Brazil extends betting ban decree to March 2027

The president of Brazil's Senate and Congress, Davi Alcolumbre, has extended Medida Provisória 1.394, the provisional measure that bans fixed-odds betting, by 60 days. The page of the Congresso Nacional for the measure now gives 4 March 2027 as the end of the period for Congress to deliberate. The ban stays in force in the meantime.

The Congress page lists the act as ATCN 118/2026, dated 9 November 2026, with the description "Prorroga o prazo de vigência da Medida Provisória nº 1394/2026, pelo período de sessenta dias" (extends the period of validity of Provisional Measure 1394/2026 by sixty days; our translation). The Senate's news agency reported on 11 November that the act was published in the Diário Oficial da União that day.

What the extension changes

A provisional measure is a presidential decree with the force of law. Congress has to convert it into ordinary law, or it lapses. The first period for MP 1.394 ran from 25 September to 23 November 2026. This is the one extension the Constitution allows.

The Congress page now shows the deliberation period as 25 September 2026 to 4 March 2027. It does not spell out how that end date is calculated. The Senate agency puts it this way: with the extension, "o Congresso terá mais 60 dias para analisar a medida e decidir sobre sua conversão em lei" (Congress will have 60 more days to analyse the measure and decide on converting it into law; our translation).

Nothing changes in the rules themselves. The ban on offering, intermediating and advertising fixed-odds betting, the cancelled authorisations and the refund procedure all stay as they are.

Where Congress stands

The measure has been in the urgency regime since 9 November, according to the Congress page. The joint committee that has to report on it before it can go to the floor of the Chamber and the Senate has still not been installed. The page showed the status "AGUARDANDO INSTALAÇÃO DA COMISSÃO" when we checked it on 13 November.

The committee has 99 amendments in front of it. No vote date is set.

Two other tracks run in parallel. In the Supreme Court, Justice Luiz Fux has frozen the lower-court cases that challenge the ban. And the Finance Ministry's betting secretariat has set the rules for the operators' R$5 million reserve, which can only be used to repay players.

The other measures

Alcolumbre extended two other provisional measures at the same time, the Senate agency reports: the Desenrola Brasil 3.0 debt renegotiation programme (MP 1.393) and an extraordinary credit for indigenous peoples and family farming (MP 1.392). Five other provisional measures lost their effect without being analysed by Congress. MP 1.394 was not among them.

What this means for players

Licensed fixed-odds betting stays banned in Brazil while Congress deliberates. The extension does not reopen any site and does not change how balances are refunded. We covered that process in how balance refunds work after the ban.

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Updates

• 13 Nov 2026: first published.

Sources

• Congresso Nacional: Medida Provisória n° 1394, de 2026 (primary; ATCN 118/2026 of 9 November 2026, deliberation period to 4 March 2027, urgency from 9 November, status read 13 November 2026; in Portuguese)
• Agência Senado: Prorrogadas medidas provisórias das bets e do Desenrola; cinco MPs perdem eficácia (Senate news agency, 11 November 2026; in Portuguese)