General Assembly Committees List
Resources for legislating with committees
This wiki, maintained by Sanctaria, has another list of committees and more information on some of them. It deals with the WA and its committees from an IC perspective. As of 14.1.22 it is not a complete list as it excludes committees in repealed resolutions. Nevertheless it may include some things we have missed or vice versa.
Sciongrad's old thread has an excellent introduction on committees.
Committees: Every proposal must affect member states in some fashion. A committee may be the primary agent of that effect, but forming it may not be the proposal's only action. Requiring member states to interact with the committee somehow is sufficient, provided the interaction creates a measurable burden - one more strenuous than simply filing paperwork.The updated "Committees" rule, from the GA Proposal Compendium: Rules and General Advice
- A proposal cannot define: who can/cannot staff the committee, how members are chosen, and term lengths
- A committee continues to exist after its resolution is repealed if it's used in another resolution
- A single-use committee that died when its resolution was repealed may be revived for a relevant new proposal
WA committees & agencies are all automatically presumed to be honest, impartial, and efficient, so that proposals including them don’t need to use up part of the limited length available setting up ways to make them work properly. (This also means that Repeal attempts can’t legally suggest potential problems with a WA committee or agency’s actions as an argument for getting rid of the resolution which introduced that committee or agency…) You can assign new duties to an existing WA committee or agency, which would then remain in existence to carry out those new duties (despite losing its original role) if the resolution that established it gets repealed. They can interpret policy but can’t really be assigned to make it, because (apart from anything else) as no players are actually involved in running those bodies no players would have any genuine way of knowing what their decisions actually were…
Bears Armed's beginners' guide to writing proposals
About this thread
This thread lists all WA committees in both active and repealed resolutions. Every instance where a committee has been mentioned in a resolution (including in repealed resolutions, hopefully) is also noted. We have tried to include "databases" where they have been created by a "CREATES" clause or something similar, but not when a committee is tasked to create a database.
If you find any errors or have any suggestions, please send me (The Ice States) a telegram. There are almost certainly omissions (esp. of references) and other mistakes here.
The list is maintained using this code (Python scripts and an SQLite database). You're free to take a look or use it under its GNU GPL v3 licence if it is useful to you. Change log. Credit goes to Merni for creating this thread and maintaining it from Mar. 2018 - Apr. 2024!
Sciongrad's old committee list: 1 | 2. Nothing was taken directly from these.
