The draft law on governmental sanctions for public officials was submitted to the Supreme Legislature for review for the first time on the 22nd. The legislation will further strengthen the management and supervision of public officials, realize the effective connection between party discipline and national law, and promote the legalization and standardization of government affairs sanctions.

Wu Yuliang, chairman of the Supervisory and Judicial Committee of the National People’s Congress, pointed out in a draft explanation to the 12th meeting of the 13th National People’s Congress Standing Committee on the 22nd that public officials are the backbone of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Formulate a law on governmental sanctions for public officials to concrete, institutionalize and legalize the basic requirements for upholding the party's leadership established in the Constitution, which will help strengthen the management and supervision of public officials.

This legislation concretizes the principles and provisions of the Supervision Law, fully incorporates legal objects into the scope of punishment, makes government sanctions match party discipline sanctions and connects criminal penalties, and builds a tight legal network for punishing official violations. At the same time, it also clarifies the legal principles that the subjects who implement government sanctions should adhere to, the reasons for the sanctions, authority and procedures, and the relief channels for the punished personnel to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests. This will help the subjects of the sanctions to strengthen their legal concepts and procedural awareness, and improve the legalization and standardization level of their work.

The main contents of the draft include general principles, types and application of government sanctions, illegal acts and applicable sanctions, procedures for government sanctions, review, review, appeal and legal liability, etc.

It is reported that at the beginning of this year, the formulation of the Government Punishment Law was included in the National People’s Congress Standing Committee’s 2019 legislative work plan. According to the work arrangement, the drafting of the Government Punishment Law was led by the National Supervisory Commission, with the participation of the Supervisory and Judicial Committee of the National People's Congress and the Legal Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress Standing Committee. The draft was submitted for review by the Supervisory and Judicial Committee of the National People's Congress.

Wu Yuliang said that the basic ideas of the drafting of the Government Punishment Law are: first, to improve the government punishment system corresponding to party discipline punishment, to unify the legal reasons and applicable rules for punishment, and to ensure uniform standards in the application of punishment. The second is to adhere to a problem-oriented approach, focus on solving problems such as weak management and supervision of public officials, insufficiently standardized disciplinary procedures, and inconsistent ranges of disciplinary decisions, and refine the illegal circumstances, disciplinary ranges and disciplinary procedures. The third is to maintain internal consistency with the provisions of current laws and regulations in terms of disciplinary circumstances, disciplinary authority and procedures, and disciplinary consequences.

(Original title "Attention Public Officials! The Draft Government Punishment Law is Submitted to the Supreme Legislature for Review for the First Time", original author Chen Fei Yang Weihan. Editor Liang Liang)