Which motion relieves a committee from further consideration of the task assigned to it?

• A. Division of the Assembly
• B. Discharge a Committee
• C. Dispense With the Reading of the Minutes
• D. entertain a motion

Answer: (B)

Discharging a Committee is the mechanism for ending a committee’s consideration of a matter and returning that matter to the full assembly for action. When a committee has been assigned a task, its purpose is to study and report on it; moving to discharge relieves the committee of that charge so the assembly can proceed without the committee’s report or even without a report at all. This is used when members want to act on the issue now, despite the committee’s involvement, or when the committee has not completed its work. The other options don’t accomplish that: division of the assembly affects vote counting, dispensing with the reading of the minutes speeds up proceedings but doesn’t affect the committee’s task, and entertaining a motion is simply initiating business and doesn’t release the committee.