AMMAN — The
Lower House enacted 34
percent of the bills and amended laws on its agenda during the just adjourned
non-ordinary session, Speaker Abdul Monem Oudat told the press on Monday.
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He said the legislature approved 23
pieces of legislation during 28 meetings dedicated for legislation, out of 67
on its agenda, while during the 20 oversight meetings, 101 queries were debated
under the dome.
The speaker stressed that the
recent session, which was launched at the peak of the second Coronavirus wave,
did not lose quorum in any of its meetings, noting that an average of 90
percent of the House members were present during the sessions.
The
lawmakers presented to special committees four proposed laws, while the MPs
filed 795 queries to the government through the speaker office, of which 584
received replies from the executive power.
The House
committee held 332 meetings during the session and they are still looking into
44 pieces of legislation referred to them by the House.
Prominent
among these is the municipalities
and decentralization bill for the year 2021, over which the Parliamentary Legal
and Administrative Joint Committee on is holding discussions with
civil society institutions and
government actors to listen to their views on the bill, which is part of a
broader reform process.
The joint
committee tasked with discussing the bill is holding the ongoing dialogue in
cooperation with the Al-Hayat Center “Rased,” an NGO that monitors the
performance of the legislature.
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