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Private property: expropriation costs more and eviction speeds up (half-sanctioned)
Bill PE-13/2026 (Mensaje 22/26) — first-round approval in the Senate; now in the Chamber of Deputies (file 0032-S-2026)
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State, institutions and security
First-chamber approval in the Senate on Aug 6, 2026, 37 to 33: bill PE-13/2026 makes expropriation costlier and eviction faster, minus two blocks.
The other rules on this subject27
Royalties are shared by population, not by where the field isLey provincial 2148 (enacted on 15-Nov-1995)in force
What changed and who it applies to
What changed
FIRST-ROUND APPROVAL IN THE SENATE, WITHOUT LAND FOR FOREIGNERS OR FIRE MANAGEMENT: on August 6 the Senate resumed the session it had adjourned on July 16 and, after almost 12 hours, approved the bill in general by 37 votes to 33, in the early hours of the 7th. During the debate Chapter III (purchase of land by foreigners) and Chapter IV (changes to the Ley de Manejo del Fuego) were removed. The vote in detail was taken by chapter, with amendments to some articles. The text still includes the chapters on expropriation (a more restrictive reading of public utility), evictions (faster court proceedings) and the Real Estate Property Registry (modernization and digitization). The bill moved to the Chamber of Deputies as revising chamber, under file 0032-S-2026: Senate approval is not law. verif Aug 7, 2026 ↗
In force
Not in force yet. The rule is still going through the legislature: it has not been enacted, so there is no date from which it applies. Once it is published, it shows up here.
Who it applies to
Investors and developers (lower expropriation risk, faster recovery of real property); foreign capital interested in rural land/agribusiness (the 15% cap is lifted); urban and rural property owners; the treasury (expropriating becomes more expensive). Opposed: Peronism, worker-recovered company cooperatives and environmental groups. prob May 20, 2026 ↗
The norm
Bill PE-13/2026 (Executive Branch Message 22/26), before the Senate with committee approval since May 20, 2026. It reforms Leyes 21.499 (expropriation), 26.737 (rural land) and 26.815 (fire management). Visible sponsor: Federico Sturzenegger. verif May 20, 2026 ↗
Our reading
The program's most direct piece of legal certainty: it raises the cost of and narrows discretionary expropriation, and sets a firm deadline for evictions. The block that opened rural land to foreign capital (Ley 26.737) was removed from the bill in the Aug 6 session for lack of votes from allied governors, as was the fire-management block — the bill moving to the Chamber of Deputies is narrower than the original committee report. If what remains is enacted, it lowers the 'state risk' discount applied to every valuation of an Argentine asset (R2 · the RIGI promise is kept), but without the rural-land opening component. thesis
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Río Negro OBSOLETE as of Aug 6, 2026: the rural-land chapter (Ley 26.737) that supported this reading was withdrawn from the bill before the general floor vote, for lack of votes from allied governors. Without that chapter, first-reading passage does not open Rio Negro's rural land to foreign capital. The entry is kept (not deleted) because the mechanism remains valid IF the chapter is reintroduced, via this or another legislative vehicle — only reactivate then. mixed the RIGI promise is kept thesis
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