Delegates vote to pass the Resolution on the Law and Ordinance Development Program for 2025, and adjustments to the Law and Ordinance Development Program for 2024. Photo: An Dang/VNA

According to the resolution just passed, the National Assembly decided to adjust the 2024 program by adding the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Land Law, the Housing Law, the Real Estate Business Law, the Law on Credit Institutions and the National Assembly Resolution regulating the reduction of value-added tax to the Program. These contents are expected to be submitted to the National Assembly for comments and approval at the second session of the 7th session according to the shortened procedures.

At the 8th Session (October 2024), the draft laws expected to be submitted to the National Assembly for comments include the Law on Digital Technology Industry; and the Law on Electricity (amended).

In case the draft law is well prepared by the Government, the discussion process at the National Assembly reaches high consensus, the National Assembly Standing Committee shall consider and coordinate with the Government to submit it to the National Assembly for approval at the 8th Session according to the procedure at one session with the Law on Teachers; Law on Management and Investment of State Capital in Enterprises; Law on Special Consumption Tax (amended); Law on Corporate Income Tax (amended); Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Supervision Activities of the National Assembly and People's Councils; Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Advertising. Submit to the National Assembly Standing Committee for consideration and approval of the following projects: Ordinance on Litigation Costs (adjusting criminal litigation costs, civil litigation costs, administrative litigation costs and litigation costs for Jury); Ordinance on Management and Protection of the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Relic Site (regulating the management and protection of the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Relic Site as a particularly important national security project, and at the same time a particularly important historical-cultural relic in the Ba Dinh Historical-Cultural Relic Complex).

With the law and ordinance building program in 2025, the 9th Session (May 2025) is expected to submit 12 laws and 1 resolution to the National Assembly for approval.

Specifically, including: Law on Gender Transition; Law on Digital Technology Industry; Law on Electricity (amended); Law on Chemicals (amended); Law on Teachers; Law on Management and Investment of State Capital in Enterprises; Law on Special Consumption Tax (amended); Law on Corporate Income Tax (amended); Law on Employment (amended); Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Supervision Activities of the National Assembly and People's Councils; Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Advertising; Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Technical Standards and Regulations; Resolution of the National Assembly on the Law and Ordinance Development Program in 2026, adjusting the law and ordinance development program in 2025.

The 10 draft laws expected to be submitted to the National Assembly at the 9th Session include: Law on Water Supply and Drainage; Law on Transfer of Persons Serving Prison Sentences; Law on Extradition; Law on Railways (amended); Law on Urban Development Management; Law on Participation in United Nations Peacekeeping Forces; Law on Civil Judgment Enforcement (amended); Law on Mutual Legal Assistance in Civil Matters; Law on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters; Law on Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Product and Goods Quality.

At the 10th Session (October 2025), there are 10 laws expected to be submitted to the National Assembly for approval, including: Law on Water Supply and Drainage; Law on Transfer of Persons Serving Prison Sentences; Law on Extradition; Law on Railways (amended); Law on Urban Development Management; Law on Participation in United Nations Peacekeeping Forces; Law on Civil Judgment Enforcement (amended); Law on Judicial Assistance in Civil Matters; Law on Judicial Assistance in Criminal Matters; Law on Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Product and Goods Quality.

The National Assembly also assigned the National Assembly Standing Committee to coordinate with the Government and relevant agencies to review and decide on additional projects submitted to the National Assembly for comments according to their authority.

Explaining and receiving opinions from National Assembly deputies, Chairman of the National Assembly Law Committee Hoang Thanh Tung said that during the process of the National Assembly Standing Committee giving opinions on the 2025 Law and Ordinance Development Program and adjusting the 2024 Law and Ordinance Development Program, there were opinions requesting further clarification of the necessity, urgency, and feasibility of promulgating laws adjusting the effective date of the Land Law, Housing Law, Real Estate Business Law, and Credit Institutions Law.

According to the National Assembly Standing Committee, the 2024 Land Law, the 2023 Housing Law and the 2023 Real Estate Business Law have many innovative and progressive provisions, which are expected by the people and society to create momentum for socio-economic development in the new period.

The early implementation of the above laws will contribute to removing obstacles and shortcomings, bringing new policies decided by the National Assembly into life, improving the efficiency of land management, exploitation and use, promoting the healthy, stable and sustainable development of the real estate market, promoting housing development, especially social housing for workers and low-income laborers. Therefore, the National Assembly Standing Committee proposed that the National Assembly add the draft law to the 2024 program, submit it to the National Assembly for consideration, comments and approval in the second session of this session according to the shortened procedures.

According to baotintuc.vn