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1. The Parliament adopts laws in a separate session of the Chambers by sequential consideration of issues, first in the Mazhilis, and then in the Senate, including:
1) Approve the national budget and make amendments and supplements thereto;
2) Establish and annul state taxes and dues;
3) Establish the rules for resolution of issues related to the administrative and territorial structure of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
4) Institute state awards, honorary, military and other titles, ranked positions, diplomatic ranks of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and determine state symbols of the Republic;
5) resolve issues of state loans and economic and other assistance granted by the Republic of Kazakhstan;
6) Resolve amnesty issues;
7) Ratify and denounce international treaties of the Republic.
2. The Parliament at a separate session of the Chambers through consecutive consideration of issues first in the Mazhilis and then in the Senate shall:
1) Discuss the National Budget Performance Report;
2) 2) holds a repeated discussion and vote on the laws or articles of the law that raised objections from the President of the Republic, within a month from the day the objections were sent. Failure to comply with this deadline means acceptance of the objections of the President. If the Mazhilis and the Senate, by a two-thirds majority of the total number of deputies of each of the Chambers, overcome the objections of the President, the President signs the law within one month. If the objections of the President are not overcome by at least one of the Chambers, the law is considered not adopted or adopted in the wording proposed by the President;
3) Initiate the national referendum.
Footnote. See the regulatory resolution of the Constitutional Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 15.10.2008 No. 8.
Footnote: Article 54 in the wording of Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan N 254-III dated 21.05.2007 (shall be enacted from the day of its official publication); dated 08.06.2022 (shall be enforced from 01.01.2023).