Bill tracker: the General Companies Law reform and Argentina’s automated companies
Last updated: November 9, 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 2026-11-09, in one line
The bill creating automated companies is still in the Senate’s General Legislation Committee, with no committee vote and no date. It 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 more than 30 organizations asked for public hearings before any committee vote (08-31) and for the removal of art. 14 and the DAOs (letter to Bullrich, 09-11), with no formal answer. Two Infobae reports describe the political state: on 09-11, ruling-party senators admitted they will not be able to move forward “in the short or medium term” with the automated-companies chapter and three allied blocs called the debate stalled (“it cannot be dealt with”); on 09-29, the bill is listed as “on stand-by”, with “mandatory changes” under negotiation (ultimate liability of natural persons in automated companies; human persons as representatives of DAOs in art. 260), inside the batch the ruling bloc wants to unblock before the ordinary session period closes on 2026-11-30. Between 09-29 and 10-05 there was no legislative milestone: the daily watch of the Senate’s weekly meeting list recorded none with file PE-193/26 on the agenda (weeks of 10-01 and 10-08 without the item). Nor between 10-05 and 10-26: the daily watch checked the Senate agenda week by week and the file did not appear on any committee agenda; the General Legislation Committee is convened for 2026-10-28 at 4 pm, jointly with the Population and Human Development Committee, but for three other files (S-528/25, S-190/25 and S-1723/26), not PE-193/26 (Senate agenda, checked 10-26). Nor between 10-26 and 11-02: the Senate agenda published for the weeks of 11-02 and 11-09 lists 17 committee meetings and none carries PE-193/26 (Senate agenda, checked 11-02). Nor between 11-02 and 11-09: the agenda for the weeks of 11-09 and 11-16 again lists 17 committee meetings, none with PE-193/26 (Senate agenda, checked 11-09). As of 11-09 there is no committee vote and no date; three weeks of the ordinary period remain. What a public hearing is under the Senate Rules and what it does to the committee report: guide.
What is still missing for it to become law (and the deadline for each step)
The most asked question — “when will I be able to incorporate one?” — has no date, but it does have a closed list of steps. Here they are, with the rule that governs each one. Updated with every milestone.
| # | Step | Who decides | Deadline set by the rules | Status as of 2026-11-09 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Committee report (dictamen) by the General Legislation Committee | The committee, signed by a majority of its members (9 of 17) | None: the Senate Rules only require committees to meet “at least once every fifteen days” (art. 103) and let the Senate president make “requests” to a delayed committee (art. 107). If the committee decided to call the public hearing the organizations are asking for (arts. 99 and 112 to 123), its own procedure imposes a floor of about two weeks between the call and the hearing (guide) | Pending. Expert hearings ended on 08-26; the ruling bloc wanted it “by early September” and it did not happen. As of 09-29 Infobae lists the bill as “on stand-by”, with “mandatory changes” under negotiation and no date; as of 11-09 the file is still off every agenda (the committee was convened on 10-28 for three other bills, and none of the 17 meetings listed for the weeks of 11-02/11-09 nor of the 17 listed for 11-09/11-16 includes it) and the ordinary session period closes on 2026-11-30, three weeks away |
| 2 | Senate floor vote (chamber of origin) | The full Senate | No rule-based deadline; the committee report enables floor treatment | Pending |
| 3 | Lower-house vote (reviewing chamber) | The full Chamber of Deputies | None. If Deputies amend the text, it goes back to the Senate (National Constitution, art. 81) | Pending |
| 4 | Promulgation and publication in the Official Gazette | The Executive | Express promulgation, or tacit after ten business days (Constitution, art. 80); total or partial veto possible (art. 83) | Pending |
| 5 | Entry into force | The text itself | A 180-day period from publication in the Official Gazette: article 271 of the bill, folio 105 of file PE-193/26, transcribed on 2026-10-22 | Pending |
| 6 | Registry rules and first filings | IGJ and provincial registries | None set | Pending |
| — | Lapse | Law 13,640, art. 1 (as amended by Law 23,821) | “Any bill submitted to Congress that does not obtain approval in one of its Chambers during the parliamentary year in which it entered that body, or the following one, shall be deemed lapsed.” PE-193/26 entered in 2026: if the Senate does not pass it in the 2027 parliamentary year, it lapses | The only hard deadline in the system |
In the best case — committee report and Senate vote in what is left of 2026, Deputies in early 2027, publication plus the 180-day vacancy — the first incorporations would arrive only in the second half of 2027; any delay in step 1 pushes everything else. Sources: Rules of the Senate (arts. 99, 103, 107 and 112 to 123, read on 2026-09-16 in the HCDN’s PDF copy), National Constitution (arts. 78, 80, 81 and 83), Law 13,640 (Infoleg). Each term — committee report, half-sanction, enactment, promulgation, entry into force, registry rules — is defined with its source in the glossary.
Milestones
2026-11-09 — Three weeks to the close of the ordinary period; the agenda for 11-09 and 11-16 again has 17 committee meetings and none for the file. Between 11-02 and 11-09 no Senate agenda included PE-193/26 (daily watch of the agenda). The agenda published for the weeks of 11-09 and 11-16 lists 17 committee meetings — the same count as the previous fortnight — and none is for the companies bill; the General Legislation Committee does not appear with any file. Source: Senate agenda, 2026-11-09. No status change: IN COMMITTEE, no committee vote. 2026-11-30, the close of the ordinary period, is three weeks away: without a committee report by then the bill does not lapse (Law 13,640, what is missing), but its treatment passes to an extension or to extraordinary sessions convened by the executive, and neither has been announced for this file.
2026-11-02 — Four weeks to the close of the ordinary period, and the file is still off every agenda. Between 10-26 and 11-02 no Senate agenda included PE-193/26 (daily watch of the agenda). The agenda published for the weeks of 11-02 and 11-09 lists 17 committee meetings; none is for the companies bill. Source: Senate agenda, 2026-11-02. No status change: IN COMMITTEE, no committee vote. The ordinary period closes on 2026-11-30: if it ends without a committee report the bill does not lapse yet (Law 13,640, what is missing), but its treatment then depends on an extension or on extraordinary sessions, which the executive convenes.
2026-10-26 — Three more weeks with no milestone; the committee meets on 10-28 for other bills. Between 10-05 and 10-26 no Senate agenda included file PE-193/26 (daily watch of the agenda, week by week). The agenda published on 10-26 convenes the General Legislation Committee for 2026-10-28, 4 pm, in a joint session with the Population and Human Development Committee, with three files of its own: S-528/25 (protection of children and adolescents against violence), S-190/25 and S-1723/26 (registries of delinquent child-support debtors). The companies bill is not on it. It matters because this is the committee that must issue the report: it meets, but not for this. Source: Senate agenda, 2026-10-26. No status change: IN COMMITTEE, no committee vote; the ordinary period closes on 11-30.
2026-09-29 — Infobae: the Companies Law “on stand-by”, with “mandatory changes” under negotiation. In a report on the last batch of laws the ruling bloc wants to unblock in the Senate before the ordinary period closes (11-30), Infobae lists the Companies Law pushed by the Deregulation minister among the initiatives “that was left on stand-by” and describes what is being negotiated: “the ultimate liability of natural persons in automated companies” and, for “the Decentralized Autonomous Operating Company (DAO), with specific rules for the use of smart contracts”, that “human persons are incorporated as representatives of these DAOs, in article 260”. No date for a committee vote or a floor session. Source (in Spanish): Infobae (09-29). Our own check: the Senate agenda for the weeks of 10-01 and 10-08 does not include the file (daily watch of the meeting list, 0 with the item).
2026-09-11 — “It cannot be dealt with”: the government loses support for the automated-companies chapter. The same day as the organizations’ letter, Infobae reported that ruling-party senators admit they “will not be able to move forward in the short or medium term with the reform that incorporates automated companies”; three allied blocs call the debate stalled (“It is the same phenomenon as the Land Law, it cannot be dealt with”), a government source sums up that “the discussion is elsewhere today”, and in the Senate they assess that “it is easier to approve the bill in general than the particular chapter that contains the automation section”. It is the first time the blockage is attributed to allies rather than the opposition. Source (in Spanish): Infobae (09-11).
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