The proposal made by Deputy Ruy Carneiro aims to allocate additional resources to finance the necessary measures to face the public health emergency generated by the new coronavirus. He suggests that, during the year 2020, the amount equivalent to 15% of the share legally allocated today be paid to the National Lottery Prize Lottery Prizes (that includes the popular Mega-Sena as best known example).
"The measure now proposed, it is good to note, will not have an appreciable impact on the current system of sharing lottery revenues. This is because there will be no change in the percentages currently provided for in Law No. 13,756, of 2018, for the other legal beneficiaries of participations in the product of the collection of lotteries. The only change will be the reduction, punctual and temporary, of the amount destined for the payment of the prizes of the lotteries with numerical prognosis,” explains Carneiro.
For the deputy, these resources will help to face the emergency that plagues Brazil, which is already the second country with more cases of infected by COVID-19 in the world, behind only the United States. "We understand that, given the seriousness of the situation experienced by Brazilian citizens as a result of the pandemic, such resources, in 2020, will be much more useful and relevant to society if they are intended to finance the health measures necessary to fight this pandemic in the country,” concludes the deputy.
Source: GMB
