Quebec (Legislative Reports) (Report‪)‬

The National Assembly adjourned on June 12, 2010, for its summer recess. According to the 2010-2011 calendar tabled by President Yvon Vallieres, it will resume on September 21. By the close of proceedings, the Members had passed 20 public bills and 10 private bills. Also, since the parliamentary reform adopted in April 2009, 23 electronic petitions signed by over 117,000 Quebecers have been presented to the National Assembly On May 11, at the request of two independent Members, the Assembly met as a committee of the whole to consider the Assembly's budget estimates for the 2010-2011 fiscal year. The last similar occurrence dated back to 1996. Since then, the practice had been for the Assembly to depart from Standing Order 286 and dispense the committee of the whole from meeting given that, by law, the Assembly's budget estimates are adopted by the Office of the National Assembly.