Bill
Appropriation (Coronavirus Response) Bill (No. 1) 2021-2022
passed, as at 2022-02-14. Finance portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Finance
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2022-02-09
- second reading — 2022-02-09
- second reading — 2022-02-09
- second reading — 2022-02-09
- third reading — 2022-02-09
- introduced — 2022-02-10
- second reading — 2022-02-10
- second reading — 2022-02-10
- third reading — 2022-02-10
- passed — 2022-02-10
- royal assent — 2022-02-14
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 2022-02-09.
This bill would take money from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to pay for the government's everyday running costs.
It would provide extra cash for coronavirus response programs that need funding in February and March 2022.
The bill is separate from other spending bills because the Constitution requires ordinary annual services to be in their own bill.
- The bill proposes appropriations from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for ordinary annual services.
- It proposes additional appropriation for coronavirus response programs needing funding through February and March 2022.
- The bill separates ordinary annual services appropriations from other appropriations, as required by sections 53 and 54 of the Australian Constitution.
The government and agencies running coronavirus response programs that need cash flow in February and March 2022.
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