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"content": "executive for Financial Year 2024/2025 as proposed by the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA). During consideration of the Bill, the Committee invited members of the public to submit views on the Bill. Further, the Committee held consultative meetings with key stakeholders and received submissions from the National Treasury and Economic Planning, the Council of Governors (CoG), the CRA), the county assemblies of Embu, Kakamega, Bungoma, Wajir, Nairobi City County, Baringo, Kisumu, Isiolo, Kiambu, Nyeri, Machakos, Nandi, Elgeyo Marakwet, Tana River and Garissa. Mr. Speaker, Sir, having considered the Bill and the submissions from the stakeholders, the Committee made the following observations, including, Financial Year 2024/2025 is the final year of the implementation of the third basis formula as per Article 217(1) of the Constitution. Notably, Parliament is required to approve the fourth basis formula, which will be used to share revenues for Financial Year 2025/2026 to FY2029/2030. The Bill as published, allocated to county governments, Kshs415.9522 billion. However, following the passage of the Division of Revenue Bill by Parliament, the sharable revenue to counties is now Kshs400.1167 billion. The proposed ceilings for the current expenditure of county assemblies indicate that the current expenditure ceilings for some county assemblies are lower than the ceilings approved in the Financial Year 2023/2024. This is due to the adjustment of the ceilings during the approval of the County Allocation of Revenue Bill, 2023 by the inclusion of the Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) car reimbursement and Senate provisions to cater for a one-off expenditure as per the request by respective county assemblies. The Committee recommends that- (a) The Senate approves the Bill with amendments- (i) The First Schedule to the Bill to reflect the allocation to the respective county governments of the total county equitable share of Kshs400,116,788,147. (ii) The Second Schedule to the Bill to reflect the adjusted recurrent expenditure ceilings for certain county assemblies. (b) The CRA should carry out an assessment of the status of the establishment of funds relating to the staff car loan mortgage scheme with a view to ascertaining how many counties have established the fund; whether the respective funds have been operationalized and challenges, if any, faced by the administration of the funds. Based on the findings, the CRA may, if appropriate, factor in the cost of the submission and operationalization of these funds in determining the recurrent expenditure ceilings in the subsequent financial years. Finally, I appreciate the stakeholders who submitted memoranda and appeared before the Committee to present their comments on the County Allocation of Revenue Bill 2024. I thank the offices of the Speaker and the Clerk of the Senate for the support extended to the Committee in undertaking this important assignment. I also take this opportunity to commend Members of the Committee for their devotion and commitment to duty, which made the consideration of the Bill successful. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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