Bylaws and Rules Committee (2022)

The Bylaws and Rules Committee recommends bylaw amendments and convention rule amendments to the assembled delegates during national conventions. Those amendments are then debated and voted on by the delegates.

Members

• Paige Sexton (chair)
• Dan Fishman
• Tim Hagan
• Richard Longstreth
• Chuck Moulton
• Valerie Sarwark
• Steve Scheetz
• Mark Rutherford
• David Valente
• Francis Wendt

Tim Hagan, Richard Longstreth, Valerie Sarwark, David Valente, and Francis Wendt were LNC members (up to 5 committee members may be LNC members).

Paige Sexton was elected chair of the committee.

Committee discussions can be viewed at https://groups.google.com/u/1/a/lp.org/g/bylaws.

Meetings

Committee deliberations between meetings may be followed on the public email list.

• December 29, 2019 (Zoom)
• January 26, 2020 (Zoom) - in conjunction with Convention Voting Process Committee
• March 29, 2020 (Zoom)
• April 11, 2020 (Zoom)
• April 13, 2020 (Zoom) - in conjunction with Convention Oversight Committee
• April 25-26, 2020 (Zoom)
• May 3, 2020; May 10, 2020 (Zoom) - at the end of the May 3 meeting the session was adjourned until May 10

Proposals

2020 Bylaws and Rules Committee report is not yet adopted; however, 2 proposals have been adopted by the committee and 2 additional proposals have been heavily workshopped and amended by the committee.

• Elect JC by Regions (adopted 8-2-0)
• Fill JC Vacancies at Intervening Conventions (adopted 8-1-1)
• Rump Convention (DRAFT)
• Hybrid Convention (DRAFT)
• Final Report

The secretary also maintains a list of ideas floated by committee members and interested observers on Google sheets.