The General Assembly (GA) is the annual business meeting of the denomination.

The Delegates to the 2021 General Assembly adopted the Statement of Conscience: Undoing Systemic White Supremacy (PDF) and affirmed three Actions of Immediate Witness and two Responsive Resolutions.

Some but not all of the Annual Reports to the 2021 General Assembly are presented during General Sessions.

General Sessions

Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Co-Moderators Rev. Meg Riley and Charles Du Mond preside over the general sessions in which the business of the Association is conducted.​ Read the Guide to General Assembly Business for more information.

The business to be transacted is set forth in the official business agenda.

Video, transcripts, and additional information is available on the page for each session.

• General Session I
  • Voting Process Review and Practice Vote
  • Review and Adopt the Rule of Procedure
  • Introduction: Youth & Young Adult Leadership
  • Introduction: Systemic Justice Team
  • Introduction: Chaplains
  • Introduction: Conflict & Covenant Team
  • Introduction: Accessibility & Inclusion Team
• General Session II
  • Update from the GA Care Teams (Systemic Justice, Conflict & Covenant, Accessibility & Inclusion, and Chaplain Teams)
  • Preliminary Credentials Report
  • President’s Report
  • Widening the Circle of Concern Annual Update
  • Board Report
  • Financial Advisor’s Report
  • Co-Moderators’ Report
  • Commission on Social Witness Report and Announce Actions of Immediate Witness Prioritization Poll is Open
  • Article II Study Commission
• General Session III
  • Update From the GA Care Teams (Systemic Justice, Conflict & Covenant, Accessibility & Inclusion, and Chaplain Teams)
  • Award for Distinguished Service to the Cause of Unitarian Universalism I
  • President’s Award for Volunteer Service
  • Award for Distinguished Service to the Cause of Unitarian Universalism Ii
  • Rules Review
  • Voting Process Review
  • Discuss and Vote on 2021 Proposed Bylaw Amendments and Unincorporated Amendments (PDF) (page numbers refer to the 2021 Program Book (PDF, 108 pages)):
    • On the Consent Agenda:
      • Adopted: Bylaw Amendment #4: Timeline for President-Elect to Take Office (p 99-100)
      • Adopted: Bylaw Amendment #6: Religious Education Credentialing Levels (p 100-101)
    • Adopted: Bylaw Amendment #1: Timeline for Submitting Actions of Immediate Witness (p 97)
  • Announce Statement of Conscience Poll
  • Discuss and Vote on Proposed Bylaw Amendments
• General Session IV
  • Update from the GA Care Teams (Systemic Justice, Conflict & Covenant, Accessibility & Inclusion, and Chaplain Teams)
  • Announcement of the Election Results
    • Elected to Board of Trustees #3: Rev. Elizabeth Mount
    • Elected to Board of Trustees #6: JeKaren Olaoya
    • Elected to Board of Trustees #8: Rev. Sam Trumbore
    • Elected to Commission on Appraisal: Adrian Graham
    • Elected to Financial Advisor: Lucia Santini Field
    • Elected to General Assembly Planning Committee: Chelsea Surfus
    • Elected to Nominating Committee: Tim Atkins, Rev. Danielle Di Bona, cristy cardinal
  • Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Report
  • Unitarian Universalist Women’s Federation Report
  • Rules Review
  • Voting Process Review
  • Continued Discussion and Voting on the 2021 Proposed Bylaw Amendments and Unincorporated Amendments (PDF) (page numbers refer to the 2021 Program Book (PDF, 108 pages)):
    • Adopted: Bylaw Amendment #2: Timelines for Campaigns for Moderator and President [with 1 Incorporated Amendment (PDF)] (p 97-98)
    • Adopted: Bylaw Amendment #5: GA Registration Requirements (p 100)
    • Not adopted: Bylaw Amendment #3: Presidential Search Committee Nominations (p 99)
  • Discuss and Vote on proposed Actions of Immediate Witness:
    • Affirmed: Defend and Advocate with Transgender, Nonbinary, and Intersex Communities (PDF)
    • Affirmed: The COVID-19 Pandemic: Justice. Healing. Courage. (PDF)
    • Affirmed: Stop Voter Suppression and Partner for Voting Rights and a Multiracial Democracy (PDF)
  • Special Collection: Side with Love
• General Session V
  • Beacon Press Report
  • Final Report from the GA Care Teams
  • Discussion and Vote on Proposed Responsive Resolutions
    • Adopted: Include Systemic Anti-Racism in Principles (PDF)
    • Adopted: Creating a More Just Future Through Divesting from Pipelines and Investing in Young People (PDF)
  • Discuss and vote on Statement of Conscience (SOC)
    • Adopted: Undoing Systemic White Supremacy: A Call to Prophetic Action (PDF)
  • Installation of the Newly Elected Leaders
  • Invitation to GA 2022
  • Recognition of All Who Made GA Possible
  • Final Credentials Report

Candidates Forum

• Candidates Forum and Information Session
  The UUA Nominating Committee explains its processes and introduces its members and its candidates for the Board of Trustees and elected Committees. The second part of the program features a discussion between the two candidates for the contested Board of Trustees seat, moderated by the Election Campaign Practices Committee, and Q&A.