The National Assembly will open a plenary session on the 26th, a holiday, to pass more than 70 noncontentious, livelihood-related bills.
Items on the agenda for the plenary session include an amendment to the Emergency Medical Service Act to improve the "emergency room ping-pong" problem, an amendment to the Commercial Building Lease Protection Act to require disclosure of common area maintenance fee details upon a tenant's request, a new Act on Lifelong Education for Persons with Disabilities to guarantee lifelong education management for people with disabilities, and an amendment to the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Expedition of Legal Proceedings to support the swift recovery of victims of digital sex crimes.
The bills to be handled today were approved by the relevant standing committees with bipartisan agreement, but their handling was delayed due to a recent string of filibusters on contentious bills.
Previously, after the standoff over filibusters on contentious bills ended, the Democratic Party had urged the People Power Party since early this month to open a plenary session to pass livelihood bills.
The People Power Party had maintained that it was difficult to accept the unilateral schedule led by the Democratic Party, but agreed that the handling of livelihood bills could no longer be delayed, and, through a meeting between the ruling and opposition parties on the 13th, reached a rare agreement to hold a "holiday plenary session" during the National Assembly inspection period.
In addition, as the Democratic Party accepted the People Power Party's demand for a "National Assembly investigation into the Jeju Air passenger plane disaster," the request for a parliamentary inquiry is expected to be reported at the plenary session today.
The Democratic Party also plans to seek passage of a rule to adjust the number of National Assembly standing committee members, increasing the number of Commissioners on the National Assembly Climate, Energy, Environment and Labor Committee from the current 16 to 22 in line with the government's organizational restructuring.