This Thursday (21) approved a project that prohibits the imposition of secrecy on travel expenses by the federal public administration.
The text, which will still be analyzed by the , also considers the imposition of secrecy to obtain personal advantage or hide an illegal act as administrative improbity and a crime of responsibility.
The measure was proposed by the opposition in response to the government’s (PT) refusal to share, for example, on a trip to New York in 2024.
The project is authored by deputies Gustavo Gayer (PL-GO) and Marcel Van Hattem (Novo-RS) and was reported by PL leader, Sóstenes Cavalcante (PL-SP).
The text establishes the obtaining of data on travel expenses of members of the administration as a right provided for in the LAI (Access to Information Law). Included are expenses for per diem, food, accommodation, travel, purchase of goods and transportation, including those paid by funds.
The project also says that information of this type should not be considered essential to the security of society or the State, which would allow it to be classified as confidential.
The proposal excludes, however, information that could put the security of the president and vice president, spouses and children at risk, which will remain confidential until the end of the term.
Furthermore, it amends the Administrative Improbity Law and the Impeachment Law to consider the imposition of secrecy to obtain personal advantage or hide an illegal act as administrative improbity and a crime of responsibility.
The text also says that the information classification and decisions made by the Joint Information Reevaluation Committee within the scope of the federal public administration may be reviewed, through a legislative decree approved in both Houses.
