Bill
Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Transparency Measures—Lowering the Disclosure Threshold) Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2022-07-25.
- Sponsor
- Don Farrell
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-11-27
- second reading — 2019-11-27
- second reading — 2021-02-15
- 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 2019-11-27.
This bill would lower the amount of political donations that must be reported to the Australian Electoral Commission.
It would change the disclosure threshold from a figure that rises with inflation to a fixed $1,000.
The change would start on the first 1 July after the bill becomes law.
- Lowers the disclosure threshold for political donations from $13,800 to $1,000.
- Removes indexation so the threshold becomes a fixed dollar amount.
- Prevents regulations from setting a disclosure amount higher than the threshold.
Political donors, candidates, parties and the Australian Electoral Commission.
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