The bills correspond to parliamentary motions from the different political sectors, from Approve Dignity, Chile Vamos, Christian Democracy and Republicans, including initiatives from both the current Government of Gabriel Boric and the past administration of Sebastián Piñera.
Just as he had anticipated following becoming President of the Chamber of Deputies, Vlado Mirosevic, It will “dust off” a series of projects that are stuck in Congress.
These are regarding a dozen initiatives that range from security aspects to immigration issues, legal and economic procedures, which he will try to prioritize during his administration for rapid approval.
However, it will not be an easy task given the polarization that exists in the Lower House, in the midst of the onslaught of the opposition to head off a series of commissions through censorship.
The projects that Mirosevic presents “to dust off” in the Chamber
According to the list to which BioBioChile had access, the bills correspond to parliamentary motions from the different political sectors, going from I approve of Dignity, Chile Let’s Go, the Christian Democracy and Republicans, including initiatives from both current government of Gabriel Boric, as well as the past administration of Sebastián Piñera.
First appears the modification to Article 140 of the Criminal Procedure Code, regarding the criteria to apply the preventive prison for him use of firearms or belonging to a criminal organization, bill that was presented by the socialist Raul Leiva.
Secondly, there is the initiative of Deputy DC Joanna Perez, to expand police control powers, for the purposes of applying the measures established in the immigration and immigration law.
As explained, the main idea of the project is to expand the hypotheses of preventive identity control and provide Carabineros and PDI officials with new tools to identify irregular migrants, or with expired residence permits, in order to better comply with the regularization and expulsion processes contemplated in the Migration and Immigration Law.
Thus, when a person cannot prove that they are in a regular migratory situation, as established by law, the police officer must make it available to the PDI within the shortest period of time, which may not exceed one hour, to corroborate their situation. migration and initiate the corresponding procedures.
Another of the projects that will be prioritized will be the initiative that proposes a series of changes to the Drug Law to improve the prosecution of drug trafficking.
Changes to the Drug Law and increase sanctions for aggressors of police officers
This is a project that began with the idea of incorporating into Law 20,000 the crime of supplying narcotic or psychotropic substances or drugs to a person, without their consent or knowledge, which was proposed by the deputies Cristóbal Urruticoechea and Diego Shalper.
However, the government added other points such as, for example, for the circumstance of exclusive personal use or consumption and close in time, the concepts of quality or purity are replaced by quantity or dose.
In article 5, the criminal offense is perfected, extending to products that contain any type of solvent or inhalant gases capable of causing damage to the health and/or physical or mental dependence of minors.
A new article 5 bis is also incorporated, the purpose of which is to penalize those who carry out maneuvers aimed at another person, without their consent, consuming or administering any narcotic substance to their body in any way, aggravating the penalty by concurring the cases of violence or intimidation.
As a fourth point appears the initiative of the Deputy Jorge Alessandri, that increases the penalties for crimes committed once morest officials of the Carabineros, Investigative Police and Gendarmerie, where it is proposed not to apply substitute penalties, that is, that can be served outside of prison.
Reform of Notaries and Migrants
Regarding procedures, the project presented by the previous Government of Sebastián Piñera, which abolishes or modifies the intervention of notaries in certain procedures, actions and procedures, eliminating from some regulatory bodies the requirement to reduce the instruments to a public deed or authorize certain instruments before a notary.
In sixth place, on the other hand, is an initiative presented by the Ministry of Interior last October, which proposes, on the one hand, reversing the effects produced by the limitation introduced by the Immigration and Immigration Law for the alternative penalty of expulsion, and, on the other hand, expanding the expulsion hypothesis in cases of non-susceptible sentences to be replaced from the beginning, but through the so-called “mixed sentence”.
This is followed by the regulation of the different security measures of a preventive nature, for the branches of banking and financial entities, with cashiers for customer service, which was proposed by the Evópoli deputy, Jorge Guzmán.
This includes the installation of an image recording system, with cameras that must be able to point at the public access doors to the branch, at each customer service cashier and the waiting area, separation of the cashier area with waiting for service, through visual barriers to protect privacy in transactions, among other changes.
Allow the Public Ministry to investigate ex officio tax crimes
Below is the right to be forgotten in financial matters presented by the Deputy Daniel Manouchehri, where the Government also entered indications.
The idea is to enshrine the duty of data controllers to remove personal information relating to financial information on unpaid debts.
In penultimate place, there is the amendment to the Tax Code to enable the Public Ministry to exercise ex officio public criminal action for tax crimes, something that has made it difficult to investigate cases as noisy as Penta, SQM, among others, and which was presented by Giorgio Jackson during his time in the Chamber.
Finally, there is the initiative of Maite Orsini, to prevent, punish and eradicate digital violence and grant protection to its victims, typifying a series of prohibited behaviors or events that occur in the virtual space. To specify the above, a new legal statute is enshrined.
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