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> _ G ter- G 4,467 r h4 J January 5, 1989 �N\ V Sup. Shary K. Bisgard, Chairperson Dane County Agriculture, Environment & Land Records Committee 118 City-County Bldg 210 Martin Luther King, Jr . , Blvd. Madison, WI 53709 Dear Supervisor Bisgard: You ask how a motion to reconsider is handled in committee. In assemblies, Robert ' s Rules of Order ( 1981 ed. ) provides, in part, that a motion to reconsider (a) must be made by someone who was on the prevailing side of the motion to be reconsidered, (b) must be made at the same meeting where the underlying motion is acted on, (c) requires only a majority vote for passage regardless of the vote required for the underlying motion and (d) once made and lost, the motion to reconsider cannot be renewed. Robert ' s Rules of Order ( 1981 ed. ) , pages 265-70 . In standing committees, however , the important differences are (1 ) the motion to reconsider requires a two-thirds vote for passage unless all persons who voted with the prevailing side on the underlying motion are present or have been given notice that the motion to reconsider will be moved, ( 2) the motion to reconsider can be made any number of times and ( 3) any member who was not on the losing side of the vote on the underlying motion can make the motion to reconsider . Robert ' s Rules of Order ( 1981 ed. ) , pages 278-79 . In addition, since there is no equivalent of County Board Rule 8. 02 which is applicable to standing committees, the motion to reconsider can be made any time, without regard to the lapse of time since the underlying motion was first considered, as provided for by Robert ' s Rules of Order ( 1981 ed. ) , pages 278-79 . The provision that, in a standing committee, any member who was not on the losing side of the vote on the underlying motion can make the motion to reconsider must not be read to mean that