Lawmakers of the opposition did not cast votes on the bill, which they said is a pretext for authorities to lower welfare spending in the 2012 state budget. The opposition’s amendments to the bill were voted down last week.
The bill was adopted tacitly by the Senate early this month, after the opposition stalled it for two months.
President Traian Basescu wrote to Parliament twice urging the bill’s adoption and said the Government might have to resort to adopting it through a confidence vote otherwise.