Road User Charges (Temporary RUC Reduction Scheme) Amendment Bill (No 2)

This bill aims to reinstate reduced RUC that ended on 31 January 2023. The reinstatement of the discount will start on 1 March 2023 and end 30 June 2023.

Taxation (Annual Rates for 2022-23, Platform Economy, and Remedial Matters) Bill

Policy proposals in this omnibus bill fall into three categories; the first category is to set the annual rates of income tax for the 2022-23 tax year; the second category aims at improving current settings within a broad-base, low-rate framework to help ensure that taxes are fair and efficient and impede economic growth as little as possible; and the third category relates to proposals aimed at improving the settings for tax administration, the GST regime, KiwiSaver, and social policy rules administered by Inland Revenue.

Maritime Transport (MARPOL Annex VI) Amendment Bill

This bill provides a power for the Minister to make marine protection rules in relation to Annex VI substances, and for the Director of Maritime New Zealand to conduct inspections and audits in relation to Annex VI requirements and to detain ships that are in contravention of Annex VI requirements.

Regulatory Systems (Workforce) Amendment Bill

This bill is an omnibus bill and one of a package of three omnibus bills that contain amendments to legislation administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. The policy objective of this bill is to improve regulatory systems by ensuring that they are effective, efficient, and accord with best regulatory practice.

Patents (Advancement Patents) Amendment Bill

This bill seeks to enhance New Zealand's innovative performance by providing intellectual property protection rights to advancements that are novel, useful and non-obvious that may or may not qualify as an invention for the standard patent.

Taxation (Income Tax Rate and Other Amendments) Bill

This bill introduces amendments to the Income Tax Act 2007 and the Tax Administration Act 1994 to introduce a new top personal income tax rate of 39% on annual income that exceeds $180,000, and set the minimum family tax credit threshold for the 2020-21 and later tax years.

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC 2021) Bill

The policy objectives of this bill are to support safe and secure Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC 2021) events.

Tokelau (Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone) Amendment Bill

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

Natural Health and Supplementary Products Bill

This bill establishes a system for the regulation of low-risk natural health products in New Zealand.

End of Life Choice Bill

This bill gives people with a terminal illness the option of requesting assisted dying.

Gore District Council (Otama Rural Water Supply) Bill

The purpose of this bill is to provide a process whereby the Otama Rural Water Supply scheme can be transferred to the users of the scheme, despite section 130 of the Local Government Act 2002, and provides for certain related matters if the scheme is transferred.

Appropriation (2018/19 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 2019.

Employment Relations (Triangular Employment) Amendment Bill

The purpose of this bill is to ensure that employees employed by one employer but working under the control and direction of another business or organisation are not deprived of the right to coverage by a collective agreement, and to ensure that such employees are not subject to a detriment in their right to allege a personal grievance.

Social Security (Accommodation Supplement) Amendment Bill

This bill clarifies eligibility for, and the rate of, an accommodation supplement for a community spouse or partner who is not receiving long-term residential care in a hospital or rest home and whose spouse or partner is receiving long-term residential care.

Families Package (Income Tax and Benefits) Bill

This bill gives effect to policy changes that form a Family Package of changes to income tax and benefits. The Families Package replaces part of the earlier Budget 2017 Family Incomes Package, which mostly enacted in the Taxation (Budget Measures: Family Incomes Package) Act 2017.

Telecommunications (Development Levy) Amendment Bill

The key purpose of this Bill is to make additional funding available, through the telecommunications development levy applied to the telecommunications industry, for the Government’s policy of extending the Rural Broadband Initiative and establishing a Mobile Black Spots Fund. To achieve that, this Bill resets the telecommunications development levy amounts prescribed in Schedule 3B of the Telecommunications Act 2001 for 2016/17 and beyond.

Commerce (Grocery Sector Covenants) Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Commerce Act 1986, adding a new section 28A that will apply to covenants that have the purpose or effect of impeding the development of land or the use of a site for a grocery retail store, deeming such covenants as having the purpose or effect of substantially reducing competition in the relevant market.

Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Act Repeal Bill

This bill will repeal the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind Act 2002, which is now spent.

Regulatory Systems (Economic Development) Amendment Bill

This bill is an omnibus bill and one of a package of three omnibus bills that contain amendments to legislation administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. The policy objective of this bill is to improve regulatory systems by ensuring that they are effective, efficient, and accord with best regulatory practice.

Overseas Investment (Protection of New Zealand Homebuyers) Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Overseas Investment Act 2005 to apply new restrictions on non-resident purchasers of New Zealand residential properties in order to better protect New Zealand homebuyers.

Rights for Victims of Insane Offenders Bill

This bill changes the formal finding of the court to provide victims with the acknowledgment that the offender was proven to have acted grievously, even if they lacked the intent to be guilty of the action.

Te Ture Whenua Māori Bill

This is a bill to restate and reform the law relating to Māori land.

Sentencing (Domestic Violence) Amendment Bill

This bill makes domestic violence an aggravating factor at the time of sentencing.

Social Security Amendment Bill

Ngāti Rangi Claims Settlement Bill

The bill gives effect to certain matters contained in the deed of settlement known as Te Rukutia Te Mana and signed on 10 March 2018 by the Crown and Ngāti Rangi.