Overview
- The Senate Infrastructure Commission approved PLP 73/2025 on Tuesday, advancing a proposal to prohibit the federal government from contingenciaring the budgets of Brazil's federal regulatory agencies.
- Rapporteur Marcos Rogério widened the bill to bar cuts to all agency activities and removed the requirement that protected spending come from agencies' own revenues.
- Senators approved an urgency request to speed the bill's progress but reports conflict on procedure because some coverage says it will skip the Economic Affairs Committee while other coverage says it will go to the CAE for analysis.
- The Executive and the Ministry of Finance oppose the change on the grounds that banning contingenciamento would limit the government's fiscal tools, and sponsors said they will seek to overturn a prior presidential veto in a joint congressional session.
- Regulators say recent blocks forced them to delay inspections, licensing and IT modernization, and if enacted the law would cover 12 agencies including Aneel, Anatel, ANP and Anvisa which handle energy, telecoms, oil and health oversight.