COUNCIL ON LEGISLATION & RESOLUTIONS

It is my pleasure to serve as our district representative to the RI Council on Resolutions and the Council on Legislation.  My term runs from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2026.

The Council on Resolutions (COR) meets online every year to vote on proposed resolutions and urgent enactments. Resolutions are requests to the Board or the Trustees to take action that is outside the purview of the constitutional documents. Ideally, a resolution should affect the Rotary world, rather than address local or administrative issues. An urgent enactment is a change to the constitutional documents proposed by the RI Board, that the Board has determined cannot wait until the next Council on Legislation, which is held every three years.

Representatives from all Rotary districts vote on items proposed by clubs, districts, the RI Board, and the general council or conference of RGBI (Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland). Adopted resolutions are then considered by the RI Board or The Rotary Foundation Trustees. Urgent enactments that have been adopted will amend the constitutional documents and will take effect one month after the Council on Resolutions report has been sent.

The current cycle of review and voting  will begin on October 1 when the proposed resolutions will be published at https://my.rotary.org/en/council/cor/vote.  Council members will be able to submit comments on resolutions from October 1 to October 7, 2024.  Council representatives will vote on resolutions from October 15 to October 30, 2024.  Results will then be posted by November 6, 2024.

When the 2024 COR opens, Council members will have the opportunity to submit comments on any of the resolutions.
Comments will have the following parameters: 

  • Comments can only be made by Council members, which are: COR representatives, the Council Operations Committee, the RI president, the RI president-elect, members of the RI Board, and one member of The Rotary Foundation Trustees. Comments do not need to be approved by the district and are considered the opinion of the member.
  • Each Council member may submit up to three comments totalto the COR and each comment is limited to 500 characters of the language in which it is submitted.  
  • Comments are limited to only once per item. If more than one comment is submitted on an item, only the last submission will be published. However, each submission counts toward the three comment limit.
  • Explanations are required when supporting, opposing, or wishing to make a general comment in the submission. Comments without substance, links to other materials, or those that may be inappropriate or offensive will not be published at the discretion of the Council chair. For example, the statement “I support this item” does not include an explanation and will not be published.
  • Any comments that are deleted by the commenter or are not published at the discretion of the council chair still count towards the three comment limit. Comments cannot be recovered.

Comments may be submitted from October 1 to October 7, 2024. They will then be translated and published on the COR website just before voting begins on October 15, 2024.  Comments will include the name and role of the commenter.  Council members, the RI Board, and the Trustees will be able to view comments throughout the voting period.  Once the COR results are published, comments will no longer be viewable.  

I am attaching a document on how to read Resolutions also. It would be helpful for you to take the  “How to Propose Enactments and Resolutions” course on the Learning Center to give you more insight to this process. (Be sure to log in to My Rotary before clicking on the course link for easy access)

If you are interested in a Zoom conversation on this event or the topics of the resolutions, please let me know, and I will coordinate a date and time with DG Rachel after which I will send out the information as needed.

Thank you for reviewing this. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions and feel free to pass this on to any of your club members that may be interested in this process.  I will send further information on the upcoming 2025 Council on Legislation after the COR is concluded. 

Yours in Rotary Service,

Jane

Jane Hopkins

District Governor 2021-2022

Rotary International District 6450

Midwest PETS Vice Chair

Zones 25b-29 Institute Program Chair 

District Representative to Council on Legislation and Resolution 2023-2026

Past President Rotary Club of Joliet 2009-2010

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