חוק הכנסת (תיקון מס' 45), התשע"ח-2018Knesset Law (Amendment No. 45), 2018 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

Various amendments were made to the Knesset Law: The first establishes that not only in the year in which elections are held, but also in the year in which the "determining day" falls (i.e., the 101st day before the elections, or after the passage of a dissolution law), it will be possible to deviate from the regular session dates and go into an election recess, in the manner prescribed in the Knesset regulations – a decision of the Knesset Speaker after consultation with his deputies, and with the approval of the Knesset Committee; The second concerns the commencement of the Leader of the Opposition's term during the recess. Before the amendment, a condition for commencing the position was an announcement in the plenum. Under the amendment, when the Leader of the Opposition is determined during a recess, a notice shall be sent to Knesset members, and upon its delivery his term shall begin. It was further established that notice of the determination of the Leader of the Opposition shall be given within two weeks after the formation of the government; The third concerns the appearance of the Knesset Legal Advisor in legal proceedings involving a legal question relating to the Knesset, where the Knesset is not a party to the proceedings. It was established that the Knesset Legal Advisor shall be entitled to appear in such proceedings without needing court approval; The fourth amends the section establishing that the salary of the Knesset Legal Advisor shall be set by the Knesset Speaker, with the approval of the Knesset Committee, and adds that regarding the calculation of the pension of a Knesset Legal Advisor under a budgetary pension, starting from the currently serving Advisor onward, the provisions applicable to judges shall apply, and that he shall be entitled to a pension after completing at least one full term in his position.

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What was said in the plenum

The bill proposes several technical amendments to the Knesset Law: the possibility of deviating from the regular recess dates in a year in which the 'determining day' ahead of elections falls, regulating the date on which the Leader of the Opposition takes office when this occurs during a recess period, enabling the Knesset's legal advisor to appear in legal proceedings concerning the Knesset without court approval, and extending the Knesset Speaker's authority to set the legal advisor's salary to also cover their pension. The first-reading discussion was short and without real disagreement.

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An automatic summary of the plenum transcripts: the debate on the bill at every reading it was voted on. Arguments are given as the speakers made them; this is not an assessment. The list of speakers comes from the transcript, without a model. Transcripts of the sittings: 1, 2 · write to the author

Reservations to the second reading

4 reservations were filed: proposed changes to the text the committee brought to the second and third reading.

The reservations are intended to delete section 4 in its current wording, to add an age condition for the start of payment of the allowance and to exclude the survivors' allowance from the provision of the section, as well as to change the structure and wording of section 5 so that the applicability clause in it becomes a restriction on applicability.

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By faction

• Zionist Union opposition · 3 reservations · 1 member
• Yesh Atid opposition · 1 reservation · 11 members

A joint reservation counts for every faction whose members filed it.

Asked to speak: Tamar Zandberg (Meretz), Ilan Gilon (Meretz), Esawi Frej (Meretz), Michal Rozin (Meretz), Mossi Raz (Meretz)

Proposers and reservation numbers are extracted automatically from the committee version, and the count is checked against the numbers printed in it. The descriptions are an automatic summary. Committee version for the second and third reading (PDF) · write to the author