COR finishes reading three laws and forms Investigative Committee

In its 25th plenary session held on Saturday January 12, 2019, the Iraqi Council of Representatives finished the first reading of three laws and voted to form an investigative committee on the fire that broke at a women’s shelter in in Adhamiya.
The session was chaired by the First Deputy Speaker al-Kaabi and attended by 186 MPs.
At the beginning of the session, the council voted to form an investigative committee on the fire that broke at a women’s shelter in in Adhamiya with the participation of MPs of the Committees of Women, family& childhood, Human Rights, Labor & social affairs, and Security and Defense to follow up the issue with the concerned authorities.
The investigative committee was comprised of the following ladies and gentlemen: Mohammad Reza, Jassem Hussein, Haifa Kazem, Wastifah Mohamed, Intasar Ali Khader, Sarwa Wanas, Insijam Abdul Zahra, Basma Mohammed Basim, Arshad Al Salhi, Hussein Said and Assaad Abdul Sada, in addition to Ms. Faten Abdel Wahed, representative of the Commission on Human Rights.
On a different note, the Council ended the first reading of the Legislative Proposal for the First Amendment to the Scientific Academy submitted by the Legal Committee, which aims putting the staff of the scientific Academy with their peers of Iraqi universities, being equal in rights and duties.
The Council completed its first reading of the Financial Management Bill submitted by the Finance Committee.
In the same context, the Council completed the first reading of the Legislative Proposal for Informatics Crimes Law submitted by the Committees of Security and Defense, Higher Education, Legal Affairs, Culture & Media and Tourism & Antiquities, Women, Family, & Childhood, Human Rights, and Services and Reconstruction.
The Council postponed the first reading of the Legislative Proposal for the First Amendment to the law of Iraq Money Recovery Fund No. (9) for 2012 , submitted by the committees of Integrity and Finance to the next session.
The session was then adjourned to next Monday 14/1/2019
Media Directorate
Iraqi Council of Representatives
12/1/2019