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Parliamentary Procedure Lde PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE LDE PURPOSE The purpose of the Parliamentary Procedure LDE is to encourage students to learn to effectively participate in a business meeting and to assist in the development of their leadership skills. ELIGIBILITY The participant must be an active member of a chartered Florida FFA Chapter and enrolled in grades 9, 10, 11 or 12. Each chapter may enter one team. EVENT PROCEDURES A team will consist of six members of the same chapter. No alternates will be permitted. FFA members are to wear INDOOR FFA Official Dress, and will be scored accordingly. Recording of presentations is permitted by one person from each participant’s chapter for that participant only. ITEM OF BUSINESS Each team will address a local chapter item of business, which would normally be a part of a chapter’s program of activities (consult FFA.org, the Official FFA Manual and Student Handbook for specific activities and current programs.) The motion will be specific and must be moved as an original main motion as it is written on the event card. Motions not on the chart of permissible motions, or secondary motions and debate applied to them, will not be scored. EVENT CARD The event officials will select two subsidiary, two incidental, and one privileged motion or a motion that brings a question again before the assembly from the list of permissible motions. These motions will be on an index card and one will be randomly assigned to each team member, except the chair. All teams in each section will be assigned the same motions. Team members will have one minute to review the main motion, the motions to be demonstrated, and to identify his/her motion (which may be noted by bolding, underlining or highlighting). Members may refer to the card throughout the presentation, but may not confer during the one- FLORIDA FFA COMPETITIVE EVENT GUIDE 197 PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE CDE minute time period or during the demonstration. Sample Card Main Motion: I move that our chapter send two delegates to WLC Required Motions: Lay on the Table Amend Suspend the Rules Appeal Reconsider OPENING AND CLOSING THE DEMONSTRATION The team demonstrating shall assume that a regular chapter meeting is in progress and new business is being handled on the agenda. The chair shall start the presentation by saying, “Is there any new business?” Time will stop when the chair declares the meeting adjourned. ORIGINAL MAIN MOTION The event official will assign the main motion on an index card, no other original main motions may be used. Making other original main motions that are not on the event card will result in a 50 point deduction from overall team presentation score. SECONDARY MOTIONS No limit to the number of subsidiary, incidental and privileged motions that a team may demonstrate. A member’s required motion will not be counted as an additional motion for another member. No motion may count for an additional motion for more than one member. Incidental and privileged motions cannot be demonstrated as incidental main motions. MOTIONS THAT BRING A QUESTION AGAIN BEFORE THE ASSEMBLY Take from the Table - If the officials in charge designate Take from the Table as a motion to be demonstrated, you should assume that you would take from the table a motion that was laid on the table earlier in the present meeting. Example: “I move to take from the table the motion to hold an FFA hayride.” The original main motion, assigned on the card, cannot be taken from the table. The motion to Take from the Table cannot not be used unless it is a required motion. This motion will NOT be required at the sub-district level. Reconsider - If the officials in charge designate Reconsider as a motion to be demonstrated, you should assume that you would reconsider a motion you considered earlier in the presenting meeting. Example: “I move to reconsider the motion adopted earlier to hold an FFA hayride.” This motion cannot not be used unless it is a required motion. Unrealistic or canned debate on the motion to reconsider may be penalized at the judges’s discretion. This motion will not be required at the sub-district level. Rescind - If the officials in charge designate Rescind as a motion to be demonstrated, you should assume that you would rescind a motion adopted at the last meeting. Example: “I move to rescind the motion that was adopted at our last meeting to hold an FFA hayride.” This motion cannot not be used unless it is a required motion. Unrealistic or canned debate on the motion to rescind may be penalized at the judges’ discretion. This motion will NOT be required at the sub-district level. CALL FOR THE ORDERS OF THE DAY If the event officials designate Call for the Orders of the Day as a motion to be demonstrated, you may use an alternative main motion not pertaining to the assigned main motion to facilitate the FLORIDA FFA COMPETITIVE EVENT GUIDE 198 PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE CDE correct demonstration of the motion. If an alternative main motion is used, the member will not be given credit for an additional motion. This motion will NOT be required at the sub-district level. This motion cannot not be used unless it is a required motion. At the state preliminary and final events only, the judges will have four minutes to ask general questions to clarify the team’s demonstration. Questions may be directed to the team or an individual member. Team members may volunteer to answer the question for the team or to help another member. General questions will not be asked at the sub-district or district levels. EVENT SCHEDULE The event will be held in three rounds: sub-district, district and state level competitions. Each chapter may enter one team at the sub-district level with each sub-district forwarding their winner on to the district event. The 12 district winners are then eligible to compete in the state event. STATE FINALS The preliminary round will have two sections. Each section shall be made up of no more than six teams. The top three teams from each section will advance to the final round (a total of six teams). ■ Seeding Process - Teams will be placed into preliminary and semi-final rounds based on a procedure determined by the official(s) in charge of the event. ■ Preliminary Rounds - two sessions of six teams each ■ Finals Round - One round of six teams, top three from each flight EVENT MATERIALS MATERIALS PROVIDED: ■ Gavel (teams may use their own gavel if they so desire) ■ Digital timers MATERIALS STUDENTS MUST PROVIDE: ■ Pencils TEAM PRACTICUMS PERFORMANCE PRACTICUMS TEAM PRESENTATION INDIVIDUAL MEMBER RECOGNITION A member may speak in debate on the main motion and conclude by offering a secondary motion. While it is discouraged, judges will award points accordingly for both the debate and the secondary motion. USING A MOTION TWICE A member’s required motion will not be counted as an additional motion for another member. The person who makes the assigned original main motion will be given credit for an additional motion (10 pts). If an alternative main motion is used, the member will NOT be given credit for an additional motion. DEBATE The top four debates per member will be tabulated in the presentation score. No more than two debates per member per motion will be tabulated, even if the subsidiary motion to extend the limits of debate has been passed. TIME LIMIT AND DEDUCTIONS FLORIDA FFA COMPETITIVE EVENT GUIDE 199 PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE CDE A team shall be allowed eleven minutes in which to demonstrate knowledge of parliamentary law. A deduction of two points/second for every second over 11 minutes will be assessed. Example: 11:05 =10 point deduction. A timekeeper will furnish the time used by each team at the close of the event. PERMISSIBLE MOTIONS Required motions will be assigned from the following list of motions: Sub-District and District Levels ■ Adjourn ■ Amend ■ Appeal the Decision of the Chair ■ Division of the House (Assembly) ■ Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn ■ Main Motion ■ Lay on the Table ■ Parliamentary Inquiry ■ Postpone Definitely ■ Postpone Indefinitely ■ Previous Question ■ Question of Privilege ■ Recess ■ Refer to a Committee ■ Rise to a Point of Order ■ Suspend the Rules Optional Motions (will not be assigned, but may be used) ■ Division of the Question ■ Extend or Limit Debate ■ Object to the Consideration of the Question ■ Withdraw a Motion State Level - (Any of these abilities may be assigned at this level) ■ Adjourn ■ Amend ■ Appeal the Decision of the Chair ■ Call for Orders of the Day* ■ Division of the House (Assembly) ■ Division of the Question ■ Extend or Limit Debate ■ Fix the Time to Which to Adjourn ■ Lay on the Table ■ Main motion ■ Object to the Consideration of the Question ■ Parliamentary Inquiry ■ Postpone Definitely ■ Postpone Indefinitely ■ Previous Question ■ Question of Privilege ■ Recess ■ Reconsider* ■ Refer to a Committee ■ Rescind* ■ Rise to a Point of Order ■ Suspend the Rules FLORIDA FFA COMPETITIVE EVENT GUIDE 200 PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE CDE ■ Take from the Table* ■ Withdraw a Motion *These motions can only be used when assigned. Note: Only those abilities listed under the event level will be assigned by the CDE coordinator. One additional motion per member will be scored. A team may choose any of the remaining abilities listed above as their additional motions to facilitate completion of the assigned abilities. Any assistance given to a team member from any source other than the career development event officials will be sufficient cause to eliminate the team from the career development event. Team members may have no contact with individuals other than team members from the time the event begins (when placed in a holding room) until the team has completed its participation in the event.
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