LEGISLATION WATCH- House unlikely to discuss rent control law this legislative session: The House of Representatives is unlikely to discuss proposed amendments to the law on rent control during the current legislative session since the House’s legislative agenda is packed with higher priorities, including the FY2018-19 draft state budget, committee deputy chair Mohamed Abdelwahab tells Al Mal. Debate of the bill will likely be postponed until October, when the House returns from its summer recess.

Amendments unlikely to scrap rent control: The legislation could allow landlords to marginally raise rents presently regulated by rent control provisions, but would not liberalize the “old rent” system, according to Abdelwahab.

MPs have drafted a law to cancel prison sentences imposed on indebted women and allowing them to repay their debts through other means, MP Ibrahim Hegazy said, according to state-run Al Ahram. Hegazy was unclear on what these “other means” entail, but previous suggestions had proposed having indebted women pay off their debts by through community service projects.