| Resolution Number: | 1997-A067 |
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| Title: | Request CPF to Study Pension Issues for Missionaries from Overseas |
| Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred As Substituted and Amended |
| Final Text: | |
Resolved, That this 72nd General Convention request the Church Pension Fund to study pension needs of the clergy who are recruited from overseas for missionary purposes in the United States of America; and be it further
Resolved, That the 72nd General Convention request the Church Pension Fund to continue to explore reciprocal agreements among retirement funds in other branches of the Anglican Communion.
| Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, 1997 (New York: General Convention, 1998), p. 622. |
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Legislative History
| Author: | The Standing Commission on Human Affairs |
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| Originating House: | House of Bishops |
| Originating Committee: | Committee on Church Pension Fund |
House of Bishops
Original Text of Resolution:
(A067)
Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That this 72nd General Convention request the Church Pension Fund to develop a domestic missionary strategy to ensure that clergy recruited from elsewhere to do ministry here have pensions adequate for them to live in the United States after retirement; and be it further
Resolved, That this 72nd General Convention direct the Church Pension Fund to explore reciprocal agreements among retirement funds in other branches of the Anglican Commission.
Proposed Committee Substitute:
Resolved, the House of Deputies concurring, That this 72nd General Convention request the Church Pension Fund to study pension needs of the clergy who are recruited from overseas for missionary purposes in the United States of America, and be it further
Resolved, that this 72nd General Convention request the Church Pension Fund continue to explore reciprocal agreements among retirement funds in other branches of the Anglican Communion.
Motion carried
Substitute resolution adopted
(Communicated to the House of Deputies in HB Message #94)
House of Deputies
The Committee on Church Pension Fund presented its Report #15 on HB Message #94 on Resolution A067s (Non-United States Clergy Pension Strategy), moved the resolution, and recommended concurrence.
Motion carried
The House concurred
(Communicated to the House of Bishops as HD Message #167)
Resolution Concurred by Both Houses, July 21.
| Report Reference: | Standing Commission on Human Affairs, Reports to the 72nd General Convention, 1997, pp. 212-242. |
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| Abstract: | The 72nd General Convention requests the Church Pension Fund to study pension issues for overseas missionaries. |