Overview
- Senate President Davi Alcolumbre placed the PEC da Segurança on the plenary agenda for Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, reviving a session that was postponed on Oct. 15 after an impasse over amendments to lower the age of criminal responsibility.
- The PEC would put the Sistema Único de Segurança Pública (SUSP) into the Constitution, expand federal roles including new duties for the Polícia Rodoviária Federal, and create constitutional recognition of prison and penal police functions.
- The draft mandates protected transfers of security funding, with reporting that 50% rules would guarantee repasses from national security and penitentiary funds and allows seizure of illicit assets to finance security programs.
- A fight over maioridade penal has split senators and the PT leadership, with Rogério Marinho proposing broad reductions and Camilo Santana proposing a 16‑year limit only for heinous crimes; the government is pushing to treat that debate separately to avoid sending the PEC back to the Chamber.
- Passage requires at least 49 votes in two separate Senate rounds and any change would force a return to the Chamber, so the Lula administration is racing to approve the text this year to lock in funding and enable a planned Ministry of Public Security.