# The bill changes the Code of Criminal Procedure.

- Bill: PL 226/2024
- Subject: [Public Safety](https://votodeverdade.com.br/en/assunto/seguranca-publica/)
- Latest vote: October 21, 2025
- Page: https://votodeverdade.com.br/en/projeto/2456284/
- Official text: https://www.camara.leg.br/proposicoesWeb/prop_mostrarintegra?codteor=2472055 (The official text is in Portuguese, as it was voted.)

## Summary

The bill changes the Code of Criminal Procedure. It deals with the situations in which an arrest in flagrante should become pretrial detention, with the collection of biological material to record the genetic profile of people in custody, and with the criteria for assessing the dangerousness of the accused.

## Key points

- Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure (Decree-Law 3.689/1941)
- Defines circumstances for converting an arrest in flagrante into pretrial detention
- Provides for the collection of biological material to obtain and store the genetic profile of the person in custody
- Deals with dangerousness criteria, including at the custody hearing

## Votes

- October 21, 2025: approved, vote type: symbolic (no vote recorded for each deputy). The Reformulated Substitute Text to Bill No. 226 of 2024, adopted by the rapporteur of the Committee on Constitution, Justice and Citizenship, was approved.

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