Overview
- The Chamber of Deputies approved the measure in two rounds by 414–3, completing congressional passage on Tuesday.
- It writes tribunals and councils of accounts into the Constitution as permanent, essential organs of external oversight of public administration.
- The amendment bars the extinction of existing audit courts and also forbids creating or installing new ones where they do not exist.
- Backers cited the Ceará episode that eliminated the state’s municipal audit court as a key motivation, with the rapporteur calling that move antirepublican.
- The text now awaits promulgation on a date to be set by Congress president Davi Alcolumbre, while reports differ on authorship between the Senate and deputy Moses Rodrigues.