Overview
- The Senate Constitution and Justice Committee concluded its vote Wednesday and forwarded the relator’s version of the PEC da Segurança Pública to the full Senate after three pending highlights were deemed prejudiced because their sponsors were absent.
- Relator Rogério Carvalho rejected substantive changes and removed a provision that would have earmarked 30% of betting revenues for security and penitentiary funds, saying the carve-out would shrink transfers to other public areas.
- The PEC would constitutionalize a national Sistema Único de Segurança Pública to integrate federal, state and municipal forces, tighten custody rules for organized-crime members including limits on temporary leave, and expand PRF powers to railways and waterways.
- Final approval requires two plenary votes with at least 49 favorable votes; any Senate alterations would return changed sections to the Chamber of Deputies and the government is pushing to finish the process before the presidential runoff on October 25.
- If enacted, the amendment could centralize operational coordination against criminal factions, reshape how municipal policing and state autonomy work in practice, and change prison regimes and asset-expropriation rules that affect communities and justice administrators.