On Wednesday afternoon, 16 September 2015, the Chamber of Deputies approved the first reading of a bill that proposes the creation of the new Civil Procedure Code of the Dominican Republic and repealed some 27 laws.
Before voting on the bill, the Chamber of Deputies president, Abel Martinez Duran, proposed that the text of the commission’s report should be approved in the first reading and that on Tuesday, 22 September 2015 the second and final reading should take place in order to give the deputies time to study the bill. Dominican legislation requires two readings and two approvals in order to pass either of the two houses.
The Civil Procedure Code was drafted by a commission headed by Mariano German Mejia, who is now the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and was delivered to the Chamber of Deputies.
If passed, it will replace the Civil Procedure Code that has been in effect for 131 years.