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    "id": 965313,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move: THAT, The Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Bill (National Assembly Bills No.13 of 2018) be read a Second Time. This is such a voluminous, Statute law (Miscellaneous Amendment) Bill. This is a practice that we have been discouraging as the Senate because the number of legislations that are being amended by this Bill are too many and some are substantive. If it was only to correct the things that we would say are miscellaneous as they are called, then we would have gone with it. Nevertheless, since it is a Bill that has come from the other House, it is our responsibility to prosecute it as we ought to do. However, when it becomes this voluminous, it also becomes incumbent upon us to take time to scrutinize it. I am happy the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights did a good job in scrutinising this Bill. One of the challenges you have in such a situation is that you even wonder which Committee should deal with such a Bill. This is because, as I will point out, the Bill seeks to amend the following laws: 1. The Betting Lotteries and Gaming Act Cap.131; basically, the amendments are to enhance various penalties on offences under the Act. 2. The Dairy Industry Act Cap.336 - the amendments seek to enlarge the definition of milk to include goat and camel milk and to amend penalties under the Act as well as allow regulation of standards, manuals of installation and operation of milk dispensers. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, did you realise that when I mentioned the word, milk, the Senator of Narok County jumped from his seat?"
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