Following publication of the draft Bill, there will be a period of consultation.
We the Malaysian ICT professionals have been alarmed by the sudden announcement of the Board of Computing Professionals Draft Bill 2011 which caught most of us off-guard resulting in mixed reactions and unnecessary arguments.
Conservative peer Earl of Caithness has put down an motion of regret that the bill is being dealt with as a private member's bill, and points to the draft government bill for House of Lords reform which is currently being discussed by a joint committee.
They cite an analysis of the first draft of the Senate bill by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
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The Home Office's policy document, for example, makes no reference to the fact that the Department of Trade and Industry has just published its own draft bill on the interception of electronic communications.
The minister in charge of constitutional reform, Mark Harper, appears before the joint committee considering the Draft Bill on House of Lords reform.
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Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell also welcomed publication of a draft Bill.
The publishing of a draft bill looks like an exercise in what Mrs Thatcher used to call "followership" not leadership.
Lord Falconer told the committee that he is in favour of the draft bill because believed it would make "very worthwhile changes" to defamation laws.
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And they added that the current lack of an independent appeals process for landowners who object to the route was a "fundamental weakness" of the draft Bill.
On the committee corridor the big event of the day is the appearance before the special committee on the Draft House of Lords Reform Bill of the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, and his junior minister, Mark Harper.
Peers held the first part of a general debate on the report from the Joint Committee on the draft House of Lords Reform Bill on 30 April 2012.
Some provisions of the bill changed from a draft the senators circulated a month ago.
Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, has blasted the final draft of his bill as far too weak on the issue.
Richard Lugar, R-Indiana, another sponsor of the bill, issued a draft report in February that said it was time to reconsider the economic sanctions.
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This particular draft of the bill incorporates amendments suggested by Senator Chuck Grassley who has expressed concern that too much privacy protection for our email could negatively impact safety tasks.
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What with the Independent Banking Commission (which came up with the basic proposals) and the Parliamentary Commission on Banking led by Andrew Tyrie (which debated the first draft of the bill last autumn), this is not a piece of legislation that has been under-discussed.
That same year, Max Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, included an individual mandate in the first draft of his health-care bill.
But some members of the committee released a separate report arguing that the government's draft bill "totally fails" to protect the primacy of the House of Commons and proposing a "constitutional convention" should be set up to consider the issue more widely.
They propose that a draft Freedom of Information Bill be given pre-legislative scrutiny in both Houses.
President Clinton has just appointed a 34-member advisory committee to draft a patients' bill of rights and study what kind of legislation may be needed to enforce it.
Secondly, the commissioner claimed that the new draft bill removes the concept of 'child in need', which currently ensures those who need care and support are legally protected and receive that help.
Following cross-party talks on Thursday night - which will resume next week - the Department for Culture, Media and Sport will begin the process of drawing up a draft bill implementing the Leveson recommendations.
But it warned ministers would be able to demand "potentially limitless categories of data" unless the draft bill was amended.
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Conservative cabinet minister Philip Hammond said he hoped there would be a draft bill on a referendum ahead of the next general election.
The only committee hearing is of the special committee doing scrutiny of the Draft Care and Support Bill (at 9.45am) - the bill to create a rational system for social care for the elderly and disabled.
The letter suggests that the civil society version of the bill be used as a working draft and that the committee present its final recommendations by May 13, so that the bill can be passed in the monsoon session of parliament.
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