Consolidated List of Amendments
- Edward Griffiths
Purpose of the list
The Consolidated List of Amendments is produced once all amending stages in the second house are complete. All the agreed amendments from all amending stages in the second house are brought together into a list, and (where necessary) edited and merged so that they refer to the clause, page, and line numbers of the bill as first published by the second house. Proposer and Supporters' names are not included on the Consolidated List of Amendments.
The list is produced by the second house and shared with the first house; the first house then checks and publishes the List.
The purpose of the list is to enable the first house to consider all the changes made to the bill by the second house. If members in the first house disagree with any of those amendments, they can then propose motions to disagree with or amend the second house’s amendments during the Ping Pong stage.
As each phase of Ping Pong proceeds, further Consolidated Lists are produced by each house which do not include any amendments which have already been dealt with (that is, agreed to, agreed to as amended, or not insisted upon by one house after the other house’s disagreement).
Those later iterations of the Consolidated List include further “messages” - i.e. Reasons, insistence, non-insistence, amendments to motions, and amendments in lieu - which appear after each amendment in the Consolidated List. For these “messages” to be included on the Consolidated list they must have been first tabled as Ping Pong motions, debated and agreed to by the relevant house.
Content
The first consolidated list contains all agreed amendments from the second House from all amending stages.
For the amendments to be automatically included on the CLoA generated by Lawmaker, they must be first manually copied to the Ping Pong stage.
Amendments tabled and agreed at second and subsequent amending stages usually require manual editing and merging to ensure they refer to the appropriate location in the bill as first published by the second House.
Subsequent consolidated lists only include amendments that are still subject to debate and amendment during the continuing Ping Pong stage.
Subsequent consolidated lists also include the content of messages sent between the houses describing their disagreements, insistence, non-insistence, proposed amendments in lieu, and amendments to the other house’s amendments.
Ordering
Amendments will be sorted according to the order the amended provisions appear in the bill.
Some manual reordering and editing is usually necessary to merge amendments and place them in the correct order.
Numbering
In the first Consolidated List, after the amendments have been manually edited and reordered, new sequential numbers can be assigned using the Tools > Renumber amendments function.
In subsequent Consolidated Lists, each house may add Reasons, amendments to amendments, and amendments in lieu; these appear after the relevant amendment in the Consolidated List, and they take the number of the relevant amendment plus a letter suffix:
Format
Proposers and supporters' names do not appear on the Consolidated List of Amendments.
There are interstitial headings for the Clause and Schedule numbers.
There is no Order of Consideration.
In Consolidated Lists produced after the first one, interstitial headings describing the nature of each house’s disagreement and their insistence or counter-proposals are added between the relevant amendment and the content of the disagreement, counter-proposal or insistence.