INSIGHT LATIN AMERICA FOCUS: BRAZIL
In the 1930s and 1940s, Brazil experienced the golden age of casinos. At its peak, there were over 70 gambling establishments in the country. Tese were large entertainment complexes where punters could dine in the restaurant, have drinks in the piano bar, dance to the orchestra in the ballroom and watch musicals in the theatre.
According to one magazine at the time, the restaurant at the Quitandinha hotel casino, in Petrópolis, was run “by the greatest cook in the modern world, coming from the Savoy”, and served “120 types of cold cuts, fish from all parts of the world, old and almost extinct wines.”(Source: Agência Senado).
However on April 30, 1946, three months after assuming the Presidency, General Eurico Gaspar Dutra ordered the end of gambling by decree. Dutra argued that the "moral, legal, and religious tradition" of Brazilians was incompatible with casinos.
Te majority of senators and deputies sided with the president on the issue. Te press also welcomed the ban. “We will not withhold our applause from General Dutra for the courageous, strong, and meritorious decree extinguishing the scourge of gambling," announced one popular newspaper at the time. While police carried out raids across the country to ensure compliance with the law, on the eve of the ban national newspaper Globo published an explosive report with never- before-seen photos of mountains of money on a table at one of the nation’s most famous casinos at the end of a night of high stake betting. (Source: Agência Senado).
For almost a century the casino ban has remained firmly in place. However for around three decades there has been growing momentum to allow for an expansion of land based casinos. Tis is gaining impetus now that online sports betting and online casino games have been approved. So could land based gambling really be next?
Draft Law Projeto de Lei (PL) nº 442/91 passed the Special Committee on the Regulatory Framework for Games in 2016 and was the most
comprehensive gambling bill under consideration in the Chamber of Deputies. It replaced the texts of all other related gambling laws which had been put before the house over several years. In all the bill
replaces and is in part an amalgamation of as many as twenty other gambling related projects. When it finally passed the Chamber of Deputies and went to the senate it became PL 2234/2022.
Draft Law Projeto de Lei (PL) n° 2234/2022
Draft Law Projeto de Lei (PL) nº 442/91 passed the Special Committee on the Regulatory Framework for Games in 2016 and was the most comprehensive gambling bill under consideration in the Chamber of Deputies. It replaced the texts of all other related gambling laws which had been put before the house over several years. In all the bill replaces and is in part an amalgamation of as many as twenty other gambling related projects. When it finally passed the Chamber of Deputies and went to the senate it became PL 2234/2022.
While other wider casino expansion bills have been put forward this is the bill which has gathered the most support and could well be heading for a vote in the senate plenary in the coming months. Here we track its progress through both houses over recent years, look at the bill in detail and examine the impact it could have if approved.
WIRE / PULSE / INSIGHT / REPORTS P93
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76 |
Page 77 |
Page 78 |
Page 79 |
Page 80 |
Page 81 |
Page 82 |
Page 83 |
Page 84 |
Page 85 |
Page 86 |
Page 87 |
Page 88 |
Page 89 |
Page 90 |
Page 91 |
Page 92 |
Page 93 |
Page 94 |
Page 95 |
Page 96 |
Page 97 |
Page 98 |
Page 99 |
Page 100 |
Page 101 |
Page 102 |
Page 103 |
Page 104 |
Page 105 |
Page 106 |
Page 107 |
Page 108 |
Page 109 |
Page 110 |
Page 111 |
Page 112 |
Page 113 |
Page 114 |
Page 115 |
Page 116 |
Page 117 |
Page 118 |
Page 119 |
Page 120 |
Page 121 |
Page 122 |
Page 123 |
Page 124 |
Page 125 |
Page 126 |
Page 127 |
Page 128 |
Page 129 |
Page 130 |
Page 131 |
Page 132 |
Page 133 |
Page 134 |
Page 135 |
Page 136 |
Page 137 |
Page 138 |
Page 139 |
Page 140 |
Page 141 |
Page 142 |
Page 143 |
Page 144 |
Page 145 |
Page 146 |
Page 147 |
Page 148 |
Page 149 |
Page 150 |
Page 151 |
Page 152 |
Page 153 |
Page 154 |
Page 155 |
Page 156 |
Page 157 |
Page 158 |
Page 159 |
Page 160 |
Page 161 |
Page 162 |
Page 163 |
Page 164 |
Page 165 |
Page 166 |
Page 167 |
Page 168 |
Page 169 |
Page 170 |
Page 171 |
Page 172 |
Page 173 |
Page 174 |
Page 175 |
Page 176
