In 2019, Senator Roberto Rocha (PDSB-MA) presented Bill 2,648, which deals with the exploration of casinos in resorts or that may be installed in any part of the national territory as long as they are integrated into leisure complexes.
The Bill would be reported by Senator Angelo Coronel (PSD-BA), but given the length of the processing process, it ended up being shelved at the end of the last legislature.
The original project foresaw that the casino could only work together with integrated leisure complexes, which must necessarily have high-end hotel accommodation, restaurants and bars, shopping centers and places for holding meetings and large social, cultural or artistic events.
In his justification for presenting the project, Roberto Rocha highlighted the need to boost tourism and that with “globalization, technology, modernization, the resulting human development, allowed man to give himself the right to leisure and the pursuit of entertainment.”
In his argument, the senator highlighted the activity as important in attracting tourists and that "casinos appear as an entertainment option that already exists in several countries and that exert a great impact on these economies, with large capital flows and high investments."
At the beginning of its processing and with the designation of Angelo Coronel as rapporteur, he informed that he would make changes to the original project and that they would include the legalization of other gaming verticals, such as bingos, tourist casinos and jogo do bicho.
With the end of the previous legislature, the project was shelved and now, at the request of the former rapporteur, it will be processed in the House again. The Senate forwarded the Bill to the Commission for Regional Development and Tourism and is awaiting the designation of a rapporteur.
Source: GMB
