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To: Senate

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From:Senate Committee

on Agenda and Rules

Subject:Notice of Motion -

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Date:October 20, 1986

Senate, October 6, 1986

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At the meeting of Senate held on October 6, 1986, the following

Notice of Motion was duly presented:

Motion: "that Senate consider as policy the position

that there can be no two successive cancellations of

Senate's monthly meetings".

The effect of this motion, if passed, would be a change to the Rules of

Senate. Current Section V., A., 3. of the

Rules

of Senate

addresses

the question of cancellation of a Regular Meeting of Senate, setting

out the following:

3. If in the opinion of the Chairman, there is

insufficient business to justify a regular meeting, he

may cancel the meeting and instruct the Secretary

to so inform the members.

Under the

Rules of Senate,

an affirmative vote by two-thirds of the

voting members present is required to carry a motion that would

change those