| Interrupt Speaker?: NO |
Second?: REQUIRED |
Precedence:
- Adjourn
- Recess
- Question of Privilege
- Postpone Temporarily
- Close Debate
- Limit Debate
- Postpone
Definitely
- Refer to Committee
- Amend
- a. The Main Motion
b. Specific Main Motions
Reconsider
Rescind
Resume Consideration
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| Debatable?: NO |
Amendable?: NO |
| Vote: Majority
(2/3 when used to supress a motion without further
debate) (see notes) |
Precedence: Over the motion to close debate,
to limit debate, to postpone definitely, to refer, and to amend |
| Applies to?: MAIN MOTION only |
Other Motions?: to withdraw |
Notes:
- A motion temporarily postponed cannot be brought up at the
same House as a new motion.
- When a main motion is temporarily postponed, all pending adhering
amendments are also postponed with it. If the House votes to
resume consideration, all pending adhering amendments come with
it and are disposed of in the regular order.
- If the motion to limit or close debate was passed before the
motion was postponed temporarily, these motions remain in effect
once consideration is resumed.
- To prevent misuse of the motion to postpone temporarily, a
2/3 vote should be required if this motion is being used to
cut off debate, which is consistent with the principle that
debate can only be ended by a 2/3 vote.
- The motion to postpone temporarily does not literally kill
a motion. By a majority vote anytime before the end of the meeting,
a temporarily postponed motion can be taken from the table by
a motion to resume consideration.
- Temporarily postponed motions are effectively killed at the
end of the House if a motion to resume consideration is not
adopted.
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