Before any bill becomes law, there are three main votes it must pass: these are 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.
WhereTheyStand contains all bills from the 51st Parliament and later (2014—present). These are imported from Parliament's own website on a regular basis and are automatically linked with voting records and MPs' profiles to make it easier for you to find what you are looking for.
This bill amends the Shop Trading Hours Act Repeal Act 1990 to grant territorial authorities a limited power to create bylaws that allow shop trading on Easter Sunday, and enable shop workers to refuse work on Easter Sunday.
Last activity over 2 years agoThis bill clarifies the law relating to locating legal property boundaries on land affected by movement resulting from the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquake sequences, and provides for guidelines to assist with boundary determinations in greater Christchurch and for more general use in future.
Last activity over 2 years agoThis bill amends the Customs and Excise Act 1996 to make goods produced in whole or in part by slave labour a prohibited import.
Last activity over 2 years agoThis bill seeks the financial authority required to ensure the Government has sufficient supply until 30 June 2017 for the incurring of expenses and capital expenditure in excess of the amounts appropriated in the Appropriation (2016/17 Estimates) Bill, and the making of capital injections in excess of the amounts authorised under that bill.
Last activity over 2 years agoThis 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 2017 (B.5), presented to the House of Representatives as part of the 2016 Budget documentation.
Last activity over 2 years agoThe purpose of this bill is to ensure that a person taking any oath set out in statute may, in addition to the words of the oath, elect to state that they will perform their duties in accordance with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Last activity over 2 years agoThis 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.
Last activity over 2 years agoThis bill would ensure that information held by Parliamentary Under-Secretaries in their official capacity is official information, and subject to the Official Information Act 1982.
Last activity over 2 years agoThis Bill gives effect to the Deed of Settlement, entered into by the Crown and Hineuru on 2 April 2015, for the final settlement of historical Treaty of Waitangi claims of Hineuru.
Last activity over 2 years agoThis bill proposes amendments to the Health Act 1956 to improve the tracing of people who may have an infectious disease, or may have been exposed to one; increase the range of infectious diseases that are notifiable, and provide incremental options for the management of individuals with significant infectious diseases. The bill also proposes introducing a ban on the provision of commercial artificial UV tanning services to people under 18 years of age and seesk to make a number of administrative changes to streamline legislation including the inclusion of tuberculosis as a notifiable infectious disease under the Act and the consequent repeal of the Tuberculosis Act 1948.
Last activity over 2 years ago