After three months of regular sessions, Costa Rica’s Legislative Assembly tomorrow enters another cycle of three-month extraordinary sessions to discuss bills proposed by the executive branch.
The Costa Rican Parliament divides the legislative year into six months, divided into three periods for analyzing executive initiatives and another for proposals from MPs.
In this way, during this month of November to January, the executive branch’s proposals will be discussed.
These are the initiatives: National Penal System Act; on weapons and explosives and their reforms; as well as what is intended for the modernization of the communication intervention.
In addition, there is the law to adapt the response of the juvenile justice system to the challenges of violent crime and organized crime; and the Law on Restoring Public Safety and Containing Criminals Who Pose a Danger to Society.
They will also present to the Legislative Assembly the Imminent Danger Bill, a loan from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) that allows interventions in 502 infrastructure projects that endanger people’s lives.
Notable among them are 88 bridges, 88 roads, 74 railway lines, 47 educational centers and two housing projects, as well as 203 disaster-affected structures.
During this period, the Executive will also call for the analysis of the file to enable the extradition of nationals on charges of international drug trafficking and terrorism.
For the Minister of the Presidency Natalia Díaz, the call for extraordinary meetings confirms the interest of the Executive to have a real influence on the wave of gang crime that is afflicting our country.
On the other hand, a new bill is being presented that would authorize the National Children’s Pro-Hospital Association to transfer to the Costa Rican Social Security Fund the funds that the Social Development and Family Allowances Fund makes available to it by law for the draft. Inspection, supervision, construction and equipment of an intensive care building called Torre de Esperanza.
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