Federal Act
on the Federal Assembly
(Parliament Act, ParlA)

If the di­ver­gent de­cisions of the two cham­bers re­late to an en­tire item of busi­ness, the second re­jec­tion by either cham­ber is fi­nal. The fore­go­ing ap­plies in par­tic­u­lar to:

a.

the in­tro­duc­tion of bill;

b.

the ac­cept­ance of a bill in the vote on the bill in its en­tirety;

c.

the ap­prov­al of a treaty un­der in­ter­na­tion­al law;

d.

the guar­an­tee of a can­ton­al con­sti­tu­tion;

e.

an opin­ion on a pop­u­lar ini­ti­at­ive in the form of a gen­er­al pro­pos­al;

f.

the ur­gency clause;

g.⁹⁴

the de­cision on wheth­er a can­ton­al ini­ti­at­ive should be en­dorsed;

h.

the ap­prov­al of Fed­er­al Coun­cil or­din­ances;

i.⁹⁵

...

j.

the con­tinu­ation of an item of busi­ness in re­spect of which a mo­tion for aban­don­ment has been made.