# Changes the Environmental Crimes Law and the Forest Code.

- Bill: PL 3339/2024
- Subject: [Environment](https://votodeverdade.com.br/en/assunto/meio-ambiente/)
- Latest vote: June 2, 2025
- Page: https://votodeverdade.com.br/en/projeto/2455564/
- Official text: https://www.camara.leg.br/proposicoesWeb/prop_mostrarintegra?codteor=2470537 (The official text is in Portuguese, as it was voted.)

## Summary

Changes the Environmental Crimes Law and the Forest Code. It provides an aggravating circumstance for offenses that hinder public services or are committed by a group, increases penalties for forest fire and for pollution, and bars anyone who uses fire irregularly from contracting with the government or receiving public funds.

## Key points

- Creates an aggravating circumstance for offenses that hinder public services and for offenses committed by multiple people acting together
- Increases the penalties for the crimes of forest fire and of pollution of any nature
- Bars anyone who uses fire irregularly from contracting with the government or receiving public funds
- Amends Law 9.605/1998 and the Forest Code (Law 12.651/2012)

## Votes

- June 2, 2025: approved, vote type: symbolic (no vote recorded for each deputy). The Substitute Text to Bill No. 3.339 of 2024, adopted by the rapporteur of the Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, was approved, except for the separate vote.

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