Legislation
Legislative Items go though a two part process:
- First, they were reviewed by the Legislative Assembly.
- Second, the Annual Conference session will take final action on all items. This may be done individually or by using a consent calendar to approve or disapprove items that were given recommendations by 90% or more of the Legislative Assembly members.
You can view or download the action requests and standing resolutions below. To read the individual items or packages you will need the Adobe Reader program or equivalent software. You can download it for free from this site. (Hint: If you have problems opening a file, download it first by RIGHT clicking on your mouse and saving the file to your computer.)
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(Includes items AR-A~F and SR-A~J as submitted to the legislative assembly BEFORE ANY EDITS.)
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Action Requests
AR – 1 Revisions for Scholarship Policies of the Board of Ordained Ministry
AR – 2 Inclusive Language to Be Used at Oregon-Idaho Conference and District Meetings and Worship
AR – 3 Child Incarceration and the United Nations Convention on Rights of the Child
AR – 4 Electronic Distribution of the Conference Journal - Replace Conference Rules 4.052 and 4.053
AR – 5 Cause the Oregon-Idaho Conference to Affirm Unity in Diversity to the General Conference (2019)
AR – 6 Bi-Lingual Signage for Welcome
These items were late submissions and are not included in other bundled documents:
AR – 7 Return of Land (Lot #4900) in Wallowa County to the Nez Perce Tribe
AR – 8 Petition for Adoptees to Obtain US Citizenship
Standing Resolutions
SR – 1 Standing on the Side of Love
SR – 2 Supporting Middle East Peace Efforts
SR – 3 Repair and Strengthen the 1965 Voting Rights Act
SR – 4 National Fair Trade Policy
SR – 5 Support for Inclusive Lay Staff Employment Policy
SR – 6 Support the Abolition of Human Trafficking (2009; r.2012, r. 2015)
SR – 7 Climate Change
SR – 8 Aligning Investments with Values Regarding Palestine and Israel
SR – 9 Close the Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly named the School of the Americas or SOA)
SR – 10 Human Rights for Incarcerated Children
This item was a late submission and is not included in other bundled documents:
SR – 11 A Call to Prayerfully Address the Detention of Immigrant Children
NOTE: Action Requests and Standing Resolutions had an alphabetical identifier for the Legislative Assembly. After they were organized into consent calendars, they received numerical identifiers for use at the Annual Conference Session.
Submitting Legislation
The process for legislation is controlled by the rules of the Annual Conference. For legislation to be reviewed by the Legislative Assembly, it was to have been submitted by April 1, 2018.
Conference rules allows for late submissions, with a different process. See Conference rule 2.042 and contact the legislative committee chair, Warren Light at uowesleycenter@gmail.com.
DOWNLOAD information for preparing legislation (PDF)
DOWNLOAD the Action Request Form (MS Word)
DOWNLOAD the Standing Resolution Form (MS Word)
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