Photo: Roque de Sá/Agência Senado
Photo: Roque de Sá/Agência Senado
The discussion and vote in the Plenary at next Tuesday (28) meeting has not yet been confirmed, which depends on an agreement between the president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), and party leaders.
Even so, five amendments and two requests have already been presented by senators, as the Internal Regulations of the Federal Senate provide for a deadline of up to five days for the presentation of such documents.
The most forceful attempt once again attempts to ban fixed-odd betting on virtual online gaming events, presented by senator Carlos Portinho (PL-RJ). He justifies, as he has already done in the discussions of the Economic Affairs Committee, that this “opens the possibility of a kind of legalization of gambling without the law.”
Still at CAE, senator Angelo Coronel (PSD-BA) rejected an amendment in this regard, warning that removing bets on virtual events would put an end to the bill and that the practice is already widespread and that it would not make any sense to exclude it from the bill.
Portinho presented another amendment prohibiting the broadcast of advertising pieces between 6 and 22:59. Furthermore, the amendment seeks to prohibit the broadcasting of advertising or propaganda that sponsors teams, individual athletes, former athletes, referees, members of technical committees, as well as championships organized by recognized Olympic sports confederations and linked to the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB), as well as the federations affiliated to them of all sports.
The senator from Rio de Janeiro presented another ruling that the PL does not apply to lotteries, determining in his amendment that the installation or availability of equipment or other devices in physical establishments that are intended for the sale of bets in a virtual environment is prohibited.
With this, he wants to “prevent the proliferation of casinos, slot machine houses, as well as the installation of equipment in businesses... and there will be no double interpretation regarding the possibility of exploring online games through physical establishments, with the possible installation of online gaming machines.”
Jorge Kajuru (PSB-GO) presented an amendment asking that the same tax burden of 15% be applied to fantasy sports bettors as sports betting bettors, so as not to cause the migration of fantasy sports players to sports betting vertical.
Kajuru also wants more clarity in the article that prohibits members or shareholders of a Football Corporation or professional sports organization from holding mandates or holding shares in sports betting houses. In its amendment, it justifies that the PL approved by the CAE generically described the entities and asks for the characteristic that the SAF and sports teams are “Brazilian” to be literally pointed out.
As for the two requests presented, both are from Portinho. One of them asks for a separate vote, in the Plenary, on his amendment presented in the CAE and which was not accepted by rapporteur Angelo Coronel with the same content as the one he presented now, prohibiting the broadcast of advertising pieces between 6 and 22:59.
The other, that the issue of lotteries also be voted on separately so that “casinos, slot machine houses, as well as the installation of equipment in businesses, do not proliferate.”
Source: GMB
