Law 3
The special privileges means that MPs and senators can not be tried by any court, but by the Criminal Division of the TS, for the most qualified and to avoid any kind of pressure.
- Permanent Deputation
It is a body of running the cameras and comes to replace them when they are together, whether for vacation time or dissolution.
The council shall consist of a minimum of 21 members. It is the beginning of the legislature and the parliamentary groups are represented in proportion to their numbers (78 CE). The functions are:
- Holiday period: safeguarding the powers of the House (discussing certain issues, perform regular control of the government), to convene the plenary (automatic in Congress when it has to rule on the states of alarm, emergency or siege, or on the recognition of its Decree-Law).
- Dissolution of the Chambers: To protect the powers of the House, avoiding a power vacuum. In Congress assumes full function when deciding on states of emergency and alarm site. The council remains in office until the formation of the new Houses elected and a new permanent council.
2. Legislative function of the courts
Legislative initiative: for the Government, Congress, the Senate, the Assemblies of the Autonomous Communities and the people. It is a preliminary stage of the legislative procedure, which begins with the ruling of the consideration. The initiative is the power to promote this process.
– Government: School to promote the legislative procedure by bill (the other organs have bills.) Called preliminary pending approval by the Council of Ministers and will become the project for submission to Parliament. The bill must be accompanied by an explanatory statement of the necessary background to comment on it (all the documentation used to show the reform). The government has priority over any bill involving increased expenditure or reduced income (budget authority). Planning laws of economic activity under the government.
– Congress and the Senate: The bill to stop a parliamentary group or 15 members or a parliamentary group or 25 senators. The initiative must be taken into consideration by the camera. The text should be accompanied by an explanatory memorandum and background. You must bring a report justifying the costs that could result in the approval. If the initiative of the Senate, when it comes to Congress should not again be taken into account and goes directly to processing of amendments.
– CCAA: You can order the Government to submit a proposed bill or Congress to consider a bill that emanates from the CCAA. If the initiative is the proposal to Congress, the Legislative Assembly may send 3 delegates to defend the proposal in the consideration.
– The popular initiative, is a mere proposal of legislative initiative. The parliament is required to vote on the text. 500000 signatures needed credits. A number of matters are excluded: tax matters, international treaties, etc.. The constitutional reform is included in the initiative. It also includes general state budget, the formal requirements are: preamble, documents justifying the need for Congress to take it into consideration, a document that lists the members of the committee sponsoring the initiative is presented in table Congress, with 15 days to admissible or not.
These causes appear in the LORIP: matter not subject to popular initiative, no formal requirements are met, which deals with heterogeneous materials unrelated to each other (principle of unity of matter), there is a bill in process of amendment on the same subject, there is a bill in parliament, which has already been a popular proposal rejected in the same legislature on the same subject. Against the decision of the congress include appeal with the TC.
Admissible once the process begins with a period of 6 months to collect signatures (extendable for reasons beyond 3 months). The count goes to the Central Electoral Board. The sheets signed and authenticated by a clerk and a town clerk sent to the provincial election boards and from these to the Central Electoral Board. Once a few firms accredited certification to be issued. If a popular initiative is either not accepted can be a request.
Once accredited firms, start the process of taking into consideration. The text can be changed before reaching the sponsoring committee. During the consideration promoters can defend their lead.
The principle of expiration of the term does not apply to popular initiatives although the camera may decide where to resume the process, but in no event be required for the accreditation of new firms. It subsidize developers with a maximum of 30 million pesetas, provided that the parliamentary initiative has reached the parliamentary process.
ORDINARY LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE
- Congress, Senate and from the Congress (mere possibility)
1 – Processing of Amendment: In all or the articles (on the occasion, the principles against the government bills and against the bills by the Senate: return of the government bill or proposed alternative text. The deadline is 15 days from its publication in the Official Bulletin of the Courts) (article by article, deletion, modification and addition).
2 – Discussion of all: if the entire amendment. In this debate there will be a shift in favor and against 15 min. Interventions to secure positions with 10 min. May lead to rejection of the amendment and may lead to the approval and requesting the return to government. May approve an amendment to propose a full text alternative that is published in the Official Gazette and opened a period of 15 days to introduce amendments to the text articles.
3 – Appointment of a paper: a small group of ten people who discuss the text and its amendments and issue a report where the text adopted and amended by them.
4 – Discussion and vote on Commission: The report of the paper is discussed in committee and voted on a new text of the opinion. A compromise amendment.
5 – Plenary: Following presentation of the opinion, 48 hours for approval include amendments in the opinion divided between text and alternative text with new amendments.