Brazil’s green lottery bill advances in committee as lawmakers debate a betting ban

Brazil’s Bill 1,587/2021 is still moving through Congress, but not as a finished product and not as a licensed lottery. At the same time, the federal government is pushing for a separate ban on fixed-odds betting, so the country’s gambling conversation is now split between lottery policy, environmental funding and online betting restrictions.

1. On October 27, a report said Pedro Lupion, rapporteur in the Chamber of Deputies’ Constitution and Justice Committee (CCJC), had submitted an opinion finding Bill 1,587/2021 and its amendments constitutionally acceptable, legally sound and technically adequate. But the Chamber’s public tracking page still listed the bill as awaiting the rapporteur’s opinion when checked, so the reported recommendation is not the same thing as a formally recorded committee decision.
2. Bill 1,587/2021 was introduced in April 2021 by federal deputy Evair Vieira de Melo. It would authorize the federal Executive to establish a numerical lottery originally called Loteria Rural Verde; a committee amendment later referred to the same proposed product as Loteria Verde. Neither name refers to an operating lottery under the bill as it stands.
3. The proposal has already passed earlier committee stages. The Chamber’s Environment and Sustainable Development Committee approved a version with amendments in 2021, and the Finance and Taxation Committee approved the bill and relevant amendments in August 2024. It then moved to the CCJC for constitutional and legal review, which is the stage where lawmakers check whether the text meets the required legal standards before it can advance further.
4. The bill is still only a proposal. Until it completes the required legislative stages and becomes law, it does not authorize the federal government to launch the lottery. For PSPs and operators watching Brazil, that means the legal status remains pending, even if the committee work keeps moving.
5. The Environment and Sustainable Development Committee amendment also set out a proposed revenue split: 60% for prizes, 20% for operating costs and 20% for the National Environment Fund. That environmental allocation is meant to support the Federal Payment for Environmental Services Program, tying lottery receipts to environmental policy rather than leaving all proceeds inside the prize-and-cost structure.

The thing to watch here is not just the lottery itself, but the fact that Brazil is debating two separate tracks at once: a public-interest lottery model on one side and a proposed prohibition on fixed-odds betting on the other. For payment providers, those are different legal products, different risk profiles and, if the politics keep moving, very different licensing conversations.