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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Enabling Crown Entities to Adopt Māori Names Bill
This bill enables the Governor-General, by Order in Council, to establish Māori names for Crown entities in addition to or instead of the names given to them by their empowering Acts.
Oranga Tamariki (Responding to Serious Youth Offending) Amendment Bill
This bill establishes a young serious offender declaration and a new military-style academy order in the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989.
New Zealand Infrastructure Commission/Te Waihanga Amendment Bill
This bill amends the New Zealand Infrastructure Commission/Te Waihanga Act 2019 to focus the advisory role of the Commission by updating its functions.
Equal Pay Amendment Bill
This bill would adjust the process for raising and resolving a pay equity claim and amend the regulatory framework for parties to a pay equity claim to assess whether there is sex-based undervaluation.
Wildlife (Authorisations) Amendment Bill
The objective of this bill is to enable the Department of Conservation to regulate the incidental killing of wildlife that inevitably occurs during the carrying out of otherwise lawful activities.
Crimes (Coward Punch Causing Injury or Death) Amendment Bill
This bill criminalises the specific action of striking a person’s head or neck in circumstances where they are not able to defend themselves from a strike.
Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Restrictions on Issue of Off-Licences and Low and No Alcohol Products) Amendment Bill
This bill seeks to allow premises that contain both a shop and a restaurant to hold an on-licence for the restaurant part of the premises and an off-licence for the short part of the premises.
Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill
The purpose of this bill is to set out the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi in legislation and to require, where relevant, that those principles must be used when interpreting legislation.
Employment Relations (Collective Agreements in Triangular Relationships) Amendment Bill
This bill seeks to ensure that employees employed by one employer but working under the control or direction of another business or organisation are not deprived of the right to coverage of a collective agreement covering the work being performed for that other business or organisation.
Building (Overseas Building Products, Standards, and Certification Schemes) Amendment Bill
This bill seeks to respond to competition issues in the sector by amending the Building Act 2004 to remove barriers to overseas building products entering New Zealand's building product market and being used in New Zealand buildings.
Oranga Tamariki (Repeal of Section 7AA) Amendment Bill
This bill repeals section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act 1989, with the intention of enabling Oranga Tamariki—Ministry for Children to renew its focus on the safety and wellbeing of children in care arrangements.
Policing (Police Vetting) Amendment Bill
The policy objectives of this bill are to provide a consistent policy framework for Police and users of the Police vetting service, and to enable services that could improve public safety and generate efficiencies through the provision of Police vets.
Regulatory Systems (Economic Development) Amendment Bill
The policy objective of this omnibus bill is to improve regulatory systems by ensuring that they are effective, efficient, and they accord with best regulatory practice.
Taxation (Annual Rates for 2024–25, Emergency Response, and Remedial Measures) Bill
The policy proposals in this omnibus bill set the annual rates of income tax for the 2024-25 tax year, aim at improving current settings within a broad-base, low-rate framework, and aim at improving the settings for tax administration, the GST regime, KiwiSaver, and social policy rules administered by Inland Revenue.
Regulatory Systems (Immigration and Workforce) Amendment Bill
The policy objective of this omnibus bill is to improve regulatory systems by ensuring that they are effective, efficient, and that they accord with best regulatory practice.
Customer and Product Data Bill
The purpose of this bill is to establish an economy-wide framework to enable greater access to, and sharing of, customer and product data between businesses.
Sentencing (Reform) Amendment Bill
This bill amends the Sentencing Act 2022 to strengthen the consequences of offending and ensure offenders take personal responsibility for the harm they cause.
Dairy Industry Restructuring (Export Licences Allocation) Amendment Bill
This bill amends the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act 2001 to change how dairy export quotas administered by New Zealand are allocated.
Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Bill
This bill enables the rollout of random roadside oral fluid screening tests to better detect and deter drug-impaired drivers.
Social Workers Registration Amendment Bill
This bill makes policy and technical amendments to the Social Workers Registration Act 2003 to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the operation of the 2003 Act.
Fisheries (International Fishing and Other Matters) Amendment Bill
This bill amends the Fisheries Act 1996 to enable New Zealand to better meet its international fishing management and compliance obligations in relation to IUU fishing, and to improve the efficiency and clarity of the statutory provisions and associated decision-making processes.
Arms (Shooting Clubs, Shooting Ranges, and Other Matters) Amendment Bill
This bill aims to support public safety outcomes by improving compliance with the Arms Act 1983. It does this by simplifying the regulatory requirements for non-pistol shooting clubs and ranges and changing some of the requirements in relation to inspections.
Crimes (Theft by Employer) Amendment Bill
This bill amends the Crimes Act 1961 to clarify that not paying an employee their wages is theft.
Public Works (Prohibition of Compulsory Acquisition of Māori Land) Amendment Bill
This bill amends the Public Works Act 1981 to protect Māori freehold and Māori customary land from being acquired for public works under that Act.
District Court (District Court Judges) Amendment Bill
This bill amends the District Court Act 2016 to increase the maximum number of District Court Judges that can be appointed at any time, from 182 full-time equivalents to 183 full-time equivalents.