Bill Watch 67/2019 ZIDA Bill Passed, Progress Made on Money Laundering Bill & Coroner's Office Bill 6 December 2019 National Assembly’s resolution of the 14th November, referred to in Bill Watch 62/2019 [link]. The full text of the announcement is available on the Veritas website [link]; it sets out the background to the appointment of the committee, the names of the nominated committee members and the committee’s terms of reference. Immediately after the Speaker’s announcement Hon Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga of MDC-T told him that she wished to decline the nomination on the ground that she was “conflicted”. The Speaker accepted this, and on 5th December the Speaker announced that the CSRO had nominated Hon Priscilla Moyo to take the vacant place on the committee. Hon Samukange, a lawyer, chairs the committee, and the other members are now Hons Joseph Chirongoma, Omega Hungwe, Cecil Kashiri, Stars Mathe, Levi Mayihlome, Priscilla Moyo, Kindness Paradza and Algenia Samson; all are ZANU PF, and four of them are women. Vacancy in the National Assembly On Tuesday 3rd December the Speaker informed the House that Hon Alice Ndlovu, a ZANU PF proportional representation MP from Matabeleland South province had died. MPs observed a minute’s silence in her memory. The vacancy does not require a by-election. As the late Hon Ndlovu was a proportional representation [women’s quota] MP, her seat will be filled in accordance with section 39 of the Electoral Act – by another woman nominated by ZANU PF and, in the absence of valid objection, appointed to be an MP by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission. Progress on the Budget Debate The Budget debate proceeded in fits and starts during the week – beginning with presentation of the report of the Portfolio Committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Development, and followed by reports from all other Portfolio Committees. The last report was presented during Thursday’s sitting, and individual MPs then started making their contributions to the debate, to be continued next week. Veritas makes every effort to ensure reliable information, but cannot take legal responsibility for information supplied. If you want to contact Veritas, have any questions or wish to subscribe or unsubscribe please email veritas@mango.zw If you are looking for legislation please look for it on www.veritaszim.net Follow us on (+263 71 893 3633) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.