The dominant driver is whether Chamber leadership schedules the bill for a floor vote in the narrow window before Sept 10, 2026; sq4 (passage once scheduled) is near-certain, so the weighted average is anchored by scheduling probability, with sq2/sq3 acting as salience-vs-crowding-out modifiers (sq3 inverted in interpretation). Base rates for urgency-approved bills reaching plenary in ~5 weeks are low, so the holistic estimate should be well below 50%.
## Cross-Market Signals ### Polymarket - "Will the Fed increase interest rates by 25 bps after the September 2026 meeting?" → Yes: 0.28, Volume: $7.8M - "Will the Fed decrease interest rates by 25 bps after the September 2026 meeting?" → Yes: 0.01, Volume: $9.4M - "Will there be no change in Fed interest rates after the September 2026 meeting?" → Yes: 0.71, Volume: $8.3M - "Will the Fed increase interest rates by 50+ bps after the September 2026 meeting?" → Yes: 0.00, Volume: $5.7M - "Will the Fed decrease interest rates by 50+ bps after the September 2026 meeting?" → Yes: 0.00, Volume: $5.4M - "US announces end of Iranian blockade by September 30, 2026?" → Yes: 0.30, Volume: $849.6K - "Will Pablo Marçal win the 2026 Brazilian presidential election?" → Yes: 0.01, Volume: $1.4M - "Will Shakhtar Donetsk win the 2026-27 UEFA Champions League Championship?" → Yes: 0.00, Volume: $6.6M - "Putin out as President of Russia by December 31, 2026?" → Yes: 0.07, Volume: $19.3M - "Will Ronaldo Caiado win the 2026 Brazilian presidential election?" → Yes: 0.00, Volume: $6.2M
1. [sq1 | web_search | STRONG cred 92 | UP | DATED] PL 3481/2026 was presented July 6, 2026 and had urgency (art. 155 RICD) approved July 8, 2026, placing it directly under plenary jurisdiction. 2. [sq1 | web_search | MODERATE cred 75 | DOWN | RECENT] As of mid-August 2026 no reporting confirms PL 3481/2026 has been formally included on any September plenary agenda; inclusion depends solely on President Hugo Motta. 3. [sq1 | web_search | MODERATE cred 70 | UP | RECENT] Author Any Ortiz publicly stated she expects the bill to be voted in plenary soon after the parliamentary recess to give schools time to organize. 4. [sq1 | code_execution | WEAK cred 35 | DOWN | VERY_RECENT] A hazard-model base-rate estimate for an urgency-approved Chamber bill reaching a plenary main-text vote within the ~5-week window gives roughly 0.14-0.32. 5. [sq2 | web_search | MODERATE cred 65 | UP | RECENT] Ortiz reported that school-representing unions are mobilizing to overturn the mandatory-recess rule, indicating continued organized pressure. 6. [sq2 | web_search | WEAK cred 60 | UP | RECENT] Ortiz argued the issue must be resolved in plenary rather than through judicialization, framing legislative action as urgent. 7. [sq2 | article_search | WEAK cred 30 | NEUTRAL | VERY_RECENT] News-article search over June-August 2026 returned no articles about the Brazilian school-calendar/World Cup recess dispute, only irrelevant items. 8. [sq2 | web_search | MODERATE cred 70 | NEUTRAL | DATED] The Ministry of Education signaled the recess issue would also be reviewed by the CNE, an alternative administrative route to resolve the conflict. 9. [sq3 | web_search | MODERATE cred 70 | DOWN | RECENT] Chamber leaders' announced early-September priorities were the fuels bill PLP 114/2026, a misogyny-criminalization bill, and the taxa das blusinhas MP, with a stated preference for consensus items only. 10. [sq3 | claude_news | WEAK cred 40 | NEUTRAL | VERY_RECENT] No evidence was found of PL 3481/2026 being added to the esforço concentrado agenda or of leadership statements about it. 11. [sq4 | web_search | MODERATE cred 60 | UP | RECENT] Ortiz said she believes the bill will have support in plenary; low-cost deregulatory calendar fixes of this type are typically consensual once scheduled. 12. [sq4 | web_search | WEAK cred 65 | NEUTRAL | DATED] A competing proposal by Deputy Adriana Ventura would delete Art. 67 entirely, raising possibility of substitutivo negotiation or postponement. ## Cross-Market Signals ### Polymarket - "Will the Fed increase interest rates by 25 bps after the September 2026 meeting?" → Yes: 0.28, Volume: $7.8M - "Will the Fed decrease interest rates by 25 bps after the September 2026 meeting?" → Yes: 0.01, Volume: $9.4M - "Will there be no change in Fed interest rates after the September 2026 meeting?" → Yes: 0.71, Volume: $8.3M - "Will the Fed increase interest rates by 50+ bps after the September 2026 meeting?" → Yes: 0.00, Volume: $5.7M - "Will the Fed decrease interest rates by 50+ bps after the September 2026 meeting?" → Yes: 0.00, Volume: $5.4M - "US announces end of Iranian blockade by September 30, 2026?" → Yes: 0.30, Volume: $849.6K - "Will Pablo Marçal win the 2026 Brazilian presidential election?" → Yes: 0.01, Volume: $1.4M - "Will Shakhtar Donetsk win the 2026-27 UEFA Champions League Championship?" → Yes: 0.00, Volume: $6.6M - "Putin out as President of Russia by December 31, 2026?" → Yes: 0.07, Volume: $19.3M - "Will Ronaldo Caiado win the 2026 Brazilian presidential election?" → Yes: 0.00, Volume: $6.2M Information gaps: - No direct check of the bill's official Câmara tramitação after early August 2026 - No confirmed Chamber ordem do dia listings for Sept 1-10, 2026 - No empirical base rate for how often urgency-approved Chamber bills get plenary main-text votes within 8 weeks - No information on CNE deliberation timing or any executive/MEC decree resolving the issue Key uncertainties: - Whether Hugo Motta personally prioritizes the bill in the narrow window - Whether the fuels bill/MP deadlines fully consume plenary time - Whether CNE or an MP defuses the need for legislation - Possibility the bill was quietly voted in August without captured reporting
You are an elite superforecaster using Tetlock-style Fermi decomposition. Estimate each sub-question INDEPENDENTLY, then provide a holistic estimate. The pipeline will mathematically recombine the sub-question estimates — your job is to give the most accurate per-component probabilities.
## Question
Will Brazil's Chamber of Deputies have approved PL 3481/2026 in a plenary floor vote as of September 10, 2026?
## Description / Resolution Criteria
## Description
Brazil is scheduled to host the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup from June 24 to July 25, 2027. The event's enabling statute, Lei nº 15.421/2026 (the "Lei Geral da Copa do Mundo Feminina de 2027"), took effect in June 2026. Its Article 67 requires all public and private basic-education systems nationwide to adjust their 2027 school calendars so that mid-year vacations coincide with the entire tournament period, effectively mandating a roughly 30-day school recess in June-July 2027 for every municipality, including those far from the eight host cities.
The mandate drew criticism because it overrides local school-calendar autonomy and conflicts with the standard 200-teaching-day requirement of Brazil's education-guidelines law (LDB). In response, Deputy Any Ortiz (PP-RS) introduced PL 3481/2026 (registered July 6, 2026) to amend Art. 67 so that aligning the school calendar with the World Cup becomes optional rather than compulsory. A separate proposal by Deputy Adriana Ventura (Novo-SP) would delete the clause entirely.
As of early August 2026, PL 3481/2026 had its urgency regime (regime de urgência) approved, which allows it to go directly to the plenary floor without passing through the merit committees, but the full plenary had not yet voted on the bill's substance. Whether it reaches a floor vote depends on Chamber President Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB) placing it on the ordem do dia. The Chamber scheduled concentrated-effort weeks (esforço concentrado) in early September 2026, but announced priorities centered on the fuels bill (PLP 114/2026), a misogyny-criminalization bill, and the "taxa das blusinhas" provisional measure, with leaders signaling a preference to vote only "consensus" items. The Ministry of Education has indicated the recess issue would also be examined by the National Education Council (CNE), which in 2014 prioritized the 200-teaching-day rule over tournament-related calendar mandates."
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## Resolution Criteria
This question resolves YES if, as of midnight Brasília time (BRT, UTC-3) on September 10, 2026, the official legislative history (tramitação) of Projeto de Lei nº 3481/2026 records that the plenary (Plenário) of Brazil's Câmara dos Deputados has approved ("aprovado"/"aprovação") the main text of the bill in a floor vote. It resolves NO if no such plenary approval is recorded as of that moment. Resolution is determined from the bill's official record on the Câmara dos Deputados website, reached via the proposition search at https://www.camara.leg.br/busca-portal?contextoBusca=BuscaProposicoes&pagina=1&order=relevancia&abaEspecifica=true&q=PL%203481/2026 (open the PL 3481/2026 result and read its "Tramitação" tab), or from reporting by [credible sources](https://www.metaculus.com/faq/#definitions). PL 3481/2026, authored by Deputy Any Ortiz (PP-RS), amends Art. 67 of Lei nº 15.421/2026 to make the World Cup school-calendar recess optional rather than mandatory.
## Fine Print
Only a vote by the full plenary (Plenário) of the Chamber of Deputies counts; a vote in a committee (comissão) does not. Approval of the urgency regime ("regime de urgência") or of procedural motions does not count. Only approval of the substantive main text (including approval in an amended or substitute/substitutivo form recorded as approved by the plenary) counts. Approval by the Senado Federal and presidential sanction are not required and do not affect resolution.
## Sub-question decomposition
- (w=0.40) Will PL 3481/2026 be formally placed on the Chamber's ordem do dia (plenary agenda) at any point before September 10, 2026? — Scheduling by President Hugo Motta is the binding constraint; urgency approval alone does not guarantee a floor slot.
- (w=0.25) Will the school-calendar/World Cup recess issue remain politically salient (continued press coverage, pressure from education secretaries/CNE) through early September 2026 rather than being defused by CNE or executive action? — If CNE resolution or MEC guidance defuses the controversy, legislative urgency evaporates; sustained salience raises odd
- (w=0.20) Will the Chamber's early-September 2026 esforço concentrado agenda be dominated by other priorities (fuels bill PLP 114/2026, misogyny bill, taxa das blusinhas MP) to the exclusion of PL 3481/2026? — Announced priorities and 'consensus items only' signaling directly crowd out floor time; this is the main NO pathway (no
- (w=0.15) Conditional on reaching the floor, would PL 3481/2026 be approved (main text or substitutivo) rather than withdrawn, postponed, or defeated? — Bills with urgency and broad cross-party appeal on a low-cost fix usually pass easily once scheduled, so this leg is hig
Combination rule: **weighted_average**
## Synthesized evidence
1. [sq1 | web_search | STRONG cred 92 | UP | DATED] PL 3481/2026 was presented July 6, 2026 and had urgency (art. 155 RICD) approved July 8, 2026, placing it directly under plenary jurisdiction.
2. [sq1 | web_search | MODERATE cred 75 | DOWN | RECENT] As of mid-August 2026 no reporting confirms PL 3481/2026 has been formally included on any September plenary agenda; inclusion depends solely on President Hugo Motta.
3. [sq1 | web_search | MODERATE cred 70 | UP | RECENT] Author Any Ortiz publicly stated she expects the bill to be voted in plenary soon after the parliamentary recess to give schools time to organize.
4. [sq1 | code_execution | WEAK cred 35 | DOWN | VERY_RECENT] A hazard-model base-rate estimate for an urgency-approved Chamber bill reaching a plenary main-text vote within the ~5-week window gives roughly 0.14-0.32.
5. [sq2 | web_search | MODERATE cred 65 | UP | RECENT] Ortiz reported that school-representing unions are mobilizing to overturn the mandatory-recess rule, indicating continued organized pressure.
6. [sq2 | web_search | WEAK cred 60 | UP | RECENT] Ortiz argued the issue must be resolved in plenary rather than through judicialization, framing legislative action as urgent.
7. [sq2 | article_search | WEAK cred 30 | NEUTRAL | VERY_RECENT] News-article search over June-August 2026 returned no articles about the Brazilian school-calendar/World Cup recess dispute, only irrelevant items.
8. [sq2 | web_search | MODERATE cred 70 | NEUTRAL | DATED] The Ministry of Education signaled the recess issue would also be reviewed by the CNE, an alternative administrative route to resolve the conflict.
9. [sq3 | web_search | MODERATE cred 70 | DOWN | RECENT] Chamber leaders' announced early-September priorities were the fuels bill PLP 114/2026, a misogyny-criminalization bill, and the taxa das blusinhas MP, with a stated preference for consensus items only.
10. [sq3 | claude_news | WEAK cred 40 | NEUTRAL | VERY_RECENT] No evidence was found of PL 3481/2026 being added to the esforço concentrado agenda or of leadership statements about it.
11. [sq4 | web_search | MODERATE cred 60 | UP | RECENT] Ortiz said she believes the bill will have support in plenary; low-cost deregulatory calendar fixes of this type are typically consensual once scheduled.
12. [sq4 | web_search | WEAK cred 65 | NEUTRAL | DATED] A competing proposal by Deputy Adriana Ventura would delete Art. 67 entirely, raising possibility of substitutivo negotiation or postponement.
## Cross-Market Signals
### Polymarket
- "Will the Fed increase interest rates by 25 bps after the September 2026 meeting?" → Yes: 0.28, Volume: $7.8M
- "Will the Fed decrease interest rates by 25 bps after the September 2026 meeting?" → Yes: 0.01, Volume: $9.4M
- "Will there be no change in Fed interest rates after the September 2026 meeting?" → Yes: 0.71, Volume: $8.3M
- "Will the Fed increase interest rates by 50+ bps after the September 2026 meeting?" → Yes: 0.00, Volume: $5.7M
- "Will the Fed decrease interest rates by 50+ bps after the September 2026 meeting?" → Yes: 0.00, Volume: $5.4M
- "US announces end of Iranian blockade by September 30, 2026?" → Yes: 0.30, Volume: $849.6K
- "Will Pablo Marçal win the 2026 Brazilian presidential election?" → Yes: 0.01, Volume: $1.4M
- "Will Shakhtar Donetsk win the 2026-27 UEFA Champions League Championship?" → Yes: 0.00, Volume: $6.6M
- "Putin out as President of Russia by December 31, 2026?" → Yes: 0.07, Volume: $19.3M
- "Will Ronaldo Caiado win the 2026 Brazilian presidential election?" → Yes: 0.00, Volume: $6.2M
Information gaps:
- No direct check of the bill's official Câmara tramitação after early August 2026
- No confirmed Chamber ordem do dia listings for Sept 1-10, 2026
- No empirical base rate for how often urgency-approved Chamber bills get plenary main-text votes within 8 weeks
- No information on CNE deliberation timing or any executive/MEC decree resolving the issue
Key uncertainties:
- Whether Hugo Motta personally prioritizes the bill in the narrow window
- Whether the fuels bill/MP deadlines fully consume plenary time
- Whether CNE or an MP defuses the need for legislation
- Possibility the bill was quietly voted in August without captured reporting
## Required pre-forecast walkthrough
Before giving probabilities, walk through these explicitly:
(a) The time left until the question resolves.
(b) The status quo outcome — what happens if nothing changes from today.
(c) A brief scenario that results in NO.
(d) A brief scenario that results in YES.
## Calibration guidance
- **Estimate each sub-question in isolation.** Do not let your answer to one sub-question anchor your answer to another. This is the core of Fermi decomposition — independence forces more careful reasoning per factor.
- **Anchor on the status quo.** Require strong specific evidence to move far from it.
- 0.05 / 0.95 require strong, multi-source evidence. Avoid >0.97 or <0.03 unless the outcome is already settled or near-tautological — overconfident misses are punished heavily by the log score.
- **Anchor on prediction markets.** If liquid market prices (Polymarket / Kalshi) or a community forecast appear in the evidence, treat them as a strong, well-calibrated prior. Your final estimate should rarely sit more than ~15 percentage points from a liquid market on the SAME question — move further only with specific evidence the market lacks.
- **Treat research as fallible, not ground truth.** A single-source or "very recent" claim — especially one the evidence flags as unverified, possibly AI-generated, or low-credibility — must not drive you to near-certainty. When a load-bearing fact is unverified, keep at least 10-15% on the chance it is wrong.
- **Also provide a holistic estimate** — your overall gut feeling about the main question, BEFORE you see the mathematical combination. This serves as a sanity check: if the Fermi result and holistic estimate diverge wildly, something is wrong.
## Output
Return ONLY valid JSON, no markdown fences:
{
"rationale": "<address (a) (b) (c) (d) above — 5-8 sentences total>",
"sub_question_estimates": {
"sq1": <float in [0.01, 0.99]>,
"sq2": <float in [0.01, 0.99]>,
"sq3": <float in [0.01, 0.99]>,
"sq4": <float in [0.01, 0.99]>
},
"holistic_p_yes": <float in [0.01, 0.99] — your overall estimate ignoring the decomposition>,
"what_would_change_my_mind": "<1-2 sentences: what new info would push you above 70% or below 30%>"
}
{
"forecast": {
"combination_logic": "weighted_average",
"evidence_brief": "1. [sq1 | web_search | STRONG cred 92 | UP | DATED] PL 3481/2026 was presented July 6, 2026 and had urgency (art. 155 RICD) approved July 8, 2026, placing it directly under plenary jurisdiction.\n2. [sq1 | web_search | MODERATE cred 75 | DOWN | RECENT] As of mid-August 2026 no reporting confirms PL 3481/2026 has been formally included on any September plenary agenda; inclusion depends solely on President Hugo Motta.\n3. [sq1 | web_search | MODERATE cred 70 | UP | RECENT] Author Any Ortiz publicly stated she expects the bill to be voted in plenary soon after the parliamentary recess to give schools time to organize.\n4. [sq1 | code_execution | WEAK cred 35 | DOWN | VERY_RECENT] A hazard-model base-rate estimate for an urgency-approved Chamber bill reaching a plenary main-text vote within the ~5-week window gives roughly 0.14-0.32.\n5. [sq2 | web_search | MODERATE cred 65 | UP | RECENT] Ortiz reported that school-representing unions are mobilizing to overturn the mandatory-recess rule, indicating continued organized pressure.\n6. [sq2 | web_search | WEAK cred 60 | UP | RECENT] Ortiz argued the issue must be resolved in plenary rather than through judicialization, framing legislative action as urgent.\n7. [sq2 | article_search | WEAK cred 30 | NEUTRAL | VERY_RECENT] News-article search over June-August 2026 returned no articles about the Brazilian school-calendar/World Cup recess dispute, only irrelevant items.\n8. [sq2 | web_search | MODERATE cred 70 | NEUTRAL | DATED] The Ministry of Education signaled the recess issue would also be reviewed by the CNE, an alternative administrative route to resolve the conflict.\n9. [sq3 | web_search | MODERATE cred 70 | DOWN | RECENT] Chamber leaders\u0027 announced early-September priorities were the fuels bill PLP 114/2026, a misogyny-criminalization bill, and the taxa das blusinhas MP, with a stated preference for consensus items only.\n10. [sq3 | claude_news | WEAK cred 40 | NEUTRAL | VERY_RECENT] No evidence was found of PL 3481/2026 being added to the esfor\u00e7o concentrado agenda or of leadership statements about it.\n11. [sq4 | web_search | MODERATE cred 60 | UP | RECENT] Ortiz said she believes the bill will have support in plenary; low-cost deregulatory calendar fixes of this type are typically consensual once scheduled.\n12. [sq4 | web_search | WEAK cred 65 | NEUTRAL | DATED] A competing proposal by Deputy Adriana Ventura would delete Art. 67 entirely, raising possibility of substitutivo negotiation or postponement.\n\n## Cross-Market Signals\n\n### Polymarket\n- \"Will the Fed increase interest rates by 25 bps after the September 2026 meeting?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.28, Volume: $7.8M\n- \"Will the Fed decrease interest rates by 25 bps after the September 2026 meeting?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.01, Volume: $9.4M\n- \"Will there be no change in Fed interest rates after the September 2026 meeting?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.71, Volume: $8.3M\n- \"Will the Fed increase interest rates by 50+ bps after the September 2026 meeting?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.00, Volume: $5.7M\n- \"Will the Fed decrease interest rates by 50+ bps after the September 2026 meeting?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.00, Volume: $5.4M\n- \"US announces end of Iranian blockade by September 30, 2026?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.30, Volume: $849.6K\n- \"Will Pablo Mar\u00e7al win the 2026 Brazilian presidential election?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.01, Volume: $1.4M\n- \"Will Shakhtar Donetsk win the 2026-27 UEFA Champions League Championship?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.00, Volume: $6.6M\n- \"Putin out as President of Russia by December 31, 2026?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.07, Volume: $19.3M\n- \"Will Ronaldo Caiado win the 2026 Brazilian presidential election?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.00, Volume: $6.2M\n\nInformation gaps:\n - No direct check of the bill\u0027s official C\u00e2mara tramita\u00e7\u00e3o after early August 2026\n - No confirmed Chamber ordem do dia listings for Sept 1-10, 2026\n - No empirical base rate for how often urgency-approved Chamber bills get plenary main-text votes within 8 weeks\n - No information on CNE deliberation timing or any executive/MEC decree resolving the issue\n\nKey uncertainties:\n - Whether Hugo Motta personally prioritizes the bill in the narrow window\n - Whether the fuels bill/MP deadlines fully consume plenary time\n - Whether CNE or an MP defuses the need for legislation\n - Possibility the bill was quietly voted in August without captured reporting",
"forecast_prompt": "You are an elite superforecaster using Tetlock-style Fermi decomposition. Estimate each sub-question INDEPENDENTLY, then provide a holistic estimate. The pipeline will mathematically recombine the sub-question estimates \u2014 your job is to give the most accurate per-component probabilities.\n\n## Question\nWill Brazil\u0027s Chamber of Deputies have approved PL 3481/2026 in a plenary floor vote as of September 10, 2026?\n\n## Description / Resolution Criteria\n## Description\nBrazil is scheduled to host the 2027 FIFA Women\u0027s World Cup from June 24 to July 25, 2027. The event\u0027s enabling statute, Lei n\u00ba 15.421/2026 (the \"Lei Geral da Copa do Mundo Feminina de 2027\"), took effect in June 2026. Its Article 67 requires all public and private basic-education systems nationwide to adjust their 2027 school calendars so that mid-year vacations coincide with the entire tournament period, effectively mandating a roughly 30-day school recess in June-July 2027 for every municipality, including those far from the eight host cities.\n\nThe mandate drew criticism because it overrides local school-calendar autonomy and conflicts with the standard 200-teaching-day requirement of Brazil\u0027s education-guidelines law (LDB). In response, Deputy Any Ortiz (PP-RS) introduced PL 3481/2026 (registered July 6, 2026) to amend Art. 67 so that aligning the school calendar with the World Cup becomes optional rather than compulsory. A separate proposal by Deputy Adriana Ventura (Novo-SP) would delete the clause entirely.\n\nAs of early August 2026, PL 3481/2026 had its urgency regime (regime de urg\u00eancia) approved, which allows it to go directly to the plenary floor without passing through the merit committees, but the full plenary had not yet voted on the bill\u0027s substance. Whether it reaches a floor vote depends on Chamber President Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB) placing it on the ordem do dia. The Chamber scheduled concentrated-effort weeks (esfor\u00e7o concentrado) in early September 2026, but announced priorities centered on the fuels bill (PLP 114/2026), a misogyny-criminalization bill, and the \"taxa das blusinhas\" provisional measure, with leaders signaling a preference to vote only \"consensus\" items. The Ministry of Education has indicated the recess issue would also be examined by the National Education Council (CNE), which in 2014 prioritized the 200-teaching-day rule over tournament-related calendar mandates.\"\n\n`{\"format\": \"bot_tournament_question\", \"info\": {\"hash_id\": \"0290b36df0e530fa\", \"sheet_id\": \"170\"}}`\n\n## Resolution Criteria\nThis question resolves YES if, as of midnight Bras\u00edlia time (BRT, UTC-3) on September 10, 2026, the official legislative history (tramita\u00e7\u00e3o) of Projeto de Lei n\u00ba 3481/2026 records that the plenary (Plen\u00e1rio) of Brazil\u0027s C\u00e2mara dos Deputados has approved (\"aprovado\"/\"aprova\u00e7\u00e3o\") the main text of the bill in a floor vote. It resolves NO if no such plenary approval is recorded as of that moment. Resolution is determined from the bill\u0027s official record on the C\u00e2mara dos Deputados website, reached via the proposition search at https://www.camara.leg.br/busca-portal?contextoBusca=BuscaProposicoes\u0026pagina=1\u0026order=relevancia\u0026abaEspecifica=true\u0026q=PL%203481/2026 (open the PL 3481/2026 result and read its \"Tramita\u00e7\u00e3o\" tab), or from reporting by [credible sources](https://www.metaculus.com/faq/#definitions). PL 3481/2026, authored by Deputy Any Ortiz (PP-RS), amends Art. 67 of Lei n\u00ba 15.421/2026 to make the World Cup school-calendar recess optional rather than mandatory.\n\n## Fine Print\nOnly a vote by the full plenary (Plen\u00e1rio) of the Chamber of Deputies counts; a vote in a committee (comiss\u00e3o) does not. Approval of the urgency regime (\"regime de urg\u00eancia\") or of procedural motions does not count. Only approval of the substantive main text (including approval in an amended or substitute/substitutivo form recorded as approved by the plenary) counts. Approval by the Senado Federal and presidential sanction are not required and do not affect resolution.\n\n## Sub-question decomposition\n- (w=0.40) Will PL 3481/2026 be formally placed on the Chamber\u0027s ordem do dia (plenary agenda) at any point before September 10, 2026? \u2014 Scheduling by President Hugo Motta is the binding constraint; urgency approval alone does not guarantee a floor slot.\n- (w=0.25) Will the school-calendar/World Cup recess issue remain politically salient (continued press coverage, pressure from education secretaries/CNE) through early September 2026 rather than being defused by CNE or executive action? \u2014 If CNE resolution or MEC guidance defuses the controversy, legislative urgency evaporates; sustained salience raises odd\n- (w=0.20) Will the Chamber\u0027s early-September 2026 esfor\u00e7o concentrado agenda be dominated by other priorities (fuels bill PLP 114/2026, misogyny bill, taxa das blusinhas MP) to the exclusion of PL 3481/2026? \u2014 Announced priorities and \u0027consensus items only\u0027 signaling directly crowd out floor time; this is the main NO pathway (no\n- (w=0.15) Conditional on reaching the floor, would PL 3481/2026 be approved (main text or substitutivo) rather than withdrawn, postponed, or defeated? \u2014 Bills with urgency and broad cross-party appeal on a low-cost fix usually pass easily once scheduled, so this leg is hig\n\nCombination rule: **weighted_average**\n\n## Synthesized evidence\n1. [sq1 | web_search | STRONG cred 92 | UP | DATED] PL 3481/2026 was presented July 6, 2026 and had urgency (art. 155 RICD) approved July 8, 2026, placing it directly under plenary jurisdiction.\n2. [sq1 | web_search | MODERATE cred 75 | DOWN | RECENT] As of mid-August 2026 no reporting confirms PL 3481/2026 has been formally included on any September plenary agenda; inclusion depends solely on President Hugo Motta.\n3. [sq1 | web_search | MODERATE cred 70 | UP | RECENT] Author Any Ortiz publicly stated she expects the bill to be voted in plenary soon after the parliamentary recess to give schools time to organize.\n4. [sq1 | code_execution | WEAK cred 35 | DOWN | VERY_RECENT] A hazard-model base-rate estimate for an urgency-approved Chamber bill reaching a plenary main-text vote within the ~5-week window gives roughly 0.14-0.32.\n5. [sq2 | web_search | MODERATE cred 65 | UP | RECENT] Ortiz reported that school-representing unions are mobilizing to overturn the mandatory-recess rule, indicating continued organized pressure.\n6. [sq2 | web_search | WEAK cred 60 | UP | RECENT] Ortiz argued the issue must be resolved in plenary rather than through judicialization, framing legislative action as urgent.\n7. [sq2 | article_search | WEAK cred 30 | NEUTRAL | VERY_RECENT] News-article search over June-August 2026 returned no articles about the Brazilian school-calendar/World Cup recess dispute, only irrelevant items.\n8. [sq2 | web_search | MODERATE cred 70 | NEUTRAL | DATED] The Ministry of Education signaled the recess issue would also be reviewed by the CNE, an alternative administrative route to resolve the conflict.\n9. [sq3 | web_search | MODERATE cred 70 | DOWN | RECENT] Chamber leaders\u0027 announced early-September priorities were the fuels bill PLP 114/2026, a misogyny-criminalization bill, and the taxa das blusinhas MP, with a stated preference for consensus items only.\n10. [sq3 | claude_news | WEAK cred 40 | NEUTRAL | VERY_RECENT] No evidence was found of PL 3481/2026 being added to the esfor\u00e7o concentrado agenda or of leadership statements about it.\n11. [sq4 | web_search | MODERATE cred 60 | UP | RECENT] Ortiz said she believes the bill will have support in plenary; low-cost deregulatory calendar fixes of this type are typically consensual once scheduled.\n12. [sq4 | web_search | WEAK cred 65 | NEUTRAL | DATED] A competing proposal by Deputy Adriana Ventura would delete Art. 67 entirely, raising possibility of substitutivo negotiation or postponement.\n\n## Cross-Market Signals\n\n### Polymarket\n- \"Will the Fed increase interest rates by 25 bps after the September 2026 meeting?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.28, Volume: $7.8M\n- \"Will the Fed decrease interest rates by 25 bps after the September 2026 meeting?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.01, Volume: $9.4M\n- \"Will there be no change in Fed interest rates after the September 2026 meeting?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.71, Volume: $8.3M\n- \"Will the Fed increase interest rates by 50+ bps after the September 2026 meeting?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.00, Volume: $5.7M\n- \"Will the Fed decrease interest rates by 50+ bps after the September 2026 meeting?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.00, Volume: $5.4M\n- \"US announces end of Iranian blockade by September 30, 2026?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.30, Volume: $849.6K\n- \"Will Pablo Mar\u00e7al win the 2026 Brazilian presidential election?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.01, Volume: $1.4M\n- \"Will Shakhtar Donetsk win the 2026-27 UEFA Champions League Championship?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.00, Volume: $6.6M\n- \"Putin out as President of Russia by December 31, 2026?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.07, Volume: $19.3M\n- \"Will Ronaldo Caiado win the 2026 Brazilian presidential election?\" \u2192 Yes: 0.00, Volume: $6.2M\n\nInformation gaps:\n - No direct check of the bill\u0027s official C\u00e2mara tramita\u00e7\u00e3o after early August 2026\n - No confirmed Chamber ordem do dia listings for Sept 1-10, 2026\n - No empirical base rate for how often urgency-approved Chamber bills get plenary main-text votes within 8 weeks\n - No information on CNE deliberation timing or any executive/MEC decree resolving the issue\n\nKey uncertainties:\n - Whether Hugo Motta personally prioritizes the bill in the narrow window\n - Whether the fuels bill/MP deadlines fully consume plenary time\n - Whether CNE or an MP defuses the need for legislation\n - Possibility the bill was quietly voted in August without captured reporting\n\n## Required pre-forecast walkthrough\n\nBefore giving probabilities, walk through these explicitly:\n (a) The time left until the question resolves.\n (b) The status quo outcome \u2014 what happens if nothing changes from today.\n (c) A brief scenario that results in NO.\n (d) A brief scenario that results in YES.\n\n## Calibration guidance\n\n- **Estimate each sub-question in isolation.** Do not let your answer to one sub-question anchor your answer to another. 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"description": "## Description\nBrazil is scheduled to host the 2027 FIFA Women\u0027s World Cup from June 24 to July 25, 2027. The event\u0027s enabling statute, Lei n\u00ba 15.421/2026 (the \"Lei Geral da Copa do Mundo Feminina de 2027\"), took effect in June 2026. Its Article 67 requires all public and private basic-education systems nationwide to adjust their 2027 school calendars so that mid-year vacations coincide with the entire tournament period, effectively mandating a roughly 30-day school recess in June-July 2027 for every municipality, including those far from the eight host cities.\n\nThe mandate drew criticism because it overrides local school-calendar autonomy and conflicts with the standard 200-teaching-day requirement of Brazil\u0027s education-guidelines law (LDB). In response, Deputy Any Ortiz (PP-RS) introduced PL 3481/2026 (registered July 6, 2026) to amend Art. 67 so that aligning the school calendar with the World Cup becomes optional rather than compulsory. A separate proposal by Deputy Adriana Ventura (Novo-SP) would delete the clause entirely.\n\nAs of early August 2026, PL 3481/2026 had its urgency regime (regime de urg\u00eancia) approved, which allows it to go directly to the plenary floor without passing through the merit committees, but the full plenary had not yet voted on the bill\u0027s substance. Whether it reaches a floor vote depends on Chamber President Hugo Motta (Republicanos-PB) placing it on the ordem do dia. The Chamber scheduled concentrated-effort weeks (esfor\u00e7o concentrado) in early September 2026, but announced priorities centered on the fuels bill (PLP 114/2026), a misogyny-criminalization bill, and the \"taxa das blusinhas\" provisional measure, with leaders signaling a preference to vote only \"consensus\" items. The Ministry of Education has indicated the recess issue would also be examined by the National Education Council (CNE), which in 2014 prioritized the 200-teaching-day rule over tournament-related calendar mandates.\"\n\n`{\"format\": \"bot_tournament_question\", \"info\": {\"hash_id\": \"0290b36df0e530fa\", \"sheet_id\": \"170\"}}`\n\n## Resolution Criteria\nThis question resolves YES if, as of midnight Bras\u00edlia time (BRT, UTC-3) on September 10, 2026, the official legislative history (tramita\u00e7\u00e3o) of Projeto de Lei n\u00ba 3481/2026 records that the plenary (Plen\u00e1rio) of Brazil\u0027s C\u00e2mara dos Deputados has approved (\"aprovado\"/\"aprova\u00e7\u00e3o\") the main text of the bill in a floor vote. It resolves NO if no such plenary approval is recorded as of that moment. Resolution is determined from the bill\u0027s official record on the C\u00e2mara dos Deputados website, reached via the proposition search at https://www.camara.leg.br/busca-portal?contextoBusca=BuscaProposicoes\u0026pagina=1\u0026order=relevancia\u0026abaEspecifica=true\u0026q=PL%203481/2026 (open the PL 3481/2026 result and read its \"Tramita\u00e7\u00e3o\" tab), or from reporting by [credible sources](https://www.metaculus.com/faq/#definitions). PL 3481/2026, authored by Deputy Any Ortiz (PP-RS), amends Art. 67 of Lei n\u00ba 15.421/2026 to make the World Cup school-calendar recess optional rather than mandatory.\n\n## Fine Print\nOnly a vote by the full plenary (Plen\u00e1rio) of the Chamber of Deputies counts; a vote in a committee (comiss\u00e3o) does not. Approval of the urgency regime (\"regime de urg\u00eancia\") or of procedural motions does not count. Only approval of the substantive main text (including approval in an amended or substitute/substitutivo form recorded as approved by the plenary) counts. Approval by the Senado Federal and presidential sanction are not required and do not affect resolution.",
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