Hassan Al -Sitry
A monitoring of the projects on the law of the Shura Council showed that there are 12 projects in the law of the Council to decide during the next session, most notably the Press Law, the rights of the elderly and the insurance against disruption.
According to the monitoring, the Shura Council will discuss in the next session a draft law to amend some provisions of Decree Law No. (47) of 2002 regarding the regulation of the press, printing and publishing, accompanying Decree No. (77) for the year 2021, which includes the abolition of the penalty of imprisonment in all the penal texts mentioned in the law, and the contentment of the penalty for a criminal fine, and the organization of electronic media as one of the components of the media system in The Kingdom of Bahrain. The Council will discuss the decision of the House of Representatives regarding the Shura Council’s decision on a draft law to amend Article (9) of Law No. (58) of 2009 regarding the rights of the elderly, which includes increasing the advantages obtained by the elderly who carries the service of the elderly so that it is granted a reduction of no less than (50%) on all fees imposed by the state.
A draft law will also discuss amending some provisions of Decree Law No. (25) of 1998 regarding private educational and training institutions, which includes giving priority in employment to Bahrainis who have qualifications and experiences appropriate to fill educational, training and administrative jobs in education and training institutes and training institutes in the private sector.
A draft law will be discussed to amend some provisions of the Public Health Law issued by Law No. (34) of 2018, which includes the development of health legislation in the Kingdom of Bahrain by obliging the Ministry of Health to develop a national plan that includes strategies, the general policy to combat microbial resistance to anti -anti -anti -anti -anti -anti -anti -anti -anti -anti -anti -anthropors.
A draft law will be discussed to amend some provisions of the Real Estate Rental Law issued by Law No. (27) of 2014, which includes a legal organization status of procedures for the tenant’s commitment to hand over the leased property in the event that the lessor refuses to receive it actually, and to reorganize the extension of the law in the lease contracts that expired, and its shortness over the period for one year, whatever the period of the contract that has expired. The Shura Council also discusses a draft law to amend Article (18) of Decree Law No. (78) of 2006 regarding insurance against disruption, which includes an increase in the malfunction subsidy from (200 dinars) to (300 dinars) per month for the unemployed people with university qualifications, and from (150 dinars) to (250 dinars) for the unemployed from others.
The Council discusses a draft law to amend some provisions of the Labor Law in the private sector issued by Law No. (36) of 2012, and includes organizing the process of ending the worker’s contract for economic reasons in a way that achieves social justice, by obligating employers to attach financial reports and any other documents with the notification, as well as entitlement to the full compensation prescribed, and taking into account that business owners needed the necessary measures to prevent the termination of citizens ’work contracts, except in the urgent case and in accordance with the controls that It is determined by the law, and the creation of a new article with the number (110 bis) organizes what is stated in Article (110) of the same law to indicate the notifications sent by employers to the ministry.
The Shura Council is scheduled to discuss a draft law to issue a law of guaranteed transactions, accompanying Decree No. (11) of 2025, which includes improving the performance of the Kingdom of Bahrain in the field of financial services, and supporting the development of the private sector by enabling its institutions to maximize the benefit of its assets, which allows it to obtain financing at a lower cost by using these assets as guarantee, while continuing to operate and benefit from it, and setting a unified guarantee rights applied All types of movables, with the exception of the movables excluded explicitly in the draft law, regulate economic transactions and encourage investment in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
The Council will also discuss the next round, a draft law for a year amending Article (26) of Law No. (19) of 2006 regarding the regulation of the labor market, which includes granting the employer a period of 30 days to renew the work permit to avoid the punishment established under Article (36) of the Labor Market Regulatory Law No. (19) of 2006.
A draft law is also discussed to amend Article (4) of Law No. (19) of 2006 regarding the regulation of the labor market, which includes mandatory to include the national plan regarding the labor market, the maximum number of work permits issued by the Labor Market Regulatory Authority, instead of the passenger judgment contained in the law in force.
The Council also discusses a draft law to ratify the Makkah Al -Mukarma Convention on the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for Cooperation in the field of anti -corruption laws, accompanying Decree No. (1) of 2025, which includes enhancing cooperation between law enforcement authorities for states parties for the purpose of combating crimes covered by the agreement.
Finally, the Council discusses a draft law on considering the two regions of Washt Al -Jarim and Al -Azm, the bone of natural protected, which includes the development of a law that classifies the two regions of the Jarim and the bone of the bone of two natural reserves of the second category (a national park) according to the international classification of natural reserves, and is required to set their physical borders, and prepare the necessary maps by the competent authority.