Lawmakers have cast not enough votes to send five bills passed at first reading at the offsite session of the Ukrainian parliament on April 4, 2013, to the committees to prepare them for second reading.

A total of 180 lawmakers out of 354 registered in the session hall on Tuesday supported the decision.

It was planned to send a draft law on amendments to Article 21 of the law on court examination regarding human resourcing, a draft law on amendments to the law on emergency first aid regarding budget financing, a draft law on amendments to some Ukrainian laws due to the introduction of state registration of ownership rights to immovable property, a draft law on paying the debt of state-run enterprises of the coal sector to the industrial accident social insurance fund, and a draft law on amendments to the law on the product sharing agreement (PSA) regarding the state regulation of the drawing up, signing and implementation of the agreements.

Later the lawmakers rejected a law on the specifics of the operation of the remedial bank (the bill was also passed at the offsite session) and refused to send it for preparation for second reading.

An Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported that Speaker Volodymyr Rybak announced that he would remove the said bills from discussion.

As reported, an agreement was reached between heads of parliamentary factions that the bills passed at the offsite session will be sent to the profile committees for their preparation for second reading.

On April 4, 2013 the members of the parliamentary majority held the parliament's sitting at the assembly hall of a parliamentary committee, as the session hall at Hrushevskoho Street was blocked by the opposition.

Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Rybak signed the bills that were passed at the sitting and sent them to the president for signing. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a number of laws that were passed by the parliament at an offsite meeting.

On April 12, the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine ruled that the Verkhovna Rada's sitting on April 4 was legal.