Bill tracker: the General Companies Law reform and Argentina’s automated companies
Last updated: September 16, 2026 · Status: IN COMMITTEE (Senate, General Legislation) · No committee vote.
Every milestone is dated and sourced. Most recent first. Informational content; not legal advice.
Status as of 2026-09-16, in one line
The bill creating automated companies is still in the Senate’s General Legislation Committee, has finished its round of expert hearings (08-12 and 08-26), has a key amendment announced but not yet written (a mandatory human responsible person, 08-19), and the ruling bloc is seeking the committee report; meanwhile, more than 30 organizations asked for public hearings before any committee vote (08-31) and on 09-11 repeated the request by letter to Patricia Bullrich, adding a demand to remove art. 14 and the DAOs, with no formal answer. The second week of September — the floor-vote window La Nación had anticipated — passed with no committee vote; as of 09-16 no source reports a call for a public hearing or a meeting with the file on the agenda. What a public hearing is under the Senate Rules and what it does to the committee report: guide.
Milestones
2026-09-11 — Letter to Bullrich: remove automated companies and DAOs, and call a public hearing. More than thirty organizations (among them the Asociación Argentina de Abogados Ambientalistas, the Laboratorio Abierto de Inteligencia Artificial, the Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos and the Coalición por la Patagonia) sent senator Patricia Bullrich a letter with three demands: “the complete removal of article 14 (Automated Company) and of Section V, articles 258 to 265” (DAOs), “the convening of a public hearing”, and a rewrite of art. 102 to require “documentation and prior human authorization for any significant corporate action”. They say that since August they have submitted proposals “without receiving a formal response from the Senate or from the ruling bloc regarding their request for a public hearing”; per minutouno, the revised text Bullrich promised on 08-19 “has not yet been presented”. Sources (in Spanish): Infobae (09-11) · minutouno (09-11) · Hoy Día (09-13). What can happen to that request under the Senate Rules: public-hearing guide.
2026-08-31 — More than 30 organizations demand public hearings before the committee vote. Socio-environmental, human-rights and women’s and LGBTQ+ organizations, together with experts, asked the Senate to convene “broad and transparent public hearings” before approving the reform. Their objections: a criminal-liability gap when an autonomous algorithmic system commits unlawful acts, diffuse supervision, an evidentiary asymmetry for consumers and third parties, and that the “human control” announced by Bullrich does not fix the structural problems — “Signing a board minute once a month is not the same as supervising an algorithm in real time” (Enrique Viale, environmental lawyer). Source: Canal Abierto (08-31, in Spanish). What a public hearing is under the Senate Rules (arts. 99 and 112-123), how it differs from the informational hearings of 08-12 and 08-26, and what it does to the committee report: guide.
2026-08-26 — Final informational hearing with experts. The General Legislation Committee, chaired by Nadia Márquez (LLA-Neuquén), received the last group of experts convened, in the Arturo Illia hall at 1 p.m. According to coverage available as of 08-27, the committee scheduled meetings for the following week to close the round of consultations and move toward the committee report, which the ruling bloc intends to obtain at the next meeting. Sources: Parlamentario (convocation, 08-21) · Noticias Argentinas.
2026-08-21 — The ruling bloc accelerates and convenes the 08-26 meeting. Parlamentario reports that the committee will resume debate on Wednesday 08-26 with the “last group of experts”, after a week of presentations by criminal-law specialists. Source: Parlamentario.
2026-08-19/20 — THE KEY CONCESSION: a mandatory human responsible person. Patricia Bullrich (leader of the LLA bloc in the Senate) announced that automated companies and DAOs must have at least one responsible person — an individual or a legal entity “with sufficient competence” — ruling out 100% automated entities with no human involvement: “We are thinking […] of making the liability of automated companies far more solid, with human responsible persons.” The change seeks to secure support from allied blocs. The same day, criminal-law specialists presented and flagged articles to review. Sources: La Nación (08-19) · El Argentino (08-19) · Infobae (08-20) · Parlamentario (criminal-law experts, 08-19). Note from La Nación: floor treatment is not expected before the second week of September 2026.
2026-08-12 — Hearing with opposing views on automated companies and DAOs. In favor: financial-intelligence-unit head Matías Álvarez (the bill “maintains and reinforces” anti-money-laundering safeguards), professor Sebastián Balbín (Austral), Satellogic CEO Emiliano Kargieman and blockchain specialist Sebastián Heredia Querro. Against: former corporate-registry (IGJ) head Ricardo Nissen, commercial-court prosecutor Gabriela Boquín (“inconsistent with its declared principles”) and judge Julián Flores. There was a sharp exchange between Bullrich and Nissen over his tenure at the IGJ. Sources: Pregón · La Nueva (08-12) · El Liberal.
2026-08-11 — The ruling bloc takes the bill “out of the freezer”. After several weeks of inactivity due to the political agenda, the Senate announces the resumption of committee debate, with former officials and a geospatial company among the speakers. Sources: La Nación · Infobae · Río Negro (context of the pause).
July 2026 — Treatment paused. Committee debate is suspended for several weeks because of the Senate’s political agenda. Source: Río Negro.
2026-06-24 — Sturzenegger defends the bill in the Senate. The Minister of Deregulation and State Transformation, Federico Sturzenegger, appears before the committee and backs the bet on AI: “There is no reason to think artificial intelligence will be unsafe.” Infobae frames it as an endorsement of “Milei’s nod to artificial intelligence”. Sources: Parlamentario (announcement, 06-23) · Infobae (06-24) · Ámbito.
2026-06-23 — Committee analysis begins. The Senate’s General Legislation Committee, chaired by Nadia Márquez, starts consideration of the bill. Source: Noticias Argentinas.
2026-06-01 — Formal entry into the Senate. The government sends the upper chamber (the originating chamber) the draft General Companies Law, referred to the General Legislation Committee. Source: Parlamentario.
2026-05-29 — The executive signs the bill. The national executive branch sends Congress the bill (file INLEG-2026-53661873-APN-PTE) repealing Law 19.550 (in force since 1972) in its entirety and replacing it with a new General Companies Law. It includes: automated companies (corporate purpose carried out by autonomous algorithmic systems or AI agents, with no employees required for ordinary operations; bylaws declaration + “Automatizada” in the name; liability with all corporate assets for damage caused by its systems), DAOs with token-based ownership and human legal representation, end-to-end digitization (digital signature, digital corporate file, electronic registered office, digital books within 2 years, remote resolutions), retention of the simple company, S.R.L., S.A. and S.A.S., and entry into force 180 days after publication in the Official Gazette. Sources: Bruchou & Funes · ICBT · Rojas Pascual (file number).
Parallel context (on the radar — not the same law)
Súper RIGI — A regime for investments ≥ US$1 billion in AI mega data centers, semiconductors, biotechnology and critical minerals, with tax, customs and FX stability for 30 years. Passed the lower house on 2026-06-24; in Senate committees (Budget and Finance, National Economy and Investment, General Legislation), with the ruling bloc seeking a committee report for 2026-08-26 and public warnings from more than a thousand academics. Sources: Chequeado · Infobae (07-29) · hoydia (08-19) · El Submarino Jujuy.
Knowledge Economy (Law 27.506) — A tax regime IN FORCE for software/AI companies: a tax-credit bond on employer contributions, an income-tax reduction of up to 60% depending on size, 0% duties on service exports; requires 70% of revenue in promoted activities. Sources: argentina.gob.ar · Consolidated text (Infoleg). Our step-by-step guide.
What’s missing (checklist to the first incorporation)
- Committee report from the Senate’s General Legislation Committee
- Approval on the Senate floor (not before the 2nd week of September 2026, per La Nación)
- Approval in the lower house (revising chamber)
- Promulgation and publication in the Official Gazette
- Expiry of the 180-day statutory vacancy (proposed text)
- Rules from the IGJ and the provincial public registries
- First incorporations reported