Bills and draft bills.
What is filed in the Assembly, with its stage, its sponsors and the law it would change.
National Assembly · Panama1,031 bills
- Committee
- Trabajo, Salud y Desarrollo Social
- Filed
- 11 de marzo de 2026
The draft bill proposes public merit and credentials competitions to appoint regional, institutional and medical directors in health facilities. The positions are in publ…
- Committee
- Asuntos Municipales
- Filed
- 9 de marzo de 2026
The draft bill proposes territorial and urban planning changes that would make plans binding and subordinate zoning to those plans. It would also set conditions for plan …
- Filed
- 9 de marzo de 2026
- Committee
- EDUCACION, CULTURA Y DEPORTES
- Filed
- 9 de marzo de 2026
The bill proposes rules for approving, publishing, purchasing and selling school textbooks, uniforms and supplies in educational institutions. They apply to public and pr…
- Committee
- Trabajo, Salud y Desarrollo Social
- Filed
- 9 de marzo de 2026
The draft bill proposes a free transfer of wastewater treatment systems or plants not yet formally transferred to IDAAN. The exceptional, temporary procedure would transf…
- Committee
- GOBIERNO, JUSTICIA Y ASUNTOS CONSTITUCIONALES
- Filed
- 9 de marzo de 2026
The bill proposes a cybersecurity framework for state bodies, essential service providers, and operators of vital importance. It creates a regulatory authority, advisory …
- Committee
- Trabajo, Salud y Desarrollo Social
- Filed
- 9 de marzo de 2026
The draft bill proposes requiring employers to compensate expenses from workers’ use of personal motor vehicles for work. Compensation would cover regular, periodic or oc…
- Committee
- GOBIERNO, JUSTICIA Y ASUNTOS CONSTITUCIONALES
- Filed
- 5 de marzo de 2026
The bill proposes to amend Article 241 of the Criminal Code on contributions to the Social Security Fund and enrollment in Social Security. It addresses the withholding a…
- Committee
- COMERCIO Y ASUNTOS ECONOMICOS
- Filed
- 5 de marzo de 2026
The bill proposes rules to prevent and address economic concentration and abuse of a dominant position in the telecommunications market. It establishes controls on merger…
- Committee
- TRABAJO, SALUD Y DESARROLLO SOCIAL
- Filed
- 5 de marzo de 2026
The bill would require psychological care and psychosocial support for personnel responding to accidents, emergencies, disasters and extreme violence. Institutions would …
- Committee
- COMERCIO Y ASUNTOS ECONOMICOS
- Filed
- 4 de marzo de 2026
The bill proposes a liability framework for electricity distributors for damage to users’ equipment associated with service failures or deficiencies. It provides for repa…
- Committee
- ASUNTOS AGROPECUARIOS
- Filed
- 4 de marzo de 2026
The bill regulates purchases, sales, and other transactions involving agricultural products carried out at Merca Panamá or recorded in its system. It proposes recording e…
- Committee
- COMERCIO Y ASUNTOS ECONOMICOS
- Filed
- 4 de marzo de 2026
The bill proposes to change the commencement date of Law 473 of 2025, which amends Law 45 of 2007 on consumer protection and competition. It would do so by replacing Arti…
- Committee
- ASUNTOS AGROPECUARIOS
- Filed
- 3 de marzo de 2026
The bill proposes to regulate the productive use of drones in agricultural, forestry, fishing, and aquaculture activities in Panama. It would establish an operator regist…
- Committee
- TRABAJO, SALUD Y DESARROLLO SOCIAL
- Filed
- 3 de marzo de 2026
The bill would recognize cervical cancer as a disease of public interest in Panama and establish measures for its prevention and care. The measures cover early detection,…
- Committee
- Trabajo, Salud y Desarrollo Social
- Filed
- 3 de marzo de 2026
The draft bill proposes a digital mechanism to view approved prescriptions and schedule medication pickup at public health facilities. The mechanism would show medication…
- Committee
- Trabajo, Salud y Desarrollo Social
- Filed
- 3 de marzo de 2026
The draft bill would create a national system to improve service to the public in health facilities run by the Ministry of Health and Social Security Fund. The system wou…
- Committee
- COMERCIO Y ASUNTOS ECONOMICOS
- Filed
- 2 de marzo de 2026
Law 80 of 2012 would add provisions to promote active, ethnic, scientific and rural tourism through ecological roads. The bill provides for rehabilitating those roads in …
- Committee
- GOBIERNO, JUSTICIA Y ASUNTOS CONSTITUCIONALES
- Filed
- 2 de marzo de 2026
The bill proposes changes to the enforcement and registration of judicial decisions and to provisional entries in the Public Registry. It sets out how an unpaid judgment …
- Committee
- EDUCACION, CULTURA Y DEPORTES
- Filed
- 2 de marzo de 2026
Law 47 of 1946 would incorporate school textbook reuse into the national teaching resources service. The bill would also make reuse a responsibility of the Ministry of Ed…
- Committee
- TRABAJO, SALUD Y DESARROLLO SOCIAL
- Filed
- 2 de marzo de 2026
Law 431 of 2024 would be amended to clarify care providers' duties and require them to undergo periodic training. The bill reorganizes the membership and functions of the…
- Committee
- POBLACION, AMBIENTE Y DESARROLLO
- Filed
- 2 de marzo de 2026
The bill proposes adding integrated waste management rules to Law 33 of 2018 for public or private events attended by one hundred (100) or more people. It would require o…
- Committee
- EDUCACION, CULTURA Y DEPORTES
- Filed
- 26 de febrero de 2026
Casa Blanca, the current premises of the Alianza Francesa, would be declared immovable tangible cultural heritage of Panama. The bill identifies the property in the corre…
- Committee
- POBLACION, AMBIENTE Y DESARROLLO
- Filed
- 26 de febrero de 2026
The bill proposes gradually replacing certain expanded and extruded polystyrene articles used with food and beverages. The transition would last forty-eight (48) months, …