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The National Assembly Committee on Public Administration and Security will hold the first subcommittee of the bill review today (22nd) to deliberate on the 'Amendment to the Ethics in Public Officials Act', which obliges public officials to register virtual assets (coins) and property.
The amendment aims to include virtual assets in the property declaration and disclosure of high-ranking public officials, including members of the National Assembly, and the review was accelerated in the wake of the controversy over Rep. Kim Nam-guk, who defected from the Democratic Party due to suspicions of trading and holding large amounts of virtual assets.
The current Ethics in Public Officials Act includes cash, stocks, bonds, gold, jewelry, etc. Unlike antiques and memberships, virtual assets such as coins are not subject to property declaration at all.
The Executive Committee will hold a plenary meeting on the 1th so that the amendment can be finally passed at the plenary session scheduled for the 25th.
The National Assembly's Special Committee on Political Reform (Special Committee on Political Reform) also plans to hold the first subcommittee on bill review today to deal with a bill that includes virtual assets such as coins in the registration of private interests of lawmakers.
It was promoted to prevent conflicts of interest, such as a lawmaker with a large number of virtual assets co-sponsoring a bill to suspend the taxation of virtual assets.
The special committee will hold a plenary meeting in the afternoon following the bill this morning to pass the amendment, and the bill will be finalized at the plenary session on the 24th.
Meanwhile, the ruling party will hold a plenary meeting of the National Assembly's Planning and Finance Committee today to ask questions about pending issues with the Ministry of Planning and Finance and the Bank of Korea.
The ruling party plans to ask Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho and Bank of Korea Governor Lee Chang-yong about the government's stance on the recent trade deficit and monetary policy.
The National Assembly's Judiciary Committee will consider amendments to the Act on Aggravated Punishment for Specified Economic Crimes, which would make it possible to severely punish the crime of wire fraud, and the Act on the Punishment of Stalking Crimes, etc., which would have strengthened measures to protect victims of stalking crimes.