Legislators yesterday agreed to send a NT$2.391 trillion (US$86.04 billion) budget bill for next year to legislative committees for review, with members of an inter-caucus negotiation seeking to have it approved before the end of next month.
Legislative Speaker You Si-kun (游錫堃) presided over the negotiations, attended by all party caucus leaders, in which compromises allowed all sides to agree to send the bill for review by the eight legislative committees next week, in line with the procedure for a first reading.
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus whip Ker Chien-ming (柯建銘) said he would raise a motion at a plenary session today
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New law needed for eIDs, NPP says
INFORMATION SECURITY ISSUE: The Ministry of the Interior is not aware of the legal issues that could arise once the policy is launched, NPP Legislator Chen Jiau-hua said
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
The government should hold a public hearing on the issuance of electronic identification cards (eIDs) and stipulate a specific law to regulate them before requiring people to replace their paper identification cards with them, the New Power Party (NPP) said yesterday.
The eIDs would combine the functions of an identification card with those of a Citizen Digital Certificate, the Ministry of the Interior has said.