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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Equal Pay Amendment Bill
The purpose of this bill is to improve the process for raising and progressing pay equity claims, and to eliminate and prevent discrimination on the basis of sex in the remuneration and employment terms and conditions for work done within female-dominated jobs.
Parental Leave and Employment Protection Amendment Bill
This bill will increase paid parental leave to 22 weeks from 1 July 2018, with a further increase to 26 weeks from 1 July 2020.
Oranga Tamariki (Youth Justice Demerit Points) Amendment Bill
This bill introduces structured interventions intended to improve behaviours and increase accountability and transparency within the youth justice system.
Trade (Safeguard Measures) Bill
This bill implements a new safeguards regime for New Zealand.
National Animal Identification and Tracing Amendment Bill (No 2)
This bill amends the National Animal Identification and Tracing Act 2012 to make improvements to the framework governing the national animal identification and tracing system (NAIT), to provide for the rapid and accurate tracing of animals and their movements that enables biosecurity management and manages risks to human health.
Crimes (Indecency) Amendment Bill
Formerly part of the Objectionable Publications and Indecency Legislation Bill
Privacy Bill
This bill repeals and replaces the Privacy Act 1993, as recommended by the Law Commission's 2011 review of the Act. Its key purpose is to promote people's confidence that their personal information is secure and will be treated properly.
National Animal Identification and Tracing Amendment Bill
This bill amends the National Animal Identification and Tracing Act 2012 to align its provisions with existing policy and legislative intent. This bill does not represent new policy.
Infrastructure Funding and Financing Bill
This omnibus bill aims to provide a funding and financing model to support the provision of infrastructure for housing and urban development that supports functioning urban land markets and reduces the impact of local authority financing and funding constraints.
Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 2)
The purpose of this bill is to make amendments across a range of matters in the Education and Training Act 2020 to give effect to new policy decisions and to make other minor and technical changes.
Autonomous Sanctions Bill
This bill establishes a framework for the implementation of autonomous sanctions by New Zealand.
Vulnerable Children (Children’s Worker Safety Checking—Indecency Offence) Amendment Bill
Formerly part of the Objectionable Publications and Indecency Legislation Bill
Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill
The purpose of this bill is to provide a framework by which New Zealand can develop and implement clear and stable climate change policies that contribute to the global effort under the Paris Agreement.
New Zealand Public Health and Disability Amendment Bill
The objective of this bill is to repeal Part 4A of the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000.
New Plymouth District Council (Waitara Lands) Bill
This bill broadens the purposes for which net accumulated and future rental income and proceeds of sale of significant amounts of endowment land at Waitara can be applied.
Commerce (Supermarket Adjudicator and Code of Conduct) Amendment Bill
This bill amends the Commerce Act 1986 to require that a supermarket adjudicator is established, to resolve disputes between supermarkets and suppliers.
Local Government (Auckland Council) Amendment Bill
(Formerly part of Statutes Amendment Bill (No 4))
Criminal Records (Expungement of Convictions for Historical Homosexual Offences) Bill
This bill provides an expungement scheme for convictions for a historical homosexual offence if the conduct constituting the offence, if engaged in when the application for expungement was made, would not constitute an offence under the laws of New Zealand.
Building (Pools) Amendment Bill
This Bill will amend the Building Act 2004 and repeal the Fencing of Swimming Pools Act 1987 to reduce the compliance burden currently imposed on pool owners and territorial authorities in relation to residential pools while maintaining child safety.
Conservation (Infringement System) Bill
This bill is an omnibus bill to amend a number of conservation-related legislation. The bill looks to introduce an infringement system only to be provided to central and local government agencies, to deal with less serious offending in relation to public resources.
Local Government (Community Well-being) Amendment Bill
The main objectives of this bill are to restore the purpose of local government to be "to promote the social, economic, environmental, and cultural well-being of communities"; to restore territorial authorities' power to collect development contributions for any public amenities needed as a consequence of development; and to make a minor modification to the development contributions power.
Support Workers (Pay Equity) Settlements Amendment Bill
This bill gives effect to elements of the agreement in respect of vocational and disability support workers, signed by the Crown and the relevant parties on 17 July 2017, and the agreement in respect of mental health and addiction support workers, signed by the Crown and the relevant parties on 25 July 2018.