Oranga Tamariki Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989 by partially repealing the subsequent-child provisions, repealing a redundant information-sharing provision, and amending technical errors and ambiguities.

Medicines Amendment Bill (No 2)

This bill would amend the Medicines Act to allow for fourth doses of COVID-19 vaccines to be lawfully administered for off-label use, and for further doses to be administered if supported by scientific evidence.

Electronic Monitoring of Offenders Legislation Bill

This Bill removes legislative barriers to the electronic monitoring of offenders released from a sentence of imprisonment of 2 years or less, and offenders sentenced to intensive supervision.

Appropriation (2017/18 Confirmation and Validation) Bill

This bill confirms the Public Finance (Transfers Between Outputs) Order 2018, which was made under section 26A of the Act (clause 5).

Children, Young Persons, and Their Families (Advocacy, Workforce, and Age Settings) Amendment Bill

This bill extends State responsibility for the care and protection of vulnerable young persons, ensures that vulnerable children and young persons are able to have their views considered as part of decision making and the development of departmental services and policy, and enables enhanced access to appropriate specialist skills and expertise to respond to the needs of vulnerable children and young persons.

Parliamentary Agencies Delegations Legislation Bill

This omnibus bill amends the Parliamentary Service Act 2000 and the Clerk of the House of Representatives Act 1988 to empower delegation between the agencies' staff.

Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Credit Contracts Act 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 Response (Taxation and Other Regulatory Urgent Measures) Bill

The proposals in this omnibus bill are aimed at assisting the Government’s response to impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak, including targeted measures providing relief to those who have been economically affected by the outbreak, bringing forward or deferring commencement dates of new legislation, and extending timeframes for meeting regulatory deadlines.

Holidays Amendment Bill

Biosecurity (Information for Incoming Passengers) Amendment Bill

This Member’s bill amends the Biosecurity Act 1993 to require that all craft coming to New Zealand are required to provide biosecurity information to the persons on board by means of an audio-visual recording and writing.

Policing (Cost Recovery) Amendment Bill

This bill proposes amendments to the Policing Act 2008 to enable cost recovery for certain Police services where there is a degree of private benefit to the users of the service.

Taxation (Income-sharing Tax Credit) Bill

This bill amends the Income Tax Act 2007 and the Tax Administration Act 1994 to provide an annual tax credit for couples who have responsibility for a dependent child.

Health (Drinking Water) Amendment Bill

The policy objectives of this bill are to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of Part 2A of the Health Act 1956 without materially affecting any party or imposing new or additional costs.

Companies (Limited Partnerships Identical Names Prohibition) Amendment Bill

This Member’s bill rectifies an anomaly between the Companies Act 1993 and the Limited Partnerships Act 2008 in relation to identical or nearly identical names across entity types.

Broadcasting (Games of National Significance) Amendment Bill

The purpose of this bill is to define in law games and sporting events that are to be broadcast live on free-to-air television.

Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill (No 2)

This Bill amends the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 with the purpose of ensuring that every rental home in New Zealand meets minimum standards of heating and insulation.

Arms (Prohibited Firearms, Magazines, and Parts) Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Arms Act 1983, with the aim of tightening gun control in New Zealand. This bill seeks to remove semi-automatic firearms from circulation and use by the general population in New Zealand by prohibiting semi-automatic firearms, magazines, and parts that can be used to assemble prohibited firearms.

Intelligence and Security (Review) Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Intelligence and Security Act 2017 to bring forward the commencement date for a review of the intelligence and security agencies and the Act.

Social Security (Extension of Young Persons Services and Remedial Matters) Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Social Security Act 1964 to extend the existing Youth Service to all 19-year-old beneficiaries with children, and 18- and 19-year-old beneficiaries without children who are considered at significant risk of long-term welfare dependency. It also fixes certain deficiencies and ambiguities in the legislation.

Electoral Amendment Bill (No 2)

This bill amends the Electoral Act 1993 to restrict donations from overseas persons to political parties and candidates, to reduce the risk of foreign money influencing the election process.

Appropriation (2019/20 Supplementary Estimates) Bill

This bill seeks parliamentary authorisation of the individual appropriations, and changes to individual appropriations, contained in The Supplementary Estimates of Appropriations for the Government of New Zealand for the year ending 30 June 2020.

Crown Pastoral Land Reform Bill

This omnibus bill amends the Crown Pastoral Land Act 1998 and the Land Act 1948 to end tenure review and redesign the regulatory system to deliver improved Crown pastoral land outcomes.

Retail Payment System Bill

This bill introduces a range of measures to promote competition and economic efficiency in the retail payment system to ensure that it delivers long-term benefits to consumers (including businesses) and merchants.

Urban Development Bill

This omnibus bill provides for functions, powers, rights, and duties of the Crown entity Kāinga Ora—Homes and Communities, to enable it to undertake its urban development functions.

Gas (Information Disclosure and Penalties) Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Gas Act 1992 to provide for enhanced information disclosure about the gas market and to ensure that settings around enforcement and penalties are suitably robust.