The 50th session of the 15th National Assembly Standing Committee. Photo: nhandan.vn
Accordingly, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly resolved to submit to the National Assembly for consideration and approval at the First Session of the 16th National Assembly (April 2026) 13 draft laws, including: Law on Civil Status (amended); Law on Procedures for Issuing Administrative Decisions; Law on Access to Information (amended); Law on Beliefs and Religions (amended); Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Social Insurance; Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Notarization; Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Representative Agencies of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Abroad; Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Real Estate Business; Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Housing; Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Prevention and Control of Tobacco Harms; Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Environmental Protection Tax; Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Legal Aid; Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Emulation and Commendation.
Submit to the National Assembly for consideration and approval at the 2nd Session of the 16th National Assembly (October 2026) the following 21 draft laws and 1 draft resolution: Vietnam Maritime Code (amended); Postal Law (amended); Petroleum Law (amended); Property Auction Law (amended); Grassroots Mediation Law (amended); Lawyer Law (amended); Adoption Law (amended); Law on Prevention and Control of Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction; Law on Dissemination and Education of Law (amended); Law on Public Debt Management (amended); Law on Handling of Administrative Violations (amended); Law on Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Measurement; Law on Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Donation, Taking and Transplantation of Human Tissues and Organs and Donation and Collection of Cadavers (implementing the development of policy procedures as prescribed in Clause 1, Article 27 of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents); Law on Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Support for Small and Medium Enterprises; Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Environmental Protection; Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Architecture; Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on International Agreements; Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Publishing; Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Commerce, the Law on Competition, the Law on Foreign Trade Management, the Law on Electricity, the Law on Protection of Consumer Rights; Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Physical Training and Sports, the Law on Tourism, the Law on Cinema, the Law on Libraries, the Law on Cultural Heritage; Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on State Compensation Liability; Resolution of the National Assembly on coordination mechanisms and specific policies to improve the effectiveness of preventing and resolving international investment disputes.
Submit to the National Assembly Standing Committee for consideration and approval in 2026 for 1 draft ordinance and 3 draft resolutions, including: Ordinance on Overcoming Post-War Consequences of Bombs and Mines; Resolution of the National Assembly Standing Committee on principles, criteria and norms for allocating state budget expenditures; Resolution of the National Assembly Standing Committee on principles and criteria for dividing value-added tax for each locality; Resolution of the National Assembly Standing Committee on the Environmental Protection Tax Schedule.
The Resolution clearly states: The Government and project submitting agencies continue to thoroughly grasp and seriously implement the requirements of Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW and the direction of General Secretary To Lam on innovation in law-making thinking; fully comply with the provisions of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents in the process of drafting, submitting for consideration and approval of draft laws, ordinances and resolutions; strengthen discipline, promote responsibility, propose solutions to continue to innovate, further strengthen legislative work, ensure strict implementation of the 2026 Legislative Program; strengthen control of power, fight negativity, prevent the occurrence of "group interests" and local interests in law-making work; continue to strengthen the application of digital technology , artificial intelligence, and big data to support the entire law-making process.
The Government directs, urges, and inspects the agencies assigned to preside over drafting, preside over receiving, and editing to ensure quality and progress in submitting to the National Assembly and the National Assembly Standing Committee; spends adequate time to discuss and comment on the project and the content of the explanation, and receives opinions from National Assembly deputies; develops and promulgates detailed regulations to ensure they take effect at the same time as the law, ordinance, and resolution. Continue to study and thoroughly grasp the resolutions and documents of the 14th National Party Congress, the guidelines and policies in the resolutions of the Party Central Committee, and the direction of the Politburo and the Secretariat to promptly propose to add necessary projects to the 2026 Legislative Program. For documents of the National Assembly Standing Committee that need to be issued on the basis of the assigned laws and resolutions of the National Assembly, it is not necessary to complete the procedures for proposing to include them in the Program, but only to clearly state the legal basis for arranging them in the Program.
The agency or organization assigned to preside over the drafting must organize well the drafting, reception, and revision of draft laws, ordinances, and resolutions in the Legislative Program, ensuring quality and progress as determined; carry out the quality of the construction, consultation, and approval of policies before drafting the project. For projects that do not have to follow the policy-making process, they must explain and report clearly when submitting the project; thoroughly and seriously carry out the summarizing activities, collect opinions from the affected subjects, relevant agencies and organizations; closely coordinate with the agency in charge of the appraisal during the appraisal, reception, and revision of the project to ensure quality and progress.
The Ministry of Justice shall strengthen its role in appraising, advising, and assisting the Government in developing proposals for the development of laws, ordinances, and resolutions; strictly control the dossiers of projects submitted to the National Assembly Standing Committee and the National Assembly to ensure quality in both content and form according to regulations, especially projects proposed for adjustment according to the provisions of Clause 2, Article 26 of the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents; continue to perform well the task of being the agency in charge of technical review of documents before submitting them to the National Assembly and the National Assembly Standing Committee for consideration and approval; assist the Government in monitoring, inspecting, and urging the implementation of the Legislative Program.
The National Assembly's Ethnic Council and Committees continue to promote responsibility, strengthen capacity, and promote democracy in legislative work; continue to innovate methods of examination, coordination, and revision of draft laws, ordinances, and resolutions in the direction of early and remote approaches, comprehensive and in-depth research, closely following reality, and effectively solving practical problems of economic and social life; organize the examination of projects submitted to the First Session of the 16th National Assembly in the direction that the Standing Committee of the National Assembly and Committees of the 15th National Assembly conduct preliminary examinations to submit to the Standing Committee of the 15th National Assembly for comments, and the National Assembly's Ethnic Council and Committees of the 16th National Assembly conduct official examinations to submit to the National Assembly for consideration and approval; preside over and coordinate the review of laws, ordinances, and resolutions within their scope of responsibility to detect inappropriate or contradictory or overlapping content, and promptly propose amendments and supplements to relevant documents; Strengthen supervision, promptly detect, clarify and recommend handling of institutional bottlenecks and legal gaps.
The Standing Committee of the Nationalities Council and the Committees of the National Assembly shall closely coordinate with the Standing Committee of the Law and Justice Committee in the process of giving opinions on proposals for drafting laws, ordinances, and resolutions to adjust and supplement the 2026 Legislative Program (if any), focusing on giving opinions on the necessity, purpose of promulgation, scope of regulation, and applicable subjects; specific issues to handle conflicts, overlaps, and inadequacies caused by the law; new issues, new trends, and other necessary contents (if any); expected time for submission and approval.
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