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Resolution Number: 2024-A025
Title: Refer a Resolution on Amending Canon IV.13.4 [Of Hearing Panels]
Legislative Action Taken: Referred
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 81st General Convention amend Canon IV. 13. 4 as follows:

Sec. 4. If at any time after a matter has been referred to a Hearing Panel an Accord is reached that ends the proceedings before the Hearing Panel issues an Order, the Accord must be consented to by the Hearing Panel, and if approved, the Bishop Diocesan shall make the Notice of Accord available to the Church and Church media as provided in Sec. 3 as well as to the Hearing Panel.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Louisville, 2024 (New York: General Convention, 2024), p. 909.