A two-thirds majority is required to hold a referendum, but even opponents to disaffiliation believe the JCRs will pass the motion.
In either case, Mr. Onorato said, the matter is moot because the board apparently did not have enough votes to pass the motion.
Labor still faces a battle to persuade enough crossbench senators to pass the motion, but many are yet to lock in their positions.
Councillor David Buxton of Epsom and Ewell, who is deaf and spoke through a signer, said he would expect everyone there to pass the motion.
The NUS's failure to pass the motion condemning Isis was splashed across the national media, with the Sun leading on the headline "Looniversity".
Of the 36 clubs in Germany's top two divisions, only 12 voted for technology, thereby wildly falling short of the required two thirds majority needed to pass the motion.
Sixty senators would be needed bring debate to a close and pass the motion of disapproval in the first place, so if 41 Democrats come out in favour, the president will not have to use the veto at all.
"While the three board members who were plaintiffs were correct in abstaining to avoid the appearance of impropriety or conflict of interest," Mr. Onorato said, "it does not appear that the necessary majority of the members present voted to pass the motion".
Just 119 lawmakers in the 221-member legislature voted for the measure -- more than half but well below the two-thirds majority, or 148 votes, needed to pass the motion and put the recall question to the electorate in a referendum.
Only a simple majority was needed to pass the motion at the synod's meeting in York, but any final vote on moves to introduce female bishops will require the usual two-thirds majority in each of the synod's three houses: bishops, clergy and laity.
