The Acts of Convention
| Resolution Number: | 1976-C047 |
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| Title: | Amend Canon I.1.8 [Of the General Convention Budget] |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred As Amended |
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Resolved, That Canon I.1.8 be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 8. The General Convention shall adopt at each regular meeting, a budget to provide for the contingent expenses of the General Convention, the stipend of the Presiding Bishop together with the necessary expenses of his office, the necessary expenses of the President of the House of Deputies including the staff and Advisory Council required by him to assist him in the performance of the duties and matters related to his office, and the applicable Church Pension Fund assessments. To defray the expense of this budget, an assessment shall be levied upon the Dioceses of the Church in accordance with a formula which the Convention shall adopt as part of this expense budget. It shall be the duty of each Diocesan Convention to forward to the Treasurer of the General Convention annually, on the first Monday of January, the amount of the assessment levied upon that Diocese.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, 1976 (New York: General Convention, 1977), p. C-33. |
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Legislative History
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| Originating House: | House of Bishops |
| Originating Committee: | Committee on Church Support |
House of Bishops
On the Sixth Day, the Bishop of Alabama, Chairman of the Committee on Church Support, moved the adoption of the following Resolution (C-47):
Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, that Canon I.1.8 be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 8. The General Convention shall adopt at each regular meeting, a budget to provide for the contingent expenses of the General Convention, the stipend of the Presiding Bishop together with the necessary expenses of his office, the necessary expenses of the President of the House of Deputies including the staff and Advisory Council required by him to assist him in the performance of the duties and matters related to his office, and the applicable Church Pension Fund assessments. To defray the expense of this budget, an assessment shall be levied upon the Dioceses of the Church in accordance with a formula which the Convention shall adopt as part of this expense budget. It shall be the duty of each Diocesan Convention to forward to the Treasurer of the General Convention annually, on the first Monday of January, the amount of the assessment levied upon that Diocese.
The motion was seconded by the Bishop of Wyoming.
The Bishop of Nevada moved the adoption of the following amendment: that the words "first day of February" replace "the first Monday in January."
The amendment was seconded by the Bishop of Eau Claire.
Amendment failed
Original resolution adopted
(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #99)
House of Deputies
On the Eighth Day, the Chairman of the Committee on Dispatch of Business, Deputy Shields (Spokane) moved to concur with the House of Bishops Message #99, Resolution C-47, without referral to committees, as follows:
I move immediate consideration by this House, without further reference to Committees #40 and #5 which have already filed to report on Resolution C-47 which is consistent with Message #99 from the House of Bishops.
I move that this House concur in the action of the House of Bishops as communicated by their Message #99.
The House concurred
(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #63)
| Abstract: | The 65th General Convention amends Canon Title I.1.8 to provide for a budget for the expenses of the General Convention. |
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