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9-20 To Amend Bylaw 3.1.2 (a) to Change Size
Requirements for Electoral Circuits .....................477
9-21 To Amend Bylaw Subsection 3.12.2 to Restore
Presidential Election to Convention .....................477
9-22 To Amend Bylaw Subsection 3.12.2 to Restore
Presidential Election to Convention .....................479
9-23 To Affirm Regional Selection
of Board Members ...............................................480
9-24 To Create Task Force to Develop Overture for
Change in Regional Vice-President Selection .....480
9-25 To Amend Bylaws to Allow Regional
Delegates to Select Regional Vice-Presidents .....481
9-26 To Develop Overture for Change in Regional
Vice-President Selection ......................................481
9-27 To Appoint Task Force to Improve District
Representation on Synod Boards, Boards of Regents, and Commissions ..............................482
9-28 To Amend Bylaw 3.2.4.1 to Limit Terms
of Office for President, First Vice-President, Regional Vice-Presidents, and Secretary .............483
9-29 To Amend Bylaw 3.2.4.1 to Establish Term
Limits for Elected Synod Officers .......................483
9-30 To Amend Bylaw 3.2.4 to Establish Term Limits
for Synod President and Vice-Presidents .............484
9-31 To Give Commissioned Ministers the
Franchise and To Study Equal Lay and Clergy Representation on Boards and Other Bodies .......484
9-32 To Amend Constitution Article XII 10 a
to Provide Option of Appointing Ordained or Commissioned Minister as District Convention Rostered Voting Delegate ................484
9-33 To Amend Bylaw 3.1.2 to Expand the Number
of Circuit Delegates to Synod Conventions and to Include Ministers of Religion— Commissioned ......................................................485
9-34 To Strengthen Convention Participation
of Ministers of Religion—Commissioned ...........485
9-35 To Strengthen Nonvoting Advisory Role
of Commissioned Ministers at Synod Conventions .........................................................486
9-36 To Amend Bylaws to Eliminate Ability
of Circuit Forum to Submit Overtures .................486
9-37 To Amend Bylaw 3.1.6.2 to Allow Pastoral
Circuit Meetings and Teacher Groups to Submit Overtures .............................................487
9-38 To Amend the Bylaws to Require Sixty-Percent
Affirmative Vote for All Non-Election Matters .................................................................487
9-39 To Bring Resolutions with Strong District
Support to Convention Floor ................................488
9-40 To Create Process for Initiatives and
Referenda .............................................................488
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9-41 To Provide Clarity about Amendments
to Resolutions .......................................................488
9-42 To Change to Four-Year Convention Cycle ........488
9-43 To Amend Const. Art. VIII A 1 to Change
to Four-Year Convention Cycle ...........................489
9-44 To Amend Bylaw 4.2.2 to Grant Lay Vote
to Every Congregation at District Conventions ...489
9-45 To Permit Majority Voting in Electronic
Decisions for Synod Boards and Agencies ..........489
9-46 To Amend Bylaw 3.6.1.8 (c) to Clarify That
Two-Thirds Synod Member Approval Requirement for Synodwide Corporate Entity Governing Document Amendments Is Based on Members Actually Present at Meeting ............490
9-47 To Amend Bylaw 3.6.4.3 to Clarify That All
Lutheran Church Extension Fund Voting Directors are Elected and To Add That No More Than Two Such Directors Can Be from the Same District .........................................490
9-48 To Affirm and Use Biblical Terminology
concerning Ministry .............................................491
9-49 To Clarify Multipoint
and Multicampus Parish ...................................................................494
9-50 To Adopt Dual Title of Bishop and President
for District Presidents ...........................................494
9-51 To Authorize Title Bishop
for Synod President and District Presidents .........................................495
9-52 To Declare Commission on Constitutional Matters
Unconstitutional and Void All Its Opinions ........495 10. Ecclesiastical Supervision and Dispute Resolution
Reports
R1, R2, R3–R4.1, R9, R21–R55, R61, R62.12
Overtures
10-01 To Encourage Visitation by Synod
and District ...........................................................497
10-02 To Develop Guidelines for Ecclesiastical
Supervision of Internet Accusations ....................499
10-03 To Address Use of Named or Anonymous
Social Media Accounts to Create Strife and Division within the Church ...........................501
10-04 To Request Theological and Pastoral Statement
and Bylaw Review regarding Social Media, Partisan Media, and Eighth Commandment in Ecclesiastical Proceedings ...............................502
10-05 To Uphold Eighth Commandment in Digital
Communication and Ecclesiastical Proceedings ..........................................................502 2026 Convention Workbook
