Brazil's provisional ban on fixed-odds betting has been extended for 60 days by an act of the President of the National Congress, giving lawmakers more time to decide whether to turn the measure into permanent law.
The act, published in the Federal Official Gazette, extends the validity of Provisional Measure 1,394/2026. It leaves the substance of the September measure unchanged, including the prohibition on offering, operating, intermediating and advertising fixed-odds bets.
The restrictions cover sports wagering and online games offered to people in Brazil.
The original congressional calendar listed 23 November as the end of the first 60-day deliberation period. Under Brazil's constitutional procedure, an unvoted provisional measure may receive one extension of equal length.
The formal act has now applied that extension to the betting ban, while the counting of legislative deadlines is suspended during congressional recess.
An extension keeps the measure legally active but does not amount to congressional approval of the policy. To become permanent legislation, the text must pass both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
Lawmakers can approve it as written, amend it or reject it; the measure can also expire if the process is not completed within the constitutional timetable.
Congress's published record shows 99 amendments submitted in October. Some seek to change the treatment of sports betting or the transition for businesses affected by the ban.
The measure entered an urgent legislative phase on 9 November, but the congressional tracker still lists its joint committee as awaiting installation.
The extended life of the measure also leaves a separate legal contest unresolved. Four direct constitutional challenges are before the Supreme Federal Court. Justice Luiz Fux ordered lower-court proceedings on the ban's constitutionality suspended nationwide after prosecutors warned that differing interim decisions were creating inconsistent treatment. That order governs the cases; it does not decide whether the ban itself is constitutional.
The Government's prohibition closed previously authorized betting platforms in October and ended their operating permissions later that month. Former operators still face customer repayment and reporting obligations.
The extension neither restores those permissions nor changes the requirements for returning outstanding player balances.
Before the extension, lawmakers sought to establish the joint committee charged with examining the ban before the initial 23 November deadline.
Brazil's constitutional rules allow only one 60-day extension of a provisional measure
