Bills
Proposed changes to the law before Parliament
About bills
Bills are proposed changes to the law, and must each pass through several stages in Parliament before becoming law.
Before any bill becomes law, there are three main votes it must pass: the first, second and third readings. For most bills, there is a chance for members of the public to make submissions at the select committee stage, which happens between the first and second readings.
After a bill passes its third reading vote, it is granted Royal Assent by the Governor-General and becomes law, subject to any commencement provisions contained within the bill.
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Water Services Entities Bill
This bill establishes four publicly owned water services entities that will provide safe, reliable, and efficient water services in place of local authorities.
Wildlife (Powers) Amendment Bill
The objective of this bill is to reduce offending against wildlife by improving the powers available to effectively detect and investigate offences and apprehend offenders.
Reserve Bank of New Zealand (Monetary Policy) Amendment Bill
The main objectives of this bill are to amend the objectives of monetary policy to require consideration of maximum sustainable employment alongside price stability in monetary policy decision making, and to institute a monetary policy committee to make decisions on monetary policy.
Overseas Investment (Urgent Measures) Amendment Bill
This omnibus bill is 1 of 2 bills introduced as a package to replace the Overseas Investment Amendment Bill (No 2). The purpose of this bill is to ensure that risks posed by foreign investment can be managed effectively while better supporting productive overseas investment by reducing the regulatory burden of the screening process.
Education (Tertiary Education and Other Matters) Amendment Bill
This bill amends the Education Act 1989 to increase funding flexibility in the tertiary education system, strengthen the accountability, and monitoring of tertiary education organisations, and ensure consistent treatment of public and private tertiary education providers.
Statutes Amendment Bill (No 2)
The Statutes Amendment Bill (No 2) consists entirely of amendments of 29 Acts and is therefore an omnibus bill that may be introduced by virtue of Standing Order 262(1)(f).
Terrorism Suppression (Control Orders) Bill
This bill introduces a civil regime of control orders to manage and monitor a small number of people who are returning to, or who have arrived in, New Zealand after having engaged in terrorism-related activities overseas.
Climate Change Response (Extension of Penalty Transition for Forestry Activities with Low Volume Emissions Liabilities) Amendment Bill
This bill will extend the transition period provided for New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme participants with low-volume emissions liabilities related to forestry activity within which they must comply with the penalties and compliance regime introduced by the Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading Reform) Amendment Act 2020. The extension, until 1 January 2025, will mitigate the risk of serious hardship to small forestry participants who would fail to surrender or repay units by the previous due date of 1 January 2023.
Regulatory Standards Bill
The bill proposes measures to improve the quality of regulation (meaning Acts of Parliament, statutory regulations, and tertiary legislation) in New Zealand.
New Zealand Business Number Funding (Validation and Authorisation) Bill
This bill validates the imposition and collection of fees under the Companies Act 1993, and the use of the fees to fund the NZBN register and provides for future funding.
Organised Crime and Anti-corruption Legislation Bill
This is an omnibus bill aimed at strengthening the law to combat organised crime and corruption. The bill proposes amendments to 12 different Acts to improve New Zealand's ability to collaborate with international efforts to disrupt organised crime and ensure law enforcement agencies can quickly and effectively respond to new challenges.
Broadcasting (New Zealand on Air and Te Māngai Pāho Reporting Requirements) Amendment Bill
The purpose of this bill is to require New Zealand on Air and Te Māngai Pāho to publish quarterly reports that show the viewership figures of every project they fund.
Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Amendment Bill (No 2)
Trade (Anti-dumping and Countervailing Duties) Amendment Bill
This Bill introduces a public interest test into New Zealand's anti-dumping and countervailing duties regime; it introduces a provision allowing for an anti-dumping and a countervailing duty to be deferred if users of the goods have been significantly impacted by a natural disaster or other emergency; and it makes a number of other minor and technical changes.
Partnership Law Bill
The purpose of this revision bill is to re-enact, in an up-to-date and accessible form, the Partnership Act 1908.
Remuneration Authority (Members of Parliament Remuneration) Amendment Bill
The purpose of this bill is to implement the Government's decision to freeze Member of Parliament salaries, expense allowances, and superannuation subsidies from 1 July 2018 until 30 June 2019 at the levels determined in the Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances Determination 2017 and the Parliamentary Superannuation Determination 2003.
Taxation (KiwiSaver, Student Loans, and Remedial Matters) Bill
The main objectives of this omnibus taxation bill are to continue the Government's simplifying and modernising of social policy administration, to further improve the application of our broad-base, low-rate framework, and to further encourage research and development expenditure.
Imprest Supply (Second for 2018/19) Bill
This bill ensures that the Government has sufficient supply until 30 June 2019 for the incurring of expenses and capital expenditure in excess of the amounts appropriated in the Appropriation (2018/19 Estimates) Bill, and the making of capital injections in excess of the amounts authorised under that bill.
Evidence Amendment Bill
This Bill makes a number of minor and technical amendments recommended by the Law Commission, following its 2013 review of the Evidence Act 2006.
Kāinga Ora—Homes and Communities Bill
This bill establishes Kāinga Ora—Homes and Communities as a Crown entity that will focus on contributing to sustainable, inclusive, and thriving communities.
America's Cup Road Stopping Bill
The purpose of the bill is to support construction relating to, and the operation of, the 36th America's Cup in Auckland by permanently stopping a portion of Brigham Street on Wynyard Point.
Fighting Foreign Corporate Control Bill
This bill would prohibit New Zealand from entering international agreements that include provision for investor-state dispute settlement.
Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion (Safe Areas) Amendment Bill
This Member’s bill provides a regulation-making power to set up safe areas around specific abortion facilities on a case-by-case basis.
Border Processing (Arrivals and Departures) Levy Bill
This Bill amends the Biosecurity Act 1993 and the Customs and Excise Act 1996 to introduce levies to fund the direct and indirect costs of activities carried out by the Ministry for Primary Industries and the New Zealand Customs Service relating to the processing of people arriving in and departing from New Zealand.