On (1/13/2020), the House of Representatives held its thirty-fourth session of the first legislative term for the third year, the fourth electoral cycle headed by Mr. Hassan Al-Kaabi and in the presence of (169) deputies, and the session included:
- Mr. Muhammad Ibrahim Ali Issa was sworn in as a substitute for the late Representative Hanin al-Qaddo.
- Mr. Al-Kaabi’s request to hold an urgent meeting for the Presidency of the Council of Representatives to discuss the problem of absenteeism of parliament members from its sessions and to take legal measures against them, including deducting their financial dues.
Voting on the national sports federations law proposed by the Youth and Sports Committee
- Voting on the draft law on joining the Republic of Iraq to the amendment of the Basel Convention on Controlling the Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and its Disposal submitted by the Foreign Relations Committee
- The Council postponed the vote on the draft law on the accession of the Republic of Iraq to the Convention on the Recognition and Implementation of Foreign Arbitration Decisions (New York 1958) submitted by the Foreign Relations and Legal Committees.
- Postponing the vote on the draft law ratifying the double taxation agreement and financial evasion with regard to income and capital taxes between the government of the Republic of Iraq and the government of the State of Kuwait submitted by the Foreign Relations Committee.
Dr. Bashir Al-Haddad, Vice President, chaired part of the session
- The second reading of the draft law amending the law on the accession of the Republic of Iraq to the International Convention on Road Traffic for the year 1968 and the European Agreement supplementing it for the year 2006 No. 30 of 2015 submitted by the Committees on Relations, Foreign Affairs, Services and Reconstruction.
- The second reading of the draft law on the accession of the Republic of Iraq to the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Existing on the Continental Shelf for the year 1988 submitted by the Committees on External Relations, Security, Defense, Agriculture, Water and the Marshlands
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