Representatives Reconvene Next Monday -To Deliberate On 2022 National Budget

Members of the House of Representatives of the 54th National Legislature are expected to reconvene for a Special Session for two months, beginning Monday, October 18 to December 18, 2021.

According to a Press Release from the Lower House and signed by Robert Benjamin Haynes, Director, Press and Public Affairs Bureau The Reconvening of the House of Representatives is intended to receive and act on the 2022 Fiscal Budget in accordance with the new Public Financial Management (PFM) Law which has set the budget year from January 1 to December 31 (replacing July 1 to June 30) budget year.

The Certificate of Reconvening was signed by over 20 Representatives, which is more than 1/4th of the total membership of the Honorable House of Representatives. The Reconvening of the Legislature is done in accordance with Article 32(b) of the 1986 Constitutions.

According to Article 32(b), at least one-fourth of the total membership of each House can extend a regular session of the Legislature.

The Reconvening of the House of Representatives  is intended to receive and act on the 2022 Fiscal Budget in accordance with the new Public Financial Management (PFM) Law which has set the budget year from January 1 to December 31 (replacing  July 1 to June 30) budget year.

The President of the Republic of Liberia shall submit the proposed Budget and accompanying documents to the Legislature not later than two months before the start of the Fiscal Year, thereby requiring the Legislature to be in Session in October.

“The  Certificate to Reconvene,  states: ” We, the below listed members of the House of Representatives of the 54th Legislature, having acknowledged that due to the Amendment and Restatement of the Public Financial Management  (PMC) Act approved October 30, 2019, changing the fiscal year from July to June of the same year, which gives the Executive Branch two (2) months to submit the National Budget to the Legislature prior to its enactment, do hereby affix our signatures in pursuant to Article 32(b) of the Constitution of the Republic of Liberia, to reconvene  in a Special Session of the 54th Legislature commencing October 18, 2021 and ending December 18, 2021 to deliberate  on the National Budget and associated instruments as a matter of national emergency and concern”, the release said.

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