Text maintains hardened core of feathers and removes Cide on bets; proposal goes to presidential sanction
The Chamber of Deputies concluded on Tuesday (24.Feb.2026) the vote on PL (Bill) 5,582/2025, dubbed PL Antifaction, and sent the text for presidential sanction. The plenary approved most of the version approved by the Chamber itself in 2025 and rejected most of the changes made by the Senate, according to the description of the process and the final report.
The main one consolidated in the text of the rapporteur (PP-SP), which the new Minister of Justice, is the creation of 2 central crimes: structured social domain, with a prison sentence of 20 to 40 years, and favoring this domain, punished with 12 to 20 years. The project classifies as a structured social domain a set of conducts associated with criminal organizations, paramilitary groups or private militias, such as territorial control through violence or serious threats, embarrassment to police operations with barricades and fires, attacks on prisons, sabotage of essential infrastructure and the use of explosives or weapons to assault financial institutions, among others. Here is it (PDF – 206 kB).
The text also toughens criminal and administrative consequences: it classifies new crimes as heinous and determines restrictions such as banning amnesty, grace or pardon, in addition to limiting benefits such as bail and conditional release under the terms described in the report. In criminal execution, it increases the minimum percentages of compliance in a closed regime before the semi-open one in heinous crimes, with new levels for first-time offenders and repeat offenders.
Another relevant change is in the social security profile: the project establishes that dependents will not receive imprisonment assistance when the insured person is provisionally imprisoned or serving a sentence in a closed or semi-open regime for crimes set out in the text.
In the operational part, the text establishes that convicts or pre-trial detainees linked to these crimes must be held in a maximum security federal prison when there is concrete evidence of leadership, leadership or participation in a command nucleus. It also determines a reduction in sentence for those who perform only preparatory acts to assist the listed conduct.
What changed in relation to what came from the Senate appears, above all, in the exclusions. The Chamber withdrew the creation of a Cide on bets – the rapporteur had incorporated the idea of 15% taxation and regularization and inspection rules, but the plenary approved the emphasis on removing this section and sending the topic to another project. A change in the duties of the Federal Police was also included in the text, which was considered controversial.
There was also an adjustment to reduce the margin of interpretation: the rapporteur agreed to remove the hypothesis that linked the penalty to situations of restricting, limiting or hindering free movement “without legitimate motivation recognized by laws”, explaining the intention to avoid reading that would involve protests without links to organized crime.
CHANGES IN THE ANTIFACTION PL APPROVED BY THE CHAMBER
- Creation of a structured social crime, with a sentence of 20 to 40 years, classifying conduct such as territorial control with violence or serious threat, use of barricades against police operations, attacks on prisons, sabotage of essential infrastructure, assaults with explosives and other actions attributed to criminal organizations, paramilitary groups or militias;
- Creation of the crime of favoring structured social dominance, with a sentence of 12 to 20 years, including founding, joining or supporting these organizations, distributing messages of encouragement, storing weapons or explosives, providing information or falsely claiming ties to a faction to obtain an advantage;
- Classification of these crimes as heinous, with application of the strictest rules established in legislation;
- Increase in the minimum time served in a closed regime for heinous crimes: 70% for first offenders (previously 40%), 80% for repeat offenders (previously 60%), 75% for first offenders in case of death (previously 50%) and 85% for repeat offenders in case of death (previously 70%); command of a structured criminal organization now demands 75% of the sentence in a closed regime and prohibits parole; inclusion of femicide in the 75% rule;
- Increase in penalties for several crimes when committed in this context, such as intentional homicide (from 6–20 to 20–40 years), bodily injury followed by death (from 4–12 to 20–40), kidnapping (from 1–3 to 12–20), theft (from 1–4 to 4–10), robbery (from 4–10 to 12–30), threat (from detention to imprisonment for 1–3 years), in addition increase of 2/3 or three times in crimes such as extortion and reception;
- Prediction of aggravating circumstances with an increase of 1/2 to 2/3 of the sentence in situations such as exercise of command or leadership, participation of a public agent, international connection, use of drones or advanced technology, involvement of a child or vulnerable person and illegal exploitation of mineral or forest resources;
- Determination that leaders or members of the command nucleus remain in a maximum security federal prison, when there is concrete evidence;
- Prohibition of amnesty, pardon or pardon and restrictions on parole for those convicted of these crimes;
- Prohibition of payment of imprisonment assistance to dependents of insured people arrested for crimes covered by the project;
- Withdrawal of the creation of Cide on bets, including the exclusion of the 15% tax on fixed-odd bets and rules for regulating and monitoring the sector;
- Withdrawal of proposal to change the duties of the Federal Police;
- Exclusion of section that could allow interpretation of the law against protests without links to organized crime.
