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    "id": 1379246,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "12 of 2022) with amendments. The Bill, which was published vide Kenya Gazette Supplement No. 205 of 30th December 2022, seeks to provide for a framework for agricultural and livestock extension services and to establish the Agricultural and Extension Service. Hon. Members, in the Fourth Message, the Senate conveys that on Wednesday, 21st February 2024, it considered and passed the Mung Beans Bill (Senate Bill No. 13 of 2022) with amendments. The Bill was published vide Kenya Gazette Supplement No. 206 of 30th December 2022 to provide for the development, regulation and promotion of the mung beans sector. Hon. Members, the Fifth Message conveys that on Wednesday, 21st February 2024, the Senate considered and passed the Start-Up Bill (Senate Bill No. 14 of 2022) with amendments. The Bill was published vide Kenya Gazette Supplement No. 207 of 30th December 2022. The Bill seeks to provide a framework to encourage growth and sustainable technological development, new entrepreneurship employment and to create a more favourable environment for innovation to attract Kenyan talents and capital. The Sixth Message conveys that on Wednesday, 21st February 2024, the Senate considered and passed the Persons with Disabilities Bill (Senate Bill No. 7 of 2023) with amendments. The said Bill was published vide Kenya Gazette Supplement No. 16 of 20th February 2023, and seeks to provide for the institutional framework for protecting, promoting, and monitoring the rights of persons with disabilities, and to provide incentives and reliefs to give effect to Article 54 of the Constitution. The Seventh Message conveys that on Wednesday, 21st February 2024, the Senate considered and passed the Kenyan Sign Language Bill (Senate Bill No. 9 of 2023) with amendments. The Bill, which was published vide Kenya Gazette Supplement No. 21 of 28th February 2023, seeks to give effect to Article 7(3) (b) of the Constitution relating to the promotion and development of the use of Kenyan Sign Language, to provide for the inclusion of sign language in education curriculum, and to provide for the use of sign language in legal proceedings. Having passed the Seven Bills, the Senate now seeks concurrence of the National Assembly pursuant to the provisions of Article 110(4) of the Constitution and Standing Orders 46(1) and 161 of the Senate Standing Orders."
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