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    "content": "Hon. Members, I am aware that quite a few Bills are, for various reasons, still pending in the Budget and Appropriations Committee and others before Departmental Committees long after they were committed to those Committees, disadvantaging the Members who introduced those legislative proposals. This is a matter we must urgently deal with. Hon. Members, I will now guide on the next process, which is referral of Bills to Committees after First Reading. I know that you are all conversant with Standing Order No.127, which requires a Departmental Committee to which a Bill is committed to facilitate public participation and take into account the views and recommendations of the public when the Committee makes its Report to the House. The Committee or a Member designated by the Committee for that purpose shall be expected to present the Committee’s Report to the House within 20 calendar days of such committal. Upon such presentation, or if the Committee’s Report is not presented when it becomes due, the Bill may then be ordered to be read a Second Time. If for any reason, at the commencement of the Second Reading the Report of the Committee will not have been presented, the Committee concerned will be expected to report progress to the House and failure to present the Report shall be noted by the Liaison Committee for The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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