And, in the end, the French Senate rejected the draft law in May 2011.
The plans are similar to a draft law unveiled in neighbouring Baden-Wuerttemberg last month.
The draft law has gone through several changes over the past couple of years.
Mr Medvedev also said he would introduce a draft law to change the system for registering a political party.
The exact scope of the reform will be clearer in March 2013 when the draft law is presented, he added.
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After more than a decade of discussion, the draft law on domestic violence has still not been introduced in parliament.
Officials at the Ministry of Rural Development, which produced the draft law, do not dismiss these charges out of hand.
The draft law is now in hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The draft law has not been made public yet but details of it were discussed at a scrutiny panel meeting in Jersey.
But one draft law is stuck in congress (along with about a hundred others), and the other has not even got there.
Opening the debate, the Parliament's rapporteur on the draft law, Spanish centre-right MEP Alejo Vidal-Quatras, said it would increase protection for EU citizens.
The draft law also says that prices on cigarettes would be drastically increased and hit with new taxes on buyers and the business itself.
According to the draft law a new regulator, provisionally (and hopefully) called the Authority for the Protection of Savings, will replace Consob, the securities-market watchdog.
That draft law on voting also received a first reading Monday.
He was speaking after presenting a draft law aimed at "moralising" French public life - a response to the tax scandal that has shaken his presidency.
Plans for a draft law to change the way Welsh assembly members are elected have been set out by the Queen at the State Opening of Parliament.
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These and other questions are set to take on much greater significance next month when a draft law on the tribunal for the Khmer Rouge is sent for parliamentary approval.
The two men formed a pact in coalition talks and got commitments to a new draft law that will compel more ultra-Orthodox men to perform national military service or other civilian duties.
Whoopee, crowed today's opposition, gleefully seizing on Mr Ciampi's message as a tool against the feeble draft law on conflicts of interest that is supposed to sort out those of Mr Berlusconi.
The ultra-Orthodox Shas party is likely to resist any change to Israel's draft law, and the pro-settlements Jewish Home party will likely resist attempts to restart talks with the current Palestinian leadership.
The Sadrists -- who say the constitution does not spell out a process for voting on international agreements -- are backing a draft law calling for a two-thirds majority for such agreements to pass.
France's parliament gave its initial backing to a draft law that would devolve more power to the regions, in what has been called the biggest constitutional change since Napoleon forged a highly centralised state.
The EU Parliament has just issued a draft law stating that banks may only pay a bonus to bankers of up to one times annual base salary (twice if the shareholders vote to allow such).
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The decree transformed a farce into yet another example of Mr Berlusconi's contempt for the rule of law, of a piece with a new draft law to allow ministers to delay criminal trials against them.
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In Russia, the State Duma (lower house of parliament) features a spoof draft law submitted by deputy Sergei Ivanov, in which he proposes banning the consumption of garlic - popular among Russians - in public places.
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During the drawn-out coalition talks, Mr Lapid and Mr Bennett formed a pact and got commitments to a new draft law that will compel more ultra-Orthodox men to perform national military service or other civilian duties.
The draft law places severe restrictions on the use of frozen embryos -- created as part of a fertility programme but no longer needed or claimed by the parents -- for the purposes of medical research.
"The draft law it is really trying to tackle the issue in a proactive way, trying to tackle the pollution at its source, " said Ma Jun, a prominent environmentalist in Beijing and author of China's Water Crisis.
The draft law also raises the question of how the government will be able to finance development in the poor and over-crowded heartland of Java if it loses a large chunk of its income to the outlying islands.
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