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Private property: expropriation costs more, eviction speeds up and the Rural Land Law returns (back to the Senate)
Bill PE-13/2026 (Mensaje 22/26) — approved by the Senate on 7-Aug and by the Chamber of Deputies with amendments on 21-Oct (file 0032-S-2026, Orden del Día 448); back to the Senate
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The Chamber of Deputies approved bill PE-13/2026 on 21-Oct-2026, 124 to 119: expropriation costs more, eviction speeds up and the Rural Land Law is reinstated. Back to the Senate.
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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
THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES APPROVED IT WITH CHANGES AND IT GOES BACK TO THE SENATE, NOW WITH THE RURAL LAND LAW REINSTATED: in a special session on October 21, the Chamber of Deputies approved the bill by 124 votes in favor, 119 against and 6 abstentions. Because it amended it, the bill returns to the Senate, the chamber of origin, for final passage. The vote in detail was taken by chapter, with amendments; Chapter IV was put to a roll-call vote. That chapter, which the Senate text did not have, repeals article 154 of DNU 70/2023 (the one that had repealed Ley 26.737 on Rural Land) and restores that law in full. In other words: the bill that was born to open rural land purchases to foreigners goes back to the Senate confirming the 15% cap by law. The chapters on expropriation (restrictive reading of public utility, compensation at market value, lost profits capped at 30% of direct damage), evictions and the Real Estate Property Registry remain in the text. Earlier, on August 7, the Senate had approved it in general by 37 to 33, after removing the chapter on land purchases by foreigners and the one on fire management. Approval by both chambers of different texts is not law. verif Oct 21, 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); urban and rural property owners and landlords; the treasury (expropriating becomes more expensive). Foreign capital interested in rural land and agribusiness: the Deputies' text opens nothing for it; on the contrary, it reinstates by law the Ley 26.737 regime (the cap on foreign ownership of rural land). Opposed to the bill: Peronism, the left, worker-recovered company cooperatives and environmental groups. prob Oct 16, 2026 ↗
The norm
Bill PE-13/2026 (Executive Branch Message 22/26). Senate: committee report of 20-May-2026 (Orden del Día 104/2026) and approval with amendments on 7-Aug. Chamber of Deputies: file 0032-S-2026, majority committee report with amendments of 14-Oct (Orden del Día 448/2026, printed on 16-Oct) and approval with amendments on 21-Oct; back to the Senate. The Deputies' committee text has four chapters: I) amends Ley 21.499 on Expropriation and Ley 24.374 on Land Title Regularization; II) amends the Civil and Commercial Procedure Code and the Civil and Commercial Code (evictions); III) amends Ley 17.801 on the Real Estate Property Registry, effective 180 days after the law is published; IV) final provisions: repeals art. 154 of DNU 70/2023 and reinstates Ley 26.737 on Rural Land. The reform to Ley 26.815 (fire management) was dropped in the Senate. Visible sponsor: Federico Sturzenegger. verif Oct 21, 2026 ↗
Our reading
The program's most direct piece of legal certainty still stands where it matters to the owner: it raises the cost of and narrows discretionary expropriation and sets a firm deadline for evictions. But the bill that was born to open rural land to foreign capital goes back to the Senate doing the opposite: the Chamber of Deputies added a chapter that repeals the DNU 70/2023 article that had repealed the Rural Land Law and reinstates that law, with its 15% cap. For anyone weighing a farmland purchase with foreign capital, the door does not open this way: if the Senate accepts the change, the restriction is confirmed by an act of Congress and no longer depends on what the courts say about the DNU. What does remain is the lower state risk on any real-estate asset (R2 · the RIGI promise is kept). thesis
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Río Negro From 21-Oct-2026 the reading reverses: the text going back to the Senate does not open Río Negro's rural land to foreign capital; it reinstates Ley 26.737 by law and repeals the DNU 70/2023 article that had repealed it. If the Senate accepts the change, the cap on foreign ownership of rural land is firm by law and farmland purchases by foreigners in Río Negro remain subject to that law's limits. If the opening comes back, it needs another bill. adverse the RIGI promise is kept thesis
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