806. Committee to Nominate Additional Members--1. Giving due consideration to inclusiveness (see 103, 113), each jurisdiction shall designate one clergy, one laywoman, and one layman whom it has elected to a general program agency or to the General Council on Ministries to nominate the additional members of that program agency or council (805.4). The fifteen members thus designated by the five jurisdictions in each general program agency and in the General Council on Ministries shall constitute a committee to nominate additional members for that agency and shall be convened as provided in 806.2.
2. A bishop designated by the president of the Council of Bishops shall convene the committee as soon as practical after jurisdictional elections have been completed. The committee shall consider, but not be limited to, names forwarded to it by the jurisdictions as having been nominated by the annual and missionary conferences in the United States and Puerto Rico to their jurisdictional pool as well as names from caucuses and other appropriate groups. To aid the committee, biographical data submitted by the annual conferences (805.1d) shall be made available from the jurisdictional conference secretaries. In addition, general agencies shall submit to the committee names and biographical data of persons eligible for reelection and who are willing to serve. The provisions of the paragraph shall become effective immediately upon adjournment of the General Conference.
3. The committee shall complete its work prior to the organizational meeting (807) of any of the agencies listed in 803.5 and report by mail to the previously elected members of each of those agencies the names of persons nominated as additional members of that agency. All members shall be elected and seated before an agency proceeds to the election of officers or any other business.
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1992 Book of Discipline: ¶ 806
1996 United Methodist General Conference