The State Duma has supported a bill on a fine for failure to inform the military enlistment office about the move.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on the introduction of a fine of up to 20 thousand rubles for failure to inform the military enlistment office about the move. This is reported on the website of the lower house of parliament.

It is specified that in February, the document was submitted to the State Duma by a group of deputies led by the chairman of the Defense Committee, Andrei Kartapolov.

According to the bill, the amount of the fine for failure to inform the military enlistment office about the move increases from 1-5 thousand rubles to 10-20 thousand rubles. It will be applied in cases when a citizen who is on military registration changes his place of residence without registration for a period of more than three months and does not notify the conscription office in accordance with the established procedure, she added.Газета.Ru ".

It is also emphasized that the adoption of this bill will significantly strengthen the responsibility of citizens for fulfilling military registration duties.

The Russian government has supported a bill to toughen penalties for failure to notify military enlistment offices of the fact of relocation on February 3. The author of the amendments was Kartapolov.

In addition, in August last year, it was reported that a visit to the military enlistment office on an agenda was a valid reason for absence from work.