Authorized by the Prime Minister, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra signed the Government's submission on the draft Law on Organization of Local Government (amended) to the National Assembly.
The draft law will be considered and approved by the National Assembly at the 9th Session (opened on May 5).
To ensure the operation of local governments when converting the model from 3 levels to 2 levels continuously and smoothly, the draft Law stipulates the implementation period from July 1, 2025.
At the same time, the People's Council, agencies under the People's Council, People's Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee, specialized agencies under the People's Committees of districts, towns under provinces and cities under centrally-run cities and towns shall cease to perform their tasks, powers and activities from July 1, except for the cases specified in Clause 6, Article 54 of this Law.
The draft Law also stipulates 8 transitional contents to ensure continuous and normal operations of new agencies, organizations and units when converting the 2-level local government organization model and promoting decentralization and delegation.
In particular, in order to promptly implement the organization of local governments at the provincial and commune levels according to the new model, the bill has stipulated the Government to promulgate legal documents under the jurisdiction to redistribute the tasks and powers of the local government and adjust other regulations related to the performance of tasks and powers of local governments.
This provision is aimed at unifying the application of the National Assembly's laws and resolutions, ordinances and resolutions and resolutions of the National Assembly Standing Committee and periodically reporting to the Standing Committee of the National Assembly; In case of related to laws and resolutions of the National Assembly, it will report to the National Assembly at the latest session.
From July 1, the draft Law stipulates that the Provincial People's Committee appoints the People's Committees at the commune level to inherit international agreements signed by the District People's Committee and by specialized agencies under the District People's Committee before that time.
Notably, the number of Vice Chairmen of People's Councils, Vice Chairmen of People's Committees, and deputy heads of affiliated agencies and units may be more than the prescribed number. No later than 5 years from the effective date of the Law, the number and arrangement of leaders and managers in administrative units shall comply with regulations.
The work and administrative procedures of agencies and units of the district -level local government are settling for individuals, organizations and enterprises, if they are not yet completed on the day of 1.7, the Chairman of the provincial People's Committee is competent and the responsibility to assign agencies and units of the local government at the residence of individuals or the place where the organization's transaction office is located, the administrative procedure is not solved, the dossier of the administrative procedure and the administrative procedure need to be resolved, the dossier of the administrative procedure, the resolution of the administrative procedure, the administrative procedure is not to be resolved, the dossier of the administrative procedure, the resolution of the administrative procedure, it is necessary job.
In case of solving problems arising when organizing local authorities 2 levels (provincial and commune levels) in accordance with this Law and when implementing the arrangement of administrative units at the provincial and commune levels as prescribed in the Resolutions of the National Assembly, the National Assembly Standing Committee shall apply Article 13 of Resolution No. 190/2025/QH15 on February 19, 2025 of the National Assembly on a number of regulatory issues related to the organization of the country's organization.
