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    "speaker_name": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion. THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No. 125, the Senate resolves that the publication period of the following Bills be reduced from 14 days to five days. (i) The County Governments (Amendment) Bill, 2014; (ii) The County Governments (Amendment) Bill 2014; (iii) The Political Parties (Amendment) Bill, 2014; and, (iv) The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2014. This is a Procedural Motion and I do not intend to take a lot of time. I will just paraphrase Standing Order No.125 which says; A Bill, once published should not be introduced until after 14 days except the Division of Revenue Bill and the County Allocation of Revenue Bill which take seven days before they are reintroduced. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the end of Standing Order 125, says in part, “unless a shorter period is provided for by a resolution of the Senate.” The request being made to this Senate is that we reduce the period of publication for the four Bills. This will provide for a shorter period between when they are published and when they are introduced to this House. According to the Standing Orders, there must be a reason why a Bill may not be published for fourteen days or seven days depending on the type of the Bill. Hon. Senators are aware that some of those Bills were published in the last session and lapsed. So, it is assumed that even if we are republishing them afresh, the public interacted with the Bills in the last session. Secondly, there is increased effort, after we resumed, to enact a number of Bills in this Session. Therefore, it is in this context that we want to make sure that we have Bills coming as soon as possible. We are also recognizing that some Bills had been published before in the last Session. Thirdly, the entire legislative process is long enough to allow public participation even after the Bills have been introduced in this House and for those reasons, I urge hon. Senators to allow that the publication period for these Bills be reduced from 14 days to five days for the reasons stated. For those reasons, I beg to move. I would like to request Sen. Boni Khalwale to second the Motion."
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