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"content": "(Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki): Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to give the statement on the business of the Senate for the week commencing Tuesday, 28th February, 2017, pursuant to Standing Order No.45. Hon. Senators, we are running against time to complete the pending businesses. Therefore, for next week, we have a number of legislation and Motions that we need to dispense with. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on Tuesday, the Senate Business Committee (SBC) will meet at 12.30p.m. That is the meeting that will schedule the business for next week which will include all the items in today’s Order Paper that have not been exhausted. The same will apply on Wednesday 1st March, 2017 and Thursday, 2nd March, 2017. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, allow me to highlight some of the Bills that are expected to feature in next week’s sittings. The first one is the Division of Revenue Bill (National Assembly No.2 of 2017) which debate on Second Reading has just been concluded. We hope we will do Division on the Division of Revenue Bill (National Assembly Bill No.2 of 2017). That is important. I hope we can also do Committee of the Whole for that Bill next week so that we get into the next important Bill which is the County Allocation of Revenue Bill. We also have the Intergovernmental Relations (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bill No.36 of 2014) which has been before us for a while. It will be scheduled for Second Reading. The other Bills, all of which are in the Committee of the Whole Stage include the Physical Planning Bill (National Assembly Bill No.46 of 2015) which is one of the Bills that was supposed to be passed by 27th August, 2016 in accordance with the Constitution but has not been passed to date. We shall also debate and vote at the Committee Stage on the Impeachment Procedure Bill (Senate Bill No.8 of 2016), the Assumption of Office of the Governor Bill (Senate Bill No.10 of 2016), the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Bill (National Assembly Bill No.35 of 2014) and the County Governments (Amendment) (No.2) Bill (Senate Bill No.7 of 2016).Of course, any other business that will be scheduled by the SBC will also appear on the Order Paper. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, finally, this House yesterday passed the Calendar for this term. It relates to this Session running from 14th February, 2017 to 17th June, 2017. However, a close scrutiny of the Calendar that was passed by the House yesterday will reveal that we have very few sitting days. We are actually talking about ten or so days left to conclude our Sitting, because of recesses. For example, that Calendar as approved yesterday, proposes a three weeks recess from next Thursday. That means that we have three sitting days next week. After the three weeks recess we will come back for another two weeks and proceed on another long recess of about seven weeks. Partly, the House in its wisdom saw that, that the period around April and May will be interfered with because of party primaries, nominations and all things that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has put under the law on all people aspiring to vie in the August General Elections. After that break, we will come back for about one week in June. If you count, essentially it is like a maximum of three weeks of actual sitting. I am bringing this out just to remind my colleagues that we have very little time to do a lot of pending and important business. I hope that we will find time to multitask between our responsibilities The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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