The General Legislation Commission of the Chamber of Deputies began this Tuesday the treatment of the projects that seek to modify the rental law, in a meeting in which the authorities of that body were appointed and in which a work schedule was established that includes the possibility of issuing an opinion between April 26 and 27, after the attendance of several exhibitors on the subject.
The deputy of the Frente de Todos Cecilia Moreau was re-elected as president of the commission, while Carla Carrizo, of Radical Evolution-Together for Change, will continue as vice president.
In the brief meeting, in which only these organizational issues were agreed, a work scheme was resolved that includes virtual and face-to-face meetings, as well as the possibility that some of the testimonies of the sectors interested in the initiative could be carried out through videoconference, even when the committee meeting is face-to-face.
The next meeting of the commission will be next Tuesday, under the remote modalitybetween 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., and with the opinions of specialists, while the following week, on Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20, the deputies will receive guests in person.
Finally, on Tuesday the 26th and Wednesday the 27th, the deputies will meet in person to engage in internal discussion and seek to issue a consensus opinion. based on the twenty projects presented by legislators from different political forces.
Word of Cecilia Moreau
“We want to work in these 30 business days that were set to try to reach an agreement, on a law that many of us support and that in fact led to very important requirements from both tenants and owners, which we cannot fail to attend to. and listening,” Moreau emphasized.
In this sense, the president of the commission also expressed: “It seems to us that just as we did on other issues, and since we want to continue working, it would be important for us to establish a schedule giving this issue a federal vision, because we think it is very important that not only what happens in the city of Buenos Aires is heard”,
This is how the authorities of the commission were designated:
President ?? @ceciliamoreauok
Vice President ?? @CarlaCarrizoAR
Vice President 2nd ?? Lucas Godoy
Secretary ?? @KBanfi— Cecilia Moreau (@ceciliamoreauok) April 5, 2022
At the end of today’s meeting, the radical deputy Karina Banfi, pointed out that on this issue “all the deputies of the commission will have to make a great effort to agree on some points on which they can have coincidences.”
“We know -he added- what the problems of this law are: the extension of the contract and the way of indexation. We seek to repeal those two articles” and pointed out that “we must return to the Civil Code. Less regulation and more freedom for the parties to negotiate When the State interferes a lot, it hurts. We must seek to provide legal certainty, and find a way to increase supply, which will lead to a drop in price, “he added.
About the rental law
The current rental law was approved by the Chamber of Deputies in November 2019 and signed into law by the Senate on June 11, 2020, in the first period of isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Less than two years after its sanction and one year after its implementation, the rule has generated many difficulties for tenants to rent a property and the most objected issues are the terms of the contracts that were extended to a minimum of three years.
He also had different questions about the contract updating index, based on an average between the Consumer Price Index and the average salary.
Instead, the legislators would maintain the articles incorporated into the law passed in 2020, which were the expansion of the range of instruments allowed to support the operation, since surety insurance, bank guarantees and guarantees were added to the guarantee through real estate deeds. of bail
It will also be preserved that the tenant pays a month in advance and another deposit, since before he paid at least two months of deposit.
