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Resolution 2022 Resolution to Amend Canon XX of the Canons of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida Offered by Diocesan Council, voting on the 20th day of August, 2022.

RESOLVED, by the 54th Annual Conventionof the Diocese of Southwest Florida meetingat Punta Gordaonthe 15th dayof October, 2022:

That Canon XXis renumbered as Canon XIX, Ecclesiastical Discipline, subparagraph 2.e, of the Canonsofthe Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida beamended as follows:

(ii) All vacancies shall be filled as follows:

a. Upon the determination that a vacancy exists, the President of the Board shall notify the Bishop, the members of the Standing Committee and the other members of the Board of the vacancy.

b. The President of the Board shall appoint a replacement Board member after consultation with the other members of the Board and with the members of the Standing Committee. In the event the President of the Board is unavailable, incapacitated, or disqualified. the Bishop Diocesan shall appoint a replacement Board member of the same order as the replaced President.

c. Persons appointed to fill vacancies on the Board shall be of the same order in which the vacancy has occurred and shall meet the same eligibility requirements as apply to elected Board members.

d. With respect to a vacancy created for any reason other than pursuant to a challenge which arises under the process set out in Section 2.f. of this Canon, the term of any person selected as a replacement Board member shall be until the next annual Convention. With respect to a vacancy resulting from a challenge, the replacement Board member shall serve only for the proceedings for which the elected Board member is not serving as a result of the challenge.

g. President. Within two (2) months following each annual Diocesan Convention, the members of the Board shall elect from among themselves, by majority vote, one (1) person to serve as President for a one (1) year term. In the absence of an elected President, or if the Board is advised by the elected President, or the President's personal representative that the President shall be unavailable, or incapacitated during a time that the Board must act, or if the elected President is disqualified in a particular case, the remaining members of the Board shall elect a President pro tempore, who shall serve until the elected President is no longer unavailable, incapacitated or disqualified. In the event the President is pennanently unavailable, incapacitated or disqualified, the Bishop Diocesan shall appoint a member of

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Resolution 2022 Resolution to Delete Canon XIX of the Canons of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida Offered by Diocesan Council, voting on the 20th day of August, 2022.

RESOLVED, by the 54th Annual Convention of the Diocese of Southwest Florida meeting at Punta Gorda on the 15th day of October, 2022 That Canon XIXof the Canons of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida, Inc. be deleted, in its entirety, as follows: Seetion 1. Establishment. TheDiocesan ReviewCommittee in and for the Diocese of 8outhv,'est Florida shall perform the duties and responsibilities specified for such committees by the Canons governing ecclesiastical discipline adopted by the General

Convention of the Episcopal Church, as from time to time amended, which are incorporated by references, and all proceedings of the Diocesan Reviev,r Committee shall be undertaken in conformity 1.vith those Canons. Seetion 2. Members. Members of the Diocesan Reviev,' Committee shall be elected at the annual meeting of the Convention. The Committee shall consist of tv,ro (2) clergy

Members of Convention, 1.vho are presbyters, one ( l) clergy Member of Convention who is a deacon, and two (2) electors of Congregations. All terms shall be three years and staggered among the orders as equally as possible. No member shall serve more than two (2)consecutive terms. Neither a current member of the Ecclesiastical Trial Court, nor a current member of the Standing Committee, shall be eligible for membership on the

Diocesan Reviev,r Committee. Seetion 3. President. The Committee shall elect a President from among any of its members to serve a one (1) year term, which is renev,rable. The election shall be held 1.vithin tv,ro (2) months after the annual meeting of the Convention. Seetion 4. Challenges. In any particular ease, any member of the Committee may be challenged for cause, either by the Church Attorney or by a Respondent. The members of the Committee 1.vho are not challenged for cause shall determine the relevance and validity of such challenges, and their determination shall be final and non appealable. If the challenge is granted, or if a member of the Committee voluntarily asks to be excused from consideration of a particular ease, Diocesan Council shall name a person from the same order to fill the vacancy for the consideration of that ease only. Seetion 5. Vaeaneies. If a person permanently resigns from the Committee, the Diocesan

Council shall name a qualified person from the same order to fill the vacancy until the next annual meeting of the Convention, when an election shall be held to fill the unexpired terms.

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