Congress Backs Free Electricity for Public Sports Fields

Published on Honduras Daily · Sep 24, 2026 · Originally reported September 24, 2026 by Congreso Nacional

Lawmakers unanimously approved a motion to enforce a 2016 decree exempting public soccer fields and parks nationwide from electricity charges, citing a decade of failure by the state utility ENEE to apply the law and warning that youth sports programs are suffering.

An auto-translated English version isn’t available for Congreso Nacional, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.

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