Overview
- Lawmakers approved an urgency regime on February 9 for ten proposals, enabling direct plenary votes without prior committee review.
- Urgency for PL 3,278/2021, which creates a new framework for urban public transport, passed 304–113 and the text can go to presidential sanction if the plenary approves it unamended.
- The transport bill separates passenger fares from operator remuneration and outlines alternative funding sources such as advertising, property-value capture, terminal concessions, carbon credits, Cide-fuel resources, and congestion or parking charges.
- The proposal bars cross-subsidies for gratuities, requiring explicit budget allocations for fare exemptions, while its fiscal impact was not specified by the author or the Chamber’s floor rapporteur.
- Other urgent items include mandatory “Ligue 180” disclosures on violence against women, a move to declare Monjauro and Zepbound of public interest to enable patent overrides, funding for emergency water distribution via Funcap, rules for collective-meal workers, a chemical industry tax transition, measures on minors’ extreme animal cruelty, ongoing anti-violence campaigns, and a symbolic recognition of Campina Grande that advanced to the Senate.