The apparatus of the State Duma: history and structure

представляет собой орган, обеспечивающий деятельность депутатов, Совета, комиссий и иных объединений нижней палаты, ее председателя и его замов. The apparatus of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly is the body that ensures the activity of deputies, the Council, commissions and other associations of the lower house, its chairman and its deputies. This structure works on an ongoing basis. . Let us consider in more detail how the apparatus of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly functions. His staff, responsibilities, nuances of activity.

General information

выполняет функции по обеспечению деятельности структурных элементов нижней палаты. As was said above, the Office of the State Duma of the Russian Federation performs functions to ensure the activities of the structural elements of the lower house. The work is conducted in different directions. In particular, the following is provided:

1. Analytical.
2. Documentation.
3. Organizational.
4. Social and domestic.
5. Economic.
6. Material and technical.
7. Sanatorium and resort.
8. Housing.
9. Passport and visa.
10. Financial.
11. Transport.
12. Protocol.
13. Medical.
14. Legal.

The composition of staff, structure, maintenance costs are determined by the chairman of the State Duma on the proposal of the head of the Apparatus.

State

Employees of the Apparatus of the State Duma are given the status of federal civil servants. As of 01.02.2011, in accordance with the staffing table, there were 1,482 employees in the body. The apparatus of the State Duma of the 2nd convocation included already 1.8 thousand people. The employees of the security agency have their own trade-union organization. In 2012, the number of employees was 1815 people.

Historical reference

Material and technical support of the work of the State Duma in the Russian Empire in 1906-1917. Was part of the functions of the Chancery. The main person in charge was the secretary of the lower house. In the years 1938-1990. Material and technical support of the Armed Forces of the RSFSR was included in the functions of the Presidium Apparatus. In 1993, there was reform. As a result, the FS was created. However, after a while it was abolished. . In January 1994, the current State Duma apparatus was established.

Ensuring work

действует в соответствии с Регламентом и Положением, утвержденным Председателем ГД 23.03.1996 г. В организационном плане орган включает в себя центральный и дополнительные элементы. The apparatus of the State Duma operates in accordance with the Rules and Regulations approved by the Chairman of the State Duma on 23.03.1996. In terms of organization, the body includes central and additional elements. The secretariats of the Chairman of the State Duma and his deputies belong to the first one, as well as 12 functional divisions. The latter include 8 offices, three structures on the rights of management, as well as one independent department. To the additional elements belong departments of deputy associations. In addition, there are offices of committees, a credentials committee.

Normative base

The activities of the security authority, duties and rights, as well as the responsibility of its employees are regulated by the current legislation and the Regulations being developed by the State Duma. With its content, approved by the rules and regulations are familiar to all deputies. Думы по организации деятельности и регламенту ГД. Control over the work of the security agency is exercised by the apparatus of the State Duma Committee for the organization of activities and regulations of the State Duma.

Deputy groups and factions

Their apparatuses are formed after registration of the relevant associations and operate until the termination of the activities of the communities. Selection and placement of personnel, monitoring of work, determination of the functional duties of employees in the security structures are carried out directly by deputy associations. Employees of the apparatus enter into fixed-term employment contracts. They act for the period of work of the group / faction. When the activity of the association is terminated, the employees of the apparatus are released in accordance with the norms of the legislation. In the event of a change in the size of the fraction / group, the necessary adjustments are made to the staff of the security agency. Registration of employees subject to reduction is carried out, according to the current legislation. утверждает распоряжения о приеме на работу и освобождению от нее сотрудников органов обеспечения групп и фракций по представлению их председателей. The Chief of the Staff of the State Duma of the Russian Federation approves the orders for the recruitment and release from it of the employees of the bodies providing the groups and factions on the recommendation of their chairmen. Costs for the maintenance of structures in associations are provided in the cost estimates for the work of the State Duma. также выносит распоряжения о приеме на работу и снятии с должности помощников депутатов по представлению соответствующих выборных лиц. The Head of the Office of the State Duma of the Russian Federation also issues orders for recruiting and dismissing assistant deputies on the basis of the representation of the elected representatives.

Structure

включены, как выше было указано, секретариаты Председателя ГД, структуры обеспечения фракций, комиссий и прочих объединений по этическим и прочим вопросам. The Office of the State Duma includes, as indicated above, the secretaries of the Chairman of the State Duma, the structure of providing factions, commissions and other associations on ethical and other issues. It also includes a library that serves both parliamentary chambers simultaneously. включены секретариаты: The Staff of the State Duma includes secretariats:

1. Council of the State Duma. The head is Nikolai Mikhailovich Glazunov.
2. First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma. Heads are appointed Alexander Vasilievich Arsenov, Gregory Nikolaevich Senin.
3. Deputy Chairman of the State Duma. The highest officials are Elena Viktorovna Strokova, Evgeny Alexandrovich Lashmankin, Arina Taksirovna Iksanova, Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Sinyayev, Pavel Vladimirovich Ignatiev.
4. Chief of Staff of the State Duma. The highest official is Ekaterina Iosifovna Pinke.

входят отделы по: The Staff of the State Duma includes departments for:

1. Work with documents. The head is Mikhail Fedorovich Revta.
2. Ensuring the work of the Chairman of the State Duma. Yevgenia Vasilievna Chugunova was appointed as the head.

Senior officials of the bodies providing factions

включены структуры партий: The apparatus of the State Duma includes party structures:

1. Communist Party. The head of the security agency is Nina Alexandrovna Ostanina.
2. LDPR. The head is Maxim Zaitsev.
3. "United Russia". The head is Vladimir Valeryevich Ivanov.
4. "Fair Russia". Ruslan Vladimirovich Tatarinov was appointed as the head.

Committees

There are 30 of them. Each of them has a guarantee body. включены структуры отделов по: The Staff of the State Duma of the 7th convocation includes structures of departments for:

• Constitutional legislation and state construction. The chief is Stanislav Shelemin.
• Civil, procedural, arbitration, criminal law. The head is Ilya Borisovich Mironov.
• Social policy, labor and affairs of veterans. The chief is Leyla Abdulkhalimovna Edilova.
• To taxes and the budget. Zoya Nikolaevna Pavlovskaya was appointed the leader.
• To the financial market. Chief - Jacqueline Merunzhanovna Sargsyan.
• Entrepreneurship, innovative development, economic policy. The head is Ruslan Vladimirovich Chebitko.
• Industry. The head is Vladimir Nikolaevich Khomyakov.

• Construction and land relations. The head is Elena Leonidovna Kovaleva.
• Science, science-intensive technologies. The highest official is Vyacheslav Ivanovich Panov.
• Power engineering. The head - Dmitry Borisovich Ivliev.
• Transport. Chief - Irakly Georgievich Aslamazov.
• Defense. The highest official is Nikolai Nikolovich Nikulichev.
• Counteract corruption and security. Ivan Nikolayevich Soloviev was appointed as the head.
• International Affairs. The head is Nikolai Vasilyevich Barkov.
• CIS affairs and relations with compatriots.
• Issues of territorial administration and federal structure. The head is Igor Viktorovich Babichev.
• Problems of the Far East and Siberia, regional policy. Head - Galina Vladimirovna Zhulevich.
• Organization of the activities of the State Duma and regulations. The head is Sergey Vladimirovich Kulakov.
• Communication, information policy and technology. Head - Veronika Evgenievna Bodyl.
• Health protection. The highest official is Artem Stanislavovich Yanovsky.
• Education. The chief is Pavel Evgenievich Kondrashov.
• Questions of the family, children, women. The head is Irina Fedorovna Kovtunenko.
• To agrarian questions. The chief is Darya Vasilevna Nakonechnaya.
• Ecology, nature management, natural resources. Irina Vladimirovna Kudrina was appointed as the leader.
• Culture. Chief - Elena Alexeyevna Sizova.
• Cases of religious organizations and public associations. The head is Stepan Viktorovich Medvedko.
• Affairs of nationalities. Chief - Batal Gennadievich Bigua.
• Youth affairs, physical culture, sports. The head is Ekaterina Selyametova.
• Housing policy and housing and communal services. The head - Denis Vasilievich Borovkov.
• Property issues. The highest official is Ruslan Vladimirovich Chebitko.

Legal Department of the State Duma Administration

It includes the following departments of linguistic and legal expertise of draft laws in the spheres:

1. Environmental management and civil relations.
2. Human rights and state building.
3. Social security.
4. Banking and finance.
5. Judicial and legal support, criminal law.

In addition, there are departments:

1. To assist the subjects of legislative work.
2. International law.
3. Systematization of the regulatory framework and legislative technology.

The head is Mikhail Vasilyevich Demenkov.

Other structures

входят также следующие отделы: The Office of the State Duma also includes the following departments:

• Analytical support of bills.
• Cooperation with foreign parliaments.
• Analytical research.
• Cooperation with the CIS and Baltic States.
• Passport and visa support and diplomatic protocol.
• Cooperation with parliamentary international organizations.
• Press services.
• Interaction with the Inter-Parliamentary Union and information support.
• Public relations.
• Monitoring and accreditation of the media.
• Parliamentary radio and television.
• Improvement of qualification and passage of civil service.
• On work with the staff of the Apparatus.
• On interaction with deputies and assistants.
• On organizational support of the DG sessions.
• Registration and issue of legal acts of the State Duma.
• On maintenance of hardware-software complex, systems of halls for meetings.
• Shorthand works and audiovisual recordings.
• Editorial and publishing activities.
• Ensuring interaction with the regions.
• Organizational department.
• Ensuring interaction with federal state bodies.
• Settlement and Finance Department.
• Transport and social security.
• Expert department.
• Economic and material security.
• Planning and Economic Department.
• For protocol support of official events.
• Department of the regime.
• Multiplicative and printed works.
• Operational-dispatching department.
• Special works.

• Development and maintenance of information systems.
• According to software and technology and maintenance.
• Server and telecommunication systems.
• Documentary support.
• On the protection of state secrets.
• Formation of the State Duma archive.
• Providing the activities of the State Duma Reception.
• Acquisition, storage, processing of bibliophiles.
• Maintenance of information bases and bibliography on official acts.
• Electronic editions.
• Library and information services.

Senior Officials

может быть назначен/освобожден от поста по распоряжению Председателя ГД. The Head of the State Duma Apparatus may be appointed / relieved of his post by order of the Chairman of the State Duma. In this case, the resolution is coordinated with the Council on the proposal of the department on regulations and organization of activities of the lower house. не может одновременно выступать в качестве действующего депутата ГД. The head of the apparatus of the State Duma can not simultaneously act as an acting deputy of the State Duma. In this regard, in 2007, Alexei Sigutkin, appointed to this post, gave up his mandate. At different times, the highest officials were:

1. Andrei Ivanovich Voikov.
2. Nikolai Nikitich Troshkin.
3. Alexander Nikolaevich Lotoriev.
4. Valentin Semyonovich Chernyavsky.
5. Alexey Alexeevich Sigutkin.
6. Jahan Rajepovna Pollyyeva.

The head of the apparatus of the State Duma of the 7th convocation is Tatiana Gennadyevna Voronova. She was appointed to the post on October 20, 2016.

Council of State Duma

It is also part of the structure of the State Duma and performs special functions in the sphere of ensuring the activities of the State Duma. In accordance with regulatory enactments, the Council is empowered to:

1. Forming an approximate program of legislative activity of the State Duma for the current session.
2. Decision-making on the inclusion of the act in the agenda for discussion.
3. Forming a draft calendar for the consideration by the State Duma of issues for the coming month for documents discussed in the first reading. Thematic blocks are indicated.
4. Forming the draft order of work of the State Duma at the upcoming meeting.
5. Convening extraordinary meetings of the Chamber and determining the date of their holding on the proposal of the President, the demand of the deputy group, supported by at least 1/5 of the total number of members of the State Duma, or on the recommendation of the Chairman.
6. Appointment of the relevant committee of the State Duma, responsible for preparing the draft regulatory act for consideration. If the issues regulated by the document are within the competence of another department, then it is called as co-executor.
7. Directing the bill to the committees of the Chamber, the association of deputies, and, if necessary, to other entities that have the right to initiate legislation, determine the period for preparation of comments, comments (amendments), proposals to it.
8. Send the act and materials to him to the President, the Government, the author of the document, the deputies of the State Duma. The direction is carried out within the period provided for in the Regulations.
9. Decisions on the proposal of committees to return the bill to the author, if they are not complied with the requirements of Art. 104 of the Constitution or art. 105 of the Regulations.
10. To issue orders for awarding the subjects with the Diploma of Honor .
11. Decision on the organization of parliamentary hearings.

The competence of the Council may include other issues related to the activities of the State Duma. Decisions of the body are made out of extracts from the minutes of the meetings. They are signed by the chairman.

Nuances

Materials for consideration and discussion at the next meeting, draft decisions are provided to the Secretariat of the Council usually before Friday 16:00, immediately preceding the meeting scheduled for Tuesday, and until Tuesday 16:00 on Tuesday before the meeting scheduled for Thursday. The agenda together with the attachments is sent to the Chairman of the State Duma and his deputies, heads of associations of deputies and other entities. This is done on the day that precedes the meeting. At each meeting, deputies receive information on the main issues that were considered by the Council the day before. The materials are prepared by the Secretariat.