Yossi Peled

Each Knesset serves until the next election. To become law, a bill has to pass several stages: being tabled, a preliminary reading, committee work and three readings. A bill that had not passed them all when its Knesset ended stops there — each row says how far it got. It can be filed again in the next Knesset, and one that passed its first reading can sometimes continue from where it stopped (the “continuity rule”).

• הצעת חוק לתיקון פקודת בתי הסוהר (מניעת ביקורים), התשס"ט-2009 · הכנה לקריאה ראשונה