Bill 695.

Summary.

Article 3 proposes that cultural activities be held on the day referred to in the bill. The provision applies to official and private educational centers. It also covers public, autonomous, semi-autonomous and municipal institutions. For all those centers and institutions, the article sets out the same undertaking: to hold cultural activities aimed at highlighting the values and contributions of the Indian ethnic community in Panama. The activities are defined by their cultural character and by the purpose assigned to them in the article.

In education, the proposal covers both official and private centers. Its wording includes both types of center in the provision concerning activities to be held on that day. In the institutional sphere, the proposal separately lists public, autonomous, semi-autonomous and municipal institutions. The article thus assigns the activities to educational establishments and to institutions in the categories it expressly names. Its reference to that day places the undertaking by all of them at the time identified by the bill.

The contributions that the activities would highlight are described in five areas concerning the Indian ethnic community in Panama. The article names scientific and cultural contributions, followed by economic, labor and social contributions. Those areas identify the subject toward which the cultural activities of the covered centers and institutions would be directed. The provision therefore connects the participation of the listed bodies with a purpose concerning that community’s contributions in Panama. Cultural contributions appear in the list of subjects to be highlighted, while the activities themselves are also described as cultural.

Article 4 sets out the rule on commencement: the law would take effect upon promulgation. This provision addresses when the proposed law would begin to operate. Articles 3 and 4 address, respectively, the cultural activities to be undertaken by the specified centers and institutions and the timing of commencement. The supplied articles do not amend, add to or repeal a law identified by name; their provisions concern the described activities and commencement upon promulgation.

The bill’s content concerns official and private educational centers and the public, autonomous, semi-autonomous and municipal institutions assigned to hold the proposed activities. It also concerns the Indian ethnic community in Panama, whose contributions form the subject of those activities. The scientific, cultural, economic, labor and social areas named in the article define the sectors addressed by the proposed cultural activities.