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Brazil Senate Panel Approves Bill Letting Ride-Hail Drivers Refuse High-Crime Routes

The measure now advances toward the Chamber of Deputies pending any plenary appeal.

Overview

  • The committee endorsed PL 1.169/2025, which allows app drivers to decline trips whose destination or route includes areas officially identified as high risk.
  • The text authorizes transport and navigation apps to display alerts about dangerous routes based on data from state public security secretariats.
  • State agencies are not required to provide crime statistics, and platforms are not obligated to adopt the alert system or block risky routes.
  • Rapporteur Hamilton Mourão revised the proposal to remove mandatory route blocking, citing the need to avoid imposing costs and to preserve business discretion.
  • Supporters, including the committee president Flávio Bolsonaro, frame the bill as a safety tool, while Senator Fabiano Contarato cautions it could further limit service to poorer neighborhoods.