This research's focus was to observe the extent to which the sociopolitical profile of state
deputies affects the destination of individual parliamentary amendments. The recent changes
that have made them mandatory have changed the balance of forces between the Executive and
the Legislative in the decision-making process of public policies for the state's development. If
each parliamentarian has full autonomy to choose, both the object and the municipality
benefited, as well as the value of their amendments within the budget and planning, the
understanding of the profile of the political actors who participate in this process becomes a
critical element of the adopted criteria. Thus, the objective was to understand the relationship
between the sociopolitical profile of state deputies and their decisions regarding the allocation
of amendments for specific purposes and regions from four stages: i) mapping the sociopolitical
profile of state deputies; ii) identification of regions more or less prioritized by the legislature
according to the object and value of individual parliamentary amendments; iii) association of
the parliamentary profile with preferences of individual parliamentary amendments; and iv)
discussion of how the allocation of individual parliamentary amendments has impacted in terms
of representation and redistribution for the regional development of Tocantins. From the
defined problem, two guiding questions were raised for discussion. The first is verification that
there is a pattern in the destination of amendments by parliamentarians, suggesting the existence
of shared and ingrained beliefs about the fragmented use of legislative amendments. The
second, in turn, is that the institutional framework of the Legislative Assembly of the State of
Tocantins (Aleto) allows for more excellent dialogue between the community and
parliamentarians, impacting the strategic use of legislative amendments. The data survey
considered 32 parliamentarians and their individual parliamentary amendments presented
during the 8th and 9th legislature. The methodological strategy used involved: case study
supported by documentary research of processes, regulations, and legislation; data collection in
biographies; content analysis and consultation of secondary databases. The data collection
enabled creating a database with the composition of the state deputies' socio-political
background and the destination of their legislative amendments. It is concluded that the
individual parliamentary profile - with emphasis on occupation and age - offers few elements
to reflect on the relationship between amendments and profile, emphasizing the importance of
an analysis that considers subjective elements that form their preferences and values. Still, a
preference was found that tends to pulverize resources and meet specific low-impact demands,
such as the performance of one-off events to the detriment of larger interventions and / or social
impact. Also, there was a concentration on the state's central north-south axis, revealing the
importance of rethinking mechanisms that allow more efficient and transparent use of
individual parliamentary amendments mainly because Aleto is deficient in terms of
parliamentary representativeness, the efficiency of information flow, and dialogue with society.
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