With the end of the Union's monopoly for the exploitation of lotteries, movements for the creation and expansion of lotteries at the state and municipal levels in Brazil continue to take place and yet another project intends to create a municipal lottery. Now it was the turn of Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul.
Councilor Cláudio Janta, from Solidariedade, presented Bill 217/21 at the Municipality of Porto Alegre, which institutes the public lottery service in the city. The councilor defends that the state capital should have its own lottery to finance activities aimed at the areas of health, education, social assistance, security, and other actions to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
The councilor admits that “in addition to being legally possible, it will also be a way of bringing breath to these areas and expanding the services of the aforementioned portfolios,” he defended.
In his Bill, Cláudio Janta considers as a lottery game "every operation, game or bet, in the prognostic mode, to obtain a prize in money or in goods of another nature," defining that the public service will be operated by the Executive Branch, it is incumbent, in the case of approval by the Chamber and sanction by the Mayor, to define which organ of the municipal administration will be in charge of exploration.
The proceeds of the total collection obtained through the placing of bets or the sale of municipal lotteries tickets, "by physical or virtual means", according to your project, will be destined to:
“I – To municipal social security, in each lottery modality operated, at least, the percentage destined by the Union for the same purpose must be observed;
II – The financing of actions and projects and the contribution of funding resources in the areas of health, education, social assistance, security and all actions to combat COVID-19;
III – The payment of prizes, the payment of the income tax levied on the prize and the coverage of costing and maintenance expenses for the operation of the municipal lottery.”
Source: GMB
