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    "id": 599008,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kanyua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua",
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    "content": "On the Bills, we have the Parliamentary Service Bill, 2015 which was taken through the First Reading on 29th October 2015. We have advertised the Bill for public participation and the Committee is receiving public comments and memoranda. The Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) (No. 5) Bill, 2015 went through the First Reading on 14th October 2015. It is under consideration and awaiting the 90 days maturity period. We also have the Election Laws (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill, 2015. The First Reading of this Bill was done on 14th October 2015 and it is under consideration by the Committee. We have already started looking at the provisions of the Bill in a clause-by-clause analysis. We have the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Bill of 2015. The First Reading was done on 7th October 2015. It is under consideration. The Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill, 2015 was read the First Time on 30th April 2015. It is awaiting Second Reading. Hon. Speaker, we have the Two-Third Gender Rule Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2015. It went through the First Reading on 30th April 2015. It is also under consideration. We also have the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill (No.4), popularly known as the “Duale Bill”. It was read the First Time on 30th July 2015. It is under consideration. Hon. Speaker, on the Bills relating to the two-thirds gender law matter, the Committee intends to harness all of them and look at all the provisions. We have the Legal Aid Bill of 2015 read the First Time on 28th July 2015. The Report has been tabled. The Bill is ready for the Committee of the whole House stage. We have laws that relate to courts. The first one is the Magistrates Courts Bill of 2015, read the First Time on 18th August 2015. The Report was tabled and the Bill is on today’s Order Paper for the Committee of the whole House. We also have the High Court (Organisation and Administration) Bill of 2015, which was read the First Time on 19th August 2015. The Report was tabled and the Bill is on today’s Order Paper for the Committee of the whole House. Both of these Bills emanate from the Judiciary and we are ready to look at the various amendments that the Committee has proposed. We also have the Small Claims Court Bill of 2015, which was read the First Time on19th August 2015. The report was tabled and the Bill is on today’s Order Paper for the Committee of the whole House. On the last set of the court Bills, we have the Court of Appeal (Organisation and Administration) Bill of 2015, which was read the First Time on 19th August 2015. The report was tabled and the Bill is on today’s Order Paper for the Committee of the whole House. With the completion of the four court Bills, we will move to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendment) Bills. We have received petitions, most of which we have processed and we have communicated to the Members, but we have two pending petitions. One is on the alleged non- refunded cash bail by the Marimanti Law Courts raised by Hon. Beatrice Nkatha from Tharaka- Nithi. This petition is under consideration. We need two weeks to get the views of the Judiciary and conclude the report. On this matter, we also thought that it might not just be the Marimanti Law Court that does not return cash bails. We want to look at the question of whether the Judiciary refunds cash bails as it is, indeed, supposed to under the law. We have a petition from Hon. Rachael Shebesh, the Member of Parliament for Nairobi County on compensation to the victims and survivors of the 7th August 1998 bomb blast in 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."
}