The Senate passed a bill that exempts computers from having to pay sales tax and reduces import tariffs on these. In an extraordinarily busy session, the Senate also approved the bill that creates the General Law of Customs, that seeks to make more efficient and modern tariffs collection. Another bill passed by the Senate specializes 5% of the National Budget for infrastructure works in the frontier area (provinces of Pedernales, Independencia, Elías Piña, Dajabón, Montecristi, Baoruco and Santiago Rodríguez. During the same session, the legislators created the Instituto de Protección y Prevision Social del Legislador, that seeks to provide comfortable pensions for legislators. Another bill passed penalizes the organizers of illegal boat trips from the DR or to the DR.
