Brazil

Jul 2026 — Chamber vote slips past the mid-year target The rapporteur, Deputy Aguinaldo Ribeiro, had promised a special-committee vote by early May 2026, and floor deliberation was said to be possible before the August recess if leaders cooperated. Neither happened: no committee report was voted and no plenary vote was scheduled before the recess. PL 2338 has now been pending in the Chamber for roughly eighteen months since Senate approval in December 2024. Latin America's most consequential AI bill continues to slip. Câmara dos Deputados — Comissão Especial sobre Inteligência Artificial (PL 2338/23) <https://www2.camara.leg.br/atividade-legislativa/comissoes/comissoes-temporarias/especiais/57a-legislatura/comissao-especial-sobre-inteligencia-artificial-pl-2338-23> Câmara dos Deputados — PL 2338/2023, ficha de tramitação <https://www.camara.leg.br/proposicoesWeb/fichadetramitacao?idProposicao=2487262> Aug 2026 — The legislative window closes — PL 2338 misses the pre-election deadline Brazil's 2026 electoral calendar, with general elections on 4 October 2026, created a de facto legislative window closing in August. It closed with no committee report voted and no floor vote scheduled. The two unresolved questions are unchanged since 2024: how copyright applies to material used to train models, and which systems land in the high-risk tier. With the campaign, the October vote and a new legislature to follow, deferral to 2027 is now the base case, and the bill would carry roughly three years of pendency by the time it is taken up. Recorded as a deferral, not a defeat: the bill has not lapsed and Brazil holds at pending. Câmara dos Deputados — PL 2338/2023, ficha de tramitação <https://www.camara.leg.br/proposicoesWeb/fichadetramitacao?idProposicao=2487262>