Bill
Supply Bill (No. 3) 2022-2023
passed, as at 2022-11-03. Finance portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Finance
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2022-10-25
- second reading — 2022-10-25
- second reading — 2022-10-25
- second reading — 2022-10-25
- third reading — 2022-10-25
- introduced — 2022-10-26
- second reading — 2022-10-26
- second reading — 2022-10-26
- committee — 2022-10-26
- third reading — 2022-10-26
- passed — 2022-10-26
- royal assent — 2022-11-03
Divisions
- Supply Bill (No. 3) 2022-2023, Supply Bill (No. 4) 2022-2023 and another - Second Reading - Repeal stage 3 tax cuts — 2022-10-26, Senate: negative, ayes 12, noes 28
- Supply Bill (No. 3) 2022-2023 and another - in Committee - Beetaloo Basin Drilling Program — 2022-10-26, Senate: negative, ayes 12, noes 31
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2022-10-25.
This bill would let the government take money from its main fund to pay for its day-to-day running costs.
The funding would cover about seven-twelfths of what the government expects to spend in 2022-23, with some agencies getting less because they already received a large share earlier in the year.
The bill also reflects a reorganisation of government departments that took effect on 1 July 2022, including two newly created departments.
- It proposes to take funds from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for ordinary annual services.
- It sets the amount at about seven-twelfths of the estimated annual appropriations for 2022-23.
- It gives some agencies less than that share, mainly to manage high early-year spending or support the COVID-19 response.
- It aligns with the Administrative Arrangements Order of 1 July 2022, which created two new departments.
The government and its departments, particularly the two new ones created on 1 July 2022.
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