Monsoon Session 2024: Government to table 6 new Bills, Om Birla constitutes Business Advisory Committee

Six new bills, including the one to amend the disaster management law, will be presented during the Monsoon Session of Parliament beginning next week. The Monsoon Session will begin on July 22 and will conclude on August 12.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is scheduled to present the Union Budget on July 23.

Besides the Finance Bill, the government has also listed the Bhartiya Vayuyan Vidheyak, 2024 to replace the Aircraft Act of 1934 to provide enabling provisions for ease of doing business in the civil aviation sector.

The list of bills was published in the Parliament bulletin issued by the Lok Sabha secretariat on July 18 evening.

Other bills listed for introduction and passage during the session are The Boilers Bill to replace the pre-independence era law, the Coffee (Promotion and Development) Bill and the Rubber (Promotion and Development) Bill.

Here is the list of the six bills:

The Finance (No.2) Bill, 2024

The Disaster Management (Amendment) Bill, 2024

The Boilers Bill, 2024

The Bhartiya Vayuyan Vidheyak, 2024

The Coffee (Promotion and Development) Bill, 2024

The Rubber (Promotion and Development) Bill, 2024

Meanwhile, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla also constituted the Business Advisory Committee (BAC), which decides the parliamentary agenda.

The committee chaired by the Speaker has Sudip Bandyopadhyay (TMC), P P Chaudhary (BJP), Lavu Sri Krishna Devarayalu (TDP), Nishikant Dubey (BJP), Gaurav Gogoi (Congress), Sanjay Jaiswal (BJP), Dileshwar Kamait (JD-U), Bhartruhari Mahtab (BJP), Dayanidhi Maran (DMK), Baijayant Panda (BJP), Arvind Sawant (Shiv Sena-UBT), Kodikunnil Suresh (Congress), Anurag Thakur (BJP) and Lalji Verma (SP) as members.