Bill
Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2025-2026
lapsed, as at 2025-03-28. Finance portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Finance
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-03-25
- second reading — 2025-03-25
- other — 2025-03-28
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 2025-03-25.
This bill would authorise spending from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for government activities that are not the everyday running costs.
It would provide roughly seven-twelfths of the estimated 2025-26 funding for those activities, plus new budget measures and extra spending already agreed for the rest of 2024-25.
Under the Constitution, ordinary annual services must be in a separate bill; a companion supply bill covers the remaining five-twelfths to ensure enough money for the first five months of 2025-26.
- Draws money from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for non-ordinary services.
- Sets the initial funding at about seven-twelfths of the estimated annual amount for 2025-26, plus budget measures and outstanding 2024-25 items.
- Works alongside a supply bill that provides the other five-twelfths for the start of the financial year.
Federal government departments and agencies that deliver services not classified as ordinary annual services.
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