Draft bill 3.

Summary.

The draft bill designates October 2 of each year as the Civic Day and Day of Commemoration of the Indian Ethnic Group. The commemoration would take place throughout the Republic of Panama to highlight the group's values and its contributions to the country's culture and development. This provision sets an annual date and a territorial scope for the activities addressed in the following articles. Its subject is the Indian ethnic group and its contribution to cultural life and national development.

To give effect to that designation, the text assigns responsibilities to the Ministry of Education (Ministerio de Educación), the Institute of Culture (Instituto de Cultura), and the Panamanian Tourism Institute (Instituto Panameño de Turismo). These bodies would ensure compliance with the provision establishing the civic day and commemoration and would organize related events. The draft bill thus connects the annual observance with action by the public bodies responsible for education, culture, and tourism. The events they would organize concern the values and contributions underlying the commemoration throughout the Republic of Panama.

The text also provides that public and private schools would conduct cultural activities on that day. The same provision would extend to public, autonomous, semi-autonomous, and municipal institutions. The activities would aim to highlight the scientific, cultural, economic, labor, and social contributions of the Indian ethnic group in Panama. Accordingly, the contemplated participation includes both public and private educational establishments and institutions from different parts of the public administration. This article places those activities on the designated date and identifies the areas of the group's contribution that they would address.

The final provision states that the proposed law would take effect upon promulgation. Taken together, the articles contain the designation of the commemorative date, the assignment of responsibility for compliance and the organization of events, the conduct of cultural activities by schools and public institutions, and the rule on entry into force. The proposal concerns an annual commemoration, with activities contemplated for the designated day throughout the stated territory. It makes no express amendment to articles of other laws.

The public bodies connected with the subject are the Ministry of Education, the Institute of Culture, the Panamanian Tourism Institute, and public, autonomous, semi-autonomous, and municipal institutions. Public and private schools in the Republic of Panama are also covered. In light of the activities and contributions named in the draft bill, its contents could be of interest to the Indian ethnic group and to the education, culture, tourism, science, economic, labor, and social sectors.