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Congress unanimously passed the Financial Relief Law for Agricultural Producers, which allows Banadesa and Senprende to restructure and refinance overdue farm loans at a maximum 2% interest rate over 10 years, with the government subsidizing 80% of crop-insurance premiums using 100 million lempiras.

The National Congress unveiled a new online platform allowing citizens to track each lawmaker's voting record, proposed bills, committee assignments, and attendance, marking the first time such detailed legislative data has been publicly available in Honduras's 44-year democratic period.

Congress opened a first reading of an 18-article bill to reorganize Honduras's electrical system, with stated aims to lower costs, improve service, reduce blackouts, and keep state utility ENEE in public hands.

The National Congress's Gender Equity Commission met with UN Women, civil society, and regulators to review a National Financial Inclusion Strategy aimed at expanding formal financial services for women and other excluded groups.

Lawmakers approved three measures to maintain and expand broadband internet in public spaces, strengthen the Alerta-HN emergency-alert system, and extend digital-inclusion services aimed at bridging Honduras's technology gap.

Congress's Mining Commission will launch technical working groups to draft amendments to Honduras's mining law, aiming to simplify licensing procedures for small-scale artisanal miners while addressing environmental protection and community benefit.

A Congressional energy commission is drafting reforms to modernize the state-owned power utility ENEE through internal reorganization of transmission, distribution, and billing operations, while ruling out privatization and pledging to protect worker job security.

Members of Congress from La Paz are pushing a decree to spend 19.5 million lempiras (about $780,000) paving a 3-kilometer access road to San Pedro de Tutule, a major coffee-producing municipality whose current connections flood during the rainy season.

A congressman has proposed a national student employment program offering tax incentives to companies hiring students aged 16–30 for part-time or flexible work compatible with their education, with full labor protections.

Congress passed first reading of a transparency bill requiring companies and trusts to disclose their beneficial owners, aiming to meet international anti-money-laundering standards and keep Honduras off the Financial Action Task Force's gray list.

Congress and the Oabi (seized-property office) signed an agreement to establish Congress's first regional office in San Pedro Sula, where lawmakers representing the north and Atlantic coast can meet constituents, with a second property in Tegucigalpa for a regional legislative forum.

The National Congress's Telecommunications Commission is advancing reforms to combat inmates' use of mobile phones and communications equipment to conduct extortion, including proposed penalties for satellite companies and prison officials who allow contraband devices into facilities.

A congressional committee approved a bill that would impose life sentences and other severe penalties for killing or attempting to kill police, soldiers, judges, and other security and justice officials in connection with their duties, with the measure now headed to a floor vote.

Congress President Tomás Zambrano and the public-information authority (IAIP) signed an agreement Monday to oversee an upgrade to the legislature's electronic voting system, which officials say will strengthen transparency and rebuild credibility after Honduras's Congress ranked last in Latin American legislative evaluations.

A legislative commission convened mining officials and environmental agencies to discuss attracting investment in responsible mining and streamlining approval processes, with the Natural Resources Ministry citing 2.647 billion lempiras in recent mining investment and approximately 2,000 jobs.

A bill introduced in Congress by lawmaker Johana Bermúdez would guarantee free, non-discriminatory medical care, confidentiality, and social support for Hondurans living with HIV while obligating the state to ensure continuous antiretroviral drug access.

The European Investment Bank has offered up to 15 billion lempiras (roughly $600 million) to finance Honduras's transmission networks and renewable energy, EU Ambassador Gonzalo Fournier announced at a meeting with Congress leaders.

Congress unanimously approved a decree declaring the rehabilitation of Estadio Evaristo Nájar Romero in Monjarás, Choluteca a public-interest project, authorizing work to restore the stadium's playing field, seating, lighting, and facilities to support youth sports and community recreation.

A proposed law would authorize the municipality of Villanueva (Cortés) to borrow 300 million lempiras (about $12 million) for a municipal administrative center, cultural complex, market for small vendors, sports stadium, road paving, and stormwater drainage.

A decree proposal would gradually increase annual budget allocation to Andepcih, the national association for blind Hondurans, to 2 million lempiras (roughly $80,000) by 2027 and maintain it permanently thereafter.

A congresswoman from Colón has introduced legislation to create a regional office of the State Secretariat for Human Rights in the department, aiming to provide closer access to human-rights services and strengthen protections for the local population.

Taxi-stand operators announced an end to nationwide protests and agreed to work with Congress on a digital platform and regulatory reforms, with lawmakers pledging dialogue on licensing and competition from illegal services.

Congress's Education Committee approved a parental-rights law giving families a say in sex education and advanced plans to repair 109 public schools nationwide, with over 300 additional school interventions pending through a government investment fund.

A lawmaker from the Libre party introduced a bill to establish a national registry of people convicted of sexual crimes, to be administered by the Supreme Court and accessible publicly to help prevent re-offending and protect vulnerable populations.

The National Congress approved expanding a law that shields agroindustrial lands and investments to also cover energy and tourism projects, while adding a clause affirming the law's compatibility with indigenous peoples' right to free, prior consultation on communal lands.

Honduras's congressional environment committee is drafting a climate-change law that would establish regulatory standards to help the country mitigate effects of El Niño, drought, and other climate impacts on infrastructure and production.

Honduras's National Congress is drafting reforms to strengthen legal protections and institutional coordination for the prevention, detection, and prosecution of sexual abuse against children and adolescents, following violence that kills dozens of minors yearly.

The Education Commission is reviewing a proposed Parental Rights Law that would give parents primary authority to teach their children about sexuality and other matters according to their own moral and religious values.

A Congressional committee held a second consultation with civil-rights organizations and government agencies on proposed reforms to strengthen prevention, early detection, and prosecution of sexual abuse against children and adolescents in Honduras.

Congress President Tomás Zambrano is calling for a thorough investigation into a road accident in Villanueva that killed at least eight people and injured about a dozen, and urging authorities to enforce traffic laws strictly to prevent future crashes.