Education and Training (Vocational Education and Training System) Amendment Bill

The purpose of this bill is to redesign the vocational education and training system to restore regional decision making and increase industry involvement in education and training.

Contracts of Insurance Bill

This omnibus bill seeks to enable consumers and businesses to effectively protect themselves against risk, while minimising costs and impacts on insurers' willingness to provide insurance in New Zealand.

Mental Health Bill

This bill repeals and replaces the Mental Health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992 to create a modern legislative framework for compulsory mental health care.

Broadcasting (Repeal of Advertising Restrictions) Amendment Bill

This bill repeals section 81 of the Broadcasting Act 1989 to remove the restriction on broadcast television advertising on Sunday and Anzac Day mornings, and television and radio broadcast advertising on Christmas Day, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday.

Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) (3 Day Postnatal Stay) Amendment Bill

This bill provides women who have just given birth with access to their choice of post-natal care for a minimum of 72 hours if desired.

Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Bill

This bill seeks to address environmental decline in the Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana due to human activities.

Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading Scheme—Forestry Conversion) Amendment Bill

This bill seeks to amend the Climate Change Response Act 2002 to limit whole-farm conversions to exotic forestry registering in the New Zealand emissions trading scheme.

Income Tax (FamilyBoost) Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Income Tax Act 2007 to increase the level of assistance available through the FamilyBoost tax credit by raising the credit amount and expanding the eligibility criteria.

Customs (Levies and Other Matters) Amendment Bill

The policy objective omnibus bill is to improve revenue collection on goods by making collection fairer and more effective.

Privacy Amendment Bill

The key purpose of this bill is to improve transparency for individuals about the collection of their personal information and better enable individuals to exercise their privacy rights.

Imprest Supply (Second for 2025/26) Bill

This bill is required to ensure that the Government has sufficient supply to implement Cabinet decisions made or otherwise finalised after the contents of the 2025/26 Estimates were closed off and to meet contingencies in excess of the amounts provided in the Appropriation (2025/26 Estimates) Bill.

Adoption Amendment Bill

This bill makes temporary amendments to the Adoption Act 1955 with the aim of preventing harm to children and young people adopted overseas and brought to New Zealand to live.

Appropriation (2025/26 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 2026.

Evidence (Giving Family Violence Evidence in Family Court Proceedings) Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Evidence Act 2006 to extend the range of possible protections for parties and witnesses giving evidence of sexual assaults or family harm in the Family Court to mirror those available to similarly vulnerable complainants and witnesses in criminal proceedings.

Public Works (Critical Infrastructure) Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Public Works Act 1981 to enable the delivery of critical infrastructure projects by using an accelerated process.

Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Bill

Employment Relations (Employee Remuneration Disclosure) Amendment Bill

This bill seeks to amend the Employment Relations Act 2000 to protect employees who discuss or disclose their remuneration.

Referendums Framework Bill

This bill seeks to provide a single set of legislative provisions to govern the conduct of referendums held alongside either the first or second general election following its enactment.

Term of Parliament (Enabling 4-year Term) Legislation Amendment Bill

This bill seeks to provide an option to extend, in specified circumstances, the maximum term of a Parliament to four years.

Crimes (Increased Penalties for Slavery Offences) Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Crimes Act 1961 to increase the maximum prison term and fine for slavery offences.

Regulatory Systems (Tribunals) Amendment Bill

This bill is included in a package of bills amending regulatory systems administered by the Ministry of Justice. It seeks to improve the operations and efficiency of tribunals and quasi-judicial bodies.

Resource Management (Consenting and Other System Changes) Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Resource Management Act 1991 to progress Government priorities, including making it easier to consent new infrastructure, encouraging investment in renewable energy, and making medium-density residential standards optional for councils.

Veterans' Recognition Bill

This bill offers symbolic recognition of the service of members of the New Zealand Defence Force, who have left the defence force and whose service has qualified them for medallic recognition, by officially recognising them as veterans. It also provides further recognition to those veterans in the form of a military covenant.

Local Government (Water Services) Bill

The single broad policy of this omnibus bill is to set up a new regulatory framework for water services delivery.

Crown Minerals Amendment Bill

This bill amends the Crown Minerals Act 1991 to remove the ban on new petroleum exploration permits beyond onshore Taranaki, improve investor confidence in the New Zealand petroleum sector, and increase regulatory efficiency of the Crown minerals regime