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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Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Bill
This bill establishes a roadside oral fluid testing regime to test for recent drug use, and proposes that drivers who fail two consecutive oral fluid tests would incur an infringement penalty.
Parole Amendment Bill
This bill proposes amendments to the Parole Act 2002 to reduce the number of parole hearings where the offender has little prospect of release.
Underground Coal Mining Safety Bill
This bill requires the immediate adoption of the Queensland framework for mine safety.
Imprest Supply (First for 2022/23) Bill
This bill will provide the sole financial authority from the start of the 2022/23 financial year until the Appropriation (2022/23 Estimates) Bill is passed.
Returning Offenders (Management and Information) Bill
This bill establishes a regime for the identification and management of offenders returning to New Zealand after being sentenced to more than 1 year's imprisonment in an overseas jurisdiction.
Rates Rebate (Retirement Village Residents) Amendment Bill
This bill addresses an anomaly in the Rates Rebate Act 1973, and ensure that retirement village residents are recognised as paying rates and are therefore entitled to apply for a rates rebate regardless of the billing practice of the local authority.
Private International Law (Choice of Law in Tort) Bill
This bill clarifies which jurisdiction’s law is applicable in actions of tort and provides guidance to the courts on matters of characterisation. This bill also abolishes certain common law rules dealing with actionability and sets out the general rule that the applicable law will be the law of the jurisdiction in which the events constituting the tort in question occur.
Taxation (Annual Rates for 2016–17, Closely Held Companies, and Remedial Matters) Bill
This taxation omnibus bill sets the annual rates of income tax for the 2016–17 tax year, and makes changes relating to closely held companies; non-resident withholding tax for related party and branch lending; the goods and services tax; related parties debt remission; loss grouping and imputation; remission income, insolvency, and bankruptcy; aircraft overhaul reserves; New Zealand double tax agreements; Schedule 32 donee status for charities; land tainting and council controlled organisations; loss offsets by mineral miners; Working for Families tax credits; information sharing; and the application of the time bar to ancillary taxes; and makes other remedial amendments.
Holidays (Increasing Sick Leave) Amendment Bill
The main purpose of this bill is to increase the availability of employer-funded sick leave for employees.
Appropriation (2020/21 Estimates) Bill
This bill seeks parliamentary authorisation of the individual appropriations contained in The Estimates of Appropriations for the Government of New Zealand for the year ending 30 June 2021.
Financial Markets (Derivatives Margin and Benchmarking) Reform Amendment Bill
This is an omnibus bill, which amends a number of Acts. The purpose of this bill is to enable New Zealand financial market participants to comply with international rules.
Māori Purposes Bill
This bill is an omnibus Bill that amends the Maori Purposes Act 1991, which governs the Wi Pere Trust and the Maori Trust Boards (Transitional Provisions) Order 2012.
Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Renewal of Licences) Amendment Bill (No 2)
This bill provides that where a local alcohol policy is in place under the provisions of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012 any renewal of a licence under the Act must not be inconsistent with the provisions of that local alcohol policy.
Three Strikes Legislation Repeal Bill
The policy implemented by this omnibus bill is the repeal of the elements of the Sentencing and Parole Reform Act 2010 that collectively create what is commonly known as the three strikes law.
COVID-19 Public Health Response (Validation of Managed Isolation and Quarantine Charges) Amendment Bill
This bill validates the imposition and collection of specified charges under the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020 and provides for their lawful collection going forward.
Heretaunga Tamatea Claims Settlement Bill
This bill relates to a deed of settlement signed by the Crown with Heretaunga Tamatea that records the Crown's apology and agrees to a final settlement of all historical Treaty of Waitangi claims of Heretaunga Tamatea.
Health and Safety at Work (Volunteer Associations) Amendment Bill
This Bill amends the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 to allow volunteer associations that employ a person or persons for not greater than 100 hours per week to be excluded from the definition of a person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU).
Crimes Amendment Bill
This bill repeals 3 provisions in the Crimes Act 1961. Section 71(2) protects spouses and civil union partners in cases where they would otherwise be an accessory after the fact to an offence. Section 123 contains an offence of blasphemous libel. The bill also repeals the year-and-a-day rule contained in section 162.
Annual Reporting and Audit Time Frames Extensions Legislation Bill
This omnibus bill extends, for the 2020/21 and 2021/22 financial years, the time frames provided in relation to audits of Crown entities with end-of-year balance dates of 30 June and annual reporting requirements of local authorities and council-controlled organisations.
Housing Corporation (Social Housing Reform) Amendment Bill (No 2)
Consumer Guarantees (Removal of Unrelated Party Lender Responsibility) Amendment Bill
The purpose of this bill is to amend the definition of supplier in the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 to exclude a lender who is an unrelated party from the definition of a supplier.