Overview
- The government is working to take the package to the Senate before month‑end and is negotiating changes, with April 29 floated but not set, while pushback concentrates on rural‑land and slum‑title chapters more than on evictions.
- The bill’s “express eviction” track would cut the grace notice for missed rent to three days and use a fast trial format that can yield rulings in 72 hours and property return in as few as five days.
- Courts would limit evidence to documents and expert reports, accept electronic addresses for all notices, and allow eviction launches using public force on non‑working days.
- The measure would apply to contract tenants as well as subtenants, precarious holders, and squatters by rewriting Article 680 bis of the civil procedure code to widen who can be ordered to return a property.
- The package also revises expropriation payouts toward market value, loosens paths for foreign capital under existing rural‑land limits, and shifts title regularization in poor neighborhoods to local governments, while tenant groups and CELS warn short deadlines could push families with unstable incomes into fast removals in a costly rental market.