El impacto de la Ley 27/2013, de 27 de diciembre, de racionalización y sostenibilidad de la Administración local, la distribución de competencias en materia de educación, salud, sanidad y servicios sociales

The objective of this article is analysing to what extent Law 27/2013, of December 27, on the Rationalisation and Sustainability of the Local Administration has a direct influence on sectorial state regulation and on regional regulations, whether statutory or ordinary, local or sectorial, in the fields of education, healthcare, health and social services. To that end, the article first of all expounds, in a detailed way, the variations that the cited law aims to introduce in the powers of Spain’s Local Councils, by modifying the 2nd and 3rd sections of Article 25 of the LBRL and adding the 4th and 5th paragraphs to it, and also by means of the Additional Fifteenth and Provisional First, Second and Third Dispositions; secondly, it examines not only the constitutional viability of the limitation and conditioning of the system for attributing powers to Municipalities, which the cited Law includes in the aforementioned Article 25, but also the legitimacy and possible scope –both legally and in practice– of the intention to transfer certain functions, in the indicated fields, from Municipalities to Autonomous Regions, in accordance with the new regulatory basis.