The Parliament of Sri Lanka

Introduction

Secretary General of Parliament

The Department of the Serjeant-at-Arms

Department of Administration

Department of Legislative Services

Table office of Parliament

-	Functions of the Table Office

The Bills Office of Parliament

Committee Office

Consultative Committee office

PAC & COPE Office

Office of the Parliamentary Interpreters

-	Simultaneous Interpretation

Library of Parliament

-	About the Library
-	Services rendered to Members

Department of Finance and Supplies

Hansard Department

Department of the Co-ordinating Engineer

Department of Catering and Housekeeping

Department of Information Systems and Management

The Bills Office of Parliament

The Bills Office of the Parliament of Sri Lanka functions under an Assistant Director (Administration) as the Head of the Branch.

The Bills Office has to ensure the correctness in all three languages of all the Bills, Ministers' Reports and Committee Reports to be presented to Parliament and also the Final Assent Copies of the Speaker and Final Acts before they are printed.

The main function of the Bills Office is the processing of Bills presented to Parliament and guiding same through all stages of the Bill until the certification of the Speaker, after which it becomes a law.

A Bill would go through the following stages in the process of its enactment.

1.	Publication of Bills in Gazettes

2.	Presentation of Bills (i) Government Bills (ii) Private Members' Bills

3.	First Reading

4.	Second Reading

5.	Reference to Ministries

6.	Committee Stages (i) Committee of the Whole Parliament (ii) Standing Committee (iii) Select Committee

7.	Third Reading

8.	Speaker's Certificate

9.	Final Act

Functions of the Bills Office of the Parliament

All the Bills to be presented to Parliament are handled by the Bills Office of the Parliament and they may be classified as follows

1.	Government Bills

2.	Private Members' Bills

Other duties of the Bills Branch

1.	To maintain the Bills Register and Acts Register

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