Session Items
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First: First reading of the draft First Amendment Law to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law No. (50) of 2017. (Committee of Health and Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances; Security and Defense Committee) (23 articles)Executed
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Second: First reading of the draft Arbitration Law. (Legal Affairs Committee), (47 articles).Executed
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Third: First reading of the draft Law on Iraq's Accession to the Framework Agreement on the Establishment of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) of 2016. (Foreign Relations Committee), (2 articles).Executed
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Fourth: First reading of the draft Law on the Ratification by the Republic of Iraq of the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation. (Foreign Relations Committee), (2 articles).Executed
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Fifth: First reading of the draft Fourth Amendment Law to the Industrial Investment Law for the Private and Mixed Sectors No. (20) of 1998 (Committee of Investment and Development; Committee of Economy, Industry and Trade) (7 articles).Executed
Session Report
The Council of Representatives held, on 24/8/2026, its twelfth session of the second legislative term of the first legislative year of the sixth electoral cycle, chaired by Mr. Adnan Faihan, First Deputy Speaker of the Council, with (183) members present. The session included:
- First reading of the draft First Amendment Law to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law No. (50) of 2017, submitted by the Committee of Health and Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances and the Security and Defense Committee.
Mr. Farhad Amin Atrushi, Deputy Speaker of the Council, chaired part of the session
- First reading of the draft Arbitration Law, submitted by the Legal Affairs Committee.
- First reading of the draft Law on Iraq's Accession to the Framework Agreement on the Establishment of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) of 2016, submitted by the Foreign Relations Committee.
- First reading of the draft Law on the Ratification by the Republic of Iraq of the United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, submitted by the Foreign Relations Committee.
- First reading of the draft Fourth Amendment Law to the Industrial Investment Law for the Private and Mixed Sectors No. (20) of 1998, submitted by the Committee of Investment and Development and the Committee of Economy, Industry and Trade.
- Members' interventions focused on applications to the Housing Fund for loans to build residential houses, stressing the need to simplify procedures and remedy the application mechanism in accordance with the Housing Fund Law so as to treat citizens fairly; the importance of banking services being provided by the banks in which the salaries of employees, retirees and social welfare beneficiaries are domiciled, with the right to choose the bank of domiciliation so as to benefit optimally; a discussion of the causes of delays in salary payments, which cause economic stagnation in the local market; the need for the government to send laws for reading and voting; and the amendment of certain laws.
- They also addressed the file of job grades for long-standing and top graduates, holders of higher degrees, medical residents and those who donated land for building schools, and finding suitable solutions in accordance with the laws applicable to them; providing job opportunities; taking into consideration facilities for farmers and peasants and investment in the agricultural sector; following up the completion of stalled projects in all governorates; and emphasising the electricity file so as to improve performance and provide power to citizens.
The Council then adjourned its session until next Wednesday.