FBLA Parliamentary Procedures

Proposed amendments to the FBLA national bylaws shall be submitted in writing by:

April 1

Each state chapter will be sent copies of the approved amendments to the National FBLA Bylaws by:

May 15

The vote required to amend the National FBLA Bylaws is:

Two thirds

The proposed amendments to the National FBLA Bylaws are voted on at the National Leadership Conference by the:

State voting delegates

A national officer screening committee is composed of:

National officers and board members

Voting by mail of the National FBLA Executive Council requires the following for adoption:

three fourths vote

Meetings of the National FBLA Executive Council may be called by the president or upon the written request of:

Three voting members

The following is an ex-offcio, nonvoting member of the National FBLA Executive Council:

Chairman of the Board of directors

At the FBLA National Leadership Conference a local chapter with a membership of 100 may have

Three voting delegates

If the office of National FBLA President becomes vacant, the position is filled by the

Vice president from the president's region

The maximum number of FBLA national officers who may be elected from the same state chapter

1

The FBLA National President, Secretary, and Treasurer shall be elected by the

State voting delegates

The FBLA National Vice Presidents shall be elected by the

Local chapter voting delegates at their respective regional meetings

If no candidate for a FBLA national office receives a majority vote, the candidate receiving the lowest number of votes shall be dropped on the

Fourth vote

Candidates for FBLA National Treasurer must have completed one year of

Accounting

If no state chapter submits a candidate for a particular FBLA national office by the deadline, then the deadline for that office shall be extended to

June 15

National FBLA Dues are

$6

The Virgin Islands is a member of the

Eastern Region

If the bylaws provide "that officers shall serve for two years or until their successors are elected," any one of the officers' elections can be rescinded and a successor can be elected for the remainder of the term for which one of the following reasons?

For misconduct or neglect of duty in office

A tie vote

the chair may vote in favor of the motion

Using the terms "Chair" or "Chairman" is

An acceptable variation on the term "Chair"

Meetings of a small caucus at a convention are governed by rules that are

The same as those applicable to a committee.

Which one of the following is classified as a secondary motion?

Incidental motions

Which statement is true?

More than one secondary motion may be pending at a time.

Subsidiary, privileged, and incidental motions are

Secondary motions

Secondary motions:

Must be acted upon or disposed of before direct consideration of the main question can be continued.

The motion to lay on the table should be used to:

Interrupt consideration of a main motion temporarily until a majority wishes to consider it again.

Which one of these subsidiary motions has no corresponding incidental main motion?

Previous question

The motion to recess made when no business is pending is:

An incidental main motion

Proper handling of a substitute amendment tends to ensure:

That the provisions of the version first offered receive appropriate consideration without impeding free debate of the proposal to substitute.

Once a committee to which a resolution or main motion has been referred commences its deliberation:

The committee is free to consider and recommend for adoption any amendment to the motion so referred by the assembly.

In considering a resolution which has a preamble, the preamble is:

Amended last

The motion to ratify:

Is an incidental main motion

After it has been voted to insert words, these words may be changed by

Reconsideration of the vote to insert the words

When a main motion and the previous question are pending, which of the following motions is in order

Postpone to a certain time

The motion to fix the time to which to adjourn is

The highest ranking privileged motion

A motion to take a recess made when business is pending is

A privileged motion

In a motion to fill a blank to sell property, which one of the following amounts should be voted on first?

$60,000

When is an appeal debatable?

When the immediately pending question is debatable

An appeal from the decision of the chair

is debatable under some conditions and under other conditions is not.

A member of an assembly, in the parliamentary sense, is a person having the right to

Make motions, speak in debate on them, and vote

A deliberative assembly that has not adopted any rules

Is bound by rules and customs of common parliamentary law

The basic principle of decision in a deliberative assembly is that, to become the act or choice of the body, a proposition must be adopted

By a majority vote

Which one of the following is not classified as a deliberative assembly?

A committee

In a mass meeting, the quorum is

Those present

Unless it is one within a series, a mass meeting usually needs no established order of business since

There is nothing but new business to be brought up

The proper procedure for claiming the floor in an assembly is to

Rise and address the chair

Under unfinished business, the order in which business will be taken up is

The question that was pending when the previous meeting adjourned; questions that were unfinished business at the previous meeting, but not reached before it adjourned; questions that were set as general orders for the previous meeting, but not reached before it adjourned.

In some organizations in which it is customary to call the roll of the members, this is placed in the order of business:

At the end of the opening ceremonies, unless a special rule of the organization assigns it at a different position in the order of business.

After a member has been assigned the floor, but before he has begun to speak, it is in order to:

Give notice of intent to introduce a motion requiring notice

In agendas for sessions consisting of several meetings, most items are:

General orders

In local organizations that hold regular business meetings throughout the year, minutes of the annual meeting:

Are read and approved at the next regular meeting.

A meeting of an assembly is:

A single official gathering of its members

In a non legislative body that has no special rule regulating debate, a member's debate on a single motion is limited to:

Two speeches, and 10 minutes per speech

The wording of a motion in the minutes sshould

Be the exact wording the chair uses in putting he question

A speaker may be interrupted by a:

Call for the orders of the day

A question is pending and the meeting is adjourned. At the next meeting, where on the agenda will that question be placed?

Unfinished business

A general order for a particular hour:

Does not interrupt a pending question

The minimum essential officers for the conduct of business in a deliberative assembly are

Presiding officer and a secretary

From the examples below, select the one which would adopt a motion requiring a two-thirds vote with the minimum number in favor:

50 in favor, 23 opposed

The unqualified term "majority vote" means

More than half the votes cast, excluding blanks and abstenions

Voting requirements based on the number of members present

Cause abstentions to have the same effect as a negative vote

Election by plurality vote requires that the minimum number of candidates or propositions be at least

Three

Before a motion has been stated by the chair

If the motion is modified, the seconder can withdraw his second

If the bylaws require the election to be by ballot, then:

No vote is in order that would force disclosure of a member's vote

When the bylaws provide that the president is ex officio a member of all committees except the nominating committee, it means that:

The president is not obligated to attend meetings nor is he counted in the quorum

A partial report of a committee is:

Handled the same way as the final report

The formal presentation of a dissenting opinion of committee members not concurring with the committee report is a:

Minority report

During informal consideration:

Limitations on the number of times a member can speak are removed

The motion to consider a question informally is:

Debatable only as to the desirability of considering the question informally

When a motion is being considered informally:

The proceedings are placed in the minutes of the formal meeting

In a society where members are permitted to serve in only one office at a time, if a member is present and elcted to more than one office:

He/she can choose which of the offices he will accept.

In an election of members of a board or committee, if less than the prescribed number receive majority, the places are filled by:

Those with a majority, with repeated balloting for the remaining canidates

A member has the right to change his/her vote.

Up to the time the result is announced

Who presides at a meeting when the presiding officer temporarily vacates the chair and the only vice president declines to preside?

The president appoints a chairman pro tem, unless members nominate other persons

It is a fundamental principle of parliamentary law that the right to vote:

Is limited to the members of the society who are actually present at the time the vote is taken in a legal meeting.

Bylaws:

Prescribe administrative functions of the organization

Information contained in another parliamentary manual that is in conflict with the adopted parliamentary authority:

Has some bearing on the case at hand.

Rules of order cannot be suspended with a two-thirds vote:

If protecting a minority of one-third or less of those voting.

At a meeting of an organization with a membership of 250 with 210 attending, a motion is pending to suspend a standing rule. With 174 voting, what is the minimum number of votes required to adopt the motion?

88

Rules contained in the bylaws cannot be suspended unless:

The particular rule specifically provides for its own suspension, or unless the rule properly is in the nature of a rule of order

Suspension of rules of order requires:

A two-thirds vote

Standing rules are adopted or suspended by:

A majority vote, without previous notice

The fundamental instrument establishing an unincorporated society is the:

Bylaws

The bylaws of a society require previous notice and set the annual dues at $1000. A motion is being debated to amend the bylaws to increase the dues to $2500. Which amendment to the pending motion may be permitted at this point?

An amendment to strike the proposed $2500 proposed with an additional initiation fee.

Bylaws should require for their amendment:

After notice, approval by a two-thirds vote of the members present and voting.

Rules of order:

Provide a firm basis for resolving questions of procedure

At a business meeting, what procedure can be used to amend the bylaws of a society if they contain no provision for their amendment?

By a vote of a majority of the entire membership

A complete revision of the bylaws is pending, however, a member wants to correct the existing bylaws rather than adopt the revision. This member moves an amendment to correct the existing bylaws. The chair should:

Declare the proposed amendment out of order

A motion to amend the bylaws is:

A main motion

The group's bylaws specify that it will meet on the first Friday of each month unless otherwise ordered by the executive board. This provision would give the executive board power to:

Change the date of one specific meeting

Bylaws should provide that officers elected during a convention assume their duties:

At the close of the convention

A member who falls in arrears in the payment of his dues:

Does not lose the right to vote unless the bylaws so provide

If a bylaw is ambiguous, its meaning should be decided by the

Society's membership

The president:

Should be expressly excluded for service on the nominating committee.

The hour at which meetings are to be held should:

Be specified in the standing rules

Proposed amendments to the FBLA National Bylaws shall be submitted in writing by:

Local chapters, state chapters, or a national officer

After a convention program has been adopted, the committee may make changes by:

Bringing them before the assembly for a vote

A session of an assembly is:

A meeting or series of connected meetings with one agenda.