Bill 448.

Summary.

The bill concerns the rules governing the operation of postsecondary education centers within higher technical institutes or higher education centers. Article 1 proposes to repeal Law 389 of 2023, which the bill identifies as the law regulating those centers’ operation. Repeal is the direct subject of this provision: the bill would remove that law from the legal framework applicable to the centers described in its title. The provision states its scope by identifying both the law to be repealed and the centers whose operations it governs.

Article 2 sets out the effect that the bill attaches to the repeal. It provides that, for the purpose of repealing Law 389 of 2023, Executive Decree 50 of March 23, 1999, would be revived. The text thus connects two legal measures: repeal of the law governing the centers’ operation and restoration of the identified executive decree’s legal force. Revival is framed as a consequence of the repeal proposed by the bill. The provision identifies Executive Decree 50 of March 23, 1999, by its number and date and places its application in the same field of postsecondary education addressed by the law proposed for repeal.

Article 3 again provides for the repeal of Law 389 of 2023. It repeats the measure stated in Article 1 and identifies the same law as the object of repeal. In the sequence of the bill, Articles 1 and 3 state the repeal, while Article 2 provides for revival of the executive decree as an associated effect. The proposed legal change therefore comprises the removal of Law 389 of 2023 and the revival of the specified decree in relation to the operation of the postsecondary education centers described in the bill.

Article 4 establishes when the proposed law would take effect. Under that provision, it would come into force three months after its promulgation. That period applies to the commencement of the law containing the repeal and revival measures set out in the preceding articles. The bill therefore presents the measures concerning Law 389 of 2023 and Executive Decree 50 of March 23, 1999, together with a single rule for when the proposed law would begin to operate.

The public institutions connected with the bill’s subject are the higher technical institutes or higher education centers mentioned in the text. Given its subject matter, the bill could concern or affect postsecondary education centers, those involved in their operation, and the higher education sector.