Overview
- The Senate, which received the president’s proposal Tuesday, sent it to the Constitutional Points and Legislative Studies committees, with the full chamber set to be briefed on April 7.
- The amendment would revise Article 73 to let Congress pass a General Law on femicide that unifies the legal definition, investigations, and penalties across all states.
- The draft sets prison terms of 40 to 70 years, makes the crime and its punishment imprescriptible, and bars benefits such as conditional release, commutation, or amnesty.
- Prosecutors would have to open every violent death of a woman as a possible femicide, create specialized units at federal and state levels, and follow a National Homologated Protocol.
- The plan adds reinforced care for children orphaned by femicide through a national registry and guaranteed health, counseling, schooling, and reparations, while final approval still needs supermajorities in Congress and ratification by state legislatures.