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Brazil federal legislation

Which Brazilian federal law applies?

Search the Constituição de 1988, its emendas and every lei, decreto and medida provisória published by the Presidência da República, by type, number, year, signing date or words from its name, ementa and text. Free, no login.

Optional. Words that appear in the instrument's name, its ementa or its full text.

Optional. Constitution, emenda, lei, decreto or medida provisória.

Optional. Only applies to medidas provisórias: how its passage through Congress ended.

Optional. Exact number of the instrument, with or without the thousands separator, e.g. 13105 or 13.105.

Optional. Year in yyyy format in which the instrument was signed.

Optional. Lower bound of the signing date, yyyy-mm-dd.

Optional. Upper bound of the signing date, yyyy-mm-dd.

Results page number, starting at 1.

How many instruments to return per page; default 20.

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All federal legislation searchable by number, date or text

Brazil's Presidência da República publishes federal legislation through the Planalto: the Constituição de 1988 with its emendas, and every lei complementar, lei ordinária, lei delegada, decreto-lei, decreto and medida provisória. This search covers that whole body of law: filter by type of instrument, status of a medida provisória, exact number, year or signing date range, and search for words in the name, the ementa and the full text. Each result carries type, number and year, name, ementa, signing and publication dates, whether it was revoked, the links to the official and consolidated texts, the veto message where one exists and, for a medida provisória, its status with a note explaining it. Results come from newest to oldest, without the text: to read one, use the federal law lookup.

  • Identifying the instrument

    Type, number, year, name and ementa, with the signing and publication dates.

  • Whether it is in force

    Whether the instrument was revoked and, for a medida provisória, whether it is pending, converted into law, lapsed, rejected, prejudiced or revoked.

  • Official links

    The official text, the consolidated text and the veto message where one exists, plus the id to read the full instrument.

Common questions

From Brazil's Presidência da República, which publishes federal legislation through the Planalto. Croma answers from the dataset it keeps updated with the whole source and returns each instrument structured; the data as of field tells you how current the data is.

Yes, it is free and needs no account. There is only a cap on lookups per hour from the same connection to prevent abuse. For volume, or to integrate the legislation into your own system, use the Croma API.

Enter the exact number in the number field, with or without the thousands separator: 13105 and 13.105 find the same instrument. If the number repeats across types or years, combine the type filter with the signing year. The text search matches words against the name, the ementa and the full text of each instrument, so it works when you do not know the number.

A medida provisória is born with the force of law but must go through Congress. Pending means it has not been voted on yet; converted into law, that Congress approved it and it became a lei; lapsed, that it lost effect because the deadline passed without a vote; rejected, that Congress turned it down; prejudiced, that it lost its purpose before being voted on; and revoked, that another instrument set it aside. The status note in each result spells it out, and the law lookup points to the lei it was converted into.

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