Resolution Number: | 2022-A061 | |
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Title: | Amend Canon I.4.6.j [Of the Executive Council] | |
Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred as Amended | |
Final Text: |
Resolved, That the 80th General Convention direct Executive Council to create a mechanism for gathering self-identified demographic data to help address disparities regarding gender, gender identity and expression, age, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability status. Possible mechanisms for this include:
Proposing an amendment to Canon I.4.6 to the 81st General Convention by the addition of a second sentence, as follows:
Canon 1.4.6.j
j. Each Diocese shall annually report to the Executive Council such financial data and
other information pertaining to the state of the Church in the Diocese
as may be required in a form authorized by Executive Council. By
gathering data through parochial reports and surveys each Diocesan
report will invite the inclusion of voluntary self-identified
demographic information Such Diocesan report shall include demographic information, such as gender, gender identity and expression, age, and race
and ethnicity, sexual orientation, and disability status for the
following positions in the Diocese including but not limited to:
Diocesan Convention Officers, Diocesan Convention Delegates, Standing
Committee, Diocesan/Executive Council, Board of Trustees, Bishop Search
Committee (if any), Treasurer, Staff of the Office of the Bishop,
Chancellor and Vice-Chancellors, Commissions on Ministry, Bishop's
Committees, Trustees, all Wardens and Vestries, and congregational staffs.
Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Baltimore, 2022 (New York: General Convention, 2023), pp. 838-839. |
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