The Committee discussed and approved the changes to the Law on Public Health and Code of Criminal Procedure Code.
According to Vladimer Kakhadze, one of the initiators and rapporteurs of the bills, the First Deputy Chairman of the Committee, the purpose of the amendment to the Law on Public Health is to maintain the existing legal mechanism after January 1, 2022, until January 1, 2023.
As he pointed out, because the pandemic-induced condition remains a major issue for the country, it became imperative to extend the legislation passed on May 22, 2020 in order to continue the possibility of correct regulations and measures.
As a result, if the law is passed, the country's relevant authorities will be able to continue fighting the pandemic caused by COVID-19 after January 1, 2022, and take all required organizational, legal, and other measures to cope with the issue, as the rapporteur explained.
The initiators are of the document are MPs: Dimitri Khundadze, Vladimer Kakhadze, Zaal Mikeladze, Zaza Lominadze, Ramina Beradze, David Sergeenko and Irma Zavradashvili.
Bills will be considered by the Parliament in a simplified manner.
The Committee also discussed the legislative proposal of citizen Zurab Vanishvili. The mentioned legislative proposal is related to the status of the socially vulnerable person as the director of a commercial legal entity. The author of the legislative proposal demands that "directors of commercial legal entities should not be subject to the status of socially vulnerable person, because if a person is a director of a company or a joint stock company, it is considered that he is actively involved in economic relations, manages the activities of an entrepreneur”.
According to the Committee, the current legislation stipulates the rules and conditions for assessing the socio-economic status of socially vulnerable families and terminating the appointment of financial social assistance by by-laws. Accordingly, the Committee did not support the citizen's legislative initiative.
