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    "content": "county assemblies. Currently, if you went to county assemblies, you will find Finance Bills that have been enacted and sometimes it takes a whole six months before some of these Bills are processed. You have county assemblies passing the Bursary Bill into an Act. This takes a whole one year or so before the County Executive Committee Members (CECs) in charge of education are able to generate regulations. Sometimes they pass Acts of the county assembly establishing the Youth and Enterprise funds within the county assemblies. Because of the slow pace of developing and scrutinizing these regulations by the county assemblies and the CECs, a county like ours has passed the Education Bill into law. However, there are no regulations so they are not able to disburse the bursaries to the needy students. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this law will help fast-track that process, clear up and ensure there is clarity in terms of procedure. I hope our county assemblies - especially our counterpart committee, the Delegated Legislation Committee in the counties - will fast- track the passage of the scrutiny of these regulations because the procedure is now clearly captured within the Act of Parliament. I want to thank the various county assemblies whom we invited to give views on this Bill. This is really a Bill that has been conceptualized through a consultative process. We hope that we can fast-track this as a House so that in not so long a time, we are able to give our county assemblies the opportunity to fast-track the process of scrutinizing regulations pursuant to the various Acts of Parliament that they have passed in their counties. I do not want to take much more time. I wish to ask Sen. Karaba to second."
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