On Feb. 19, the public safety committee voted 8 to 4 to send Ms. Tibbs's bill to the full legislature.
A state Senate committee has approved a bill to end capital punishment formally; the full legislature is expected to pass it later this year.
After an earlier reform, members of Parliament are entitled to lifelong pensions only after serving a full legislature, which can last several years.
The students began their sit-in a day after the KMT chairman of a parliamentary committee reviewing the bill approved it for scrutiny by the full legislature.
The full legislature meets once a year, for two weeks, to approve Communist party decisions and endorse the appointment of government officials.
The recommendation by the committee, composed of 9 members of the 17-member legislature, is expected to be adopted by the full legislature.
Those amendments will take effect when they are approved by the full legislature, a largely rubber stamp body, at its next session early next year.
Last year, not only did the Pirate Party of Sweden win a seat in the body, but the full legislature toyed with the idea of declaring broadband an unassailable human right.
Unless he receives a concrete proposal in the next couple of weeks, he will introduce his bill to the full legislature, which must approve the financing for the Cubs' $84 million spring training facility by the end of July.
According to the constitutional draft, the upper house of parliament, which courts have not yet got around to disbanding, having scrapped the lower house, will act as a temporary full legislature until a new lower house is elected.
An agreement among legislators in 2000 saw it moved from the Statehouse dome to a monument directly in front and it can only be lowered with approval of the full legislature.
