Abstract:
Based on Article 65 of the Constitution, the approval of bills and plans in the Parliament must be carried out according to the regulations of the internal rules of the Parliament. One of the most important articles of the internal regulations is the method of dealing with the government's annual budget bill, which Article 52 of the Constitution has entrusted to the Parliament for review and approval. The internal regulations, which were approved in the early periods of the establishment of the Parliament in Iran, provided sufficient opportunity in this regard to the representatives; however, the current internal regulations of the Islamic Consultative Assembly have created many limitations for reviewing the budget bill, which in practice has prevented representatives from a serious and deep review of the budget bill. For this reason, budget bills over the past two decades have been accompanied by budget deficits, and every year the government has submitted supplementary bills to the Parliament to compensate for them. Furthermore, governments introduce issues unrelated to the budget into the budget bill and, in a short period and rushed review, obtain authorizations from the Parliament that would not be possible to obtain in regular bills passed through legislative formalities. These methods, which are completely inconsistent with the philosophy of legislation and the requirements of Article 52 of the Constitution, cause serious damage to the rights of citizens and provide a ground for misuse of public property by government officials. The subject of this article is suggestions regarding the amendment of articles related to the review of the budget bill in the internal regulations. In these suggestions, accepted methods in the internal regulations of the French Parliament and the experience of Iran's internal regulations have been utilized so that representatives can review and approve the budget presented by the government in a transparent manner and prevent the continuation of corruption-prone methods in the drafting and approval of the annual budget bill.
Machine summary:
Articles 138 and 122 of the internal regulations approved in the years 1329 and 1350 of the National Consultative Assembly provided sufficient opportunity for the speeches of representatives under the heading of deliberation on the budget bill with a unified text as follows: "When the budget bill is presented to the Parliament, sessions must be held without interruption on all days of the week except Fridays and official holidays, for at least 5 hours a day, and shall not be removed from the agenda until the deliberation and negotiation are completed and the Parliament's vote is taken; no other bill or plan can be presented for deliberation except for the one-twelfth or several-twelfths budget bill if necessary.
Now, in view of the aforementioned points and the review of the articles related to the budget and the description of the duties of the "Program and Budget" Commission in the internal regulations of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, the National Consultative Assembly, and the French National Assembly, I propose the following framework, consisting of 5 articles and 3 notes, as a prediction of a plan that, through the efforts of the honorable members of the Seventh Parliament, especially the members of the Program and Budget Commission, will become more comprehensive and complete: Article 1- The total national budget bill, the budget supplement and amendment bill, or the fractional budget (several twelfths), and the five-year development programs must be drafted in accordance with Article 52 of the Constitution based on the provisions of the "Program and Budget Law" and the "Public Accounts Law," and no subject that requires independent legislation shall be included in them under the name of an article or a note.
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