Bill
Supply Bill (No. 1) 2020-2021
passed, as at 2020-03-24. Finance portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Finance
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-03-23
- second reading — 2020-03-23
- second reading — 2020-03-23
- second reading — 2020-03-23
- third reading — 2020-03-23
- introduced — 2020-03-23
- second reading — 2020-03-23
- second reading — 2020-03-23
- second reading — 2020-03-23
- third reading — 2020-03-23
- passed — 2020-03-23
- royal assent — 2020-03-24
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 2020-03-23.
This bill would authorise money to be taken from the government's main bank account to pay for its everyday running costs.
It would give the government access to roughly seven-twelfths of the money it expects to need for the 2020-21 financial year, with extra amounts for agencies like the health department that face high spending early in the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The bill is one of three supply bills that together fund the government's ordinary services, and it must be kept separate from other appropriations under the Australian Constitution.
- Proposes appropriations from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for ordinary annual services.
- Sets the appropriation at about 7/12ths of estimated 2020-21 annual amounts.
- Provides larger appropriations for entities with high early-year spending, including the Department of Health and Services Australia.
The government and its agencies, particularly those involved in the COVID-19 response.
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