1. Each speaker addressing an item brought to the floor for a vote is limited to three minutes of debate. Each delegate may return to the floor for one minute for the purpose of rebuttal or to summarize his/her position. 2. Resolutions submitted to the LSMS House of Delegates which refer to any source material, such as an article, policy, statute, law, report, etc., must have a copy of the referenced material attached. Such resolutions will not be accepted by the HOD without an attached copy of the source material. 3. Any delegate who wishes to distribute material to the House must first obtain approval from the Speaker or Vice Speaker. 4. No election materials, announcements, or marketing/promotional materials will be printed by the LSMS. Resolutions Business is introduced into the House through submission of resolutions by an individual delegate or alternate delegate, or any organization that has delegate representation in the House as specified by Article XI, paragraph A in the LSMS Bylaws. To be considered as regular business, LSMS Bylaws require each resolution must be received by the Speaker of the House of Delegates no later than 45 days before the opening session of a meeting of the House. Resolutions submitted later than 45 days before the opening session of a meeting of the House are considered late and will be considered as new business only if: a. Presented by the President of the Society. b. Presented by the Board of Governors. c. Decreed to be of an emergency nature by a committee composed of the President and the Speaker of the House; or d. Accepted by a two-thirds vote of the House of Delegates, provided that, before any such resolution shall come before the House of Delegates for action, the resolution must have been presented to the Committee on Rules and Order of Business for its consideration and recommendation. Structure of Resolutions : The essential element of a resolution is the language expressed as one or more RESOLVED paragraphs setting forth its requested action. It may also include a prefatory statement, or preamble, explaining the rationale for the resolution. This is frequently accomplished using one or more WHEREAS statements preceding the RESOLVED paragraphs. See Exhibit II, Resolution Format . It is not necessary for a resolution to have a preamble or WHEREAS statement(s) when the significance of the RESOLVED paragraph is self-explanatory. If such introductory statements
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