Brazil's Finance and Taxation Committee has approved a bill that reallocates part of the country's lottery revenue from the National Federation of Sports Clubs (Fenaclubes) to the Brazilian Clubs Committee (CBC).
The move is designed to channel public funds toward athlete development and strengthen the National Sports System.
The change applies to numeric prognostic lotteries, games in which players attempt to predict the winning numbers. Fenaclubes currently receives 0.01% of total revenue from these lotteries. Under the new proposal, that portion would instead go to the CBC.
The measure preserves the existing conditions for how these funds can be used: they must be directed to the training and qualification of sports club managers and spending will continue to be supervised by Brazil's Federal Court of Accounts, as outlined in Law 13.756/2018.
The bill, introduced by Deputy Julio Cesar Ribeiro, received a favourable report from Deputy Laura Carneiro, who endorsed a substitute text adopted earlier by the Sports Committee.
The modifications made were described as minor editorial adjustments rather than substantive changes.
The redistribution of gambling revenue has been a particularly debated topic among Brazilian lawmakers, regarding both lotteries and online operations.
The CBC, which already operates alongside the Brazilian Olympic Committee within the National Sports System, focuses primarily on developing Olympic and Paralympic athletes.
Fenaclubes, meanwhile, functions mainly as an advocacy organization representing sports clubs before public authorities.
Next, the proposal will proceed to the Chamber's Constitution and Justice Committee for final approval before being sent to the Senate for consideration.
There's currently a separate proposal that seeks to ban all online betting operations across Brazil
