The Bill 7/20 money will come from the financial surplus with official lotteries and the cancellation of expenses previously provided for. The rapporteur, Senator Izalci Lucas (PSDB-DF), partially accepted three amendments, reducing the original amount of the text (R$ 806.8 million -US$137m-) to preserve transfers of lotteries for science and technology that, according to the Executive's original text, would be targeted of cuts.
The proposal is derived from a decision by the Supreme Federal Court (STF) according to which the Union is obliged to immediately transfer to the states and the Federal District, 50% of the resources of the National Public Security Fund (FNSP) of revenues from official lotteries. These funds are classified by law as mandatory transfer.
The resources necessary to open the credit referred to in art. 1st result from:
I - financial surplus determined in the balance sheet for the year 2019, from revenue from forecasting contests, in the amount of R$ 502,585,581.00 (five hundred and two million, five hundred and eighty-five thousand, five hundred and eighty-one reais) -US$85.2m-; and
II - cancellation of the budgetary allocation in the amount of R$ 304,179,655.00 (three hundred and four million one hundred and seventy-nine thousand six hundred and fifty-five reais) -US$51.5m-.
Remote sessions
According to a joint act of the Chamber and the Senate, in the state of public calamity, budgetary issues may be analyzed by Congress due to urgency or because of Covid-19, in a vote through the Remote Deliberation System (SDR).
As the technological solution for remote voting differs from one House to another, it was decided that the projects on the agenda of the National Congress are analyzed first by the Chamber and then by the Senate. The virtual meetings followed this determination.
Source: Agência Câmara de Notícias
