Resolution Number: 1982-A152
Title: Ratify the Executive Council's Affirmative Action Plan
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred
Final Text:

Resolved, That the 67th General Convention adopt the Affirmative Action plan as adopted by the Executive Council for its employees, committees and purchases, said plan to cover the employees, the interim bodies thereof being the committees, commissions, boards and agencies of the General Convention, and the purchasing of goods and services by General Convention.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, New Orleans, 1982 (New York: General Convention, 1983), p. C-67.

Legislative History

Author: The Executive Council
Originating House: House of Bishops
Originating Committee: Committee on Structure

House of Bishops

Original Text of Resolution:

(A152)

Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That the 67th General Convention adopt the Affirmative Action plan as adopted by the Executive Council for its employees, committees and purchases, said plan to cover the employees, the interim bodies thereof being the committees, commissions, boards and agencies of the General Convention, and the purchasing of goods and services by General Convention.

The Committee moved the adoption of Resolution A-152.

Seconded by the Bishop of Northern California.

Motion carried

(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #73)

House of Deputies

On the ninth day, the Chairman of the Committee on Structure presented Report #22 and recommended that the House concur with Message #73 of the House of Bishops on Resolution A152 (Affirmation Action).

Motion carried

The House concurred

(Communicated to the House of Bishops in HD Message #175)

Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, September 13.

Report Reference:   Executive Council, Reports to the 67th General Convention, 1982, pp. 83-93.
Abstract:   The 67th General Convention adopts the Executive Council's affirmative action plan to cover its employees, interim bodies, and the purchasing of goods and services by General Convention.