Felt’s Parliamentary Procedure/Renewal of a Motion
RENEWAL OF A MOTION.
38. Sometimes it is found advisable to renew a motion, resolution, or amendment, which has been withdrawn to make room for other business, to prevent defeat, or for other reasons.
A question that has been acted upon and either adopted or rejected, cannot be renewed at that session except by a motion to reconsider (135).
A motion which has been withdrawn (37) has not been acted upon. Therefore, it may be renewed.A motion to adjourn may be renewed if business or debate has been intervened. A motion to suspend the rules (130) cannot be renewed at the same meeting for the same purpose; but it may be renewed at the next meeting, although the meeting be held on the same day.
After any business has been introduced that alters the state of affairs, it is in order to renew any defeated motion, since by reason of the altered state of affairs the question before the assembly is a different one; but, in such cases, it is not in order to call for the orders of the day again, or to offer the same amendment a second time, or to move a suspension of the rules (130) for the same purpose, because in these cases the questions involved remain the same.
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