On the morning of June 16, with 100% of delegates present voting in favor, the National Assembly passed the Law on Organization of Local Government (amended).
The Law comes into force from the date of its passage. Law on Organization of Local Government No. 65/2025/QH15 ceases to be effective from the date this Law comes into force.
People's Councils, agencies under People's Councils, People's Committees, Chairmen of People's Committees, specialized agencies under People's Committees of districts, towns, cities under provinces, cities under centrally run cities, and towns (hereinafter referred to as district level) shall cease operations from July 1, 2025.
Reporting on the reception, revision and completion of the draft Law before the National Assembly votes, Minister of Home Affairs Pham Thi Thanh Tra said that the draft Law establishes a unified 2-level local government organization model (provincial and communal levels) nationwide, clearly defining the tasks, authority and organizational structure of each level of government; establishing a complete legal basis for the local government model in the special economic zone.
At the same time, the Government has revised and supplemented regulations on administrative units, organizational principles and operations of local governments to ensure streamlining, efficiency, effectiveness, efficiency, closeness to the people, better serving the people, thoroughly implementing the principle of "local decision, local action, local responsibility", promoting the proactiveness, creativity, autonomy and self-responsibility of local governments.
To institutionalize the viewpoints and directions of the Central Committee, the Politburo , and the Secretariat, the draft Law has completed the principles of delimitation of authority, decentralization, and delegation between the Central Committee and local authorities, between provincial and communal authorities in a scientific, synchronous, and unified manner.
Specifically, clearly define the authority between the People's Committee and the individual Chairman of the People's Committee, creating conditions for implementing a flexible and effective management mechanism, encouraging the initiative and creativity of the head of the local state administrative agency.
In addition, the decentralized subjects are the People's Council and the Chairman of the People's Committee at the provincial level; the monitoring, evaluation and supervision mechanism is added to promptly adjust the contents of decentralization and delegation; the Chairman of the People's Committee at the provincial level is empowered to directly direct and manage the settlement of issues within the tasks and powers of specialized agencies, other administrative organizations under his/her level and of the People's Committee, the Chairman of the People's Committee at the commune level, so as not to let the settlement of work and administrative procedures for people and businesses be delayed, congested and ineffective.
Regarding the duties and powers of local authorities, the Government has reviewed and revised the regulations on local authorities at provincial and communal levels as follows:
Adjusting some tasks and powers of the People's Committee for the Chairman of the People's Committee (The Provincial People's Committee has 12 groups of tasks and powers; the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee has 23 groups of tasks and powers; the Commune People's Committee has 10 groups of tasks and powers; the Chairman of the Commune People's Committee has 17 groups of tasks and powers).
Supplementing the regulation that the Chairman of the People's Committee is entitled to decide on the tasks and powers of the People's Committee (except for contents that require collective discussion of the People's Committee) and report to the People's Committee at the nearest People's Committee meeting.
"This is a strong reform step to promote the responsibility of leaders, creating motivation for innovation in local governance. Accordingly, these provisions of the Law will ensure the promotion of initiative, creativity, flexibility, and enhance the responsibility of the Chairman of the People's Committee, the effectiveness and efficiency of state administrative management and administration at the local level in accordance with practical requirements," Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra emphasized.
Regarding the organization and operation of local governments, the draft Law stipulates that the People's Council at the commune level has two Committees: the Economic-Budget Committee and the Cultural-Social Committee; the number of People's Council delegates at the provincial and commune levels remains within the minimum and maximum framework (the number of People's Council delegates in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi City alone is 125 delegates).
At the same time, the principled provision in the draft Law is that "The Chairman, Vice Chairman, Head, Deputy Head of the People's Council at the provincial and communal levels, and members of the People's Council Committees at the provincial level can be full-time People's Council delegates".
Assign "The Standing Committee of the National Assembly to specify the number of Vice Chairmen and Vice Heads of the People's Councils at the provincial and communal levels, and the arrangement of full-time delegates of the People's Councils at the provincial and communal levels" to ensure flexibility and suitability with the realities of the country and localities at each stage of the country's development or when there are new policies and orientations from competent authorities, these provisions of the Law do not have to be amended or supplemented.
Regarding transitional provisions, the Law on Organization of Local Government (amended) stipulates that, no later than March 1, 2027, legal documents containing provisions on the organization, tasks, powers and other relevant provisions of local governments at all levels must be amended and supplemented to ensure consistency with the organization of administrative units, principles and tasks and powers of local governments at all levels stipulated in this Law.
From July 1, 2025, the Provincial People's Committee shall inherit international agreements signed by the District People's Committee before July 1, 2025; and shall be responsible for adjusting and updating the new names of administrative units in international agreements signed by the District People's Committee before July 1, 2025.
From the effective date of this Law, the number of Vice Chairmen of the People's Council, Vice Chairmen of the People's Committee, and deputy heads of agencies and units under the People's Council and People's Committee in provincial-level administrative units formed after the reorganization may be greater than the prescribed number.
No later than 5 years from the effective date of the Law, the number and arrangement of leaders and managers in administrative units after the rearrangement shall be implemented according to regulations.
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