Brazil: The Senate will revise again the project aiming to legalize casino resorts

In 2019, Senator Roberto Rocha (PDSB-MA) presented bill 2,648, which deals with the exploration of casinos in resorts or that can be installed anywhere in the national territory as long as they are integrated into leisure complexes. The PL would be denounced by Senator Angelo Coronel (PSD-BA), but given the length of the processing process, it ended up being shelved at the end of the last legislature.

The original project provided that the casino could only function in conjunction with integrated leisure complexes, which necessarily had to have high-level hotel accommodation, restaurants and bars, shopping malls, and venues for holding meetings and large social, cultural, or artistic events. .

In his justification for the presentation of the project, Roberto Rocha highlighted the need to promote tourism and that "globalization, technology, modernization, and consequent human development have allowed man to give himself the right to leisure and the search for entertainment." .

In his argument, the senator highlighted the activity as important to attract tourists and that "casinos appear as an existing entertainment option in several countries and that has a great impact on these economies, with large flows of capital and high investments.

"At the beginning of its processing and with the appointment of Angelo Coronel as speaker, he informed that he would make modifications to the original project and that they would include the legalization of other gaming verticals, such as bingo, tourist casinos and jogo do bicho.

With the end of the previous legislature, the project was shelved and now, at the request of the former speaker, it will be processed again in the Chamber. In an order, the Senate sent the PL to the Regional Development and Tourism Commission and is awaiting the appointment of a rapporteur.