📋 Tender Overview
The members of the Committee considered the draft Law on Amendments to Some Laws of Ukraine on the Development of the Institute of Elders 4535 at its meeting on January 27.The bill was reported by one of the authors MP Vitaliy Bezgin. He justified the need to pass the bill by saying that when the Electoral Code was adopted the post of mayor was depoliticized and direct elections of mayors were eliminated. This caused a conflict between elders and community leaders. According to him the bill is mostly technical and has four key rules the imperative to include the elder in the executive committee is removed it is suggested that the procedure for nomination by the head of the community remains but they must be preceded by public consultations with the population which is a more transparent process it is proposed to specify the rules on the representative mandate. Another norm concerns the binding to the Starostinsky district it is proposed to establish a norm - 1.5 thousand people.The speaker noted that the bill was balanced and asked to support the adoption of the bill as a basis.Roman Lozynskyi Deputy Chairman of the Committee reported on the decision of the subcommittee which recommended that the Committee support the bill in the first reading as a basis.During the discussion members of the Committee noted the relevance of the bill it will solve painful problems and called for its adoption as soon as possible.MPs have also made many proposals for the bill which will improve it before the second reading.Based on the results of 23 votes in favor the Committee decided to recommend to the Verkhovna Rada to adopt Bill 4535 as a basis taking into account the Committees proposals.The members of the Committee also considered the draft Law on Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine Concerning the Election of Elders of Settlements Included in Rural and Settlement United Territorial Communities 4198 . The purpose of the bill is to improve the current legislation in order to take into account the views of residents of settlements that are part of the rural and settlement united territorial communities during the election of village elders and settlements that are part of the respective united territorial community.Following the discussion the Committee decided to recommend to the Verkhovna Rada to send the draft law 4198 for revision.
