A Chamber of Deputies approved, this Tuesday the 10th, a bill that excludes personnel expenses at university hospitals from the amount to be considered for compliance with the minimum limit for annual application in public health by federal, state and municipal governments. The text goes to the president for sanction Lula (PT).
The index is defined by the Constitution and Complementary Law 141/12: 12% of taxes for states, 15% of taxes for municipalities and 15% of net current revenue in the case of the Union.
Currently, the law determines to exclude from the floor only the payment of retirement and pensionsincluding health workers, and active health personnel when working outside the area.
Despite this restriction, funding and investment expenses in university hospitals, including through these entities, will now be considered within the minimum limit to be applied annually. Thus, these expenses, previously not accounted for for this purpose, will now count.
The matter received a favorable opinion from the plenary rapporteur, Damião Feliciano (União-PB). According to him, the project allows the decentralization of budget credits from the National Health Fund to federal university hospitals, including the transfer of resources for funding and investments.
Deputy Bohn Gass (PT-RS) highlighted that university hospitals are the responsibility of the Ministry of Education. “Today, if a deputy presents an amendment as part of the health percentage, and he directs it to a hospital belonging to the Brazilian Hospital Services Company, the resources cannot be counted towards health.”
The project also allows the transfer of parliamentary amendments for funding and investment in these hospitals through decentralization of the National Health Fund budget.
(With information from Agência Câmara)
