The Office of the National Assembly said the eighth session of the National Assembly Standing Committee is expected to take place in four phases.
The first phase will take place on the afternoon of November 2. The second will consist of three meetings on November 10, 11 and 13. The third phase will be held on November 17 and 18, and the fourth will take place on the morning of November 25.
National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man will open the session, while the National Assembly vice chairmen will take turns chairing its proceedings.
At the session, the Standing Committee will give its opinions on explanations, the incorporation of feedback and revisions to 35 drafts. They include an amended law on asset auctions; amendments to the Electricity Law; amendments to the Investment Law; the Law on Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Development; an amended Law on Lawyers; an amended Law on Grassroots Democracy; an amended Penal Code and a National Assembly resolution on its implementation; an amended Criminal Procedure Code and a National Assembly resolution on its implementation; an amended law on the organization of criminal investigation bodies; a National Assembly resolution on piloting a mechanism to confiscate and handle crime-related assets without a conviction; an amended law on marine resources, the marine environment and islands; amendments to the Law on Environmental Protection; the Law on Legal Normative Documents; and a report on the implementation of Resolution No. 206/2025/QH15 on a special mechanism for resolving difficulties and obstacles caused by legal provisions.
The committee will also review drafts of the amended Land Law; amended Law on Real Estate Business; amended Housing Law; consolidated Law on the State Budget; amendments to laws on corporate income tax, non-agricultural land use tax and personal income tax; amended Bidding Law; amended Law on Food Safety; Law on Data Security; Law on Electronic Identification and Authentication; Law on Protection of Important Works Related to National Security; amendments to laws on the management and use of weapons, explosives and support tools, and on fire prevention, firefighting, rescue and disaster response; amended Law on Administrative Violations; amended Postal Law; amendments to the Law on Social Insurance; amendments to the Labor Code and laws on archives, gender equality, Red Cross activities and employment; amendments to the Law on Occupational Safety and Hygiene; amended Law on Donation, Retrieval and Transplantation of Human Tissues and Organs and Body Donation; amendments to laws on children, people with disabilities, medical examination and treatment, pharmaceuticals, older people and health insurance; amendments to the Law on Prevention and Control of Tobacco Harms; amendments to laws on physical training and sports, tourism, libraries, cinema, cultural heritage, advertising and the press; a National Assembly resolution on special mechanisms and policies for tourism development; and the Law on Cultural Industry Development.
The Standing Committee will consider and adopt several draft resolutions. They concern a procedure allowing inspection bodies to use part of money recovered and identified through inspections, after it has been paid into the state budget, for their operations and capacity building; amendments to Resolution No. 71/2025/UBTVQH15 on the functions, duties, powers and organizational structure of the Council for Ethnic Affairs and National Assembly committees; amendments to Resolution No. 730/2004/NQ-UBTVQH11 of September 30, 2004, approving salary scales and allowances for state leaders and professional salary scales for the court and procuracy sectors; amendments to Resolution No. 1206/2016/NQ-UBTVQH13 on the regime, policies and operating conditions of people's council deputies; and approval of the National Assembly's Digital Architecture Framework, version 2.0, together with adjustments to Resolution No. 1637/NQ-UBTVQH15 approving the National Assembly's digital transformation plan for 2025–2030.
For oversight work, the Standing Committee will give its opinion on Report No. 839/BC-CP dated October 5, 2026, on guidance and implementation of legal provisions on regimes and policies for members of Vietnamese state agencies abroad.
On important matters, the committee will discuss the investment policy for the 2026–2035 national target program on crime prevention and control; the investment policy for three expressway construction projects: the Bao Ha–Lai Chau expressway, Bao Ha–Tan Phong section; the Quang Ngai–Kon Tum expressway; and the Moc Chau–Son La–Dien Bien expressway in Son La Province; as well as special mechanisms and policies for tourism development.
The Standing Committee will also consider and approve the prime minister's proposal to appoint ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary.
Sources: Thanh Niên
