This bill amends the Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust deed to allow the trust to provide social and affordable rental housing and associated services beyond Christchurch and Banks Peninsula.

This bill provides a statutory framework for implementing the Government's fuel resilience policy package with the aim to strengthen the resilience of fuel supplies in New Zealand.

This bill seeks to clarify the role of the Crown Minerals Act 1991 as an allocation and management framework, and enable flexibility in the management of Crown-owned minerals.

This bill amends the Fuel Industry Act 2020 to provide a threat of price regulation, subject to a recommendation from the Commerce Commission, to incentivise wholesale suppliers to offer competitive terminal gate prices.

The bill introduces an obligation for any person or company that imports or refines more than 50,000 litres of liquid fossil fuels for transport in New Zealand, excluding aviation fuels, to reduce the greehouse gas emissions intensity of those fuels by also supplying sustainable biofuels.

The key purpose of this bill is to ensure that the Crown receives a fair financial return for its natural gas, which aligns with Principle 8 of the Government’s Resource Strategy Responsibly Delivering Value – A Minerals and Petroleum Resource Strategy for Aotearoa New Zealand: 2019-2029.

This bill aims to strengthen New Zealand’s fuel resilience and economic security by adding the purpose of meeting the reasonable costs and expenses of the Crown in promoting resilience of engine fuel supplies in New Zealand as an additional purpose for which the petroleum or engine fuel monitoring levy can be applied.

This bill amends the Construction Contracts Act 2002 to strengthen and clarify the retention money regime in the Act.

This bill aims to support a public health response to COVID-19 by enabling the Government to recoup some of the costs of maintaining managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) services to ensure they can continue.

This bill would require the commissioners of Environment Canterbury to immediately call a special general election, to be held within 3 months of the bill becoming law.