PNC 07/12/2026

PNC Meeting Minutes: July 12th, 2026

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Pirate National Committee — All national committees

The July 12th 2026 PNC Meeting was one of the weekly meetings of the Pirate National Committee (PNC).

Agenda

Reminders

• August 2nd was set as a deadline for Texas being potentially having status changed again.
• A deadline of August 9th was set for submitting a location for the 2027 conference with a subsequent September 6th deadline for the PNC to decide a location.

Discussion

Old Business

Recommendation from June 18th Adhoc on election-related bylaws changes

• Strike Article IV section 3, subsection 1, items 1 & 2.
• Replace Article IV section 3, subsection 3, item 1 with. " 3. Officers shall be elected via one of the following methods via silent ballot as selected by the PNC: Instant-runoff, Runoff, Ranked pairs, Schulze, Borda, Approval, Score, or STAR."

Bylaws changes relating to conference location selection

• Discussion on adding a procedure to the bylaws for conference location selection was tabled to the next meeting.

New Business

Platform Committee

• At the June 30th platform committee meeting, it was moved to append end prison slavery and abolish cash bail to the bulleted list of policies in the police reform plank.
• At the July 7th platform committee meeting, changes to the copyright plank were moved to PNC. Specifically, the recommended term of copyright was changed from 5 years digital/14 years physical to two terms of 14 years.

Minutes

Attending State Representatives

• State - Name, Title

Attending Non-Voting

• Name - State, Title

Meeting Recording

tbd