Bill
Supply (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2019-2020
passed, as at 2019-04-04. Finance portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Finance
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-04-02
- second reading — 2019-04-02
- second reading — 2019-04-02
- second reading — 2019-04-02
- third reading — 2019-04-02
- introduced — 2019-04-02
- second reading — 2019-04-02
- second reading — 2019-04-03
- second reading — 2019-04-03
- third reading — 2019-04-03
- passed — 2019-04-03
- royal assent — 2019-04-04
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2019-04-02.
This bill would allocate money from the government's main spending account to fund the parliamentary departments.
The allocation would cover about five-twelfths of what those departments are expected to need for the full 2019-20 year, excluding new budget items.
The remaining seven-twelfths and the new budget items are dealt with in a separate bill, and this bill is part of a group of three supply bills.
- The bill proposes spending from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for parliamentary departments.
- The proposed amount is approximately five-twelfths of the estimated annual appropriation for those departments in 2019-20, not including budget measures.
- The bill separates these appropriations from other government spending to follow constitutional rules.
The parliamentary departments and their funding for the 2019-20 financial year.
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