Decree reforming, adding and repealing various provisions of the Federal Rights Law and the General Tourism Law

DOF: 03/05/2023

DECREE reforming, adding and repealing various provisions of the Federal Rights Law and the General Tourism Law

In the margin a seal with the National Shield, stating: United Mexican States.- Presidency of the Republic.

ANDRÉS MANUEL LÓPEZ OBRADOR, President of the United Mexican States, to its inhabitants know:

That the Honorable Congress of the Union, has seen fit to send me the following

DECREE

"THE GENERAL CONGRESS OF THE UNITED MEXICAN STATES, DECREES:

VARIOUS PROVISIONS OF THE FEDERAL RIGHTS LAW AND OF THE GENERAL TOURISM LAW ARE REFORMED, ADDED AND REPEALED.

Article First.- The first paragraph is reformed and a second paragraph is added, moving the subsequent one, to Article 18-A of the Federal Rights Law, to remain as follows:

Article 18-A. The income obtained from the collection of the right established in Section I of Article 8 of this Law, regarding Visitors without permission to carry out remunerated activities who enter the country for tourism purposes, will be destined 20% to the National Migration Institute to improve the services it provides in migration matters, and the remaining 80% will be destined, in the terms indicated in the following paragraph, for planning, studies, projects and investment in infrastructure in charge of the parapublic entity of the Federal Public Administration whose purpose is the administration, operation and provision of airport, aeronautical, railway, tourism, cultural services, among others of various kinds, as well as for programs that allow the execution, operation, administration, contracting of goods and services, acquisition of goods, construction, maintenance, modernization and use of projects and infrastructure in charge of said entity.

The parapublic entity, referred to in the preceding paragraph, will contribute resources equivalent to 80% of the income obtained from the collection of the aforementioned right, to the federal public trust fund without structure that said entity constitutes, in terms of the Federal Budget and Fiscal Responsibility Law and the Regulation of the Federal Budget and Fiscal Responsibility Law.

...

Article Second.- Section III is reformed and Section IV of Article 43 of the General Tourism Law is repealed, to remain as follows:

Article 43. The assets of the Fund will be integrated with:

I. and II. ...

III. The products of its operations and of fund investments, and

IV. Repealed

V. ...

Transitory Articles

First.- This Decree will enter into force the day after its publication in the Official Gazette of the Federation, except as established in transitory article third of this Decree.

Second.- The federal public trust fund referred to in the second paragraph of Article 18-A of the Federal Rights Law must be constituted within the following 120 business days after the entry into force of this Decree.

Third.- The repeal of Section IV of Article 43 of the General Tourism Law will take effect from January 1, 2024.

Fourth.- The expenditures generated due to the entry into force of this Decree will be charged to the budgets approved to the responsible spending executors of its application, so in no case will expansions to their budgets be authorized for the current fiscal year nor in subsequent ones.

Fifth.- From the entry into force of this Decree, all provisions that oppose its content are repealed, comprised in secondary laws, regulations, agreements and any other of an administrative nature.

Mexico City, April 28, 2023.- Dip. Santiago Creel Miranda, President.- Sen. Alejandro Armenta Mier, President.- Dip. María del Carmen Pinete Vargas, Secretary.- Sen. Verónica Noemí Camino Farjat, Secretary.- Signatures."

In compliance with the provisions of Section I of Article 89 of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States, and for its due publication and observance, I issue this Decree at the Residence of the Federal Executive Power, in Mexico City, on May 3, 2023.- Andrés Manuel López Obrador.- Signature.- The Secretary of Governance, Lic. Adán Augusto López Hernández.- Signature.

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