Draft bill #6401 of December 7, 2021
Cosponsors: a group of 31 MPs from the factions Holos, Servant of the People, and Batkivshchyna, groups For the Future and Trust, and independent MPs with Roman Lozynskyi as the first signatory
Status: adopted in the second reading
Who is affected: citizens of Ukraine and local self-government bodies
Summary: the following requirements will be introduced for local governments:
- to broadcast online and store the recordings of plenary sessions of local councils and meetings of their standing committees
- to publish draft agendas of the meetings of standing committees, their conclusions and recommendations, as well as protocols of their sessions and nominal voting results
- to ensure that local councilors, municipal officials, and other speakers use the Ukrainian language during council sessions
- to disclose in open-data format the information about the property rights of territorial communities of villages, towns, and cities, city districts, as well as their common property that is managed by raion or oblast councils, including information on the results of inventories conducted as per legal regulations.
What is right:
- the bill gives more opportunities for citizens to participate in local self-governance and guarantees citizens’ access to public information
- the bill ensures the enforcement of the Law on the State Language.
Additional information:
Ok, So What? podcast, ep. 129: The Verkhovna Rada comes out of “information isolation”