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class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Coat_of_arms_of_the_Bahamas.svg/180px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_Bahamas.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Coat_of_arms_of_the_Bahamas.svg/240px-Coat_of_arms_of_the_Bahamas.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1323" data-file-height="1620" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ededed">Type</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="padding:0.1em 0;line-height:1.3em;"><div style="display:inline" class="category"><a href="/wiki/Bicameral" class="mw-redirect" title="Bicameral">Bicameral</a></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Houses</th><td class="infobox-data"><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Senate">Senate</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Bahamas_House_of_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Bahamas House of Assembly">House of Assembly</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ededed">History</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">4 March 1729<span class="noprint">; 295 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1729-03-04</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ededed">Leadership</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;"><a href="/wiki/Monarch_of_the_Bahamas" class="mw-redirect" title="Monarch of the Bahamas">Monarch</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/Charles_III" title="Charles III">Charles III</a> <br />since 8 September 2022 </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_the_Bahamas" title="Governor-General of the Bahamas">Governor-General</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/Cynthia_A._Pratt" title="Cynthia A. Pratt">Cynthia A. Pratt</a> <br />since 1 September 2023 </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Senate_of_the_Bahamas" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Presidents of the Senate of the Bahamas">President of the Senate</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/Lashell_Adderley" title="Lashell Adderley">Lashell Adderley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Liberal_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive Liberal Party">PLP</a> <br />since 6 October 2021 </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Speakers_of_the_House_of_Assembly_of_the_Bahamas" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Speakers of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas">Speaker</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/Patricia_Deveaux" title="Patricia Deveaux">Patricia Deveaux</a>, <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Liberal_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive Liberal Party">PLP</a> <br />since 6 October 2021 </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_Bahamas" title="Prime Minister of the Bahamas">Prime Minister</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/Philip_Davis_(Bahamian_politician)" title="Philip Davis (Bahamian politician)">Philip Davis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Liberal_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive Liberal Party">PLP</a> <br />since 17 September 2021 </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Bahamas)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Bahamas)">Leader of the Opposition</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0; line-height:1.3em"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Pintard" title="Michael Pintard">Michael Pintard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Free_National_Movement" title="Free National Movement">FNM</a> <br />since 27 November 2021 </div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ededed">Structure</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Seats</th><td class="infobox-data"><b>Senate</b>: 16 seats<br /><b>House</b>: 39 seats</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Senate's political groups</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><b><a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_Bahamas" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of the Bahamas">HM Government</a></b> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FFD700; color:black;border:1px solid silver;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Liberal_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive Liberal Party">PLP</a> (12)</li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Opposition_(parliamentary)" class="mw-redirect" title="Opposition (parliamentary)">HM Most Loyal Opposition</a></b> </p> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#D2232A; color:white;border:1px solid silver;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Free_National_Movement" title="Free National Movement">FNM</a> (4)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bahamas_house_Legislature_Diagram.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Bahamas_house_Legislature_Diagram.svg/260px-Bahamas_house_Legislature_Diagram.svg.png" decoding="async" width="260" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Bahamas_house_Legislature_Diagram.svg/390px-Bahamas_house_Legislature_Diagram.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Bahamas_house_Legislature_Diagram.svg/520px-Bahamas_house_Legislature_Diagram.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="134" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">House's political groups</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><b><a href="/wiki/Government_of_the_Bahamas" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of the Bahamas">HM Government</a></b> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#FFD700; color:black;border:1px solid silver;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Liberal_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive Liberal Party">PLP</a> (32)</li></ul> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Opposition_(parliamentary)" class="mw-redirect" title="Opposition (parliamentary)">HM Most Loyal Opposition</a></b> </p> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><span class="legend-color mw-no-invert" style="background-color:#e30513; color:white;border:1px solid silver;"> </span> <a href="/wiki/Free_National_Movement" title="Free National Movement">FNM</a> (7)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ededed">Elections</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">House's <a href="/wiki/Electoral_system" title="Electoral system">voting system</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/First-past-the-post" class="mw-redirect" title="First-past-the-post">First-past-the-post</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Last House's election</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/2021_Bahamian_general_election" title="2021 Bahamian general election">16 September 2021</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #ededed">Meeting place</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:BahamianParliamentPanorama.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/BahamianParliamentPanorama.jpg/300px-BahamianParliamentPanorama.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="106" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/BahamianParliamentPanorama.jpg/450px-BahamianParliamentPanorama.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/BahamianParliamentPanorama.jpg/600px-BahamianParliamentPanorama.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7181" data-file-height="2534" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data label"><a href="/wiki/Bahamian_Parliament_Building" title="Bahamian Parliament Building">Bahamian Parliament</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nassau,_Bahamas" class="mw-redirect" title="Nassau, Bahamas">Nassau</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Bahamas" title="The Bahamas">The Bahamas</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Parliament of The Bahamas</b> is the <a href="/wiki/Bicameralism" title="Bicameralism">bicameral</a> national <a href="/wiki/Parliament" title="Parliament">parliament</a> of the <a href="/wiki/The_Bahamas" title="The Bahamas">Commonwealth of The Bahamas</a>. The parliament is formally made up of <a href="/wiki/Monarchy_of_The_Bahamas" class="mw-redirect" title="Monarchy of The Bahamas">the sovereign</a> (represented by the <a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_The_Bahamas" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor-General of The Bahamas">governor-general</a>), an appointed Senate, and an elected House of Assembly. It currently sits at the <a href="/wiki/Bahamian_Parliament_Building" title="Bahamian Parliament Building">Bahamian Parliament Building</a> in <a href="/wiki/Nassau,_Bahamas" class="mw-redirect" title="Nassau, Bahamas">Nassau</a>, the national capital. </p><p>The structure, functions, and procedures of the parliament are based on the <a href="/wiki/Westminster_system" title="Westminster system">Westminster system</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parliament_of_the_Bahamas&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Originally inhabited by the <a href="/wiki/Lucayan_people" title="Lucayan people">Lucayan people</a>, a branch of the <a href="/wiki/Arawakan" class="mw-redirect" title="Arawakan">Arawakan</a>-speaking <a href="/wiki/Ta%C3%ADno_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Taíno people">Taino</a> people, the Bahamas were the site of <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" title="Christopher Columbus">Columbus</a>' first landfall in the <a href="/wiki/New_World" title="New World">New World</a> in 1492. Although the Spanish never colonized the Bahamas, they shipped the native Lucayans to slavery in <a href="/wiki/Hispaniola" title="Hispaniola">Hispaniola</a>. The islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, when <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_England" title="Kingdom of England">English</a> colonists from <a href="/wiki/Bermuda" title="Bermuda">Bermuda</a> settled on the island of <a href="/wiki/Eleuthera" title="Eleuthera">Eleuthera</a>. </p><p>In 1670 <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">King Charles II</a> granted the islands to the <a href="/wiki/Lord_proprietor" title="Lord proprietor">lords proprietors</a> of the Carolinas, who rented the islands from the king with rights of trading, tax, appointing <a href="/wiki/Governor#British_Empire_and_Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Governor">governors</a>, and administering the country.<sup id="cite_ref-Anglican_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anglican-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Bahamas became a <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain" title="Kingdom of Great Britain">British</a> <a href="/wiki/Crown_colony" title="Crown colony">crown colony</a> in 1718, when the British clamped down on <a href="/wiki/Piracy" title="Piracy">piracy</a>. </p><p>A General Assembly was established in 1729; the <a href="/wiki/Bahamian_general_election,_1729" class="mw-redirect" title="Bahamian general election, 1729">first elections</a> took place in September, and on 29 September 1729 twenty-four members representing the islands of <a href="/wiki/New_Providence" title="New Providence">New Providence</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eleuthera" title="Eleuthera">Eleuthera</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Harbour_Island,_Bahamas" title="Harbour Island, Bahamas">Harbour Island</a> gathered together at the house of Samuel Lawford to form the assembly. </p><p>The Bahamas legislature has had a bicameral feature since its inception in 1729 as the Governor's Council performed both executive and legislative functions. In 1841 Governor <a href="/wiki/Francis_Cockburn" title="Francis Cockburn">Francis Cockburn</a> divided Governors Council into two separate councils: The Executive Council to deal with executive functions and the Legislative Council to deal with legislative functions of the upper house. In 1841 the Bahamian legislature took on more structure, with the Legislative Council being the superior legislative body and the House of Assembly being the lesser. The Legislative Council eventually was renamed to the Senate in 1964 and became the weaker house while the House of Assembly became the superior legislative body. The Senate is however still known as the upper house and the House of Assembly still as the lower house.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bahamians achieved self-government in 1964 and full independence within the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth of Nations</a> on July 10, 1973, retaining <a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen Elizabeth II">Queen Elizabeth II</a> as monarch. The Parliament as presently constituted was established by Chapter 5 of the Constitution of the Bahamas, which came into effect upon the country's independence from the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="House_of_Assembly">House of Assembly</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parliament_of_the_Bahamas&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: House of Assembly"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Constituencies_of_the_Bahamas" title="Constituencies of the Bahamas">Constituencies of the Bahamas</a> and <a href="/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the_House_of_Assembly_of_the_Bahamas" class="mw-redirect" title="List of current members of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas">List of current members of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas</a></div> <p>The House of Assembly is the <a href="/wiki/Lower_chamber" class="mw-redirect" title="Lower chamber">lower chamber</a>. It consists of 39 members (known as members of parliament), elected from individual constituencies for five-year terms.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As under the Westminster system, the government may dissolve the parliament and call elections at any time. The House of Assembly performs all major legislative functions. The <a href="/wiki/Heads_of_Government_of_the_Bahamas" class="mw-redirect" title="Heads of Government of the Bahamas">prime minister</a> is the leader of the party controlling the majority of the House of Assembly seats. <a href="/wiki/Halson_Moultrie" title="Halson Moultrie">Halson Moultrie</a> was elected the new speaker of the House of Assembly on May 24, 2017. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Latest_election">Latest election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parliament_of_the_Bahamas&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Latest election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2021_Bahamian_general_election" title="2021 Bahamian general election">2021 Bahamian general election</a></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"><caption></caption><tbody><tr><th colspan="6" style="text-align:center;color:black;background:#F8F9FA"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bahamas_Assembl%C3%A9e_2021.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Bahamas_Assembl%C3%A9e_2021.svg/360px-Bahamas_Assembl%C3%A9e_2021.svg.png" decoding="async" width="360" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Bahamas_Assembl%C3%A9e_2021.svg/540px-Bahamas_Assembl%C3%A9e_2021.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Bahamas_Assembl%C3%A9e_2021.svg/720px-Bahamas_Assembl%C3%A9e_2021.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="185" /></a></span></th></tr><tr><th scope="col" colspan="2">Party</th><th scope="col">Votes</th><th scope="col">%</th><th scope="col">Seats</th><th scope="col">+/–</th></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#FFD700"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Liberal_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Progressive Liberal Party">Progressive Liberal Party</a></td><td style="text-align:right">66,407</td><td style="text-align:right">52.53</td><td style="text-align:right">32</td><td style="text-align:right">+28</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#d2232a"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Free_National_Movement" title="Free National Movement">Free National Movement</a></td><td style="text-align:right">45,730</td><td style="text-align:right">36.17</td><td style="text-align:right">7</td><td style="text-align:right">–28</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#5ce1e6"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Coalition_of_Independents" class="mw-redirect" title="Coalition of Independents">Coalition of Independents</a></td><td style="text-align:right">8,560</td><td style="text-align:right">6.77</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#419b41"></td><td><a href="/wiki/Democratic_National_Alliance_(Bahamas)" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic National Alliance (Bahamas)">Democratic National Alliance</a></td><td style="text-align:right">1,742</td><td style="text-align:right">1.38</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:purple"></td><td>United Coalition Movement</td><td style="text-align:right">701</td><td style="text-align:right">0.55</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:black"></td><td>Kingdom Government Movement</td><td style="text-align:right">515</td><td style="text-align:right">0.41</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:yellow"></td><td>Grand Commonwealth Party</td><td style="text-align:right">260</td><td style="text-align:right">0.21</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:blue"></td><td>Righteous Government Movement</td><td style="text-align:right">61</td><td style="text-align:right">0.05</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">New</td></tr><tr><td style="width:0px;background-color:#DCDCDC"></td><td>Independents</td><td style="text-align:right">2,438</td><td style="text-align:right">1.93</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="font-weight:bold"><td colspan="2">Total</td><td style="text-align:right">126,414</td><td style="text-align:right">100.00</td><td style="text-align:right">39</td><td style="text-align:right">0</td></tr><tr class="sortbottom"><td colspan="6" style="color:black;background:#eaecf0"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><th scope="row" colspan="2" style="text-align:left;font-weight:normal;color:inherit;background:inherit">Registered voters/turnout</th><td>194,494</td><td>–</td><td colspan="2"></td></tr><tr class="sortbottom" style="text-align:right"><td colspan="6" style="text-align:left">Source: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bahamaslocal.com/showlisting/21858/Bahamas_General_Election_2022.html">BL</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ewnews.com/decision-now-2021">EW</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Senate">Senate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parliament_of_the_Bahamas&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Senate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Senate (upper house) consists of 16 members appointed by the <a href="/wiki/Governor_General_of_the_Bahamas" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor General of the Bahamas">governor-general</a>. Nine of these senators are selected on the advice of the prime minister, four on the advice of the <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Bahamas)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Bahamas)">leader of the opposition</a>, and three on the advice of the prime minister after consultation with the leader of the opposition. The Senate is authorized by the Constitution to pass bills in the same manner as passed by the House or it can make such amendments to the bill should it consider it necessary. Those amendments will then have to be approved by the House of Assembly. The Senate may even reject a bill outrightly that had been passed by the House. However, if the House passes the bill in two successive sessions, and the Senate rejects the bill each time, the House of Assembly may send the bill directly to the governor-general without the Senate having consented to the bill. </p><p>If the House passes a money bill and sends that bill to the Senate for its consent, and if the Senate does not give its consent within a month after receiving the bill, the money bill is sent to the governor-general for assent even though the Senate had not consented to it<sup id="cite_ref-A4_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A4-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a historic vote, attorney <a href="/wiki/Sharon_Wilson" class="mw-redirect" title="Sharon Wilson">Sharon Wilson</a> was unanimously elected to a second term as <a href="/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_Senate_of_the_Bahamas" title="List of presidents of the Senate of the Bahamas">president of the Senate</a>, marking the first time a woman won re-election to head that legislative body. She previously served as president of the Senate from 2002 to 2007, and succeeded <a href="/wiki/Lynn_Holowesko" title="Lynn Holowesko">Lynn Holowesko</a>, who served as president of the Senate from 2007 to 2012. She was succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Katherine_Forbes-Smith" title="Katherine Forbes-Smith">Katherine Forbes-Smith</a>, then <a href="/wiki/Mildred_Hall-Watson" title="Mildred Hall-Watson">Mildred Hall-Watson</a> and then <a href="/wiki/Lashell_Adderley" title="Lashell Adderley">Lashell Adderley</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legislative_functions">Legislative functions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parliament_of_the_Bahamas&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Legislative functions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bahamian_Parliament_3.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Bahamian_Parliament_3.JPG/200px-Bahamian_Parliament_3.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Bahamian_Parliament_3.JPG/300px-Bahamian_Parliament_3.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Bahamian_Parliament_3.JPG/400px-Bahamian_Parliament_3.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1704" data-file-height="2272" /></a><figcaption>The statue of <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a>, located in Parliament Square, was erected in her honour after her death in 1901</figcaption></figure> <p>Parliament is empowered by Article 52(1) of the Constitution to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Bahamas. The Constitution also empowers Parliament to: </p> <ul><li>determine the privileges, immunities, powers, and procedures of both the Senate and the House of Assembly;</li> <li>alter or amend any of the provisions of the constitution;</li> <li>prescribe the officers who are to constitute the personal staff of the Governor-General;</li> <li>prescribe the number of Justices of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeal; and</li> <li>approve the Government's budget.<sup id="cite_ref-A2_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-A2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>Parliament also maintains oversight of the government's finances through the Public Accounts Committee. Parliament is also the forum where public policy and matters of national importance are debated. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legislative_procedure">Legislative procedure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parliament_of_the_Bahamas&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Legislative procedure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Most of the laws passed by Parliament are for the modification or amendment of existing laws. </p><p>Article 52(2) of the Constitution empowers Parliament to make laws by the passing of a <a href="/wiki/Bill_(proposed_law)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill (proposed law)">bill</a>. Most bills are introduced into Parliament by a government minister,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> but in principle any <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Parliament">parliamentarian</a> may introduce a bill. A bill must be passed by both the House of Assembly and Senate, and then must be formally assented to by the governor-general, before it becomes law. </p><p>There are currently four main classifications of bills: public, money, private member, and private bills. </p><p>A bill must pass through a series of stages in order to be passed by each<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_chamber" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary chamber">chamber</a>, with a vote taken at each stage. The procedure in the House of Assembly is as follows:<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ol><li>A bill is formally introduced into Parliament at the <a href="/wiki/First_reading" class="mw-redirect" title="First reading">first reading</a>; this stage is generally a formality, with the bill's <a href="/wiki/Long_title" class="mw-redirect" title="Long title">long title</a> being read out and the presiding officer placing the <a href="/wiki/Motion_(parliamentary_procedure)" title="Motion (parliamentary procedure)">motion</a> without debate. After the first reading, the speaker orders the bill to be printed; it is then numbered, circulated to members of parliament, and made available to the public.</li> <li>At the <a href="/wiki/Second_reading" class="mw-redirect" title="Second reading">second reading</a>, the principle of the bill is debated.</li> <li>At the <a href="/wiki/Committee_stage" class="mw-redirect" title="Committee stage">committal stage</a>, the entire House of Assembly sits as a <a href="/wiki/Committee_of_the_whole_house" class="mw-redirect" title="Committee of the whole house">committee of the whole house</a>, with the speaker leaving the chair and the deputy speaker presiding as chairperson. During this stage the bill is examined clause by clause, with detailed amendments considered. After the bill has been dealt with in committee, the chairperson formally reports to the speaker the outcome of the committee's deliberations, including what amendments have been made.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Third_reading" class="mw-redirect" title="Third reading">third reading</a> is the final stage; the motion made by the speaker for the third reading is usually agreed to without debate. once a bill has had its third reading, the speaker orders the bill passed, and instructs the chief clerk to take the bill to the Senate for its consideration.</li></ol> <p>Each bill consists of five main parts: the long title, the short title, the interpretation clause, the main body of the bill and the objects and reasons. The long title is a description of the nature of the bill and covers the intent of the bill. The short title follows the long title and labels the bill for identification purposes. The short title sometimes also contains the commencement clause, which states when the bill will have legal force. The short title in turn is followed by the interpretation clause, which defines certain words and phrases used in the bill. The body of the bill consists of all of the other clauses, which contain the provisions of the bill, that is, they contain all of the measures that the bill is enacting. The objects and reasons is the final part of a bill and it seeks to explain in layman's terms the purpose of the bill and the reason why it is necessary. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Members">Members</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parliament_of_the_Bahamas&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Members"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_members_of_the_House_of_Assembly_of_the_Bahamas,_2002%E2%80%932007&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of members of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas, 2002–2007 (page does not exist)">List of members of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas, 2002–2007</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_members_of_the_House_of_Assembly_of_the_Bahamas,_2007%E2%80%932012&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of members of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas, 2007–2012 (page does not exist)">List of members of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas, 2007–2012</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_members_of_the_House_of_Assembly_of_the_Bahamas,_2012%E2%80%932017&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of members of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas, 2012–2017 (page does not exist)">List of members of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas, 2012–2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_House_of_Assembly_of_the_Bahamas,_2017%E2%80%932021" class="mw-redirect" title="List of members of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas, 2017–2021">List of members of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas, 2017–2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the_House_of_Assembly_of_the_Bahamas" class="mw-redirect" title="List of current members of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas">List of current members of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parliament_of_the_Bahamas&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_Senate_of_the_Bahamas" title="List of presidents of the Senate of the Bahamas">List of presidents of the Senate of the Bahamas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_speakers_of_the_House_of_Assembly_of_the_Bahamas" title="List of speakers of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas">List of speakers of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_legislatures_by_country" title="List of legislatures by country">List of legislatures by country</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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title="Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago">Trinidad and Tobago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Council_of_Turkmenistan" title="National Council of Turkmenistan">Turkmenistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/General_Assembly_of_Uruguay" title="General Assembly of Uruguay">Uruguay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliy_Majlis" title="Oliy Majlis">Uzbekistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Zimbabwe" title="Parliament of Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Dependent_territory" title="Dependent territory">Dependent and<br />other territories</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Samoa_Fono" title="American Samoa Fono">American Samoa</a></li> <li><a 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