The ruling and opposition parties held a plenary session of the National Assembly on the 23rd and handled a total of 115 items, including 103 livelihood-related bills, as well as election and resolution items.
At the plenary session that day, the National Assembly passed the amendment to the Special Act on Support for Victims of Jeonse Fraud and Residential Stability unanimously with 182 members present. The essence of the bill is the "minimum guarantee system," which requires the state to guarantee at least one-third of the lease deposit for victims of jeonse fraud.
An amendment to the Medical Dispute Mediation Act that restricts the criminal prosecution of medical professionals also cleared the plenary threshold. The bill provides a discretionary mitigation provision when occupational negligence resulting in death or injury occurs in connection with high-risk essential medical procedures, and it establishes a special rule barring prosecution if the medical professional or the founder of the medical institution pays full damages to the victim or provides equivalent compensation through medical malpractice liability insurance.
An amendment to the Employment Insurance Act and the Act on Gender Equality in Employment to increase the number of paid days of infertility treatment leave from the current two to four also passed. It was prepared to double the leave period to ease the financial burden on workers undergoing infertility treatment and improve access to leave.
An amendment to the Act on the Electronic Monitoring of Specific Criminal Offenders to expand eligibility for one-on-one dedicated probation officers also passed. Currently, dedicated probation officers are assigned only to juvenile sex offenders at high risk of recidivism, but when the law takes effect, eligibility will be expanded to electronic monitoring wearers who committed sex crimes, regardless of the victim's age, and are deemed to have a markedly high risk of reoffending.
As support measures for corporations, amendments passed included the Act on the Promotion of Technology Innovation for Small and Medium Enterprises to allow financial support such as guarantees when small and midsize enterprises commercialize technological innovation outcomes from national research and development (R&D) projects, and the Framework Act on Administrative Regulations to have the Presidential Commission on Regulatory Rationalization conduct ex post regulatory impact assessments to promote deregulation.
Legislation responding to the growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI) was also handled. These included an amendment to the Framework Act on Education to establish and implement policies to enhance all citizens' ability to use AI technology, and amendments to the Cosmetics Act, the Food Advertising Act, and the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act to ban advertisements that use AI to present virtual experts.
Meanwhile, a motion to elect Commissioners to the third Truth and Reconciliation Commission also passed the National Assembly plenary session.