State of the Nation Address, 61 bills to be presented as parliament resumes

are Ghana Shipping and Logistics Bill, 2023, Internal Audit Service Bill, 2023, National Petroleum Authority Bill,2023, National Fiscal Stabilisation Levy (Repeal) Bill,2023.

18 bills are currently at the committee level, 13 of them are public bills and 5 are private member bills.

Among these are Interstate Succession Bill,2022 (Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary A airs), Citizen (Amendment)Bill,2021 (Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary A airs), Citizenship (Amendment)

The Constitution of the Republic. of Ghana(Amendment) Bill,2021 (referred to the Council of State ) is the only bill that has returned from the Council of State.

There are also Instruments at various stages to be presented before this House. The Speaker will admit papers, petitions, motions for debates and questions to be answered by sector ministers during this meeting.

The third session of the eighth parliament commenced yesterday with the high point being the presentation of the address on the State of the Nation by the President, Nana Akufo-Addo.

A total of 61 Bills are expected to be presented before the House, these include A rmation Action Bill, 2023, Consumer Protection

Bill,2023, Ghana Health Service and Teaching Hospitals Bill, 2023, Small Scale Mining Bill,2023.

This was contained in a press statement signed by the Director, Public A airs, Kate Addo.

According to the statement, there are also 26 Indicative bills to be presented before the House. Among these

Bill,2021 (Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary A airs), Excise Duty (Amendment) Bill,2022 (Finance Committee).

Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill,2021 (Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary A airs).

Criminal O ences (Amendment)Bill,2022 (Committee on Constitutional ,Legal and Parliamentary A airs)

This year marks 30 years of uninterrupted Parliamentary democracy and consequently various programmes will be outlined for the celebration of the milestone, all Members of Parliament are entreated to take note and attend upon the house timeously.

Parliament went on recess for the Christmas celebrations on December 22, 2022, after approving two loan agreements; a 30 million Euros loan to Finance the “Government Goes Solar Project” and another 116 million Euros to nance the 330kv Accra-Kumasi Transmission Line Project.