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Working Papers & Resolutions — Basics

If your committee has the resolutions feature enabled, you'll see a Resolutions card on your dashboard linking to your committee's papers. This section covers the lifecycle and how papers are organized; see Writing & Editing Resolutions for how to actually draft one.

The lifecycle​

A paper moves through these stages, in order:

  1. Working Paper — a draft, editable only by its creator and anyone they've added as a co-editor.
  2. Submitted — locked from further editing and visible to the whole committee; other delegates can now sponsor it.
  3. Draft Resolution — promoted by the chair once ready to be formally worked on as a resolution, gets a document number.
  4. Amendment Phase — the chair opens this phase so delegates can propose and sponsor amendments clause by clause.
  5. Voting — each operative clause is voted on individually.
  6. Final — the finished resolution; never editable again, whatever the outcome.

Phase changes (submitting, entering the amendment phase, entering voting) are chair actions — you'll simply see the paper move to its next stage on its own.

Finding papers​

Your committee's papers list is split into three sections:

  • My Papers — working papers you created or are a co-editor on.
  • Submitted Papers — papers the whole committee can see, each showing how many sponsors it has.
  • Draft Resolutions — papers that have advanced to draft-resolution status or beyond, shown with their document number.

Click into any paper to read it; whether you can edit it depends on its current stage and your relationship to it (creator, co-editor, or just a reader).

A committee's papers list, split into My Papers, Submitted Papers, and Draft Resolutions, with sponsor counts and status badges

Next steps​