INSIGHT LATIN AMERICA FOCUS: BRAZIL
April 2023
Te President of the Senate Rodrigo Pacheco tells the BBC that PL 2234/2022 will be put on the voting agenda sometime between May and June. In the same month lawmakers in the House of Deputies approve a request put forward to the Tourism Commission, which seeks to discuss the legalisation of casinos and games in Brazil.
Te request urges lawmakers to look at gambling reform after the issue of casino gambling and other types of gambling had lost momentum the previous year.
May 2023 3
Te President of the Senate Rodrigo Pacheco sends a draft Law No. 2234/2022 to the
Senate’s Constitution Justice and Citizenship Committee (CCJ) for discussion. Te CCJ is a
committee that ensure bills are in compliance to the Constitution and the country’s legislation in general.
Te Commission is chaired by Senator Davi
Alcolumbre, who must designate a rapporteur for the proposal. It will then go to the plenary for a vote.
November 2023
Senator Davi Alcolumbre appoints Senator Irajá as the rapporteur of PL 2234/23. Senator Irajá’s report is in favour of approving the proposal. Senator Irajá is a supporter of an expansion of the gambling industry. In 2020 the senator had put forward his own pro gambling bill which would allow for Integrated Resorts via a public tender with licences being valid for 35 years.
December 2023 3
Under Brazilian law any game involving a bet is a crime according the Criminal Contravention Act of 1941.
As this law still stands, any type of gaming
activity that does not have its own regulations is considered to come under the Act.
In his report on the bill, Irajá dismisses as an “indeterminate legal concept” the offence against morals and good customs, used as an
argument against gambling, and highlights the fact that the project seeks to transfer to State control a practice that today constitutes a
misdemeanour. Citing statistics on the legal or illegal betting market, Irajá concludes that “gambling already constitutes a relevant economic activity.”
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