Overview

• Piyush Goyal moved the bill in the Lok Sabha, with a Select Committee tasked to examine it and report by the first day of the next Parliament session.
• A Press Information Bureau brief says 355 provisions across 16 Acts are targeted, including 288 proposed decriminalisations and 67 other amendments.
• A first-warning or improvement notice would apply to many initial contraventions, with monetary penalties for repeat breaches and imprisonment largely removed for petty offences.
• Fines would automatically rise by 10% of the minimum amount every three years once the bill becomes law.
• Sectoral changes include fixed municipal penalties with restricted arrest powers, administrative penalties under the RBI Act, and Motor Vehicles Act tweaks that shift several road-rule breaches to warnings or civil penalties for first offences.