Committees

• House Business Committee: creates Parliamentary calendar; schedules committee business; issues directives and guidelines to prioritise or postpone any business of the House.

• Procedure and House Rules Committee: proposes rules for the orderly and effective conduct of committee business.

• Liaison Committee: guides and co-ordinates the operations, policies and mandates of all committees.

• Committee on Selection: nominates members to serve in committees.

• Catering and Health Club Committee.

• Committee on Appointments: In the absence of the Speaker, the Committee elects a person from amongst its members to chair the meeting.

• Public Accounts Committee: responsible for the examination of the accounts showing the appropriations of the sum voted by the House to meet the public expenditure and of such other accounts

• Public Investments Committee: examines the reports and accounts of public investments

• Budget and Appropriations Committee: investigates, inquires into and reports on all matters related to co-ordination, control and monitoring of the national budget; examines the Budget Policy Statement; examines bills related to the national budget

• Committee on Implementation: responsible for scrutinising the resolutions of the House (including adopted committee reports), petitions and the undertakings given by the National Executive

• Committee on Delegated Legislation: delegates on statutory instruments submitted to the Assembly

• Committee on Regional Integration: examine the records of all the relevant debates and resolutions of the meetings of the East African Legislative Assembly; inquires into and examines any other matter relating to regional integration generally requiring action by the House

• Defence and Foreign Relations Committee: Defence, intelligence, foreign relations diplomatic and consular services, international boundaries, international relations, agreements, treaties and conventions

• Administration and National Security Committee: National security, police services, home affairs, public administration, public service, prisons, immigration and the management of natural disasters, community service orders

• Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives Committee: Agriculture, livestock, irrigation, fisheries development, co-operatives development, production and marketing

• Environment and Natural Resources Committee: Matters relating to climate change, environment management and conservation, forestry, water resource management, wildlife, mining and natural resources, pollution and waste management

• Education, Research and Technology Committee: Education, training, research and technological advancement

• Energy, Communication and Information Committee: Fossil fuels exploration, Development, production, maintenance and regulation of energy, communication, information, broadcasting and Information Communications Technology (ICT) development and management

• Finance, Planning and Trade Committee: Public finance, monetary policies, public debt, financial institutions, investment and divestiture policies, pricing policies, banking, insurance, population, revenue policies, planning, national development, trade, tourism promotion and management, commerce and industry

• Health Committee: Matters related to health, medical care and health insurance

• Justice and Legal Affairs Committee: Constitutional affairs, the administration of law and justice, including the Judiciary, public prosecutions, elections, ethics, integrity and anti-corruption and human rights

• Labour and Social Welfare Committee: Labour, trade union relations, manpower or human resource planning, gender, culture and social welfare, youth, National Youth Service children’s welfare; national heritage, betting, lotteries and sports

• Lands Committee: Matters related to lands and settlement

• Transport, Public Works and Housing Committee: Transport, roads, public works, construction and maintenance of roads, rails and buildings, air, seaports and housing

• Committee on Constituency Development Fund

• Constitution Implementation Oversight Committee

• Pensions Committee

• Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity

• Parliamentary Broadcasting and Library Committee

Coalition and party summary

See also

• National Assembly of Kenya elections, 2007

• Constitution of Kenya

• History of Kenya

• List of national legislatures

• Legislative branch