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Child Protection Reform Amendment Bill 2017

This bill rewrites large parts of Queensland's Child Protection Act 1999 to give children in long-term out-of-home care more stability and to strengthen cultural protections for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. It introduces a new 'permanent care order' lasting until age 18, limits successive short-term orders to two years, extends support for young people leaving care up to age 25, and simplifies how agencies share information to protect children at risk.

9/8/2017· PASSED with amendment· Hon S Fentiman MP
Children & FamiliesFirst NationsJustice & Rights

Education (Accreditation of Non-State Schools) Bill 2017

This bill replaces Queensland's 2001 law on non-State school accreditation with a modernised framework. It streamlines how independent and Catholic schools become accredited, gives the Non-State Schools Accreditation Board responsibility for deciding government funding eligibility, and strengthens inspection and investigation powers.

9/5/2017· PASSED with amendment· Hon K Jones MP
EducationChildren & FamiliesGovernment & Elections

Resources Safety and Health Queensland Bill 2019

This bill establishes Resources Safety and Health Queensland (RSHQ) as an independent statutory body to regulate safety and health across Queensland's coal mining, mineral mining, quarrying, explosives, and petroleum and gas industries. It separates the safety regulator from the department that promotes industry growth, responding to the coal workers' pneumoconiosis (black lung disease) inquiry that found the regulator lacked independence. The bill also creates an independent Commissioner for Resources Safety and Health and gives the Work Health and Safety prosecutor responsibility for prosecuting serious safety offences.

4/9/2019· PASSED with amendment· Hon A Lynham
Work & EmploymentGovernment & Elections
21

Fisheries (Sustainable Fisheries Strategy) Amendment Bill 2018

This bill overhauls Queensland's fisheries management by introducing harvest strategies as the key tool for managing fish stocks, strengthening enforcement against black marketing of seafood, and formally recognising charter fishing and Indigenous fishing in the law. It implements the Queensland Sustainable Fisheries Strategy 2017-2027, backed by $20.9 million in funding for better monitoring, compliance and stakeholder engagement.

4/9/2018· PASSED· Hon M Furner MP
EnvironmentBusiness & EconomyRegional Queensland
13

Major Sports Facilities and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016

This bill bundles changes across gambling, land, sport and transport laws. It cuts gaming machine tax for clubs with multiple premises, lets Queensland keno join interstate jackpot pools, allows the State to lease the beds of working rivers and lakes, streamlines stadium event advertising rules, and relaxes a toll freeze on the Logan and Gateway Motorways to fund a $450 million upgrade.

30/8/2016· PASSED with amendment· Hon C Pitt MP
Transport & RoadsBusiness & EconomyEnvironmentGovernment & Elections
25

Farm Business Debt Mediation Bill 2016

This bill forces banks and other lenders to offer farmers mediation before they can enforce a farm mortgage, giving struggling farmers a structured chance to negotiate outside of court. It also renames QRAA as the Queensland Rural and Industry Development Authority, lets industry bodies run their own biosecurity accreditation schemes, clears the way for viruses to be used as pest control, and allows Queensland cannabis growers to supply seed to medicinal cannabis producers.

30/8/2016· PASSED with amendment· Hon L Donaldson MP
Regional QueenslandBusiness & EconomyJustice & Rights

Pharmacy Business Ownership Bill 2023

This bill replaces Queensland's 20-year-old pharmacy ownership laws with a modern regulatory framework. It establishes a new independent Queensland Pharmacy Business Ownership Council to oversee pharmacy ownership, introduces mandatory annual licensing for pharmacy owners, and bans new pharmacies from opening inside supermarkets.

30/11/2023· PASSED· Hon S Fentiman MP
HealthBusiness & EconomyRegional Queensland
20

Forensic Science Queensland Bill 2023

This bill establishes Forensic Science Queensland as an independent statutory body responsible for providing forensic services to support Queensland's criminal justice system. It implements the key recommendation of the Commission of Inquiry into Forensic DNA Testing, which found serious failings in how DNA evidence was tested and managed. Queensland becomes the first Australian state with dedicated legislation governing forensic science services.

29/11/2023· PASSED· Hon S Fentiman MP
Justice & RightsGovernment & Elections
17

Health and Wellbeing Queensland Bill 2019

This bill establishes Health and Wellbeing Queensland, a new statutory body with an initial budget of nearly $33 million dedicated to preventing chronic disease and improving the health of Queenslanders. It takes a whole-of-government and community approach, working across sectors like education, employment and housing to tackle the social factors that drive poor health outcomes.

28/2/2019· PASSED with amendment· Hon S Miles MP
HealthFirst NationsRegional Queensland
33

Making Queensland Safer Bill 2024

This bill implements the government's 'adult crime, adult time' policy, allowing children convicted of serious offences like murder, robbery, burglary and dangerous driving to receive the same penalties as adults. It also removes the principle of detention as a last resort, makes victim impact the primary consideration in sentencing young offenders, and creates an automatic process to transfer 18-year-olds from youth detention to adult prisons.

28/11/2024· PASSED with amendment· Hon D Crisafulli MP
Justice & RightsChildren & FamiliesSafety & Emergency
73

Queensland Productivity Commission Bill 2024

This bill re-establishes the Queensland Productivity Commission as an independent statutory body to conduct public inquiries, research and provide advice on economic and social issues, regulatory matters and legislation. The Commission was abolished in 2015 and its re-establishment was a 2024 election commitment. Its role is advisory only — it cannot make binding decisions, but the government must respond publicly to its inquiry reports.

28/11/2024· PASSED· Hon D Janetzki MP
Government & ElectionsBusiness & Economy
50

Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019

This bill amends over 30 Acts and regulations within the justice portfolio to improve how Queensland's courts, tribunals, and administrative agencies operate. It modernises the coronial system, strengthens protections for vulnerable witnesses, speeds up the handling of property offences, and fixes various anomalies across the justice system.

28/11/2019· PASSED with amendment· Hon Y D'Ath MP
Justice & RightsSafety & Emergency
16

Public Trustee (Advisory and Monitoring Board) Amendment Bill 2021

This bill creates a new independent board to oversee Queensland's Public Trustee, which manages the financial and legal affairs of vulnerable people. It was introduced after the Public Advocate found significant issues with the Public Trustee's fees, charges and practices in a 2021 review.

28/10/2021· PASSED with amendment· Hon S Fentiman MP
Justice & RightsSeniorsGovernment & Elections
29

Criminal Code (Child Sexual Offences Reform) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019

This bill reforms Queensland's criminal justice system to better protect children from sexual abuse and improve access to justice for survivors. It implements key recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, strengthens sentencing for child exploitation material offences, and criminalises child abuse objects such as life-like child replicas.

27/11/2019· PASSED· Hon Y D'Ath MP
Justice & RightsChildren & FamiliesSafety & Emergency
23

Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games Arrangements Bill 2021

This bill establishes the Brisbane Organising Committee for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games as an independent statutory body. The committee is responsible for planning, organising, promoting and financially managing the Games, with a board of directors representing government, sporting bodies, athletes and independent members.

27/10/2021· PASSED with amendment· Hon A Palaszczuk MP
Government & ElectionsBusiness & EconomyFirst Nations
58

Multicultural Recognition Bill 2015

This bill recognises the contribution of Queensland's diverse communities and sets up a framework for government to be more responsive to cultural, linguistic and religious diversity. It creates a Multicultural Queensland Charter, an Advisory Council to guide the Minister, and requires a multicultural policy and action plan with regular public reporting.

27/10/2015· PASSED· Hon S Fentiman MP
First NationsGovernment & ElectionsJustice & Rights
25

Waste Reduction and Recycling (Strengthening the Container Refund Scheme) Amendment Bill 2026

This bill overhauls the governance of Queensland's Container Refund Scheme — the 10-cent bottle and can return program — following a parliamentary inquiry that found significant weaknesses in how the scheme is run. It gives the government much stronger oversight of the scheme coordinator (currently Container Exchange), requires an independent board majority, and expands the scheme's purpose to include supporting environmental and community programs.

26/3/2026· Referred to Committee· Hon A Powell MP
EnvironmentGovernment & ElectionsBusiness & Economy

Disability Services and Other Legislation (Worker Screening) Amendment Bill 2020

This bill creates a mandatory screening system for people who work with Queenslanders with disability. It implements the nationally agreed NDIS worker screening scheme and establishes a separate state system for disability services funded outside the NDIS. The bill also strengthens how the blue card system works alongside disability screening to protect children with disability.

26/11/2020· PASSED· Hon C Crawford MP
HealthChildren & FamiliesWork & Employment
7

Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023

This bill makes wide-ranging changes across Queensland's justice system, courts, electoral processes, and victims' rights. Major reforms include formally recognising the deaths of unborn children in criminal sentencing, allowing media to identify sexual offence defendants before committal, improving accountability for Justices of the Peace, modernising legal costs disclosure, and saving postal votes affected by envelope errors.

25/5/2023· PASSED with amendment· Hon Y D'Ath MP
Justice & RightsGovernment & ElectionsSafety & Emergency
33

Labour Hire Licensing Bill 2017

This bill sets up a mandatory licensing scheme for labour hire companies in Queensland to crack down on worker exploitation and restore confidence in the industry. Providers must be licensed, pass a fit and proper person test and report every six months, while businesses that use them must only engage licensed operators. A public register and a new inspectorate back the scheme up, with penalties of up to three years' imprisonment or $3,000+ penalty units for corporations.

25/5/2017· PASSED with amendment· Hon G Grace MP
Work & EmploymentJustice & RightsRegional Queensland

Racing Integrity Amendment Bill 2022

This bill overhauls how stewards' decisions are challenged in Queensland's racing industry. It creates a new independent Racing Appeals Panel to replace the current system of internal reviews and lengthy QCAT hearings, ensuring disputes are resolved in days rather than months. The bill also introduces online publication of stewards' reports and substance test results to improve transparency.

24/2/2022· PASSED· Hon G Grace MP
Justice & RightsBusiness & Economy
17

Healthy Futures Commission Queensland Bill 2017

This bill creates a new independent state body called the Healthy Futures Commission Queensland, focused on helping children and families live healthier lives. The Commission will fund community projects, partnerships and research aimed at promoting healthy eating, physical activity and reducing health gaps between different Queensland communities.

23/5/2017· Lapsed· Hon CR Dick MP
HealthChildren & FamiliesFirst Nations

Tow Truck and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017

This bill brings private property towing under the Tow Truck Act for the first time, capping charges and requiring licensed operators with written consent from property occupiers. It also keeps 17-year-old drivers subject to mandatory disqualifications and SPER enforcement, and lets toll operators combine multiple unpaid tolls into a single demand notice.

22/8/2017· Lapsed· Hon Dr S Miles MP
Transport & RoadsCost of LivingJustice & Rights

Queensland Institute of Medical Research Bill 2025

This bill replaces the Queensland Institute of Medical Research Act 1945 — which is nearly 80 years old — with a modern governance framework for one of Australia's leading medical research institutes. It strengthens integrity and accountability requirements for Council members, modernises how researchers are rewarded for commercially successful discoveries, and streamlines leadership appointments.

22/5/2025· PASSED· Hon T Nicholls MP
HealthGovernment & Elections
25

Queensland Veterans' Council Bill 2021

This bill establishes the Queensland Veterans' Council as a new statutory body to manage Anzac Square as the state's war memorial, administer the Anzac Day Trust Fund that supports ex-service personnel and their families, and advise the Queensland Government on veterans' matters. It replaces the existing Anzac Day Trust and the informal Queensland Veterans' Advisory Council with a single, more accountable body.

22/4/2021· PASSED with amendment· Hon A Palaszczuk MP
Government & ElectionsHealth
31

Path to Treaty Bill 2023

This bill creates Queensland's legal framework for negotiating treaties with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It establishes two new institutions: the First Nations Treaty Institute, an independent statutory body to help First Nations communities prepare for and participate in treaty negotiations; and the Truth-telling and Healing Inquiry, a three-year process to document the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

22/2/2023· PASSED with amendment· Hon A Palaszczuk MP
First NationsJustice & RightsGovernment & Elections
66

Economic Development and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024

This bill significantly expands the role of Economic Development Queensland (EDQ) to tackle Queensland's housing shortage. It makes delivering social and affordable housing a core part of EDQ's mandate, gives EDQ new powers to acquire land and direct infrastructure delivery, and restructures EDQ as a more independent body with its own board, CEO, and employing office.

20/3/2024· PASSED with amendment· Hon G Grace MP
Housing & RentingBusiness & EconomyGovernment & Elections
18

Disability Services and Other Legislation (Worker Screening) Amendment Bill 2018

This bill ensures that sole traders providing disability services under the NDIS in Queensland must undergo the same criminal history screening (yellow card system) as employees of disability service providers. It also enables Queensland Police to share expanded criminal history information with interstate worker screening units to support nationally consistent NDIS worker screening.

20/3/2018· PASSED· Hon C O'Rourke MP
HealthWork & Employment
10

Building Queensland Bill 2015

This bill creates Building Queensland, an independent statutory body that provides expert advice to the Queensland Government on major infrastructure projects. It is modelled on the Commonwealth's Infrastructure Australia and was a 2015 election commitment. The body will assess business cases, publish cost-benefit analysis summaries, and maintain a priority pipeline of infrastructure proposals.

19/5/2015· PASSED with amendment· Hon J Trad MP
Government & ElectionsBusiness & Economy
23

Child Death Review Legislation Amendment Bill 2019

This bill reforms Queensland's system for reviewing child deaths connected to the child protection system. It requires multiple government agencies — not just Child Safety — to conduct internal reviews when a child known to the system dies, and establishes an independent Child Death Review Board to identify systemic failures and recommend improvements.

18/9/2019· PASSED· Hon Y D'Ath MP
Children & FamiliesJustice & RightsHealth
21

Queensland Academy of Sport Bill 2025

This bill establishes the Queensland Academy of Sport as an independent statutory body, removing it from the Department of Sport, Racing and Olympic and Paralympic Games. The change is designed to give the Academy the agility, operational independence, and financial flexibility it needs to prepare Queensland athletes for success at the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

18/2/2025· PASSED with amendment· Hon T Mander MP
HealthGovernment & Elections
12

Relationships (Civil Partnerships) and Other Acts Amendment Bill 2015

This bill restores the right for adult couples of any gender in Queensland to hold an official civil partnership ceremony before registering their relationship. It renames the Relationships Act back to the Civil Partnerships Act, sets up a new scheme for registering civil partnership notaries who can conduct ceremonies, and modernises the Births, Deaths and Marriages registry by moving to electronic lodgement of birth and death records.

17/9/2015· PASSED with amendment· Hon Y D'Ath MP
Justice & RightsGovernment & Elections

Major Sports Facilities Amendment Bill 2022

This bill modernises how Stadiums Queensland, the body that manages the state's major sports venues, is governed and operates. It implements six recommendations from the Stadium Taskforce, which was set up in 2018 after venue hirers raised concerns about costs, operations and infrastructure at stadiums across Queensland.

17/8/2022· PASSED· Hon S Hinchliffe MP
Government & ElectionsBusiness & Economy
20

Brisbane Olympic and Paralympic Games Arrangements Amendment Bill 2024

This bill establishes the Games Venue and Legacy Delivery Authority, a new statutory body to deliver venues, oversee village construction, and coordinate government responsibilities for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It gives the authority significant powers including compulsory land acquisition, the ability to bypass normal planning processes, and the power to direct government agencies on transport infrastructure.

17/4/2024· PASSED with amendment· Hon G Grace MP
Government & ElectionsTransport & RoadsHousing & Renting
17

Jobs Queensland Bill 2015

This bill creates Jobs Queensland, a new independent body that advises the state government on what skills Queensland will need, how to plan for future workforce needs, and how the apprenticeship and traineeship system should work. It is intended to give industry, unions, and regional Queensland a stronger voice in shaping training priorities.

16/9/2015· PASSED with amendment· Hon Y D'Ath MP
Work & EmploymentEducation
13

Grammar Schools Bill 2016

This bill replaces Queensland's 1975 grammar schools law with modern legislation covering the eight grammar schools at Brisbane, Ipswich, Rockhampton, Toowoomba and Townsville. It modernises board governance, cuts financial red tape, and permanently closes the door on new grammar schools being created.

16/8/2016· PASSED with amendment· Hon K Jones MP
EducationGovernment & Elections
14

Domestic and Family Violence Protection and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016

This bill strengthens Queensland's domestic and family violence protections following the 'Not Now, Not Ever' taskforce report. It gives police more power to protect victims on the spot, makes protection orders last longer, lets agencies share information to respond to serious threats, and joins the national scheme that recognises domestic violence orders across state borders.

16/8/2016· PASSED with amendment· Hon S Fentiman MP
Justice & RightsSafety & EmergencyChildren & Families
24

Meriba Omasker Kaziw Kazipa (Torres Strait Islander Traditional Child Rearing Practice) Bill 2020

This bill creates Australia's first legal framework to recognise Torres Strait Islander traditional child rearing practice (Ailan Kastom), where children are permanently placed with cultural parents within the extended family network. It establishes a Commissioner to decide applications for cultural recognition orders that legally transfer parentage, resulting in new birth certificates that reflect a person's cultural identity.

16/7/2020· PASSED with amendment· Ms C Lui MP
First NationsChildren & FamiliesJustice & Rights
10

Integrity and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023

This bill implements integrity reforms recommended by the Coaldrake Report and Yearbury Report. It overhauls the regulation of lobbyists to increase transparency, strengthens the independence of Queensland's five core integrity bodies by giving parliamentary committees a greater role in their funding and appointments, and extends the Ombudsman's jurisdiction to cover non-government organisations delivering public services on behalf of government.

16/6/2023· PASSED with amendment· Hon A Palaszczuk MP
Government & ElectionsJustice & Rights
13

Corrective Services (Parole Board) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017

This bill replaces Queensland's three separate parole boards with a single, professionalised Parole Board Queensland led by a former judge. It also gives corrective services officers clearer power to electronically monitor parolees through GPS devices and curfews. The reforms respond to the 2016 Sofronoff review of the parole system.

16/2/2017· PASSED with amendment· Hon M Ryan MP
Justice & RightsSafety & Emergency

Child Protection Reform and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2021

This bill reforms Queensland's child protection system to give children in care stronger rights and a genuine voice in decisions about their lives. It also strengthens the blue card screening system by connecting Queensland to a national database and allowing domestic violence information to be considered in working with children checks.

15/9/2021· PASSED· Hon L Linard MP
Children & FamiliesJustice & RightsFirst Nations
24

Criminal Law (Raising the Age of Responsibility) Amendment Bill 2021

This bill sought to raise Queensland's minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 years old, consistent with United Nations standards and medical evidence that children under 14 lack the brain development to fully understand the consequences of their actions. It was a private member's bill introduced by Michael Berkman MP (Greens) that failed at its second reading vote and did not become law.

15/9/2021· 2nd reading failed· Mr M Berkman MP
Justice & RightsChildren & FamiliesFirst Nations
8

Coroners (Domestic and Family Violence Death Review and Advisory Board) Amendment Bill 2015

This bill creates an independent Domestic and Family Violence Death Review and Advisory Board to examine why people are dying from domestic and family violence in Queensland and recommend changes to prevent future deaths. It amends the Coroners Act 2003 to set up the Board's membership, functions, powers, and reporting requirements, implementing a key recommendation of the Not Now, Not Ever report.

15/9/2015· PASSED· Hon Y D'Ath MP
Justice & RightsSafety & EmergencyChildren & Families
15

Ministerial and Other Office Holder Staff and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018

This bill gives the Director-General of the Department of the Premier and Cabinet and the Clerk of the Parliament formal legal authority to conduct criminal history checks on people working in ministerial offices, electorate offices, and the Parliamentary Service. It formalises interim arrangements that were already in place since December 2017, bringing these checks in line with the powers that already exist for Queensland public service employees.

15/5/2018· PASSED with amendment· Hon A Palaszczuk MP
Government & ElectionsJustice & Rights
10

Criminal Code (Decriminalising Sex Work) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024

This bill decriminalises sex work in Queensland by repealing criminal offences that made most forms of sex work illegal and abolishing the brothel licensing system. It implements recommendations from the Queensland Law Reform Commission to treat sex work as legitimate work, while introducing new offences specifically targeting the exploitation of children and coercion in commercial sexual services.

15/2/2024· PASSED with amendment· Hon Y D'Ath MP
Justice & RightsWork & EmploymentHealth
19

Tow Truck and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018

This bill reforms Queensland's tow truck industry to protect motorists from unfair private property towing practices, reinstates driving penalties for 17-year-old drivers following their inclusion in the youth justice system, and reduces toll road administration charges by allowing demand notices to be combined.

15/2/2018· PASSED· Hon M Bailey MP
Transport & RoadsJustice & RightsCost of Living
41

Hospital Foundations Bill 2018

This bill modernises the governance of Queensland's 13 hospital foundations and opens up the industrial hemp industry to food production. It repeals the outdated Hospitals Foundations Act 1982 and replaces it with contemporary legislation, while also amending the Drugs Misuse Act 1986 to allow hemp seeds to be grown and processed for human consumption.

15/2/2018· PASSED with amendment· Hon S Miles MP
HealthBusiness & EconomyRegional Queensland
14

Land, Explosives and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018

This bill updates multiple regulatory frameworks within Queensland's Natural Resources, Mines and Energy portfolio. It strengthens explosives safety and security, protects Cape York Peninsula heritage land from mining, modernises State land compliance powers, facilitates electronic conveyancing, improves gas safety regulation, and enhances Indigenous land management options.

15/2/2018· PASSED with amendment· Hon A Lynham MP
Safety & EmergencyFirst NationsEnvironmentBusiness & EconomyHousing & Renting
17

Motor Accident Insurance and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2019

This bill makes it a criminal offence to engage in 'claim farming' — the practice of cold-calling Queenslanders after car accidents and pressuring them to make CTP insurance claims, then selling their details to lawyers for a fee. It also strengthens the Motor Accident Insurance Commission's powers to investigate law practices involved in claim farming.

14/6/2019· PASSED with amendment· Hon. J Trad MP
Justice & RightsCost of Living

Health Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 3) 2025

This bill amends eight Queensland health Acts to fix implementation issues with the new fertility clinic regulatory framework, create a legal basis for organ donation procedures before circulatory death, require cosmetic surgery safety standards at private hospitals, and give the government broader powers to remove health board members. It is the third health legislation amendment bill for 2025.

14/10/2025· PASSED· Hon T Nicholls MP
HealthJustice & RightsGovernment & Elections
10

Domestic and Family Violence Protection (Combating Coercive Control) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022

This bill strengthens Queensland's response to domestic and family violence by implementing recommendations from the Women's Safety and Justice Taskforce. It recognises coercive control as a pattern of behaviour, modernises stalking laws to cover technology-facilitated abuse, reforms how courts handle competing domestic violence claims, and improves evidence rules so juries better understand DFV dynamics. It also makes unrelated changes to the Coroners Act, Oaths Act, and Telecommunications Interception Act.

14/10/2022· PASSED with amendment· Hon S Fentiman MP
Justice & RightsChildren & FamiliesSafety & Emergency
48

Public Sector Bill 2022

This bill replaces the Public Service Act 2008 with a new Public Sector Act that modernises employment arrangements for all Queensland public sector employees. It implements recommendations from the Bridgman Review and the Coaldrake Report, extending employment protections across the entire public sector, creating new rights for temporary workers to convert to permanent roles, and requiring public sector entities to actively support the government's reframed relationship with Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

14/10/2022· PASSED with amendment· Hon A Palaszczuk MP
Work & EmploymentGovernment & ElectionsFirst Nations
18

Integrity and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022

This bill strengthens the independence of Queensland's key integrity watchdogs — the Auditor-General, the Integrity Commissioner, and the Ombudsman — following the 2022 Coaldrake Report into public sector culture and accountability. It makes the Auditor-General an officer of Parliament, creates the Office of the Queensland Integrity Commissioner, and introduces a criminal offence for unregistered lobbying.

14/10/2022· PASSED with amendment· Hon A Palaszczuk MP
Government & ElectionsJustice & Rights
28

Serious and Organised Crime Legislation Amendment Bill 2016

This bill dismantles Queensland's 2013 anti-bikie laws and replaces them with a new Organised Crime Regime. It repeals the VLAD Act and Criminal Organisation Act 2009, removes mandatory minimum penalties targeting gang members, and introduces a new consorting offence, control orders, public safety orders and a mandatory seven-year jail 'top-up' for serious organised crime. It also toughens laws on online child exploitation, boiler-room fraud and drug trafficking, and restores fair process rights for people applying for licences in regulated industries such as tattooing and security.

13/9/2016· PASSED with amendment· Hon Y D'Ath MP
Justice & RightsSafety & EmergencyChildren & Families
40

Tow Truck Bill 2023

This bill replaces Queensland's 50-year-old Tow Truck Act 1973 with a modernised framework for regulating tow trucks that remove crashed, seized or privately parked vehicles. It introduces a unified accreditation system, increases penalties for non-compliance, and strengthens consumer protections for motorists who may be vulnerable after a crash or whose vehicle has been towed from private property.

13/6/2023· PASSED· Hon M Bailey MP
Transport & RoadsBusiness & EconomyJustice & Rights
23

Personalised Transport Ombudsman Bill 2019

This bill creates a Personalised Transport Ombudsman to independently handle complaints about taxis, rideshare, and booked hire services in Queensland. It also updates transport laws to support new contactless ticketing technology for public transport and makes several improvements to operator and driver licensing requirements.

13/2/2019· PASSED with amendment· Hon M Bailey MP
Transport & RoadsBusiness & EconomyCost of Living
21

Working with Children (Risk Management and Screening) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018

This bill introduces a 'No Card, No Start' policy for Queensland's blue card system, meaning no one can begin paid work with children without first holding a working with children clearance. It also modernises the blue card application process with online options, expands the criminal offences that automatically disqualify a person from working with children, closes loopholes that allowed high-risk people to rely on exemptions, and creates a centralised register of home-based care services.

13/11/2018· PASSED with amendment· Hon Y D'Ath MP
Children & FamiliesWork & EmploymentJustice & Rights
32

Justice Legislation (Links to Terrorist Activity) Amendment Bill 2018

This bill implements a national agreement to make it much harder for people with links to terrorism to get bail or parole in Queensland. It amends four Acts to create a presumption against bail and parole for anyone convicted of a terrorism offence or subject to a Commonwealth control order, requiring them to prove exceptional circumstances before being released.

13/11/2018· PASSED· Hon Y D'Ath MP
Justice & RightsSafety & Emergency
20

Working with Children (Risk Management and Screening) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024

This bill overhauls Queensland's blue card (Working with Children Check) system. It introduces a new risk-based decision-making framework replacing the current 'best interests' test, expands the types of work and businesses that require blue cards, simplifies the disqualification process, removes blue card requirements for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kinship carers, and improves information sharing between agencies.

12/6/2024· PASSED with amendment· Hon Y D'Ath MP
Children & FamiliesJustice & RightsFirst Nations
10

Child Safe Organisations Bill 2024

This bill creates a mandatory child safe organisations system for Queensland, requiring organisations that work with children to meet 10 child safe standards and report allegations of child abuse by their workers. It implements key recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and gives the Queensland Family and Child Commission new powers to oversee child safety across sectors including schools, childcare, health services, religious bodies, sport clubs, and government agencies.

12/6/2024· PASSED· Hon C Mullen MP
Children & FamiliesJustice & RightsEducation
11

Environmental Protection and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022

This bill modernises Queensland's environmental protection laws by reforming the environmental impact statement process, strengthening enforcement powers against repeat offenders, creating temporary authorities for emergencies, and banning mining in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. It also updates contaminated land management, waste regulation, and mine rehabilitation frameworks.

12/10/2022· PASSED with amendment· Hon M Scanlon MP
EnvironmentBusiness & EconomyJustice & Rights
25

Arts (Statutory Bodies) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024

This bill strengthens First Nations recognition and governance across Queensland's five major cultural institutions — the State Library, Art Gallery, Museum, Performing Arts Trust and Theatre Company. It mandates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander board representation, creates dedicated First Nations Committees, and modernises board governance with criminal history checks and accountability measures. It also introduces anti-ticket scalping rules for QPAC events.

11/9/2024· Lapsed· Hon L Enoch MP
First NationsGovernment & Elections

Criminal Law (Historical Homosexual Convictions Expungement) Bill 2017

This bill creates a scheme for people to apply to have historical convictions or charges for consensual adult homosexual activity wiped from their criminal records. It covers offences from before homosexuality was decriminalised in Queensland on 19 January 1991. Once expunged, a person is treated in law as never having been convicted or charged.

11/5/2017· PASSED with amendment· Hon Y D'Ath MP
Justice & RightsWork & Employment

Criminal Law (Coercive Control and Affirmative Consent) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023

This bill makes coercive control a criminal offence in Queensland and introduces an affirmative model of consent for sexual offences. It implements recommendations from the Women's Safety and Justice Taskforce to better protect victims of domestic, family and sexual violence, while also reforming how courts handle bail, sentencing and evidence in these cases.

11/10/2023· PASSED with amendment· Hon S Fentiman MP
Justice & RightsSafety & EmergencyChildren & Families
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Penalties and Sentences (Drug and Alcohol Treatment Orders) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017

This bill brings back a drug court in Queensland by creating a new sentencing option called a Drug and Alcohol Treatment Order. Designated magistrates can suspend a prison sentence of up to four years while the offender completes a court-supervised treatment program of at least two years. The bill also tightens the dangerous drug definition, clarifies that long prison sentences can never be 'spent', and gives extra court protections to victims of domestic strangulation.

10/8/2017· PASSED· Hon Y D'Ath MP
Justice & RightsHealthTechnology & Digital

Public Health (Medicinal Cannabis) Bill 2016

This bill creates a legal pathway for seriously ill Queenslanders to be treated with medicinal cannabis, while keeping all other cannabis use illegal. Doctors can apply to Queensland Health for approval to prescribe medicinal cannabis to a specific patient, or, in future, prescribe as-of-right if they belong to a class of specialists listed in a regulation. Pharmacists need a dispensing approval to hand it out, and patients, carers and institutions have clear rules about how to store and use it.

10/5/2016· PASSED with amendment· Hon C R Dick MP
HealthJustice & Rights
20

Fighting Antisemitism and Keeping Guns out of the Hands of Terrorists and Criminals Amendment Bill 2026

This bill responds to the December 2025 Bondi Beach terrorist attack by strengthening Queensland's laws against hate speech and antisemitism, and significantly toughening firearms regulations. It bans hate symbols of terrorist organisations, criminalises prohibited expressions that incite hatred, creates new protections for worshippers at religious sites, and imposes some of Australia's strongest penalties for weapons offences including new crimes targeting 3D-printed firearms.

10/2/2026· PASSED with amendment· Hon D Purdie MP
Justice & RightsSafety & EmergencyGovernment & Elections
54

Further Education and Training (Training Ombudsman) and Another Act Amendment Bill 2015

This bill creates an independent Training Ombudsman for Queensland to handle complaints about vocational education and training, apprenticeships, and traineeships. The Ombudsman is an independent statutory position appointed by the Governor in Council and backed by a public service office, with powers to investigate, refer, and report on complaints.

1/12/2015· PASSED with amendment· Hon Y D'Ath MP
EducationWork & Employment
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Plumbing and Drainage and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015

This bill sets up a new plumbing industry regulator inside the Queensland Building and Construction Commission, strengthens protections for renters against unfair tenancy database listings, lets community housing providers give tenancy guarantees to private landlords, and confirms that public housing development has been lawfully carried out.

1/12/2015· PASSED with amendment· Hon L Enoch MP
Housing & RentingWork & EmploymentGovernment & Elections
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