The kiosk is where delegates will submit resolutions and amendments, at a laptop at the venue. Nothing reaches the agenda straight away: the House Resolutions Committee reviews every submission first. With an email address and a PIN they choose, delegates can check on their submissions and answer the committee.
What each status means is under The screen, explained.
Once the committee has asked you for a change, answer through the link in its email instead.
The committee still decides. Some meetings take a counter-proposal only in person, at a kiosk station.
Each step of submitting a resolution and an amendment, checking on them, and answering the committee.
Not decided yet. The committee is reviewing it, and the delegate can still edit it.
The committee suggests a change. Its email has a link to accept it or answer with other wording.
The delegate answered with other wording. It is back with the committee.
Accepted by the committee. It waits to be placed on the agenda.
Placed on the meeting’s agenda. It can be called on the floor.
Declined by the committee. It won’t come to the floor.
Submit an Item takes a delegate through three steps. Nothing is sent until the last one, and Back goes to the step before.
The kiosk opens on the meeting’s own page with three choices: Submit an Item, Submit an Amendment and Check Status. Nobody signs in.
The full text of the resolution goes in the Content box, each WHEREAS and BE IT RESOLVED clause on its own line. When a meeting takes more than one kind of item, Item Type comes first.
Moved By and Seconded By take names, and Unit lists the organization’s units. The email address and the four-digit PIN chosen here are what Check Status asks for later. The box at the bottom confirms that the committee reviews every submission before it can reach the agenda.
Review & Submit lists everything entered. Submit asks once more before anything is sent.
Submission Received shows the submission’s confirmation number. Check Status lists submissions by that number, so it is worth writing down.
Submit an Amendment proposes a change to an item already on the agenda. The delegate edits the item’s own words, and the kiosk writes the motion.
Item to Amend lists the items on the agenda. Typing its number, a mover’s name or a few of its words finds it, and its current text appears below.
The item’s text is ready to edit. Changes Preview strikes out what goes and shows what comes in, and Motion Text Preview writes the amendment as it will be moved: here, the deletion of “quarter” and the addition of “fifth”.
Step 3 asks who moves and seconds the amendment, as for a resolution. A delegate who has submitted before uses the same email and enters the same PIN. Step 4 shows it all before Submit Amendment.
A delegate can come back to any station to see where their submissions stand, read the committee’s messages and, while a submission is pending, edit it.
Check Status asks for the email address and PIN used when submitting. There is no password and no account.
Your Submissions lists every submission made with that email for this meeting, with its status. An amendment is named by the item it amends, and a resolution by its opening words.
Submission Details shows the text and any messages from the committee. While the submission is Pending Review, Edit Submission changes its text, and Print directly prints it.
The submission now reads Awaiting Your Response, with the committee’s wording and its message under Messages. The answer goes through the link in the committee’s email, so Edit Submission steps aside until then.
When the House Resolutions Committee would change the wording, it sends the delegate an email with a link to answer. Some meetings take a counter-proposal only in person, at a kiosk station.
Review Suggested Changes shows the committee’s message, then the original submission above the suggested wording. Accept Changes takes the committee’s wording, and Submit Counter-Proposal sends the delegate’s own. The link works once, for seven days.