When the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives meets at 1.30 pm to­day leg­is­la­tors are ex­pect­ed to ap­prove Sen­ate amend­ments to the Chil­dren Bill. To­day's sit­ting is ex­pect­ed to be the fi­nal one of the cur­rent ses­sion and Par­lia­ment will be pro­rogued on June 26. One of the bills that is ex­pect­ed to lapse and most like­ly not be brought back in the new ses­sion, which be­gins ear­ly next month, is the Mo­tor Ve­hi­cles and Road Traf­fic (Amend­ment) Act, which was to pro­vide for pri­vate-for-hire (PH) taxis to op­er­ate in spec­i­fied re­mote com­mu­ni­ties. The bill was in­tro­duced by for­mer Min­is­ter with re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for Trans­port Jack Warn­er. It was nev­er de­bat­ed and is ex­pect­ed to lapse. Trans­port Min­is­ter De­vant Ma­haraj said no in­sur­ance com­pa­ny had sig­nalled any in­ten­tion to pro­vide in­sur­ance to al­low the ini­tia­tive to be­come op­er­a­tional. Among the ma­jor bills ex­pect­ed in the new ses­sion are a bill to al­low the Land Set­tle­ments Agency to de­mol­ish il­le­gal struc­tures.

Min­is­ter with re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the En­vi­ron­ment Dr Roodal Mooni­lal is ex­pect­ed to present the Bev­er­age Con­tain­er Bill for de­bate ear­ly in the new ses­sion. Mooni­lal, who is al­so the Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness, said yes­ter­day he was hap­py with the num­ber of bills passed in the ses­sion. He said it was a land­mark year for the Par­lia­ment, as a num­ber of crime-re­lat­ed bills were passed. Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Fitzger­ald Hinds said the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship did not have a par­lia­men­tary agen­da and at­tempt­ed to "rus­tle to­geth­er" sev­er­al PNM-draft­ed bills to look ef­fec­tive dur­ing the cur­rent ses­sion. He said be­cause of the Gov­ern­ment's in­ef­fi­cien­cy leg­is­la­tors spent more time in com­mit­tee stage. Mean­while, stu­dents of the In­sti­tute of Gen­der and De­vel­op­ment Stud­ies at the St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies are ex­pect­ed to as­sem­ble out­side the Par­lia­ment from 12.30 pm to­day as a show of sup­port for the pro­posed na­tion­al gen­der pol­i­cy. The UWI stu­dents plan to meet and greet par­lia­men­tar­i­ans as they en­ter Tow­er D, Wright­son Road, Port-of-Spain. The Coali­tion Ad­vo­cat­ing for the In­clu­sion of Sex­u­al Ori­en­ta­tion (Caiso) is al­so ex­pect­ed to take part.