Members of Parliament will no longer earn lucrative packages for benchmarking bills outside the country.
The office of the speaker of parliament has banned the benchmarking of the different bills tabled before parliament outside the country to enable parliament conclude on the bills in time.
The announcement was made by the deputy speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah during Thursday’s plenary session.
Oulanyah said that many bills over stay in the committees on ground that the members of the committee are still benchmarking outside the country.
He noted that if the members want to benchmark, they should do it after the bill has been passed into law, warning that parliament will follow the 128 section of its rules of procedure and debate the bill after 45 days with or without the report from the committee.
Oulanyah has also warned the members who are granted leave to present the private members bill not to exceed the 45 days on benchmarking, noting that they should do the benchmarking before seeking leave of parliament.
He has directed the clerk to parliament to immediately write to the chairperson of the committees where the bill is referred and notify him or her and write to the same chairperson three days before the 45 days lapses.
