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    "id": 411433,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "We propose that Standing Order No.141 be amended by inserting the following paragraph: “A Bill that has been published, read a First time or in respect of which the Second Reading has not been concluded at the end of the session in which it was published, shall not lapse at the end of that session, but shall resume in the next session of the same Parliament at the stage where it was last interrupted; (d) At the end of the two consecutive sessions of the same Parliament, shall lapse at the end of the second session and may be republished in the same or different form in accordance with Standing Order No.114.” The understanding here is therefore that within that session, the Bills will not lapse, but if the Bill continues within two consecutive sessions, at the end of it, it will lapse. This is because if we have all Bills within one whole year pending, either it means that the legislation has been overtaken by events or that the Member supporting that legislation may have run out of steam or three, there are some extenuating circumstances that are making that Bill now not palatable. If within one year a Bill has not been processed, then it would mean that there are issues which necessitates its republication for it to be given new life. We are saying that within the session that we are in, the Bill will not lapse, but if after one year a Bill is still pending, it will lapse so that we can decongest the legislative process, the publication and the scrutiny. Therefore, we will have a more and efficient way of enacting Bills in this House. Therefore, I urge that in terms of recommendation two, that this amendment takes effect from 4th December, 2013 and that the addendum be made to the Standing Orders containing that resolution of the House on the amendment. I beg to move and ask my very good friend and my classmate, hon. Cheboi, to second."
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