The ninth session of Parliament closed this week with lawmakers having passed 21 laws, the Myanma Freedom Daily reports. Among the bills approved, lawmakers signed off on a 2014-15 National Planning Law, Union Budget Law and Taxation Law, according to Shwe Mann, the Union Parliament speaker, who addressed the legislature on Wednesday. Fifty-one other bills under consideration have yet to be passed, the speaker said. The ninth session of Parliament also saw the formation of a 31-member Constitutional Amendment Implementation Committee, which is charged with submitting recommendations for changes to the charter no later than six months before national elections slated for 2015.