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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Those Hon. Members who are making your way in, please, take your seats. Those of you are desirous to sit, take your seats. I think the two Members for Suba do not like sitting together. Member for Makueni, relax, I can see you are excited. Hon. Members, I wish to take this opportunity to welcome you all to this august House as we commence the Third Session of the 12th Parliament. It is my hope that you had a happy and restful recess and that you are now fully rejuvenated and ready for the heavy legislative agenda that lies ahead of you this Session. As we commence the Session, I wish to bring to the attention of the House that, going by our practices and the Standing Orders, certain business that was not concluded at the end last Session has now lapsed. This includes Bills published in the First Session (2017), but whose Second Reading had not been concluded at the end of the last Session of this Parliament, save for a Bill to amend the Constitution or a Bill originating from the Senate. The same applies to all Motions, all Petitions that have not exceeded the 60 days consideration limit and all Questions. To this end, any Committee or individual Member who wishes to re-introduce such business is advised to do so following the usual procedure. In addition, respective Committees are requested to write to the individual Petitioners indicating the status of the lapsed Petitions. Hon. Members, I wish to also draw the attention of the House to the fact that the term of Sessional Committees has come to an end and, therefore, they will be reconstituted afresh. These include; the Committee on Powers and Privileges and Committee on Members’ Services and Facilities. The Committee on Selection is thus required to expedite the process of nominating Members to serve in the said Committees. As you are aware, the process of installation of the paperless solution in the National Assembly Chamber which has been ongoing has since been concluded and is now ready to be rolled out. The process is aimed at, among other things, enabling the House to fully embrace the e-Parliament initiative. The said installation will ease access to parliamentary papers, documents The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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