The Legislative Yuan will continue its special session next week to deal with three non-controversial pieces of legislation on civil servant benefits, despite the opposition Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) decision to withdraw from the session. The bills are proposed amendments to the Civil Service Employment Act, the Civil Service Retirement Act, and the Civil Service Survivor Relief Act, according to officials in the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) caucus. Three other bills on the agenda -- proposed amendments to the Disaster Prevention and Protection Act and the National Health Insurance Act and a draft law on farm village rejuvenation -- will likely be shelved for further negotiations with the DPP, which has some issues with them, the KMT officials said. The one-week session, scheduled to run through July 14, was set up mainly to review the economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) signed June 29 with China. The ruling and opposition parties, however, disagreed over how the deal should be screened. Hopelessly divided over the issue, the KMT-dominated legislature decided Thursday to skip a committee review and directly submit the ECFA for a second reading, amid clashes among ruling and opposition legislators. The DPP, which had insisted that the ECFA be sent to committee for a line-item review, decided Friday to withdraw from the remainder of session in protest. This means that the DPP will not attend any meetings or take part in inter-party negotiations during the period. Also Friday, Department of Health Minister Yaung Chih-liang called on the legislators to pass the proposed amendment to the National Health Insurance Act in the special session to facilitate the implementation of a second-generation National Health Insurance (NHI) in 2012. The second-generation NHI, which will calculate premiums based on total household incomes, will ensure that rich people are charged in proportion to their wealth, Yaung reiterated. 