The Chamber of Deputies has listed the bills that are on its priority list. The list includes the recently submitted bills that amend the sale of hydrocarbons, public trusts, and the extinction of domain bill. There is no mention of the Penal Code.
President of the Chamber of Deputies, Alfredo Pacheco shared the list of 40 legislative initiatives.
Among the bills to be discussed are:
Bill on the Civil Code of the Dominican Republic (Proponent(s): Victor Valdemar Suarez Diaz).
“Initiative Number: 05938-2020-2024-CD.
Bill on Potable Water and Sanitation (Proponent(s): Máximo Castro).
“Initiative Number: 05998-2020-2024-CD.
Draft Organic Law on Citizen Participation Rights and Social Control Mechanisms (Proponent(s): Alfredo Pacheco Osoria).
“Initiative Number: 05999-2020-2024-CD.
Bill of the Organic Law for the Oversight and Control of the National Congress (Proponent(s): Alfredo Pacheco Osoria, Máximo Castro).
“Initiative Number: 06014-2020-2024-CD.
Bill for the use of digital media in the Judicial Branch (Proponent(s): Supreme Court of Justice).
“Initiative Number: 06166-2020-2024-CD.
Bill to create the Tourism Code of the Dominican Republic (Proponent(s): Francisco Antonio Solimán Rijo).
“Initiative Number: 06281-2020-2024-CD.
Bill of the Penal Code of the Dominican Republic (Proponent(s): Rogelio Alfonso Genao Lanza, Máximo Castro, Darío de Jesús Zapata Estévez).
“Initiative Number: 06411-2020-2024-CD.
Bill of law of unique planning regions of the Dominican Republic (Proponent(s): Máximo Castro, Alfredo Pacheco Osoria).
“Initiative Number: 06016-2020-2024-CD.
Bill that modifies Law No.12-06, dated 3 February 2006, on Mental Health (Proponent(s): Olfanny Yuverka Méndez Matos, Nelsa Shoraya Suárez Ariza).
“Initiative Number: 06159-2020-2024-CD.
Family Agriculture Bill of the Dominican Republic (Proponent(s): Nelsa Shoraya Suárez Ariza and others).
“Initiative Number: 06299-2020-2024-CD.
Draft reform of the Internal Regulations.
Bill on Climate Change of the Dominican Republic (Proponent(s): Juan Agustín Medina Santos).
Electoral Code Bill (Proponent(s): Miguel Ángel de los Santos Figueroa, Miguel Alberto Bogaert Marra).
Amendment to the Social Security Law.
Bill of the Organic Law of the Chamber of Accounts of the Dominican Republic (Proponent(s): Alfredo Pacheco Osoria, Máximo Castro and Nicolás Hidalgo Almánzar).
“Initiative Number: 06015-2020-2024-CD.
Bill that regulates the labeling, advertising and nutritional information of food, in order to prevent and decrease the incidence of non-communicable diseases (Proponent(s): Lourdes Josefina Aybar Dionisio).
“Initiative Number: 05934-2020-2024-CD.
Bill of unique planning regions of the Dominican Republic (Proponent(s): Máximo Castro, Alfredo Pacheco Osoria).
“Initiative Number: 06016-2020-2024-CD.
Bill on Responsible Parenthood (Proponent(s): Dionis Alfonso Sánchez Carrasco).
“Initiative Number: 06354-2020-2024-CD.
Bill introducing special measures applicable to public infrastructure projects and public-private alliances and modifying Law No.47-20 of 20 February 2020, on Public-Private Alliances. (Proponent(s): Executive Branch).
“Initiative Number: 06416-2020-2024-CD.
Bill of Organic Law of Territorial Planning, Land Use and Human Settlement (Proponent(s): Máximo Castro).
“Initiative Number: 06428-2020-2024-CD.
Bill that declares tobacco and cigarettes as cultural heritage of the Dominican Republic (Proponent(s): Executive Branch).
Bill to create the Ministry of Water in the Dominican Republic (Proponent(s): Máximo Castro).
“Initiative Number: 06429-2020-2024-CD.
Bill on the Water Law of the Dominican Republic (Proponent(s): Máximo Castro).
“Initiative Number: 06430-2020-2024-CD.
The Chamber of Deputies is also participating in the Senate-Chamber of Deputies joint review of several bills
Draft general bill on public procurement (Proponent(s): Executive Branch).
Bill to reorganize the hydrocarbons sector in the Dominican Republic (Proponent(s): Executive Branch).
Bill for a law on the extinction of ownership trials for the civil forfeiture of illicit goods (Proponent(s): Milciades Marino Franjul Pimentel).
Bill to establish the applicable regime for the regulation of public trusts in the Dominican Republic (Proponent(s): Executive Branch).
Bill of the Organic Law of the Ministry of the Interior (Proponent(s): Manuel Elpidio Báez).
“Initiative Number: 05424-2020-2024-CD.
Private Security Bill (Proponent(s): Lourdes Aybar and Rubén Maldonado).
“Initiative Number: 06447-2020-2024-CD.
Bill for the Protection of Victims, Witnesses and other Procedural Subjects (Proponent(s): Manuel Elpidio Baez).
“Initiative Number: 06378-2020-2024-CD.
Bill for the Reform of Law 140-15, which regulates the Dominican Notary Public (Proponent(s): Darío Zapata).
“Initiative Number: 06461-2020-2024-CD.
Bill to Reform Law 29-11 Organic Law of the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) (Proponent(s): Dionis Sánchez – Senate).
“Initiative Number: 06358-2020-2024-CD.
Bill that regulates pardon (Proponent(s): Rubén Maldonado).
“Initiative Number: 06442-2020-2024-CD.
Bill to reform Law 137-03 on smuggling of migrants and trafficking in persons.
Bill on the Comptroller General of the Republic and the National System of Internal Control.
Bill on Advertising and State Communications.
Bill on Fiscal Responsibility and Transparency. (Proponent(s): José Francisco Santana).
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El Dia
9 March 2022