📋 Tender Overview
The Senate unanimously approved on Tuesday (29), the complementary bill (which authorizes the use of funds stopped in inactive education programs. Senator Laercio Oliveira (PP-SE), was reported in plenary by Senator Damares Alves (Republicans-DF) and goes to the Chamber of Deputies.
The prohibits the use of resources transferred by the Union to states and municipalities in actions other than those originally foreseen. This occurs even when a program becomes inactive and the resources are stopped. The approved project authorizes the use of these resources available in inactive education programs, provided that in the same area.
According to Senator Laercio, only in 2022, there were about R $ 308.4 million balance in inactive education programs in April of that year - while states and municipalities needed resources for various educational works and actions. For him, the project may allow these works to resume for the benefit of the population.
- Definitely the Federal Senate made a great contribution to Brazilian education by allowing, with the approval of this project, the opportunity for the appeals damaged in programs that no longer be used within the area of education. There are more than 3,000 works paralyzed in the country and this feature may browse the sense of providing a solution to this existing problem in the area of education - said the senator in Plenary.
In the report, Damares states that despite the efforts that occurred in the last decade, education in the country has disabilities and demands investments. For her, resources cannot be despised and need to be relocated as quickly and efficiently as possible.
- The project was unanimously approved by the committees and discussed with the leaders and the government, said Damares, asking for the support of senators to approve the text.
Changes
The project was approved with an amendment of the Education and Culture Commission (CE), where it was reported by senator Professor Dorinha Seabra (Uniao-TO). The change specifies that inactive resources can necessarily be used to maintain and develop education.
By the Law of Guidelines and Bases of Education (), the area comprises expenses with construction and maintenance of schools, compensation of education professionals and the acquisition of didactic material, among others.
In plenary, Senator Damares also included the need for renegotiation with the National Education Development Fund (FNDE) before the use of resources.
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