How many bills does Parliament place and pass, how fast, whose are they, what do the committees report, and which ministries' bills dominate?

Parliament and legislative scrutiny. Part of what the twin can answer. Every figure below is the value the route serves, with its source; the raw response is at /api/twin/brain/parliament.

Descriptive, sourced: no model

Basis: sourced records (URL, sha256 or locator per row), no model.

Not validated; no forecast. Counts and dates are those printed in the Parliament Post (one session), the OCAG PAC meeting tables and the bdlaws index, each row kept with its page and printed line. Days, shares and medians are computed here from the dates shown beside them. Only one session is held, so nothing here is a trend.

As of: Session 18 ends 2013-07-16; PAC meetings to 2020-12-31; bdlaws collected 2026-09-07.

Bills placed, 18th Session (Budget Session), 9th Parliament, 3 June 2013 to 16 July 2013: 11; Parliament Post, Issue 5, Session-18 (Budget Session), 3 June to 16 July 2013, 9th Parliament (Improving Democracy through Parliamentary Development project, Bangladesh Parliament / UNDP), p. 3, printed line "1. The Minister for Home Affairs, [name omitted], tabled the "Anti-terrorism (Amendment) Bill, 2013" on June 3, 2013.", sha 372a5ab1af4e
Bills passed, 18th Session (Budget Session), 9th Parliament, 3 June 2013 to 16 July 2013: 12; Parliament Post, Issue 5, Session-18 (Budget Session), 3 June to 16 July 2013, 9th Parliament (Improving Democracy through Parliamentary Development project, Bangladesh Parliament / UNDP), p. 3, printed line "1. The Minister for Home Affairs, [name omitted], tabled the "Anti-terrorism (Amendment) Bill, 2013" on June 3, 2013.", sha 372a5ab1af4e
Committee reports tabled, 18th Session (Budget Session), 9th Parliament, June-July 2013: 10; Parliament Post, Issue 5, Session-18 (Budget Session), 3 June to 16 July 2013, 9th Parliament (Improving Democracy through Parliamentary Development project, Bangladesh Parliament / UNDP), p. 3, printed line "1. The Minister for Home Affairs, [name omitted], tabled the "Anti-terrorism (Amendment) Bill, 2013" on June 3, 2013.", sha 372a5ab1af4e
Median time to passage, bills on both lists in Session 18 (2013), n = 6: 15.5 days; Only bills that passed in the session can be timed, so the figures leave out the 5 bills still pending at its end and understate the wait. The 6 other bills passed were placed in an earlier session whose date is not held. n is 6; read these as the session's record, not an average for Parliament.
Private member's bills introduced, Session 18 (2013): 0; Parliament Post, Issue 5, Session-18 (Budget Session), 3 June to 16 July 2013, 9th Parliament (Improving Democracy through Parliamentary Development project, Bangladesh Parliament / UNDP), p. 4, printed line "No Private Member's Bill was introduced during the 18th Session.", sha 372a5ab1af4e

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Bills placed and passed: one session, not a yearly trend

Held session totals by calendar year

Year	Placed	Passed	Scope
2013	Placed: 11	Passed: 12	Scope: the 18th Session only (3 June to 16 July); no other 2013 session is held

Source: Parliament Post, Issue 5, Session-18 (Budget Session), 3 June to 16 July 2013, 9th Parliament (Improving Democracy through Parliamentary Development project, Bangladesh Parliament / UNDP)

How long did passage take for bills on both lists?

Only bills that passed in the session can be timed, so the figures leave out the 5 bills still pending at its end and understate the wait. The 6 other bills passed were placed in an earlier session whose date is not held. n is 6; read these as the session's record, not an average for Parliament.

Mean passage time, Session 18 (2013), money bills, n = 3: 7.7 days; Parliament Post, Issue 5, Session-18 (Budget Session), 3 June to 16 July 2013, 9th Parliament (Improving Democracy through Parliamentary Development project, Bangladesh Parliament / UNDP), p. 3, printed line "1. The Minister for Home Affairs, [name omitted], tabled the "Anti-terrorism (Amendment) Bill, 2013" on June 3, 2013.", sha 372a5ab1af4e
Mean passage time, Session 18 (2013), other bills, n = 3: 29.3 days; Parliament Post, Issue 5, Session-18 (Budget Session), 3 June to 16 July 2013, 9th Parliament (Improving Democracy through Parliamentary Development project, Bangladesh Parliament / UNDP), p. 3, printed line "1. The Minister for Home Affairs, [name omitted], tabled the "Anti-terrorism (Amendment) Bill, 2013" on June 3, 2013.", sha 372a5ab1af4e

Bill journeys in Session 18, 2013

Bill

Government and private members' bills

Every bill placed was placed by a Minister or State Minister; the issue prints no private member's bill. The sponsor of the passed bills that were placed earlier is not stated.

Government bills placed, Session 18 (2013): 11; Parliament Post, Issue 5, Session-18 (Budget Session), 3 June to 16 July 2013, 9th Parliament (Improving Democracy through Parliamentary Development project, Bangladesh Parliament / UNDP), p. 4, printed line "No Private Member's Bill was introduced during the 18th Session.", sha 372a5ab1af4e
Government share of bills placed, Session 18 (2013): 100%; Parliament Post, Issue 5, Session-18 (Budget Session), 3 June to 16 July 2013, 9th Parliament (Improving Democracy through Parliamentary Development project, Bangladesh Parliament / UNDP), p. 4, printed line "No Private Member's Bill was introduced during the 18th Session.", sha 372a5ab1af4e

Committee reports and Public Accounts Committee meetings

Meetings are those printed in the OCAG report's PAC meeting table for the calendar year; the table prints no meeting for March to September 2020. The numbering shows the table does not list every meeting in 2018 (see numbers_in_range_not_printed). The PAC is the only committee whose meetings are held.

Reports tabled in Session 18, 2013

Reports tabled per committee are the session's printed list; committee meetings are not printed for these committees (see no_data).

Committee	Reports	Bills
Standing Committee on the Ministry of Commerce	Reports: 2	Bills: Partnership (Amendment) Bill 2013, Societies Registration (Amendment) Bill, 2013

Which sponsoring ministries' bills dominate?

Finance placed 3 of the 11 bills, all of them money bills; every other ministry placed one. Excluding money bills, no ministry placed more than one bill in the session.

Sponsoring ministries, Session 18 (2013)

The bills are one session's record (a budget session, when the money bills fall); the ministry that administers a bill once enacted is not held.

Ministry	Placed	Share	Money bills	Passed in session
Ministry of Finance	Placed: 3	Share:

Instruments listed in bdlaws (not bills passed)

This is a count of what the index lists, not of bills passed: the index carries no flag for repealed or in-force, so a law repealed since is absent or present as the site lists it, and completeness is not verified (years with no rows are shown). The kind comes from the last noun of the title (Act, Ordinance, Order, Regulation; the Bangla titles likewise) and 'other' holds titles that end in none of them. Acts and ordinances are counted apart: an ordinance is made by the President when Parliament is not in session and is not a bill passed by Parliament.

Index rows by decade of the title year, from 1972

Decade	Acts	Ordinances	All instruments
1970s (from 1972)	Acts: 56	Ordinances:

Registry bodies and the coverage of the links

exact normalised name only (the PAC alias is stated on its row); unmatched names are listed in the ministries and committee sections

Sponsor ministries matched, Session 18 (2013), of 9: 8; the ministry named for the sponsoring minister equals a Body label or name en after case, spacing and punctuation only, with a single candidate; the state minister's portfolio 'LGRD' is expanded as the same issue spells it out
Committees matched, Session 18 (2013), of 9: 4; the committee named in the issue, as 'Standing Committee on <Ministry>', equals a Body label after case, spacing and punctuation only, with a single candidate

Bodies reached by the held records

Body	Role

Checks reported by the source route

Reconciliation checks

Check	Result	Detail
the printed item numbers of the bills placed run 1 to n without a gap	Result: pass	Detail: 11 items
the printed item numbers of the bills passed run 1 to n without a gap	Result: pass	Detail: 12 items

Public Accounts Committee: meetings printed by month

annual_activity_report_2018.pdf · sha256 532f6e9c5407f78d93e1639cfeed8af4c6f2d036e76953b42ec91c83597f54c3

Meetings printed, 2018

Period	Count
2018-01	Count: 2
2018-02	Count: 1
2018-03	Count:

Where sources disagree

PAC meetings held in the 10th Parliament: Text 2018 report 108; Chart 2019 report 55. The two OCAG reports disagree and the difference is not reconciled here. If the printed meeting numbers count the 10th Parliament's meetings, as the restart at 1 in 2019 suggests, the 2018 table's last number, 98 (30 September 2018), is above the chart's 55 and within the text's 108. The 2018 table prints 17 meetings.
PAC meetings in the 11th Parliament to the end of 2019: Text 2019 report 20; Chart 2019 report 19; Table 2019 rows printed 19. The text says 20 and numbers the last meeting 20; the chart says 19; the table prints 19 rows and no 11th meeting. Not reconciled.
the lake's PAC sitting calendar for 2019 against the printed table: cag_annual_report_pac_sittings_calendar_2019 holds 20 rows, numbers meetings 11 to 20 one too low from the printed 12th meeting, and a second 19 December meeting that is not printed. It is not served; the printed table is.