The government’s budget framework bill will be resubmitted to a plenum of the legislature for its final article-by-article vote, after a final meeting of the Legislative Assembly’s 2nd Standing Committee’s this week to review the draft law, Andrew Chan Chak Mo, who heads the committee, said yesterday.
Chan, an indirectly-elected lawmaker and restaurateur by profession, briefed reporters after a closed-door meeting of the committee. Government officials, including Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac, attended yesterday’s meeting.
The outline of the bill was passed in a plenary session of the legislature in October last year. The bill aims to enhance transparency in the drafting of the government’s annual budgets.
The legislature’s 2nd Standing Committee President Andrew Chan Chak Mo speaks during yesterday’s press briefing about the committee’s review of the government-initiated budget framework bill. Photo: Tony Wong
