BILLS AND OVERTURES COMMITTEE

Bills and Overtures Committee (BOC)

Description (according to the Presbytery's Standing Rules)

The purpose of this Committee is to:

• receive and prepare for submission to General Assembly, Overtures from the Presbytery of the Palisades; and to present such Overtures to the Presbytery for a vote;
• refer the Proposed Amendments To The Constitution from the General Assembly, to Units and Committees of the Presbytery for study and input, as necessary and appropriate; and
• develop, if necessary and appropriate, an interpretive component to assist the Presbytery in its consideration of some or all of the Proposed Amendments To The Constitution;
• present to the Presbytery, for its affirmative or negative vote, all of the Proposed Amendments To The Constitution; and the Committee may, if it chooses to do so, make a specific recommendation to the Presbytery with respect to one or more of the Proposed Amendments. Such recommendation may be in the form of information and/or advice for the Presbytery.

MEMBERSHIP: This committee is to have seven members, all clergy and elders in as equal numbers as possible, four of whom are to be APPOINTED each June by certain Presbytery Committees and Units, and three to be ELECTED to three-year terms at the June Stated Meeting of Presbytery.

A representative is to be appointed each June from the Committee on Ministry, from the Committee on Preparation for Ministry, from the Spiritual Development and Theology Unit, and from the Social Justice Priorities Unit, by these respective Committees and Units, and their terms are to begin the following September.

The Chairperson of this Committee is to be one of the Members-at-Large.  This committee is staffed by the Stated Clerk.

MEETINGS: This Committee has no regular scheduled meetings, but convenes when Proposed Amendments To The Constitution are received from the General Assembly and when Overtures from the Presbytery of the Palisades to the General Assembly are to be considered.

The Presbytery of the Palisade
http://www.palpres.org/staticpages/index.php/BOC_en