Bill
Coal-Fired Power Funding Prohibition Bill 2017
lapsed, as at 2022-07-25.
- Sponsor
- Richard Di Natale
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-10-17
- second reading — 2017-10-17
- second reading — 2018-03-19
- second reading — 2018-09-10
- other — 2019-07-01
- other — 2019-07-04
- other — 2022-07-25
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 2017-10-17.
The bill would stop the Commonwealth government and its agencies from funding coal-fired power stations.
It would ban spending on building, buying, refurbishing or helping transfer ownership of such stations.
The bill would allow financial support for worker transition assistance or managing a station's closure.
- The bill prohibits Commonwealth funding for coal-fired power station construction, purchase, refurbishment or ownership transfer.
- The bill permits financial support for transition assistance to affected workers or managing station closure.
- The bill binds the Crown in all its capacities.
The Commonwealth government and its agencies, and owners or operators of coal-fired power stations.
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