Overview
- The Chamber of Deputies approved the measure 291–148 in a surprise, pre-dawn vote that advances it to the Senate.
- The bill forbids stacking overlapping coup-related charges, lowers the threshold for progression to a semi-open regime to one-sixth, and would extend conditional release to more than 100 Jan. 8 detainees.
- Sponsor Paulinho da Força says Jair Bolsonaro’s effective prison time could fall to about two years and four months if the proposal becomes law.
- Final outcomes would require Senate passage, sentence recalculations by courts, and a decision from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has previously signaled he could veto.
- The session descended into turmoil as a leftist deputy was forcibly removed, the official broadcast was cut, and journalists were expelled from the floor.