|
What's It For?
|
How Important is It? (Rank)
|
What’s It's Called? (Name of
Motion)
|
Category? (Type of Motion)
|
Can we interrupt the Speaker?
|
Should Someone Else Agree to Talk
About This? (Requires a second)
|
Can we add to It? (Amendable)
|
Debatable
|
Votes to Pass?
|
Can we Change our Minds?
(Reconsider)
|
|
Deciding when to go home
|
1
|
Fix time to which to adjourn
|
Privileged
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Majority (that's 1 more than half)
|
Yes
|
|
Stopping the meeting
|
2
|
Adjourn
|
Privileged
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Majority
|
No
|
|
Taking a break
|
3
|
Take a Recess
|
Privileged
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Majority
|
No
|
|
Asking a favor
|
4
|
Raise Question of Privilege
|
Privileged
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Chair grants
|
No
|
|
Focusing on what we are doing in
the meeting
|
5
|
Call for Orders of the Day
|
Privileged
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
No vote
|
No
|
|
Talking about it later
|
6
|
Lay on the Table
|
Subsidiary
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Majority
|
No
|
|
Taking action by ceasing debate
|
7
|
Previous Question (close Debate)
|
Subsidiary
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Majority
|
Yes
|
|
Taking a specific amount of time to
discuss the subject
|
8
|
Limit to the Extended Debate
|
Subsidiary
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
2/3
|
Yes
|
|
Postponing talk about this subject
till the next meeting
|
9
|
Postpone to a Certain time
(definitely)
|
Subsidiary
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Majority
|
Yes
|
|
Getting a smaller group to work on
the subject
|
10
|
Refer to a Committee(Commit)
|
Subsidiary
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Majority
|
Yes
|
|
Adding more specifics for
consideration
|
11
|
Amend
|
Subsidiary
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Majority
|
Yes
|
|
Postponing discussion forever
|
12
|
Postpone Indefinitely
|
Subsidiary
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Majority
|
If Passed
|
|
Proposing an action to take
|
13
|
Original Main Motion
|
Main
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Majority
|
Yes
|
|
I think we need to check on
something.
|
|
Point of Order
|
Incidental
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Chair rules
|
No
|
|
Asking for a second chance
|
|
Appeal
|
Incidental
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Majority
|
Yes
|
|
Asking for the rules or their interpretation
|
|
Parliamentary Inquiry
|
Incidental
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Chair Answers
|
No
|
|
Requesting consideration without
the structure
|
|
Suspend the Rules
|
Incidental
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
2/3
|
No
|
|
Not liking what is going on
|
|
Object to a Consideration
|
Incidental
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Majority
|
It fails
|
|
Subject is too big, let's break it
into smaller pieces.
|
|
Division of a Question
|
Incidental
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Majority
|
|
|
Taking one thing at a time
|
|
Consideration of a Paragraph
(Seriatim)
|
Incidental
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Majority
|
No
|
|
Uncertain of the vote, ask for a
show of hands.
|
|
Division of the Assembly
|
Incidental
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
On Demand
|
No
|
|
Mistake has occurred, reverse the
decision
|
|
Rescind
|
Restorative
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
2/3
|
No
|
|
Requesting that we look at this
again.
|
|
Reconsider
|
Restorative
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Majority
|
No
|
|
Previously postponed decision is
now up for discussion
|
|
Take from the table
|
Restorative
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Majority
|
No
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