Will the draft of a major amendment to the Reimbursement Act come into effect?

It seems that work on the draft of a major amendment to the Reimbursement Law may soon accelerate, as a new version of the draft amendment to the Reimbursement Law (dated March 28 this year) was published on the Government Legislation Center's website on the last day of March, along with an excerpt from Memorandum of Understanding No. 1/2023 of the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers on January 5, 2023. The MOU shows that the draft amendment to the Reimbursement Law was approved by the SKRM (with an auto-amendment and amendments, as discussed below), and the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers recommended it to the Council of Ministers. This means that the draft may soon be officially adopted by the Council of Ministers and referred to the Diet.

A comparison of the versions of the draft amendments to the Reimbursement Law - the most recent and...