Unfinished business from last year's Throne Speech should keep Members of Parliament busy in the upcoming session.

Topping the agenda for Island legislators are the issues of long-term residents, crime and punishment and public health.

A number of legislative initiatives on law and order, which emerged as priority areas in the last Throne Speech, are likely to come up for debate.

And central to those reforms will be the Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI) initiative which will result in proposed amendments to the Criminal Code, the Prisons Act and the Debtors Act.

The ATI programme is an initiative designed to broaden sentencing options for criminals. The long-awaited Drug Treatment Court is expected to be introduced as part of the initiative.

Government is expected to bring forward amending legislation to strengthen the independence of the Police Complaints Authority. And Magistrates' Court should be considerably less busy if legislation allowing for automatic payment of speeding fines is introduced and approved by the lawmakers this session.

Also on the `to-do' list is the Police and Criminal Evidence Bill, intended to improve investigations and collection of evidence by the Police, and the Evidence Amendment Act 2001, which would allow video and audio taping of court proceedings. The report on the Commission of Inquiry into Serious Crimes is also expected to come up. And Government's White Paper on Long-Term Residents should be tabled for debate.

Government is also expected to elaborate on e-government systems and table a new Telecommunications Act.

Measures to end the use of motorcycle upgrade kits will come back to Parliament in the form of the Motor Cycles and Auxiliary Bicycles (Special Measures of Control) Amendment Act 2001, which was among several bills to receive their first reading during the last session.

The Public Health Amendment Act -- aimed at bringing tattoo parlours and various other beauty treatment businesses under regulation was also left over from the last session. And a bill intended to eliminate gaming machines will be brought back to the House this session.

The Opposition United Bermuda Party plans to bring at least two motions to the House -- one on amending the Rules of the House of Assembly and the second on the setting-up of a Joint Select Committee to investigate and report on challenges faced by Bermuda's youth.

Backbencher Wayne Perinchief has given notice he will move a take-note motion on the Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Serious Criminal Offences.