Request for permission to withdraw or modify a motion

Request for permission to withdraw or modify a motion
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**Request for permission to withdraw or modify a motion**
Class	Incidental motion
In order when another has the floor	If not granted by unanimous consent, can be moved by person requesting permission, or by another while the former has the floor
Second	Yes, if motion is made by person requesting permission; no, if made by another member
Debatable	No
Amendable	No
Vote Required	Majority
Reconsider	As to withdrawal, negative vote only; as to modification, yes

The motion of request for permission to withdraw or modify a motion is made if the maker of the motion wishes to withdraw or change it after it has been stated by the chair.

Explanation and Use

Before it has been stated by the chair, permission is unnecessary. However, a person who seconded the motion before it was modified is allowed to withdraw the second.^[1]

References

^ Robert, Henry M. (2000). Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised, 10th ed., p. 283-284

v • d • e Parliamentary Procedure

Major concepts	Deliberative assembly · Motions · Main motion · Quorum · Session

Subsidiary motions	Postpone indefinitely · Amend · Commit · Postpone to a certain time · Limit or extend limits of debate · Previous question · Lay on the table

Privileged motions	Call for the orders of the day · Raise a question of privilege · Recess · Adjourn · Fix the time to which to adjourn

Incidental motions	Point of order · Appeal · Suspend the rules · Objection to the consideration of a question · Division of a question · Consideration by paragraph or seriatim · Division of the assembly · Motions relating to methods of voting and the polls · Motions relating to nominations

Incidental motions (Requests and inquiries)	Parliamentary inquiry · Point of information · Request for permission to withdraw or modify a motion · Request to read papers · Request to be excused from a duty · Request for any other privilege

Motions that bring a question again before the assembly	Take from the table · Rescind, repeal, annul or amend something previously adopted · Discharge a committee · Reconsider

Legislative procedure	Call of the house · Hoist · Pass on

Disciplinary procedures	Censure · Declare the chair vacant · Impeach

Parliamentary authorities	Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR) · The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure (TSC) · Demeter's Manual · Riddick's Rules of Procedure · Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure

Other concepts	Committee · Committee of the whole · Dilatory motions and tactics · Minutes · Second · History of parliamentary procedure · Principles of parliamentary procedure

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