Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a law on the amendments into the legislation concerning deprivation of the right of people’s deputies for financial provisions in case of missing parliamentary meetings without good reason.
According to a posting on the website of the Verkhovna Rada, bill No. 1035-2 passed at second reading by parliament with 265 supporting votes and sent to the president for signature on Oct. 18, was returned with the signature of the president on Oct. 25.
The document deprives of material compensation for the fulfillment of deputy powers, if a member of parliament during the calendar month during one regular session did not participate in more than a third of the votes in plenary meetings or more than half of the meetings of the committee of which he is a member, without good reasons.
Termination of payments for the corresponding month will be carried out under the order of parliament chairman by a decision of the regulatory committee on the basis of information about working hours of members of parliament submitted by the Rada’s apparatus.
The adopted law does not provide for the procedure for the written registration of parliamentarians in plenary meetings. The basis for calculating payments to the members of parliament for participation in plenary sessions will be registration using the electronic system.
The law provides that the data on the participation of the members of parliament in at least 70 percent of the vote in the adoption of the decisions of the Rada at each plenary meeting is the basis for charging him wages for the time of participation in plenary meetings.
The participation of the people’s deputy in the voting when making a parliamentary decision will be recorded using the electronic system, and the data of such records (in percent) will be published for each day of plenary meetings on the website of the Verkhovna Rada.
