Petition Text: 20647-GJ-2204.1-D

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Amend ¶2204:

1. [Second sentence] Each The jurisdictions shall elect six twenty persons for membership on a ratio providing for an equitable distribution among the various jurisdictions, based on the combined clergy and laity memberships thereof as determined by the secretary of the General Conference, provided that no jurisdiction shall be represented by fewer than two members. It is recommended that at least half of the six there members elected by each jurisdiction be women two laywomen, two laymen, one clergywoman, and one clergyman. Of the persons elected by each Jurisdictional Conference, at least one should be from a racial and ethnic group and at least one shall be under thirty-one years of age at the time of election.

2. [Delete.]

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Petition Text: 20647-GJ-2204.1-D
1996 United Methodist General Conference