question 45

is minutes, to approve (when proposed by a motion) debatable

Answer 45

yes

Question 46

is minutes, to correct before adoption (when done by a motion) debatable

Answer 46

yes

Question 47

is minutes, to correct after approval debatable

Answer 47

yes

Question 48

is minutes, to dispense with reading of debatable

Answer 48

no

Question 49

is nominations, to make debatable

Answer 49

yes

Question 50

is nominations, to close debatable

Answer 50

no

Question 51

is nominations, to reopen debatable

Answer 51

no

Question 52

is nominations, motions relating to (except to close or reopen nominations) made while election is pending) debatable

Answer 52

no

Question 53

is nominations, motions relating to, made while election is not pending debatable

Answer 53

yes

Question 54

is objection to consideration of a question debatable

Answer 54

no

Question 55

is order, to make a special, when question is not pending debatable

Answer 55

yes (debate on motion must be confined to its merits only, and cannot go into the main question except as necessary for debate of the immediately pending question)

Question 56

is orders of the day, to call for debatable

Answer 56

no

Question 57

is orders of the day, to proceed to debatable

Answer 57

no

Question 58

is orders of the day, when pending debatable

Answer 58

yes

Question 59

is order, point of question of, or calling a member to debatable

Answer 59

No (but chair can permit full explanation and can submit question to assembly, in which case rule is as for appeal;) Yes (debate on motion must be confined to its merits only, and cannot go into the main question except as necessary for debate of the immediately pending question)

Question 60

is parliamentary inquiry debatable

Answer 60

no

Question 61

is postpone indefinitely debatable

Answer 61

yes; debate can go into main question

Question 62

is postpone to a certain time, or definitely, applied to a pending question debatable

Answer 62

Yes (debate on motion must be confined to its merits only, and cannot go into the main question except as necessary for debate of the immediately pending question)

Question 63

is postpone a pending question to a certain time and make it a special order debatable

Answer 63

Yes (debate on motion must be confined to its merits only, and cannot go into the main question except as necessary for debate of the immediately pending question)

Question 64

is postpone an event or action previously debatable

Answer 64

yes

Question 65

is previous question (immediately to close debate and the making of subsidiary motions except the motion to lay on the table) debatable

Answer 65

no

Question 66

is Proviso debatable

Answer 66

yes

Question 67

is questions of privilege, to raise while regular introduction as main motion is not in order debatable

Answer 67

no

Question 68

is question of privilege in the form of a main motion, whether introduced when an ordinary main motion is in order or admitted by raising a question of privilege debatable

Answer 68

yes

Question 69

is ratify, or confirm debatable

Answer 69

yes

Question 70

is read papers, to grant permission to debatable

Answer 70

no

Question 71

is recess, to take a, if moved while business is pending debatable

Answer 71

no

Question 72

is recess, to take a, if moved while no question is pending debatable

Answer 72

yes

Question 73

is reconsider debatable

Answer 73

if motion to be reconsidered is debatable, in which case debate can go into that question

Question 74

is reconsider, in a committee debatable

Answer 74

if motion to be reconsidered is debatable, in which case debate can go into that question

Question 75

is reconsider, call up motion debatable

Answer 75

blank

Question 76

is rescind and expunge from minutes debatable

Answer 76

yes

Question 77

is rescind, repeal, or annul debatable

Answer 77

yes

Question 78

is refer debatable

Answer 78

yes (debate on motion must be confined to its merits only, and cannot go into the main question except as necessary for debate of the immediately pending question)

Question 79

is substitute debatable

Answer 79

if motion to be amended is debatable (debate on motion must be confined to its merits only, and cannot go into the main question except as necessary for debate of the immediately pending question)

Question 80

is suspend the rules (as applied to rules of order) debatable

Answer 80

no

Question 81

is suspend ordinary standing rules, or standing in a convention debatable

Answer 81

no

Question 82

is take from the table debatable

Answer 82

no

Question 83

is take up a question out of its proper order debatable

Answer 83

no

Question 84

is voting, motions relating to, if made while subject is pending debatable

Answer 84

no

Question 85

is voting, motions relating to, if made while no question is pending debatable

Answer 85

yes

Question 86

is withdraw or modify a motion to grant maker permission to, after motion has been stated by the chair debatable

Answer 86

no