O processo legislativo e as comissões permanentes: uma análise crítica do funcionamento e da atuação na câmara de vereadores de Sousa-PB.

Abstract

This research, by means of the deductive method and historical, comparative and monograph procedures, dealt with Standing committees’ performance on enacting laws, especially within Sousa’s Board of City Council where were found countless problems that imperils its integrity, as the risk upon the principle of the constitutionality presumption of rules. In order to identify these problems, the theory of Government and its functions, related to the legislative procedures, were assessed from the point o view of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988, by which the principle of symmetry guides State Congresses and City Councils in a vary of aspects concerning the Federal Congress. The main results found was the gross negligence of councils in the Standing committees’ proceedings, whose meetings are not performed effectively (i.e., there are no rigid rules in matters of date and time for the meetings to happen; there problems concerning the criterion to elect their reporters, which is appointed by the Standing committee chairman, pursuant the Internal Rules of Sousa’s City Council), thus generating numerous distortions over the legislative proceedings. Therefore, to provide constructive criticism upon these problems, and in order to find solutions, interviews were taken, as documents were analyzed, between November 2014 and February 2015. And to rectify these existing blemishes, editing a normative instrument it is necessary that the power to punish the missing councilors.