MPs to Meet with the Civil Society

On May 29 the CAB in Oradea, in partnership with the Coalition for Consolidating the NGO Sector and the County division of the National Board of Social Assistants in Romania, organized a meeting with the MPs in Bihor. The goal of the meeting was to inform the civil society with regard to the hitherto parliamentary activity of the elected representatives and the number of the legislative proposals submitted, the number of the positions took in the Parliament’s plenary sessions, as well as other information of interest for citizens.

At the same time, the meeting proved to be a very good opportunity to promote legislative proposals, based on the needs of the representatives of the civil society and the professional organizations. Thus, Ruhama Foundation, member of the Coalition for Consolidating the NGO Sector, discussed about modifying the provisions of the Law 34/1998 concerning subsidizing the associations and foundations with legal status. The issue raised by the representatives of the Ruhama Foundation was that the provisions of the law do not make room for those bodies to compensate the personnel hired for a social service, unless they have formal education in the social field.

Another modification was proposed in relation to the Law 114/1996 (housing legislation). The proposal, made by the CAB in Oradea in the name of a citizen with disability, concerns the elimination of the provision that does not allow citizens to be the beneficiaries of the social system of housing if they alienated their properties after January 1, 1990. In the opinions of the supporters of the modification, the ban should exclude the citizens with disabilities, in the cases in which the disability occurred after the alienation of the acquired property. The amendment was taken into account by an MP, the elected representative agreed to start working on integrating the modification into the in place legislation. However, the MP suggested that the exception would not be subject to modifying the Law 114/1996, but rather to complementing the Law 448/2006 on protecting and promoting the rights of the persons with disabilities.