Brazil's AI bill still 'Awaiting Report' in Chamber as elections loom

A Brazilian consultancy, Iasbeck&Co, published an October 2026 explainer on which AI rules reach Brazilian companies, drawing on legal texts and official legislative records. It states that on October 22, 2026, bill PL 2338/2023 appeared in the Chamber of Deputies database as awaiting a report in its special committee, so the country still has no AI statute.

The bill passed the Federal Senate on December 10, 2024, and reached the Chamber on March 17, 2025. A special committee was created in April, and Deputy Aguinaldo Ribeiro was named rapporteur on May 20. The author says every record entry since March involved other AI bills being attached, the latest on September 2, 2026. One of them, PL 6237/2025, sent by the federal government in December 2025, would create a national AI governance system with the data protection agency ANPD setting general rules. Talk of a vote once the October elections are over is common, yet no official source gives a date. Because the Chamber can alter the text, changes would return it to the Senate, and most obligations would start two years after publication, so the author expects little effect before 2029.

Meanwhile, the article says the LGPD data protection law governs AI that uses personal data, with Article 20 on reviewing automated decisions the closest link. ANPD lists AI among 16 items on its 2025-2026 regulatory agenda, and its draft rule is being prepared. For comparison, the EU AI Act already sets a ceiling of 35 million euros, or 7% of worldwide turnover if higher, on fines for prohibited practices, including for outside companies whose systems' output is used in the EU. The author cautions that the status is a snapshot and that Stanford AI Index counts depend on definitions.