5th Legislative Council of Hong Kong

Major events

2012–13

• 8 November 2012: Motion on "Equal rights for people of different sexual orientations", moved by Cyd Ho, was negatived.
• 13 December 2012: Motion on "Vote of no confidence in the Chief Executive", moved by the Democratic Party's Wu Chi-wai, in response to the illegal structures scandal of Leung Chun-ying's residences was voted down by the Pro-Beijing camp.
• 16 January 2013: Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying presented his first policy address to the Council.
• 27 February 2013: The 2013–14 Budget Speech was delivered by the Financial Secretary, Mr John C Tsang, in the Legislative Council.
• 24 April – 21 May 2013 : Five radical pan-democrats People Power and League of Social Democrats started filibustering by moving a total of 710 amendments on the Budget Appropriation Bill debate, to press for a universal pension scheme and a HK$10,000 cash handout. The government warned that the service would shut down if the budget bill do not pass. President of the Legislative Council Jasper Tsang ordered to end the filibuster on 13 May after 55 hours spent to debate 17 of the 148 amendments. The Appropriation Bill was passed on 21 May 2013 with 684 amendments negatived.

  2013–14

• 9–10 October 2013: Motion under the Legislative Council Ordinance, moved by Kwok Ka-ki of the Civic Party, to seek to appoint a select committee to inquire into the incident of the Secretary for Development Paul Chan Mo-po owning farmland located in the areas of the North East New Territories New Development Areas Project was negatived.
• 16 October 2013: Second attempt of the motion on "Vote of no confidence in the Chief Executive" by the pan democrats was negatived.
• 8 November 2013: Charles Mok moved a motion under Legislative Council Ordinance to order the Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Gregory So to attend before the Panel on Information Technology and Broadcasting to give evidence in the processes of vetting and approval of domestic free television programme service licence applications, after the application for the license of the Hong Kong Television Network Limited being negatived by the Executive Council. The motion and the amendment by Civic Party's Dennis Kwok were defeated. Thousands of protestors gathered outside of the Legislative Council building showing support for the Hong Kong Television Network Limited.
• 19 March 2014: Motion moved by Claudia Mo of the Civic Party under the Legislative Council Ordinance to appoint a select committee to inquire into the immediate termination of the contract of Li Wei-ling, a radio host of Hong Kong Commercial Broadcasting Company Limited, and the alleged political interference by the government with the editorial independence of Commercial Radio, was negatived.

  2015–16

• 11 March 2016: The HK$19.6 billion extra funds for controversial Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link project was passed by the Financial Committee in a sudden vote despite fierce protests and filibustering from the pan-democratic legislators. The pan-democrats questioned the procedure set by the acting chairman Chan Kam-lam who only approved 36 of the 19 pan-democratic legislators' 1,262 motions.

  Major legislation

Enacted

• 17 April 2013: Import and Export Regulation 2013
• 21 May 2013: Appropriation Bill 2013
• 22 May 2013: District Council Bill 2013

  Proposed

• 18 June 2015: Motion Concerning the Amendment to the Method for the Selection of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
• 4 March 2016: Copyright Bill 2014

  2015 Hong Kong electoral reform

Composition

Graphical representation of the Legislative Council

Leadership

List of members

By-election

• 28 February 2016, Alvin Yeung elected and replaced Ronny Tong who resigned on 1 October 2015.

  Other changes

2012

• Andrew Leung, Jeffrey Lam, Lau Wong-fat, Abraham Razack, Priscilla Leung, Lo Wai-kwok and Christopher Cheung – members from the Economic Synergy, Professional Forum, and few independents formed a loose new pro-business group the Business and Professionals Alliance for Hong Kong on 7 October 2012.

  2013

• Wong Yuk-man announced he was quitting People Power with immediate effect on 20 May 2013.

  2015

• Ronny Tong announced he was quitting the Civic Party on 22 June 2015 and would resign from the Legislative Council.

  Committees

• Finance Committee— Chair: Tommy Cheung, Ng Leung-sing, Chan Kin-por
• * Establishment Subcommittee— Chair: Wong Ting-kwong, Regina Ip, Kenneth Leung
• * Public Works Subcommittee— Chair: Chan Kam-lam, Lo Wai-kwok, Alan Leong
• Public Accounts Committee— Chair: Abraham Shek
• Committee on Members' Interests— Chair: Ip Kwok-him
• House Committee— Chair: Andrew Leung
• * Parliamentary Liaison Subcommittee— Chair: Emily Lau
• Committee on Rules of Procedure— Chair: Tam Yiu-chung

  Panels

• Panel on Administration of Justice and Legal Services— Chair: Priscilla Leung, Andrew Liao
• Panel on Commerce and Industry— Chair: Vincent Fang,, Wong Ting-kwong
• Panel on Constitutional Affairs— Chair: Tam Yiu-chung
• Panel on Development— Chair: Lau Wong-fat, Tony Tse
• Panel on Economic Development— Chair: Jeffrey Lam, James Tien
• Panel on Education— Chair: Lam Tai-fai
• Panel on Environmental Affairs— Chair: Cyd Ho, Chan Hak-kan
• Panel on Financial Affairs— Chair: Starry Lee, Chan Kin-por, Ng Leung-sing
• Panel on Food Safety and Environmental Hygiene— Chair: Alan Leong, Helena Wong, Tommy Cheung
• Panel on Health Services— Chair: Leung Ka-lau, Joseph Lee
• Panel on Home Affairs— Chair: Ma Fung-kwok, Starry Lee
• Panel on Housing— Chair: Wong Kwok-hing, Alice Mak, Christopher Chung
• Panel on Information Technology and Broadcasting— Chair: Wong Yuk-man, Elizabeth Quat
• Panel on Manpower— Chair: Lee Cheuk-yan, Wong Kwok-kin, Kwok Wai-keung
• Panel on Public Service— Chair: Regina Ip, Poon Siu-ping
• Panel on Security— Chair: Ip Kwok-him
• Panel on Transport— Chair: Chan Kam-lam, Michael Tien
• Panel on Welfare Services— Chair: Chan Yuen-han, Cheung Kwok-che