AACLL LEGISLATION ON BISHOPS AND OTHER ELDERS General Conference 2016  BISHOPS o Term Limits o Equal Treatment across the Church. o Reversion of Membership to the Annual Conference upon Retirement or Expiration of Term. o Remove 3 Term Limit on Episcopal Assignments o Reform Episcopal Complaint Process

AACLL LEGISLATION ON BISHOPS AND OTHER ELDERS General Conference 2016  BISHOPS o Conflict of Interest on Jurisdictional or Central Conference Committee on Episcopacy o Lay Leader in Appointment Making

AACLL LEGISLATION ON BISHOPS AND OTHER ELDERS General Conference 2016  Other Elders o Security of Appointment in the Constitution o Permissiveness in Annual Conference Structures

AACLL LEGISLATION ON BISHOPS AND OTHER ELDERS General Conference 2016  BISHOPS—Term Limits, Equality, Membership o Term Limits—Increased accountability, recognition of realities of career development patterns, allows for changes in circumstances for personnel and the Church, allows for less disruptive correction of errors o Equality—This is a matter of fair treatment o Membership—The active bishops have been asking for this

AACLL LEGISLATION ON BISHOPS AND OTHER ELDERS General Conference 2016  BISHOPS—Term Limits, Equality, Membership o Supported by vote of 29 to 7 (That’s over 4 to 1 in favor) o Debate centered around whether to choose election for 8 years with a possibility of one reelection or election for 12 years with no reelection. AACLL proposes 8 years and one reelection.

AACLL LEGISLATION ON BISHOPS AND OTHER ELDERS General Conference 2016  BISHOPS o Removing the 3 term limit on episcopal assignments returns authority over the issue of how long a bishop ought to preside in an episcopal area to the jurisdictional or central conference where it rightly belongs

AACLL LEGISLATION ON BISHOPS AND OTHER ELDERS General Conference 2016  BISHOPS o Reform of the episcopal complaint process provides that if a college of bishops is unable in a reasonable time to process to completion a complaint against one of its members, the complaint will move to the Council of Bishops