Summary.
The bill aims to limit the participation of people connected to public office or political party leadership in the management of sports organizations. It also seeks to strengthen accountability for state resources administered by sports federations. Its stated objectives include preventing political interests from influencing federation decisions, establishing mandatory reporting and independent external audits for federations receiving state funds, and setting responsibilities and ethical measures for their management.
The text also identifies continuity in public sports policies across successive administrations as an objective. It proposes promoting equitable access to sports and recreational activities for all citizens regardless of political affiliation. These aims accompany the restrictions and duties developed in the subsequent articles concerning the leadership of sports organizations and the administration of public funding.
The bill would prohibit public officials, their relatives within the second degree of blood relationship or affinity, and political party leaders from holding management, administrative, or other decision making positions in the country’s sports and cultural federations. The prohibition would also cover provincial leagues, clubs, and their respective boards of directors.
Sports federations receiving resources from the State would have to submit a management report, an independent external audit, and an accounting report within the first three months of the year. The competent government sports body would publish those documents on its website, where they would be open to public review. This requirement links the receipt of state resources to periodic disclosure of information about federation management and accounts.
Failure to comply with the proposed provisions would lead to penalties including disqualification from holding positions in sports and cultural federations and administrative fines set by the competent regulatory body. If an organization fails to submit its accounting reports and audits, the State could not disburse funds to it until those documents are submitted. Sports federations would also have to provide ongoing training for their directors and employees on ethics, transparency, and financial management, supervised by the competent government body.
The bill assigns its implementing regulations to the Executive Branch (Órgano Ejecutivo) and provides that it would take effect on the day following its promulgation in the Official Gazette (Gaceta Oficial). Its provisions concern the Executive Branch, the State, the competent government sports and regulatory bodies, sports and cultural federations, provincial leagues, clubs, their directors and employees, public officials and their relatives, political party leaders, and people who take part in sports and recreational activities.
What it proposes.
- Eligibility for decision making positions in sports and cultural organizations.
- Accountability of sports federations receiving state funding.
- Penalties and conditions for disbursement of state funds.
- Training for sports federation directors and employees.
Who it would affect.
- Public officials, their relatives within the second degree of blood relationship or affinity, and political party leaders.
- Sports and cultural federations, provincial leagues, and clubs.
- Sports federations receiving state resources.
- Sports federation directors and employees.
Key points.
- The bill sets objectives concerning transparency, accountability, continuity of sports policies, and equitable access to sport.Arts. 1-2
- It bars public officials, relatives within the second degree of blood relationship or affinity, and political party leaders from decision making positions in sports and cultural federations, provincial leagues, and clubs.Art. 3
- It requires sports federations receiving state resources to submit a management report, an independent external audit, and an accounting report within the first three months of the year.Art. 4
- It directs the competent government sports body to publish the reports on its website for public review.Art. 4
- It provides for disqualification from holding positions and administrative fines for noncompliance, and bars state disbursements until accounting reports and audits are submitted.Art. 5
- It requires sports federations to provide ongoing training on ethics, transparency, and financial management for directors and employees under government supervision.Art. 6
- It assigns implementing regulations to the Executive Branch and sets the effective date as the day following promulgation in the Official Gazette.Arts. 7-8