Third most voted among the senators elected in 2018, with 4.38 million votes, (-RJ) reached his last year in office without having his own projects turned into law.
The PL pre-candidate for the Presidency is the author or co-author of 57 bills and 92 PECs (proposed amendments to the Constitution), the majority dealing with , his main banner in office and one of the priority themes of his campaign.
But, in just over seven years in the House, only two proposals in which he was a co-author came into force, with no link to security: a constitutional amendment to exempt IPVA from vehicles over 20 years old and a law to promote microcredit.
The eldest son of the former president (PL) was also rapporteur in the plenary, in 2024, of the proposal to end the temporary releases of prisoners to visit family and for social activities, which was .
Flávio sought to classify the events this week, after meeting between them at the White House. The measure was explored by Bolsonarists as an example, according to them, of the senator’s ability to quickly implement effective measures in this area.
this framework of PCC and CV was rejected in the Senate without resistance from Flávio, who was not in the plenary and did not defend the proposal.
At the beginning of his term, Flávio proposed two bills that were approved in the Senate, but are still being processed in the Senate. One of them seeks to include the Associação Brasileira Beneficente de Reabilitação among those benefiting from resources raised by lotteries. The second deals with the proper disposal of electric car batteries.
In addition, four other PECs and a bill he co-authored were approved in the Senate and are being processed in the Chamber.
Among his proposals that have not yet come to fruition, the senator defends, for example, the toughening of penalties for crimes that he considers serious, such as attacks on maritime, river or air transport, adulteration of drinks and food, trawling and others. It also seeks to prohibit provisional release and the application of precautionary measures other than prison for prisoners caught in the act of committing heinous crimes.
One of Flávio’s most recent projects intends to authorize police officers to grant urgent protective measures in cases of . On another front, he proposes granting a definitive property title to anyone who owns an irregular property measuring up to 80 square meters in an urban area on public land.
In the first years of his mandate, Flávio presented projects aligned with Bolsonarist ideology, such as restricting the operation of speed cameras, criminalizing those who subject children under 14 to artistic events with nudity, granting firearms to lawyers and including entrepreneurship, moral and civic education and social and political organization in basic education.
Among the 92 PECs he signed, only 4 came from an initiative by Flávio. PECs require the signature of at least 27 of the 81 senators to be filed and it is common for parliamentarians to support the proposals of colleagues from the same party or ideological camp.
The most recent PEC proposed by Flávio is the one that ends the re-election for President of the Republic. As shown by Sheetthat of parties from the center and governors who may run for Planalto in the future, such as (Republicans).
Flávio has been emphasizing in the presidential campaign the PEC that reduces the age of criminal responsibility to 16 years in cases of heinous crimes. Another of his proposals wants to remove trials of murders committed by members of criminal organizations and militias from jury trials.
In a note sent to the report, the senator’s office states that he “presented 62 projects as main author, participated in more than 100 proposals as co-author and had direct involvement in relevant issues, such as the Anti-Faction Law, the end of temporary releases of prisoners and tax reform”.
The advisory also highlights the PEC of reducing the age of majority and says that Flávio “has been mobilizing parliamentarians for its vote in 2026”.
“It is important to note that the processing of projects in the Senate does not depend exclusively on the author of the proposal, but also on the designation of rapporteurs and the agenda of the committees. In the CCJ alone, there are thousands of matters awaiting analysis, including proposals presented by the senator”, he says.
Budget amendments
In addition to bills, senators also promote public policies through indications of funds that each parliamentarian can make each year. From 2020 to 2026, Flávio chose to allocate R$271 million, considering committed resources (i.e., reserved for a specific purpose, even if not necessarily already paid off).
Half of this amount must be allocated to health actions. In the other half, Flávio prioritized financing public security actions. He transferred 16% of the total (around R$43.7 million) to the Ministry of Justice.
Next come bodies such as the Air Force (7.2%), Army (3.9%), Federal (3.6%) and Navy (2.9%). Transfers to the state of Brazil reach R$14.5 million (5.4%). Amendments for social assistance, sport, human rights, education and related topics total 6.5% of the total.
Since 2019, Flávio has been absent from the Senate for official missions in Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Iraq, Spain, Italy, El Salvador and the United States (with trips to Las Vegas, Washington and New York).
The list does not include Europe, Chile and the United States, for which Flávio asked the Senate for days off, but did not register them as official missions of the mandate.
Flávio is currently a member of three committees in the Senate, which analyze matters on specific topics — Public Security, Regional Development and Tourism and Transparency, Governance, Inspection and Control and Consumer Protection. He is a substitute for three other collegiate bodies, including the CCJ (Constitution and Justice Commission).
The senator makes use of the official car to which he is entitled, but gave up the functional property and housing assistance that are offered by the Senate.
In a statement, Flávio’s office says that he is “the parliamentarian who allocated the most resources to public security in the history of Rio de Janeiro, with investments in intelligence, vehicles, technology and the fight against organized crime.”
“The mandate also provided resources for health, infrastructure and land regularization, including more than 8,000 property titles for residents of Complexo da Maré”, he continues.
Term of state deputy in Rio
Flávio served four terms as state deputy in Alerj (Rio de Janeiro Legislative Assembly), between 2003 and 2018, when he was elected senator. The legislative proposals focused on benefits for police officers, but also include demands for plebiscites to change street names and a referendum on whether or not to maintain racial quotas.
Almost a quarter (51 of 208) of its legislative proposals presented in the state became law. However, he was not successful on more ideological issues.
Among the laws approved by the then deputy are the exemption from state fees for renewing the driver’s license of security agents, fines for prank calls to emergency services and authorization for candidates in public competitions to have access to the reasons for their failure in a psychological exam.
He also signed, together with several deputies, some from the left, amnesty bills for security agents who participated in demonstrations in 2012, 2016 and 2017.
One of Flávio’s unapproved proposals proposed that the conviction of state military personnel (police officers and firefighters) be awaited before an agent under suspicion could be expelled from the corporation. If the PEC had passed, former PM Adriano da Nóbrega, a militia member whose relatives were employed in his office, could not have been expelled from the corporation in 2014.
Flávio also proposed that the stylized skull of the BOPE (Special Operations Battalion) be declared cultural heritage of the state. The project did not prosper.
The then deputy was committed to repealing racial quotas, which were first implemented at Uerj in 2003, precisely his first year in office.
He proposed a referendum on maintaining racial quotas three times. In court, he tried to prevent the application of the reservation of places for black and brown people in universities, but the decisions were revoked.
The former president’s son frequently participated in the Legislatures of the Public Security Commission. He gained notoriety in his first year in office when he presided over the panel that led the investigations against former deputy Chiquinho da Mangueira, .
Flávio defended the revocation of his mandate, but the case ended.
