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    "content": "AWARE that, Standing Order No.114 (Introduction of Bills) provides for the procedure for introduction of Bills by Members or Committees; ACKNOWLEDGING that, the said Standing Order also provides that, where a legislative proposal is submitted to the Speaker, and where the Speaker is of the opinion that the legislative proposal is not a draft money Bill in terms of Article 114 of the Constitution, the Speaker shall: (i) direct that the proposal be referred to the relevant Departmental Committee for pre-publication scrutiny in case of a legislative proposal not sponsored by a Committee; or (ii) direct that the proposal be published into a Bill, in case of a legislative proposal sponsored by a Committee. COGNISANT of the provisions of Standing Order 114(3)(b) which require the Speaker to refer a legislative proposal with money-bill aspects to the Budget and Appropriations Committee for consideration; RECOGNISING that, following the recommendation of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, the Speaker ordinarily refers legislative proposals originating from individual Members to the relevant Departmental Committees for pre-publication scrutiny, and that the Departmental Committees should consider the proposals within twenty-one (21) days and recommend whether or not the proposals should be proceeded with; NOTING that, since the commencement of the Twelfth Parliament, more than eighty (80) legislative proposals have been drafted and submitted to the Speaker upon which, thirty (30) have been cleared with respect to money-bill aspects and their progress has been stifled by the inordinate delay in the relevant Departmental Committees; NOW THEREFORE, this House orders that the thirty (30) legislative proposals contained in the Schedule, whose money-bill aspects have since been cleared, and were pending before the relevant Departmental Committees by the end of the Second Session be published into Bills in accordance with the provisions of Standing Order 120 (Publication of Bills) and, thereafter be referred to the relevant Departmental Committees in accordance with the provisions of Standing Order 127 (Committal of Bills to Committees and public participation) upon being read a First Time."
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