Senator Angelo Coronel (PSD-BA) will be the rapporteur of the Complementary Law Project (PLP) 175/24, which meets the requirements of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) on traceability and transparency rules for parliamentary amendments. The proposal was approved by the Chamber of Deputies last week.
The proposal aims to establish limits for the transfer of parliamentary amendments, resolving the current blockage of resources, imposed by minister Flávio Dino.
The author of the project is Rubens Pereira Júnior (PT-MA) and the rapporteur in the Chamber was deputy Elmar Nascimento (União-BA). In the text, it prioritizes the transfer of resources for structural works and establishes that each bench will be entitled to up to eight nominations, limiting the growth of amendments based on the Annual Budget Law.
For 2025, the project sets the limit for amendments linked to net current revenue, with an increase of R$11.5 billion allocated to commission amendments. In 2026, the adjustments will follow the fiscal framework rule, corrected for inflation with a margin of up to 2.5%.
Now, the text will be processed urgently in the Senate. The expectation is that senators will present new amendments to the text, taking into account some resistance that was faced in the Chamber plenary.
Senator Angelo Coronel even presented a bill on the same subject, but the text was not taken into account by the presidents of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), and the Chamber, Arthur Lira (PP-AL). The government’s deputy leader’s project was chosen because it is more in line with the STF’s requirements.
In addition to parliamentarians, who are already criticizing Congressman Rubens Pereira Júnior’s project, claiming that the parliamentarian is “aligned” with the interests of the government and the STF, due to his proximity to minister Flávio Dino, entities such as Transparência Brasil and Contas Abertas, which monitor the application of public resources, released a joint note criticizing the text to regularize the amendments.
The author of the proposal told People’s Gazette that the text was constructed based on the discussions of a working group formed by members of the Chamber, Senate, Attorney General’s Office (AGU) and Civil House, and is a “starting point” to try to resolve the impasse between the Legislative and the Judiciary on the issue of amendments
