Overview
- Relator Mendonça Filho read his substitute text and a collective request for more time delayed the committee vote to Dec. 16 before any plenary consideration.
- The proposal keeps the Unified Public Security System in the Constitution and broadens police roles, including Federal Police on environmental crimes, Federal Highway Police on railways and waterways, and an expanded mandate for the Penal Police.
- A 2028 nationwide referendum would decide whether to lower criminal responsibility to 16 for violent offenses, with 16–17 year olds tried in regular courts but housed in separate facilities.
- Anti-gang provisions from the Antifacção agenda harden penalties, enable maximum-security confinement and differentiated disciplinary regimes, curb sentence benefits, and suspend voting rights for pretrial detainees.
- Financing is shielded by constitutionalizing the FNSP and Funpen, banning contingencies, earmarking 15% of pré-sal revenues, and directing 6% of betting receipts to the funds, alongside new congressional powers to halt CNJ and CNMP acts and oversee intelligence.