Amendment to the Complementary Income Law in Rural and Marginalized Urban Areas
Congreso Nacional
- Decree: 184-2020
- Published: January 14, 2021
- Issuing body: Congreso Nacional
- Gazette: 35,487
- Category: Financial & Tax
Summary
This reform expands who can execute projects to generate supplementary income in poor rural and urban areas of Honduras. It now allows municipalities, construction companies, NGOs, and civil associations to work directly with the government, not just state institutions. It aims for more vulnerable families to receive at least 120 days of paid work per year in projects that improve their communities.
Considerations
Whereas the Constitution of the Republic establishes that the human person is the supreme purpose of society and it is the function of the State to promote and facilitate access to public services related to health, in order to improve sanitary conditions and the quality of life of persons.
Whereas by Legislative Decree No. 107-2010, dated July 29, 2010 and published in the Official Gazette "La Gaceta" on August 21, 2010, in its Edition No. 32,296, the Law on Supplementary Income in Rural and Urban-Marginal Areas was approved.
Whereas the Law on Supplementary Income in Rural and Urban-Marginal Areas has as its purpose to declare of national priority the supplementation of income for the population of rural and urban-marginal areas of the country, through the execution of projects that foster improvement in their living conditions; the improvement of the natural resource bases in the benefited areas; and conservation of the environment and the reduction of vulnerability to natural disasters, the improvement of food security, the creation of new capacities and sustainable economic development in communities, with the further purpose of protecting and improving the income level of persons.
Whereas the effective implementation of the Law on Supplementary Income in Rural and Urban-Marginal Areas requires the inclusion of more actors as executing entities of projects, which demands reforming the Law in such a manner that it is adapted to the current conditions of the country, allowing said reform to give this Law the effectiveness that is sought.
Whereas Article 205 Attribution 1) of the Constitution of the Republic establishes that it is the power of the National Congress to: Create, decree, interpret, reform and repeal laws.
Amendments
- Modifies: Law on Complementary Income in Rural and Urban Marginal Areas (Amendment) — articles 4, 8, 10
Articles
To amend Articles 4, 8, and 10 of Legislative Decree No. 107-2010, dated July 29, 2010 and published in the Official Gazette "La Gaceta" on August 21, 2010, in its Edition No. 32,296, which contains the LAW ON COMPLEMENTARY INCOME IN RURAL AND MARGINALIZED URBAN ZONES, which shall be read as follows:
For the purpose of guaranteeing to one member of each household, complementary income for no less than one hundred twenty (120) days per year, in the poorest rural and urban communities of the country, by developing social work in the projects carried out under this regulation, in accordance with the eligibility criteria determined by the Regulatory Entity referred to in Articles 2 and 3 of this Law, giving priority to the criteria established in Article 12; the State Secretariat of the Office of Development and Social Inclusion (SEDIS) shall coordinate the execution of projects with entities of the Central Government, decentralized and autonomous entities, municipalities, municipal associations, residents, construction companies, individual contractors, consulting firms or individual consultants, as well as Non-Governmental Organizations and Civil Associations.
The execution of the projects referred to in this Law shall be the responsibility of municipal associations and residents, construction companies, individual contractors, consulting firms, individual consultants, Non-Governmental Organizations, Civil Associations, legally recognized or in the process of legalization, according to the technical capacity of each of them, which may request technical, administrative support and supervision from the organizations authorized to do so. Once a project has been initiated.... The Regulatory Entity, through the State Secretariat of the Office of Development and Social Inclusion (SEDIS) and other competent institutions, shall collaborate with municipal associations, residents, construction companies, individual contractors, consulting firms, individual consultants, Non-Governmental Organizations, legally recognized Civil Associations, in the development of actions aimed at strengthening administrative and management capacities, to improve the execution of projects regulated by this Law.
The projects included in the scope of this Law, which are executed jointly or separately by the State Secretariat of the Offices of Infrastructure and Public Services (INSEP), Directorate of Childhood, Adolescence and Family (DINAF), State Secretariat of the Office of Risk Management and National Contingencies (COPECO), National Institute of Forest Conservation and Development, Protected Areas and Wildlife (ICF), State Secretariat of the Offices of Agriculture and Livestock (SAG), State Secretariat of Community Development, Water and Sanitation (SEDECOAS) and the Institutions attached thereto such as: Honduran Social Investment Fund (FHIS), Program for Sustainable Rural and Urban Development (PRONADERS), Municipal Mayors' Offices or any other public or non-governmental entity, must be coordinated with the State Secretariat of the Offices of Development and Social Inclusion (SEDIS). In the Regulation of this Law.....
This Decree shall enter into force as of the day of its publication in the Official Gazette "La Gaceta." Given in the city of Tegucigalpa, municipality of the Central District, in the Session held by the National Congress in Virtual form, on the thirtieth day of the month of December of two thousand twenty. MARIO ALONSO PÉREZ LÓPEZ PRESIDENT JOSÉ TOMÁS ZAMBRANO MOLINA SECRETARY ROSSEL RENÁN INESTROZA MÁRTINEZ SECRETARY To the Executive Power Therefore: Let it be executed. Tegucigalpa, M.D.C., January 13, 2021 JUAN ORLANDO HERNÁNDEZ ALVARADO PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC THE STATE SECRETARY OF THE OFFICES OF DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL INCLUSION ZOILA PATRICIA CRUZ CERRATO ________ The NATIONAL PRINTING ARTS COMPANY offers you the following services: BOOKS BROCHURES TRIFOLDS CONTINUOUS FORMS POSTERS INVOICES BUSINESS CARDS DEED COVERS CALENDARS BOOK BINDING MAGAZINES.
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