A vote will be held at an informal legislative meeting Monday to decide on the agenda for an extraordinary session scheduled for this week, a ruling Kuomintang (KMT) legislator said Sunday. 'As the ruling and opposition parties failed in consultations Friday to come to terms on the agenda for the extra legislative session, a vote will have to be called to settle the issue, ' said Legislator Lin Yi-shih who heads the KMT's Policy Coordination Committee. Legislative Yuan Speaker Wang Jin-pyng invited ruling and opposition legislative whips Friday to discuss the details of an extra session to screen a recently signed trade pact with China and several other critical bills. The only agreement the two sides reached in the meeting was that the extra session will last two weeks and that an informal legislative plenary meeting will be held Monday to flesh out the session's agenda. The session will be the second of its kind since the ruling party-controlled legislature went into summer recess. The KMT legislative caucus has proposed an agenda that would include ratification of the economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China and five other bills that will pave the way for implemention of the trade deal. The five ECFA-related bills are an intellectual property rights protection agreement with China as well as amendments to the current trademark law, patent law, and regulations on customs duties and plant registration. Also high on the KMT's priority list are three law amendments to allow the admission of Chinese students to local tertiary institutions. The KMT is also hoping to review draft revisions to the National Health Insurance program to smooth the way for the introduction of a second-generation health insurance program. Also on its agenda are amendments to the Public Officials Election and Recall Law to prevent any rezoning of legislative constituencies for the next 10 years. Meanwhile, Lin said, the KMT wants to amend the regulations governing retirement benefits to former presidents and vice presidents as well as the tobacco and alcohol taxation act. However, the legislative caucus of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has questioned the propriety of dealing with these bills in an extra session. Ker Chien-ming, the DPP's top legislative whip, said a provisional session should only deal with urgent bills, while those that will have an impact on the national well-being or popular interests should be addressed in regular sessions. 'Our stance is that only the ECFA should be screened in the upcoming special session, and its supplementary bills should be examined in the next regular session,' Ker said. The DPP will submit only one bill during the special session, and that is for a referendum on the ECFA, he said. The DPP has insisted that ECFA be subject to a line-item review, Lin said, but the ruling and opposition legislative caucuses might discuss the technical details after Monday's informal plenary meeting. 