Santo Domingo. – The Senate of the Republic declared urgency and approved in two consecutive readings, the bill that regulates the hiring of baseball prospects assigned to the Dominican Republic Summer League.
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The senator who chairs the Senate Sports Commission, Gustavo Lara Salazar, presented a favorable report to the Plenary Session, and requested that the piece be included in the day’s agenda approved with a voting unanimously with 20 senators present in the session.
The regulations, sent by the Executive Branch, establish the legal nature of the contractual relationship between the teams of the Major League Baseball of the United States (MLB), with the prospects who are hired to enter the Dominican Summer League for their training, training and participation in inter-academy baseball tournaments that take place in the Dominican Republic.
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The sanctioned piece was approved unanimitywith a vote of 20 of the senators present in the session, the initiative also regulates the hiring of baseball prospects who are assigned to the Summer League of the Dominican Republic within the Major League Baseball (MLB) System.
Ramón Rogelio Genao, senator of La Vega.
The Plenary also declared urgency and approved in two readings the bill that modifies Law 118-21, on completion of road works, schools and hospitals that are suspended, so that the Minister of Public Works and Communications is in charge of updating the general prices of said works so that they are concluded.
This legislative initiative was presented by the senators Rogelio Genao, Ricardo de los Santos, Moisés Ayala, Johnson Encarnación, Secundino Velázquez, Gustavo Lara, Dagoberto Rodríguez, Guillermo Lama and María Mercedes Ortiz.
