Bill
Export Control Legislation Amendment (Certification of Narcotic Exports) Bill 2020
passed, as at 2020-06-22. Agriculture, Water and the Environment portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-05-13
- second reading — 2020-05-13
- second reading — 2020-05-13
- second reading — 2020-06-10
- second reading — 2020-06-10
- third reading — 2020-06-10
- introduced — 2020-06-10
- second reading — 2020-06-10
- second reading — 2020-06-17
- second reading — 2020-06-17
- third reading — 2020-06-17
- passed — 2020-06-17
- royal assent — 2020-06-22
Divisions
- The majority voted in favour of the following [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debate/?id=2020-05-13.6.1): > *That the resumption of the debate be made an order of the day for a later hour this day.* — 2020-05-13, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 40, noes 26
- The majority voted against a [second reading amendment](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?gid=2020-06-17.11.1) introduced by Victorian Senator [Richard Di Natale](https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/victoria/richard_di_natale), which means it failed. The amendment would have added the words below to the usual [second reading motion](https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/bills-and-laws/making-a-law-in-the-australian-parliament/), which is "*that the bill be read for a second time*" (parliamentary jargon for agreeing with the main idea of the bill). ### Motion amendment > *At the end of the motion, add:* > > *", but the Senate calls on the Government to urgently implement the recommendations contained in the report of the [Community Affairs References Committee](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Community_Affairs) on its inquiry into current barriers to patient access to medicinal cannabis".* — 2020-06-17, Senate: negative, ayes 12, noes 31
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