The Acts of Convention

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.