The new Parliament was elected in the wake of the revolt that overthrew Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, after thirty years of his iron-fist rule. The Muslim Brotherhood, banned during his rule, won more than 43 percent of seats.

The law proposed yesterday, which the ruling army council must still approve, would boost compensation to 100,000 Egyptian pounds ($16,600) for each dead family member, from the 30,000 pounds that a government committee proposed last year.

Some 850 protesters were killed in the 18-day uprising that ousted Mubarak, a government-formed inquiry committee said last year. The former president has been accused of ordering the shooting of protesters and is now on trial.

"I announce the conclusive agreement of the Parliament on the proposal of this law," Speaker Saad Al-Katatni said at the parliamentary session yesterday.

The finance minister, Mumtaz Al-Saeed, who was present at the session, put the number of people killed during the uprising at 775.

Katatani said the law, if approved by the military, would be implemented as soon as it was published in the state's official newspaper.