The Parliament Bureau has given the green light to the start of processing of the popular legislative initiative (ILP) relating to the education of children aged 0 to 3 years, which aims to "guarantee the universality, free-of-charge nature, quality and equity of the service in this educational stage".
As the Catalan Chamber has detailed in a statement, the decision was adopted following the meeting held exceptionally this Monday afternoon, prompted by the visit this Tuesday of a delegation from the California State Senate to the Parliament.
At the meeting, the Bureau took note of the report from the monitoring commission, which certifies that the ILP on education from zero to three years has managed to collect 64,438 signatures, comfortably exceeding the 50,000 signatures required for the proposal to be able to proceed with its parliamentary course.
Thus, this Tuesday the processing will be formally activated, with the opening of a four-month period so that the full assembly can hold the general debate on the bill proposal.
NEW SESSION PERIOD
After the meeting of the Bureau, the Board of Spokespersons has set the schedule of plenary sittings for the next session period, the seventh of the legislature, which will begin on 15 January and run until 31 July 2027.
The work plan includes holding twelve plenary sittings: the first will take place between 26 and 28 January, while the final session will be held from 20 to 22 July.
In addition, the next plenary sitting of this session period has been scheduled for the first week of December, after the Bureau agreed to suspend the initially planned one for 17 to 19 November due to the campaign for the general elections of 29 November.