Democratic Party and allied lawmakers unilaterally tabled two bills at the National Assembly’s Public Administration and Security Committee to let prosecutors demand supplementary or renewed investigations by the Major Crimes Investigation Agency and its regional offices. The proposed authority would cover sexual violence, sex crimes against children and adolescents, stalking, child abuse, abuse of people with disabilities, elder abuse and domestic violence. People Power Party lawmakers left the meeting after objecting that the measures had been added without prior notice, while the bills were referred to a legislative review subcommittee. The Democratic Party says the legislation is urgent because the agency is scheduled to begin operating on October 2, while the opposition says it is a stopgap response to the abolition of prosecutors’ broader supplementary-investigation authority. The committee also advanced measures extending the October 29 Itaewon disaster commission until September 16, 2027, creating a central-local public compact system, assigning wildfire response to fire authorities and extending disciplinary time limits for certain public officials’ offenses.