Parliament reconvenes today; Rent Bill, anti-LGBT Bill, others high on agenda

Parliament will today, Tuesday, October 26, 2021, resume sitting to start its third meeting of the first session of the eighth parliament.

A number of bills and papers have been tabled before the House for consideration for the next nine weeks.

At least 56 bills are expected to be presented before the House including Affirmative Action Bill, 2021,  Increase Secession Bill, 2021, Rent Bill, 2021, Aged Pensions Bill, 2021, and Small-Scale Mining Bill, 2021 among others.

Meanwhile, some three Bills are currently at the committee level. This includes the Office of the Special Prosecutor (Amendment) Bill, 2021 (Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs), Criminal Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2021 (Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs) and the Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021,  Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs).

The House is due to go on recess in December.