The State Duma will attract leading universities in the development of laws

The State Duma will attract representatives of the leading universities in the work on the examination of both introduced and developed in the lower house of parliament. December 5, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that at a meeting with rectors of leading Russian universities.

According to him, we are talking about the participation of experts from higher education in the expert-analytical work on the legislative activities of the State Duma and the work associated with the Regulatory Impact Assessment.

According to Volodin, interaction with universities is the first stage of the complex expert support legislative initiatives. The next step will be the involvement of the expert work of representatives of trade unions, the business community to "representatives of the business community participated in drafting legislation related to the economy," said Volodin.

It was reported that this trend will be in charge of the first vice-speaker of the State Duma Alexander Zhukov ( "The United Russia") as a special responsibility for legislative activity, as the first vice-speaker of the Communist Party Ivan Melnikov.