Bill
Electric Vehicles Accountability Bill 2021
lapsed, as at 2025-07-21.
- Sponsor
- Janet Rice
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2021-06-16
- second reading — 2021-06-16
- other — 2022-07-25
- other — 2022-07-27
- other — 2025-07-21
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 2021-06-16.
This bill would make the government tell Parliament what its electric vehicle policy is.
The Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister would have to table a yearly statement by 1 August, and the Productivity Minister would ask the Productivity Commission to produce an annual report comparing Australia's approach with other countries.
The bill would start the day after it receives royal assent.
- The government must provide a strategy statement to Parliament each year.
- The Productivity Commission must produce a yearly international comparison report.
- The bill sets 1 August as the deadline for tabling the strategy statement.
The Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister, the Productivity Minister, and the Productivity Commission.
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