Overview
- Lawmakers passed the base text 291–148 with one abstention, and six proposed changes are still under review.
- The bill’s sponsor estimates Jair Bolsonaro’s closed-regime time could shrink to about 2 years and 4 months, contingent on work or study credits and other variables.
- The proposal applies only the highest penalty for the paired crimes of attempted coup and violent abolition of democratic rule, ending the practice of summing those sentences.
- It creates sentence reductions for nonleaders in crowd crimes and revises execution rules to allow progression after serving one-sixth of the prior regime, with remição of one day per three days of work or per six days of study.
- Senate President Davi Alcolumbre vowed a vote this year, CCJ chair Otto Alencar insists on committee scrutiny first, and Senator Sergio Moro said the changes could permit rapid releases of lower-level Jan. 8 offenders.