Brazil's Senate rapporteur strips betting money from security PEC

Brazil’s Senate may vote on a constitutional amendment on public security without the clause that would have paid for it partly with sports betting money. Senator Rogério Carvalho, the rapporteur (the senator who drafts the committee’s report), deleted that provision in the Constitution and Justice Committee (CCJ), according to a report from the Senate’s news agency dated 15 October 2026.

The chamber could vote on the proposal, known as PEC 18/2025, on Thursday 15 October.

The details

• The deleted clause: the text passed by the Chamber of Deputies would have used sports betting revenue, after operating costs were deducted, to finance public security.
• What stays: the amendment widens the federal government’s powers against organised crime and allows municipal police forces.
• Funding rule: it also bans the freezing of funds earmarked for the Unified Public Security System (Susp).

What’s next

The Senate could vote on the text on 15 October. The report does not say what happens to the betting clause if the Senate approves the committee’s version.