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Amends the Act to provide for registration and compliance, qualifications for registration, teaching standards and professional development, teacher management, performance management and capacity building, the Institute of Teacher Support and Professional Development, optimal utilization and promotion of teachers, disciplinary control, review of discipline decisions, further offences and revised penalties, additional disciplinary offences, and minimum entry requirements to qualify for registration as a teacher.

Amends the Local Authorities Provident Fund Act to establish the County Governments Retirement Fund; provide for contributions to and administration of the Fund; establish the County Governments Retirement Fund Board; and align the Act with the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 and the County Governments Act, Cap. 265.

The Bill amends the Local Authorities Provident Fund Act to establish the County Governments Retirement Fund; provide for contributions to and administration of the Fund; establish the County Governments Retirement Fund Board; and provide for benefits to contributors.

Establishes the National Coroners Service and provides for post-mortem investigations, including mandatory investigations of deaths suspected to be criminal and reportable deaths; transfer of bodies into and out of Kenya; disposal permits, exhumation and recovery of cremated remains; costs of post-mortem examinations borne by the State; and repeal of the National Coroners Service Act (Cap. 89).

Establishes the County Governments Retirement Scheme; provides for membership, contributions by members and sponsors, investment and management of Scheme assets, payment of benefits, and protection of members’ accrued rights and benefits; establishes a Board of Trustees; and provides transitional arrangements for transfer from the Local Authorities Provident Fund.

The Bill introduces a new subsection 2A to set a term limit of three years for chief executives of State Corporations, renewable for one further term, and provides transitional provisions so that the legislation applies prospectively for new appointments or renewal of contracts for current serving chief executives.

The Bill establishes the Kenya Audio-Visual and Cinema Commission, the Kenya Audio-Visual Regulatory Authority and the Kenya School of Film and Creative Arts; demarcates promotion and development roles from regulatory functions; provides for a register of creatives, incentives, capital-markets products and creative industries in educational establishments; repeals the Films and Stage Plays Act and revokes the State Corporations (Kenya Film Commission) Order.

Amends the Air Passenger Service Charge Act to remove ambiguity and provide clarity of terms, and to provide for remittance of amounts of charge collected directly to the beneficiaries in accordance with the Cabinet Secretary's Gazette notice on apportionment.

Provides for the development of the National Qualifications Framework, registration of qualifications awarding institutions, establishment of the database for national qualifications, notification of issuance of award and access to information on database; repeals the spent transitional provision and section 68 of the Basic Education Act.

Provides for the system and structure, administration, registration, governance and management of basic education; special needs education; Quality Assurance and Standards; scholarships and bursaries; and establishes the Kenya Education Management Information System, Kenya Institute of Special Education and National Council for Education in Marginalized Communities. Repeals the Basic Education Act.

Amends the principal Act to streamline the operations of the Institute: replaces “Director” with “Chief Executive Officer”; replaces the membership of the Council; provides for committees and panels; repeals section 18; provides for Cabinet Secretary consultation with the Council when making regulations; provides for accreditation of institutions and persons wishing to develop curricula and programmes for use in basic education; and provides for transitional matters.

Provides for pre-service education; in-service training of teachers and education managers; registration, review and appeal relating to teacher training colleges; and establishes the Kenya Teachers Training College and the Kenya School of Education, with financial, regulatory, savings and transitional provisions.

Provides for the establishment, powers and functions of the Kenya National Educational Assessments Council and the conduct of assessments; registration, hosting and merger of assessment centres; e-assessment; candidates and certification; assessment malpractices; financial and transitional provisions; and repeal of the Kenya National Examinations Council Act (Cap. 214A).

Establishes the Kenya Universities and Colleges Central Placement Service and the Tertiary Education Funding Authority; provides for placement, financing and coordinated career guidance; establishes the Tertiary Education Fund; provides for loans, scholarships, data management, dispute resolution, repeal and transitional provisions.

Requires the National Transport and Safety Authority to register and license public service vehicle conformity assessors, prescribe criteria for conformity assessment, designate assessors, conduct periodic audits, and receive technical reports.

Repeals the College of Arms Act and provides for the establishment of the College of Arms; the grant and registration of Arms and heraldic representations; registration processes for local and foreign Arms; and prohibition of misuse of Arms and heraldic representations.

The Bill establishes clear timelines for making statutory instruments, requires annual reporting to Parliament on compliance and outstanding instruments, empowers Parliament to direct completion of outstanding instruments, and requires outstanding statutory instruments to be made within eighteen months of the coming into force of the Act.

Provides for the equitable allocation of revenue raised nationally among county governments for the 2026/2027 financial year; transfer of allocations from the Consolidated Fund to County Revenue Funds; budget ceilings for recurrent expenditure; funding of transferred functions; reports on actual transfers; and use of the fourth determination of the basis of allocation of revenue among counties.

Deletes and substitutes section 10 of the National Coroners Service Act to require a Coroner-General to be a citizen of Kenya, hold a law degree, be admitted to the roll of advocates, have at least ten years’ experience practising as a lawyer in Kenya, five years’ management experience, and hold a valid practising certificate.

Amends the Pensions Act, Cap 189, by deleting section 5(2), and the Public Service Commission Act by deleting section 68(4), to make the right to pension an absolute right for every officer.

Establishes the Kenya Blood and Transplant Authority; provides for registration and certification of transfusing, transplant and retrieval facilities, banks, courier providers and distributors; establishes quality-management systems, donor consent, complaints and appeals mechanisms; creates offences relating to unregulated services, commercial dealings, trafficking and retrieval without authorization; and repeals provisions of the Health Act and the Human Tissue Act.

Provides for additional allocations to county governments for the 2026/2027 financial year, including conditional and unconditional allocations, and for their transfer from the Consolidated Fund to the respective County Revenue Funds and special purpose accounts.

Amends articles 99 and 193 of the Constitution and sections 24 and 25 of the Elections Act to disqualify a county governor, and a person who has held office as a county governor within the five years immediately preceding the date of election, from election to the Senate or a county assembly.

The Bill amends section 35 of the County Governments Act to require not more than two-thirds of county executive committee nominees to be of the same gender, take into account persons living with disabilities, and require a county governor to submit, within fourteen days, a qualified person where rejection results in non-compliance.

Provides a framework for the regulation and governance of artificial intelligence; establishes the Office of the Artificial Intelligence Commissioner and the Advisory Committee on Artificial Intelligence; provides for risk classification, obligations for high-risk systems, transparency, regulatory sandboxes, ethical guidelines, literacy programmes and public-sector use; and prescribes offences, penalties and regulations.

Consolidates the law relating to conduct of a referendum and establishes procedures for constitutional, county and other referenda, including pre-referendum processes, questions and notices, referendum committees, voting thresholds, declaration and certification of results, petitions, offences, regulations and consequential amendments.

Provides a framework for ensuring minimum guaranteed returns in counties; establishes a county agricultural produce minimum guarantees committee in each county; and provides for assessment, publication, application, payment, suspension and cancellation of minimum guaranteed returns.

The Bill proposes mandatory publication of assented legislation at the county level; annual state of the county addresses before county assemblies; timelines for nomination and appointment of county executive committee members and county chief officers; appointment of new county public service boards after each general election; and a county public service audit.

Amends the Investment Promotion Act, Employment Act, Occupational Safety and Health Act, Affordable Housing Act, Land Act and Anti-Counterfeit Act to create a conducive environment for doing business; provide for registration and facilitation of foreign direct investment; recognise remote locations as workplaces; reduce affordable-housing timelines; and provide for disposal of counterfeit goods, penalties, fixed Board terms and quorum.

Amends the Sports Act to create county academies of sports, to protect minors in sports and for connected purposes.

Amends the Forest Conservation and Management Act to make further provision for afforestation and reforestation of indigenous forest in Kenya and promote tree-planting in all counties; and amends the Climate Change Act to provide for setting and formulation of strategies to achieve national environment targets and annual carbon sequestration targets.

Amends the Statutory Instruments Act to provide timelines within which statutory instruments shall be made; makes failure to make an instrument an offence; and permits any person to petition Parliament and submit a draft statutory instrument for consideration.

Specifies two nominated members representing the youth, two representing marginalised groups, and persons with disability reflecting the number of wards in the respective county; requires at least five percent of members of a county assembly to be persons with disability; and provides for representation of physical, hearing and visual impairments.

Provides for the right of a mother to breastfeed freely or express milk for her infant; places an obligation on employers to provide lactation rooms and standards of such rooms; provides for baby changing tables and general offences; and gives the Cabinet Secretary power to make regulations.

Amends the Statutory Instruments Act, 2013 to streamline its provisions with the Constitution; provides for submission and notification of instruments that cease to have effect, House approval of exemptions, annulment, removal of mandatory review and expiration, increased fines and terms of imprisonment, and savings for regulations in operation on or before 24th January, 2024.

Makes further provision for allocation of adequate facilities to County Wildlife Conservation and Compensation Committees; provides a twelve-month timeline for compensation for human death, human injury, crop and property damage caused by wildlife; and makes further provision for payment of compensation and other entitlements due to local communities affected by wildlife.

Establishes the Gold Processing Corporation; provides for the application, cancellation and renewal of a gold processing licence; establishes a legal and institutional framework for collecting, purifying, smelting, fabricating, homogenizing, sampling, registering, monitoring and transporting of gold or products of gold; and amends the Mining Act.

Establishes the Gold Processing Corporation; provides a legal and institutional framework for collecting, purifying, smelting, fabricating, homogenizing, sampling, registering, monitoring and transporting gold or products of gold; provides for permits for exploration and exploitation and for processing licences; and amends the Mining Act in relation to gold.

Establish a county hall of fame in each county; provide a framework for recognition of persons who have made significant contributions to the county or country, and for preservation of the history, heritage and culture of the county.

Provides for the conservation, preservation, protection, research and management of cultural and natural heritage at the national and county levels of Government; establishes the National Museums of Kenya and a Heritage Tribunal; repeals the National Museums and Heritage Act; and makes consequential amendments.

Give effect to Article 43 (1) (a) of the Constitution; provide for the responsibility of the national and county governments in the realisation of quality healthcare for patients; establish the Quality Health Care and Patient Safety Authority; provide for registration, licensing and accreditation of health facilities; set standards for quality healthcare; and make consequential amendments to other Acts.

Revenue raised nationally in respect of the 2026/27 financial year shall be shared equitably among the national and county governments as set out in the Schedule: Kshs. 2,471,624,184,439 to the National Government, Kshs. 10,250,573,705 to the Equalisation Fund and Kshs. 420,000,000,000 as county equitable share.

To authorize the issue of a sum of money out of the Equalisation Fund and its application towards the service of the year ending 30th June, 2026; to appropriate that sum for certain public basic services; and for connected purposes.

Amends the Forest Conservation and Management Act; establishes the Directorate of Forest Regulation and the Kenya Forestry Research Institute; provides for management of dryland forests, Payment for Ecosystem Services Schemes, forest certification and timber grading; and amends offences, penalties and regulations.

Amends section 42 of the Environmental Management and Co-ordination Act to prohibit the introduction, growth or maintenance of trees of the eucalyptus species in and along any river, lake, sea or wetland, and of any invasive species or other potentially dangerous species.

To give effect to Article 11(2)(a) of the Constitution; to establish the Kenya National Library Service, provide for its management, preserve national documentary heritage, distinguish its functions from other public libraries, and repeal the Kenya National Library Service Board Act.

Creates a legal framework for the conduct of public participation; identifies responsible authorities; outlines general and specific guidelines; requires notification, reasonable time, access to the process and documents, and facilitation; provides for public participation by Parliament; protects protected information and requires compliance with the Data Protection Act.

Provides for the conduct of public participation; gives effect to the constitutional principle of participation of the people; requires responsible authorities to facilitate public participation, give notice, allow submissions and reasonable time, process responses, facilitate access to processes and documents, and develop specific guidelines.

Amends the Sports Act to define manipulation of a sports competition; provide for investigation by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and relevant sports organizations; create the offence of manipulation of a sports competition and provide penalties and disciplinary sanctions.

Provide for the conservation, management and development of fisheries and other aquatic resources; establish the Kenya Fisheries Service; establish the Fish Levy Development Fund, the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute and the Fisheries Tribunal; repeal the Fisheries Management and Development Act.