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The Council of Representatives held on 7/5/2013 the twentieth session of the second legislative term for the third year under chairmanship of Osama Al-Nujaifi, the Speaker of Council of Representatives. The session included the following:
- Attendance 174 MPs.
- The Presidency postponed voting on validity of the membership of MP (Thamer Ibrahim Zahir) submitted by the legal committee for non-completion of two thirds of number of MPs.
- Mr. Nujaifi stressed in a response to the request of MP Bahaa Al-Araji, the need to accelerate voting on the law of criminalization of the Ba'ath Party that the draft law has been presented to the committees of security and defense legal, accountability and justice to study it. The law gained approval of the committee of security and defense while the other committees didn't provide their opinion on it.
- The Council voted on the recommendations of the committee of agriculture contained in a statement that was read by the committee regarding the floods and torrents experienced by a number of provinces, including southern region and the legacy of damages to peasants in those areas.
- The Council voted to allocate a billion dinars from the budget of the Council of Representatives to compensate those affected by the floods, in addition to form a fact-finding committee comprising the committees of agriculture and water, health and environment, and finance
- The Council voted on the draft law to amend the law of social care No.(126) of 1980, submitted by the committee of labor and social affairs.
- Voting on the draft law on accession of the Republic of Iraq to the convention of Arab Organization for Communications and Information Technology submitted by the committee of foreign relations.
- The first reading of the draft law to amend the penal code No.(111) of 1969, submitted by the legal committee.
- The first reading of the draft law to amend the criminal procedure No.(23) of 1971.
- The Presidency decided to postpone the first reading of draft law of the first amendment for the law of the Supreme National Commission for Accountability and Justice No.(10) of 2008, and the first reading of the draft law on seizure and confiscation of movable and immovable property belonging to the pillars of the former regime submitted by the committees of legal and accountability and justice to the Thursday's session.
- The second reading of the labor law submitted by the committees of labor and social affairs and the organizations of civil society, which includes 157 items and to be discussed in the next session.
The session was adjourned until Thursday 9/5/2013.
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