Appropriation (2020/21 Confirmation and Validation) Bill

This bill confirms the Public Finance (Transfers Between Outputs) Order 2021, confirms certain unappropriated expenditure, and validates certain unappropriated expenditure.

Public Service Legislation Bill

This omnibus bill, which repeals the State Sector Act 1988 and makes a small number of related amendments to the Public Finance Act 1989, provides a modern legislative framework for achieving a more adaptive and collaborative Public Service by expanding the types of agencies that comprise the Public Service, unified by a common purpose, ethos, and strengthened leadership arrangements. Following the committee of the whole House stage, it is intended that this bill will be divided into two bills: the Public Service Bill and the Public Finance Amendment Bill.

Brokering (Weapons and Related Items) Controls Bill

This bill establishes a regime to regulate the brokering of weapons and related items by New Zealanders and New Zealand entities.

Harmful Digital Communications Bill

This bill would implement the Government's decisions on addressing harmful digital communications, which are largely based on the Law Commission's 2012 Ministerial Briefing paper Harmful Digital Communications: The adequacy of the current sanctions and remedies.

Companies (Levies) Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Companies Act 1993 to create a new regulation-making power that will enable regulations to be made that impose levies on certain users of the registers administered by the New Zealand Companies Office.

Autonomous Sanctions Bill

This bill establishes a framework for the implementation of autonomous sanctions by New Zealand.

Sentencing (Protection of Children from Criminal Offending) Amendment Bill

This bill proposes amendments to the Sentencing Act 2002 to make criminal offending in the presence of a minor an aggravating factor at sentencing.

Health and Safety at Work Bill

Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Registration Amendment Bill

This Bill amends the Geographical Indications (Wine and Spirits) Registration Act 2006. It addresses issues identified with the principal Act.

Dairy Industry Restructuring (Fonterra Capital Restructuring) Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act 2001 to enable Fonterra to implement a new capital structure.

Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) (Definition of Significant Criminal Activity) Amendment Bill

This bill aims to increase the power of police to seize assets connected with significant criminal activity.

Official Information Amendment Bill

(Formerly part of Statutes Amendment Bill (No 4))

Sentencing (Drug and Alcohol Testing) Amendment Bill

Contempt of Court Bill

This bill reforms the law of contempt in New Zealand courts.

Election Access Fund Bill

This bill will establish an Election Access Fund to be administered by the Electoral Commission and used by any disabled candidate to cover disability-related costs of standing in a general election, by not-for-profit bodies to cover costs of making election education events and materials accessible, and by registered political parties to support access needs of any members to allow them to participate within the party.

Overseas Investment Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Overseas Investment Act 2005 (the Act) to ensure that investments made by overseas persons in New Zealand will have genuine benefits for the country.

Credit Contracts Legislation Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003 by strengthening requirements to lend responsibly, especially in relation to how affordability and suitability tests should be conducted, limiting the accumulation of interest and fees on high-cost loans, and providing new remedies and penalties for non-compliance.

COVID-19 Public Health Response (Extension of Act and Reduction of Powers) Amendment Bill

This bill would enable the ongoing management of COVID-19 by continuing the legislative powers needed to implement public health measures to support the COVID-19 response.

Education (Food in Schools) Amendment Bill

This Bill is to provide for a legislative basis for making food in schools available to all decile 1 to 3 primary and intermediate schools.

Land Transport (Speed Limits Validation and Other Matters) Bill

This Bill would validate all speed limit bylaws made by various road controlling authorities in relation to roads for which they are responsible, confirm that the bylaws were made correctly under land transport legislation, and clarify road controlling authorities' powers to make speed limit bylaws.

Subordinate Legislation Confirmation Bill (No 4)

The purpose of this bill is to prevent the revocation of certain subordinate legislation that, by virtue of the Act under which it is made, is revoked at a stated time unless earlier confirmed by an Act of Parliament.

COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill

The bill is intended to urgently promote employment growth to support New Zealand's recovery from COVID-19. It will establish new fast-track consenting and designation processes for infrastructure and development projects and enable specific work on existing infrastructure to occur without the need for resource consent.

Electoral (Registration of Sentenced Prisoners) Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Electoral Act 1993 to enfranchise people who are serving a sentence of imprisonment for a term of less than 3 years and better facilitate participation in the electoral system of prisoners who are to be released from prison following a sentence of imprisonment for a term of 3 years or more.

Holidays (Parent-Teacher Interview Leave) Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Holidays Act 2003 to allow workers with children to take leave to attend parent-teacher interviews.

Maori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Amendment Bill

The objective of this bill is to improve the allocation and transfer process provided in the Maori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Act 2004 to better enable the allocation and transfer of aquaculture settlement assets to iwi.