Legislative plans

The next plenary sessions are scheduled for April 10 and 24 according to decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Council. The agenda of the 7th meeting of the VII session of the sixth convocation is scheduled for tomorrow includes more than 15 issues. Deputies will consider in the first reading a package of legislations relating to optimizing the number of deputies of both the Supreme and local councils. Changes are proposed to the Constitution, the law on the Regulations of the Supreme Council and the Electoral Code. The authors of the new initiative were 20 lawmakers.

Amendments to the Labor Code, also developed by a group of legislators are presented for discussion of the deputies. The initiative is aimed at enhancing the social protection of working parents of large families and providing these workers with additional opportunities to provide conditions for the full-fledged education and development of children. In particular, it is proposed to adjust the order in which annual paid holidays are granted. Vacation for persons with three or more children should be provided at their request at convenient time, according to the authors of the initiative. A table of amendments was prepared for the second reading. For example, the law committee proposes a rule specifying the rules for granting leave in the first year of work. The amendment assumes that employees who have three or more children under the age of 12 years must be granted paid leave before the expiry of eleven months of continuous work upon their request. The Committee on Social Policy and Health Care proposes to prescribe in the code a provision stipulating that leave for the second and subsequent years of work for this category of citizens can be granted at any time of the year not only according to the sequence of granting annual paid holidays, but also by agreement of the parties.

Legislators and amendments to the Housing Code will be considered. Deputy Anton Onufrienko proposes to adopt a rule that establishes that owners of the premises of apartment building should pay for utilities directly to their manufacturers. The author considers it necessary to give the Government the right to establish the procedure for changing the amount of payment in the case of the provision of utilities of inadequate quality and with interruptions exceeding the established duration.

According to the law on the Regulations of the Supreme Council, the Government annually sends to deputies a report on the results of its work over the past year, as well as answers to questions asked by lawmakers.

At the suggestion of Peter Pasat, chairman of “The Obnovlenie” (Renewal) parliamentary faction, on the eve of the government’s report to the Supreme Council, every deputy will also receive a prepared list of questions.