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Libertarian Party of Florida Executive Committee => Committee Reports => Rules => Topic started by: Rules on September 18, 2022, 06:56:42 PM
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Rules Committee
LPF Rules Committee held our regular meeting on Wednesday, July 27.
Attendance: Greg Peele (Chair), Matt Horvath (Secretary)
We continued to work on reviewing and wordsmithing the sample affiliate constitution and bylaws as referred by the Affiliate Support Committee. We identified the remaining areas within this task that need additional work to complete, with a particular focus on meeting Florida statutory requirements for affiliate bylaws.
LPF Rules Committee held a working meeting on Wednesday, September 14..
Attendance: Greg Peele (Chair), Matt Horvath (Secretary), Josh Hlavka (ex-oficio)
We continued to work on reviewing and wordsmithing the sample affiliate constitution and bylaws as referred by the Affiliate Support Committee.
We decided to create a spreadsheet of recommitted motions from the 2022 ABM so the Rules Committee members could review them offline to indicate agreement or disagreement with reconciled motions. We plan to dispose of all motions with full consensus at the next meeting and use them to prepare the initial Rules Report for the 2023 ABM, then revisit motions that contain areas of disagreement and new proposals moving forward to add to the report.
We discussed a proposal from Mr. Hlavka that would codify the process by which the LPF secedes from the LNC or its current LNC Region with a supermajority threshold at least as high as constitutional amendments. In light of activities and legal concerns in other states lacking such a clearly codified process, we agreed this is useful to safeguard the party from rogue Executive Committee actions not reflecting the will of membership, while presenting a legally-defensible method to secede if that is the overwhelming will of the LPF membership.
We also discussed the legal ramifications of secession if such a secession motion were to pass - primarily the only electoral impact would be to prevent the LPF from automatically having a presidential candidate without petitioning. There is however a substantial question regarding legality of branding - although Florida Statute 103.081 provides some guidance on how the state party’s exclusive use of the name Libertarian Party of Florida and LPF would interact with the national party’s federal trademarks. We will explore this topic further in future meetings.
Mr. Peele presented initial ideas for proposals to enable recall of elected EC members by ⅔ resolution of county executive committees within their jurisdiction, and to codify the number of LPF Regions and the process by which their composition may be prescribed or altered.
Finally, we remind the LPF Executive Committee that the 2022 reconciled Constitution, Bylaws, and latest Standing Rules have been completed and are ready for publication to the LPF website. Per direction of LPF Vice-Chair Hlavka, we submitted these documents to Tony Sellers on September 15 via Discord for publication.
Planned Activities
Complete sample county affiliate constitution and bylaws to return to Affiliate Support
Continue reviewing recommitted 2022 Rules motions
Continue review of Standing Rules to identify sections to strike as unnecessary
Respond to outstanding LP Broward inquiry
Respond to any new inquiries from EC, affiliates, and other committees
Work on setting up Basecamp and provisioning all Rules documents there
Initiate work on new constitution and bylaws proposals
Schedule
Regular Meetings will occur on fourth Wednesday at 5:30pm on Discord
Working Meetings will occur on second Wednesday at 5:30pm on Discord
Committee will operate continuously on Discord in between meetings
✓ September 14 - initiate work on rules report
January 25 - freeze scope of rules report; no new motions after this point
February 22 - approve draft Rules Report for public notice
March 20 - incorporate public comment, final public notice hard deadline