213th Annual Council
The Abundance of God's Love
January 25-26, Reston, Virginia

CONSTITUTIONAL AND CANONICAL AMENDMENT RESULTS
Text pending approval.

C-1: Composition of the Council (adopted on second reading)
C-2: Composition of the Council (referred to special committee)

C-1 Composition of the Council
Adopted on second reading and is now effective.

This proposal was adopted as C-4 on first reading at the 212th Annual Council. It must be adopted on two successive meetings of the Annual Council.

Amend Article III, Section 1 as follows:

(e) The Lay members of the Standing Committee, the Lay members of the Executive Board, the
Chancellor, the Presidents of the Regions, the President of the Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese, five lay persons, not over 21 years of age at the time of election, to be elected on or before May 1 as Youth Delegates by five of the Regional Councils designated on an annual rotating basis by the Standing Committee, and two lay persons, not over 25 years of age at the time of election and participants in an Episcopal higher education ministry in the Diocese, to be elected by the Standing Committee on or before May 1 as Collegiate Delegates shall be members of Council ex officio.

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C-2 Composition of the Council
Referred to a special committee to be appointed by the bishop.

This proposal is submitted for first reading. In order to be effective, amendments to the Constitution must succeed at two successive meetings of the Annual Council.

Amend Article III Section 1 (d) as follows:

(d) There shall be only one Lay Delegate from each church, to be chosen by its Vestry. But from every church having more than three hundred confirmed communicants in good standing reported to the Diocesan authorities in the last annual report, there shall be an additional Lay Delegate for each three hundred confirmed communicants in good standing, or major fraction thereof, above the first three hundred. But from every church having at least one priest or deacon serving as an assistant, by whatever title, whose employment has been approved by the Bishop, being either canonically resident or duly licensed in the Diocese and being compensated for at least two-thirds time in accordance to the Diocesan minimum compensation guidelines, there shall be an additional Lay Delegate for each said assistant position in the parish that has been filled for at least eight of the twelve months prior to Council.  The Council, with advice of the President, may rescind the credential of any parish’s Lay Delegate whose corresponding assistant position is vacant for the six months prior to Council.  The Council, with the advice of the President, may grant full Lay Delegate credentials to any parish’s Lay Alternate when a prior vacant assistant position or a new assistant position is created and becomes and remains occupied for the six months prior to Council.

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