MAR 26 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2024 - 01:47hs.
Publication on the Official Gazette

Sports betting bill loses constitutional urgency and there’s no deadline for voting

This Tuesday (14), the constitutional urgency of Bill No. 3,626/2023, which deals with the regulation of sports betting in Brazil, was withdrawn, according to Message No. 586, from the President of the Republic and published in the Official Gazette of the Union. Approved in the Chamber of Deputies, the Bill is being processed in the Senate and as it was presented under an emergency regime, it has now locked the agenda in Parliament.

Message nº 586, published in the D.O.U. this Tuesday (14t), removes the urgency regime presented when the Bill and Provisional Measure (PM) 1,182/2023 were published, leaving the project to proceed without a specific deadline for being voted on.
 
                                       ORDER FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC

MESSAGE

No. 586, of November 14, 2023. Requests the National Congress to consider the urgency requested for Bill No. 3,626, of 2023, ineffective, and therefore canceled, sent to the National Congress with Message No. 357 of 2023.

As a consequence of President Lula's decision, the Federal Senate's agenda was unblocked and other matters can be voted on. The withdrawal of urgency comes in response to a request from the Senate Presidency, which sought to deliberate on other topics this week.

Thus, Bill nº 3,626/2023, which had already been approved by the Chamber of Deputies and is currently being considered by the Federal Senate, in the Sports Committee, where it has already been approved, and in the Economic Affairs Committee, where it is still under deliberation, will continue regular processing.

After reading the report by Senator Angelo Coronel (PDS-BA) in the Economic Affairs Committee, the document will be voted on by the collegiate body. Then, with or without amendments presented and voted on during processing at the CAE, it must be submitted for consideration by the Plenary of the same House.

The expectation is that it will be voted on, even without urgency, next week, in the Economic Affairs Committee and will then go to the Plenary, where the final report will be prepared by Senator Jorge Kajuru (PSD-GO).

As Bill 3626/2023 had been approved in the Chamber of Deputies in September, after a vote in the Senate it will return to the original House, as it has already undergone changes in the Sports Committee and must still be amended in the Economic Affairs Committee.

It remains to be seen how long the PL will be processed in the Chamber of Deputies, considering that as of this Tuesday, it will no longer have constitutional urgency.

Source: GMB