Activities

The remit of the Committee on State Administration and Local Authorities shall be:

1) to prepare, on the instruction of the Seimas or on its own initiative, drafts of legal acts on the issues of State government and public administration, shaping of regional policy, reform of territorial structures, and the organisation, financing and economic independence of the work of local self-government;

2) to consider drafts of laws and other legal acts, prepare conclusions and proposals related to them, on the issues of the reform of State government, public administration and local self-government, administrative division of the territory of the State, regulation of the legal relations of civil service and local self-government;

3) to consider the Government programme provisions pertaining to the reform of state government, public administration and local self-government;

4) to consider, within the remit of the Committee, and to present to the Seimas conclusions concerning candidates for heads of public authorities and other political officials who are appointed by the Seimas;

5) to consider chapters of a draft law on the approval of financial indicators of the state budget and municipal budgets and to prepare conclusions related to the implementation of the state budget and municipal budgets in conjunction with other committees;

6) to approve proposals, as submitted to the Seimas by the Government, on the administrative division of the territory of the State and the defining of territorial boundaries of individual municipalities and counties;

7) to submit to the Seimas conclusions regarding the validity of the imposition of temporary direct rule within the territory of a municipality, a proposal to impose temporary direct rule within the territory of a municipality in cases provided for in the Law on Temporary Direct Rule on the Municipal Territory, a proposal for setting the date of a new election to municipal councils;

8) to discuss the matters falling within the remit of the Committee which have been referred to it on the instruction of the Seimas, the Board or the Speaker of the Seimas;

9) to consider proposals of the Association of Local Authorities of Lithuania on drafts of laws and other legal acts of the Seimas which are under preparation regarding the issues of local self-government development;

10) to hear, when exercising parliamentary scrutiny, the reports and information of institutions of State government and local self-government pertaining to the implementation of laws of the Republic of Lithuania and other acts adopted by the Seimas in respect of the matters falling within the remit of the Committee and to submit proposals and recommendations related to the matter in question to the Seimas, the Government and the Association of Local Authorities of Lithuania.

Article 69 of the Statue of the Seimas