The Constitutional Amendment Proposal (PEC) on Public Security may be included in the agenda of the Senate’s Constitution and Justice Committee (CCJ) as early as next week.
The proposal allocates up to 30% of the net revenue from bets to the National Public Security Fund (FNSP) and the National Penitentiary Fund (Funpen), with a phased implementation through 2028, in addition to 10% of the annual surplus of the Pre-Salt Social Fund, with a gradual transition between 2027 and 2029.
The CCJ’s agenda has not yet been released, but the PEC is among the five priority topics of next week’s concentrated effort, called by the President of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre.
The topics were announced at a meeting last Wednesday (26) between Davi, the President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Hugo Motta.
The funds are protected against blocking or withholding by the federal government, except in the event of a revenue shortfall.
The rapporteur, Senator Rogério Carvalho (PT-SE), delivered his report on Tuesday (25), dismissing the amendments presented and keeping the text approved by the Chamber, in order to speed up the vote.
Second measure to direct betting funds to security
The PEC is not the first measure to channel funds from the betting sector into public security.
In July, the Senate approved the provisional measure (MPV 1348/2026) which allocates 3% of the net profit of fixed-odds betting operators, after taxes and prizes, to Funapol.
Funapol funds the core activities of the Federal Police in combating organized crime. The text now goes to presidential approval.
While MPV 1348 is an already nearly confirmed and Federal Police-specific source of revenue, the PEC expands this model to a constitutional scale, with a larger transfer (up to 30%) distributed among the FNSP, Funpen, states, and municipalities.
President Lula (PT) made the creation of the Ministry of Public Security — a campaign promise still unfulfilled across three terms — conditional on the approval of PEC 18/2025, which arrived in the Senate in a version different from the one sent by the Executive branch.
In an interview with TV Globo on the 27th, President Lula defended the creation of the Ministry and said he wants to seek greater clarity in the division of responsibilities among the federative entities:
“Why am I going to create the Ministry? Because first I want to establish what the participation of each federative entity in Public Security will be. What will be the role of the Union, what will be the role of the State, and what will be the role of the municipality,” he stated.