A Mexican legislative proposal aimed at creating a specific legal response to sports match-fixing has cleared the Sport Committee of the Chamber of Deputies. The favourable committee opinion allows the measure promoted by federal deputy Daniel Andrade Zurutuza to proceed to a plenary debate.
The proposal would add Article 154 Bis to the General Law of Physical Culture and Sport. Its stated purpose is to cover deliberate agreements or arrangements intended to manipulate the outcome of professional sporting events, according to the original parliamentary filing.
The initiative argues that Mexico lacks a sufficiently precise statutory definition for corruption intended to fix competitions. It follows disciplinary cases handled within sporting federations and seeks to create a response in national legislation rather than relying only on private sporting rules.
Committee approval is an intermediate step and does not make the proposal law. Milenio and SBC Noticias report that the full Chamber must still debate and vote on the text before it can advance further.
