BUSINESS BULLETIN 1 / 2001

Friday 5 January 2000

Section G - Bills, amendments to Bills and proposals for members’ Bills

New Bills introduced or reprinted on 20 December 2000

Regulation of Care (Scotland) Bill-A Bill for an Act of the Scottish Parliament to establish the Scottish Commission for the Regulation of Care and the Scottish Social Services Council; to make provision for the registration and regulation of care services and for the registration, regulation and training of social service workers; to enable local authorities to make grants in respect of activities relating to child care and family support and to make direct payments to children in respect of certain care services; to enable the Scottish Ministers to delegate a power to make certain grants and loans for social work; to enable local authorities to provide and maintain residential accommodation in which nursing is provided; to amend the definition of "place of safety" in the Children (Scotland) Act 1995; to make further provision as respects the appointment for children of curators ad litem, reporting officers and safeguarders; and for connected purposes. (SP Bill 24) (Executive Bill)

Explanatory Notes (and other accompanying documents) (SP Bill 24-EN) and a Policy Memorandum (SP Bill 24-PM) were printed to accompany the Bill.

New Bills introduced or reprinted on 21 December 2000

Salmon Conservation (Scotland) Bill-The Bill was reprinted as passed. (SP Bill 20A) (Executive Bill)

Transport (Scotland) Bill-The Bill was reprinted as passed. (SP Bill 18B) (Executive Bill)

Proposals for Members' Bills

Names marked with an asterisk (*) are new names of support. Proposals that have attracted 11 supporters have those supporters' names shown in bold. The member who lodged such a proposal has the right to introduce a Member's Bill to give effect to that proposal under rule 9.14.

Mr Lloyd Quinan: Proposed Abolition of NHS Prescription Charges Bill-Proposal for a Bill to abolish all prescription charges on the NHS. (lodged 19 December 2000)

Supported by: Alex Neil, Margo MacDonald, Dorothy-Grace Elder, Christine Grahame, Gil Paterson, Dennis Canavan*, Tommy Sheridan*

Mr Keith Harding: Proposed Dog Fouling Bill-Proposal for a Bill to amend the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 to extend the offence of dog fouling so that it applies to any person in charge of a dog who allows it to deposit excrement in any public place and fails to dispose appropriately of that excrement; and to give power to impose a fixed on-the-spot penalty for such an offence to specified local authority employees, without the requirement for a corroborating witness. (lodged 4 January 2001)

Supported by: Brian Monteith*, Bill Aitken*, David McLetchie*, Dennis Canavan*, Nick Johnston*, David Davidson*, Colin Campbell*, Murray Tosh*, Bruce Crawford*, Kenneth Gibson*, Jamie McGrigor*, Margo MacDonald*, Donald Gorrie*, Mary Mulligan*, Sylvia Jackson*, Alex Fergusson*, Ben Wallace*