Overview
- The plenary is scheduled to decide Thursday on fast-tracking PL 2307/07, a procedural step that accelerates debate but does not enact the bill.
- The proposal increases imprisonment for falsifying alcoholic beverages from four to eight years to six to twelve years and designates the offense as heinous.
- Chamber president Hugo Motta announced the urgency request after a rise in reported intoxication cases, largely concentrated in São Paulo.
- Health authorities report 43 suspected methanol intoxications under investigation nationwide, including 39 in São Paulo and four in Pernambuco, with one confirmed death.
- The day’s agenda also includes an urgency request to increase penalties for pedophilia with electronic monitoring, a bill to produce braille election materials, and potential votes on PDLs concerning maritime wrecks and a classified-information agreement with Poland.