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thumb|right|250px|Committee room, designed in 1901, in Halifax Town Hall A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization. A committee may not itself be considered to be a form of assembly or a decision-making body. Usually, an assembly or organization sends matters to a committee as a way to explore them more fully than would be possible if the whole assembly or organization were considering them. Committees may have different functions and their types of work differ depending on the type of organization and its ne
Key facts
- Motion.name
- Discharge a committee (RONR)
- Motion.class
- B
- Motion.in order
- No
- Motion.seconded
- Yes
- Motion.debatable
- Yes; debate can go into question in the hands of the committee.
- Motion.amendable
- Yes
- Motion.voterequired
- Majority
- Motion.reconsidered
- Negative vote only
- Motion.inorder
- No
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- group of humans
- Said to be same as
- commission
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- topic's main category
- Category:Committees
- Commons category
- Committees
- P8168
- Croft
- position held by head of the organization
- chairperson
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Encyclopedic overview
24 sectionsContents
- Purpose
- Functions
- Power and authority
- Formal procedures
- Commit (motion)
- Recommit
- Variations for full assembly consideration
- Discharge a committee
- Types
- Executive committee
- Conference committee
- Different use of term
- Standing committee<!--'Standing committee' redirects here-->
- Legislatures
- Examples in organizations
- Nominating committee<!--'Nominating committee' redirects here-->
- Steering committee<!--'Steering committee' redirects here-->
- Coalition committee
- Special committee<!--'Special committee' redirects here-->
- Subcommittee
- Committee of the whole
- Central Committee
- See also
- References
thumb|right|250px|Committee room, designed in 1901, in Halifax Town Hall A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly or other form of organization. A committee may not itself be considered to be a form of assembly or a decision-making body. Usually, an assembly or organization sends matters to a committee as a way to explore them more fully than would be possible if the whole assembly or organization were considering them. Committees may have different functions and their types of work differ depending on the type of organization and its needs.
A member of a legislature may be delegated a committee assignment, which gives them the right to serve on a certain committee.
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