House gives preliminary nod to ACA law amendments
The House gave its preliminarily approved amendments to the law regulating the Administrative Control Authority during its plenary session yesterday, Youm7 reports. As we noted yesterday, the amendments grant the anti-corruption body technical, financial, and administrative independence and change its reporting line to Ittihadiya rather than the prime minister’s office. The House Legislative Committee had signed off on the amendments on Sunday.
Is the House looking to limit women’s access to abortions? The House also referred five draft laws to their respective parliamentary committees for discussion, Ahram Gate reports. The legislation includes a draft law to regulate and limit abortions to specific cases, which was referred to a joint health and legislative committee; a draft law regulating the work of religious officiants (maazouns), which was referred to the legislative, religious endowments, and social solidarity committees; and a draft law to regulate fishing and fish farms, which was referred to the agriculture, transport, budget and planning, and legislative committees.