Session Items
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First: First reading of the draft First Amendment Law to the Notaries Public Law No. (33) of 1998. (Legal Affairs Committee). (9 articles).Executed
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Second: First reading of the draft Municipal Solid Waste Management Law. (Committee of Services and Reconstruction; Committee of Health and Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances). (19 articles).Executed
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Third: First reading of the draft Anti-Terrorism Law. (Security and Defense Committee; Legal Affairs Committee). (23 articles)Executed
Session Report
The Council of Representatives held, on 9/9/2026, its seventeenth session of the second legislative term of the first legislative year of the sixth electoral cycle, chaired by Mr. Adnan Faihan, Deputy Speaker of the Council, with (225) members present. The session included:
- First reading of the draft First Amendment Law to the Notaries Public Law No. (33) of 1998, submitted by the Legal Affairs Committee.
- First reading of the draft Municipal Solid Waste Management Law, submitted by the Committees of Services and Reconstruction, Agriculture, Marshes and Environment, and Health and Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances.
- First reading of the draft Anti-Terrorism Law, submitted by the Security and Defense Committee and the Legal Affairs Committee.
- Members called for heeding the voice of the demonstrating graduates — holders of higher degrees, top graduates, long-standing graduates and those in the health professions — and meeting their demands in accordance with the law; for including in the general budget the funds allocated to the seventh instalment of social welfare so that they may be distributed to eligible families; for paying farmers their dues; for ending citizens' suffering from water scarcity by supporting water projects in the general budget and providing the necessary allocations; and for attention to the health sector and the state of hospitals and health centres.
- The interventions focused on the importance of identifying the causes of the fuel crisis at filling stations and ensuring it is ended, providing job opportunities and organising work between the public and private sectors, reviewing all investment projects granted during the previous government, and attending to the education sector with emphasis on remedying the shortage of school buildings.
- Mr. Adnan Faihan, First Deputy Speaker of the Council of Representatives, noted that the Council is moving towards addressing the files that touch citizens' lives, in the sectors of health, electricity and others, to combat all forms of corruption in coordination with the relevant authorities.
The Council then adjourned its session until tomorrow, Thursday.