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Deputies approved special law to allocate funds to the FSV
The Legislation and Constitutional Points Committee ruled in favor of creating a special law that authorizes the Fondo Social para la Vivienda (FSV), to give on gratuitous loan real estate located in the Urbanization La Campanera in the municipality of Soyapango.
Deputies approve more than US$12 million for hospital infrastructure
In 2021, the Ministerio de Hacienda y el Banco Internacional de Reconstrucción y Fomento signed a loan for US$50 million for "Additional Financing for El Salvador's Response Project to COVID-19". To date, the available amount of this loan is US$410,810.00.
Deputies bet on new coffee law that will promote national and international commercialization of the golden bean
The Agricultural Commission ruled in favor of the new Special Law for the Commercialization, Registration and Protection of Coffee Property with the purpose of regularizing said item in the country, as well as facilitating the commercialization of coffee for a better price.
Deputies approved ratifies agreement that guarantees food security
In the 145th plenary session, the deputies approved, with 71 votes, the initiative that will promote the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in conjunction with the salvadoran government to implement various strategic plans for food and nutritional security.
Deputies approve the creation of INCAF
With 66 votes, the deputies of the Legislative Assembly approved the Law for the Creation of the Instituto Nacional de Capacitación y Formación (INCAF). This entity will assume the functions of the Instituto Salvadoreño de Formación Profesional (INSAFORP), which will cease to exist in the coming weeks.
Deputies ratify the Free Trade Agreement between Mexico and Central America
Several agreements between several nations in commercial, criminal and defense matters were ratified by the deputies of the Legislative Assembly in the 126th plenary session. Among these is the ratification with 70 votes of the "Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua".
Assembly approves funding for Instituto Salvadoreño del Café
A reform to the nation's budget, approved by 73 deputies, was approved to incorporate US$4,038,105 to the Instituto Salvadoreño del Café (ISC). These funds will allow it to begin operations and comply with its institutional goals and objectives, aimed at promoting the development of the coffee sector, which will benefit more than 25 thousand producers.
Deputies in favor of reforming the Digital Asset Issuance Law
The deputies of the Economy Commission issued a favorable opinion to make reforms to the Law of Issuance of Digital Assets, with the purpose of generating legal certainty in the current digital asset market.
Deputies in favor of continuing to subsidize liquefied gas until may 2024
Deputies of the Economy Committee issued a favorable opinion for the creation of the Special and Transitory Law for the Stabilization of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Prices, with the purpose of stabilizing the price of LPG for domestic consumption, which will allow to alleviate the pocket of salvadoran households.
Commission in favor of BCR to extend Business Statistical Solvency
The deputies of the Economy Commission issued a favorable opinion to reform the Commercial Registry Law with the purpose of continuing modernizing the services that public institutions provide to salvadorans, through the use of new technologies.