Electoral Commission of Queensland
OrganisationReferenced in 35 bills
Appropriation Bill 2020
This bill authorises government spending across two financial years. It formally approves $1.114 billion in supplementary funding for unforeseen costs during 2019-20, and provides $28.635 billion in additional interim supply for 2020-21 because the regular state budget was postponed due to the state election and COVID-19.
Local Government Electoral (Implementing Stage 1 of Belcarra) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2018
This bill bans political donations from property developers to candidates, councillors, political parties and third parties at both state and local government levels in Queensland. It also significantly strengthens the rules for how local government councillors must declare and manage conflicts of interest, following recommendations from the Crime and Corruption Commission's Operation Belcarra investigation into corruption risks in local government.
Personal Injuries Proceedings and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2022
This bill cracks down on 'claim farming' — where third parties cold-call or pressure people into making personal injury or workers' compensation claims and sell their details to law firms. It also tightens rules on legal fees for speculative injury claims, reinstates a three-year timeframe for terminal workers' compensation, and fixes technical issues with Queensland's political donation caps.
Appropriation (Supplementary 2024-2025) Bill 2025
This bill formally approves $5.741 billion in government spending that exceeded the original 2024-25 budget across 16 departments. The money has already been spent and reviewed by the Auditor-General, and Parliament must now formally authorise it as required by the Queensland Constitution.
Electoral and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015
This bill toughens Queensland's political donation disclosure rules and removes voter ID requirements. It also sets up a judicial-style pension for the chairperson of the Crime and Corruption Commission.
Local Government and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015
This bill bundles three unrelated changes. It stops council CEOs from automatically running their own council's elections, delays the national heavy vehicle registration scheme until 1 July 2018, and extends the Queensland Reconstruction Authority past its original 2015 expiry date so it can keep helping disaster-hit communities.
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.
Appropriation Bill 2025
This bill authorises the Queensland Government to spend $105.4 billion in the 2025-26 financial year across all government departments. It is the standard annual budget bill required by law, and also provides $52.7 billion in interim supply so government services can continue operating in early 2026-27.
Appropriation Bill 2022
This bill authorises the Queensland Government to spend $69.86 billion in the 2022-23 financial year across all state government departments. It is the annual legal mechanism that allows the government to fund public services including health, education, transport, policing and emergency services.
Local Government (Empowering Councils) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2025
This bill reforms Queensland's local government laws to give councils and mayors more authority, simplify the councillor conduct and conflicts of interest frameworks, and cut red tape across a range of council operations. It responds to concerns from the local government sector about unnecessary regulatory burden, particularly around conduct complaints, mandatory training, and disaster recovery decision-making during election caretaker periods.
Electoral (Improving Representation) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016
This bill increases the size of Queensland's Parliament from 89 to 93 MPs, adding four new electoral districts to improve representation in regional and remote Queensland. It also expands the Redistribution Commission from three to five members and requires the leaders of every party in Parliament to agree on who gets appointed.
Electoral (Voter's Choice) Amendment Bill 2019
This bill sought to reintroduce optional preferential voting for Queensland state elections, meaning voters would only need to mark their first choice candidate rather than numbering every box on the ballot paper. It was a private member's bill introduced by Mr David Janetzki and linked to the voting system originally recommended by the post-Fitzgerald Electoral and Administrative Review Commission. The bill lapsed at the end of the 56th Parliament and did not become law.
Public Health and Other Legislation (Public Health Emergency) Amendment Bill 2020
This bill gave Queensland authorities the legal powers needed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, including lockdowns, quarantine orders, business closures, and restrictions on gatherings. It also amended electoral and planning laws to provide flexibility during the public health emergency, with most emergency powers set to expire one year after commencement.
Local Government and Other Legislation Amendment Bill (No.2) 2015
This bill makes several technical fixes to Queensland's local government and planning laws. It gives councils up to two more years to adopt infrastructure plans, lets developers skip offset and refund details to speed up approvals, and cleans up inconsistencies around how-to-vote cards and outdated mayoral voting rules.
Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2015
This bill retrospectively approves $9.11 million of unforeseen government spending from the 2014-15 financial year. It also changes the rules so that Queensland government departments can borrow from lenders other than the Queensland Treasury Corporation, as long as the Treasurer approves.
Public Health and Other Legislation (Further Extension of Expiring Provisions) Amendment Bill 2021
This bill extended most of Queensland's temporary COVID-19 emergency laws until 30 April 2022, continuing the legal basis for public health directions, quarantine requirements, and support measures across multiple sectors. It also reformed the quarantine fee system to allow prepayment and third-party liability, and clarified that quarantine directions could be issued electronically.
Electoral Legislation (Political Donations) Amendment Bill 2018
This bill sought to ban for-profit corporations from making political donations to candidates, parties and elected members at both state and local government level in Queensland. It was introduced by the Greens member for Maiwar, building on the Crime and Corruption Commission's Operation Belcarra findings about corruption risks from corporate donations. The bill's second reading was defeated and it did not become law.
Electoral (Redistribution Commission) and Another Act Amendment Bill 2015
This bill proposed changes to how Queensland's electoral boundaries are decided. It would have expanded the independent Redistribution Commission from 3 to 5 members, allowed it to decide the number of electoral districts (between 89 and 94), and given it more flexibility for very large rural electorates. The bill failed at its second reading and did not become law.
Appropriation Bill 2021
This bill authorises the Queensland Government's budget for the 2021-22 financial year, appropriating $63.5 billion across all government departments and agencies. It also provides $31.8 billion in interim funding for the start of 2022-23 until the next budget bill passes.
Appropriation Bill 2015
This bill is the 2015-16 Queensland Budget in legal form. It authorises the Treasurer to spend $52.84 billion from the consolidated fund across 26 departments and agencies for the year starting 1 July 2015, plus $26.42 billion of interim supply to keep government running at the start of 2016-17.
Appropriation Bill 2016
This bill is the 2016-17 Queensland Budget in legal form. It authorises the Treasurer to spend $47.6 billion across government departments for the year starting 1 July 2016, and a further $23.8 billion in interim supply to keep government running into 2017-18.
Local Government (Councillor Conduct) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023
This bill reforms Queensland's local government councillor conduct complaints system, implementing recommendations from a parliamentary committee inquiry. It introduces a new preliminary assessment process, compulsory councillor training, a vexatious complainant scheme, and greater transparency for conduct investigations. The bill also modernises advertising requirements, amends the Queen's Wharf Brisbane Act, and updates Moreton Bay City Council references.
Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2016
This bill gives Parliament's formal approval for $390.126 million of extra government spending that occurred during the 2015-16 financial year beyond what the original budget allowed. It is a routine housekeeping Act required whenever departments spend more than their original appropriation.
Appropriation Bill 2023
This bill authorises the Queensland Government to spend $78.4 billion in the 2023-24 financial year across all government departments. It is the annual budget appropriation required by law, and also provides interim funding for early 2024-25 and covers unforeseen spending that occurred during 2022-23.
Appropriation Bill 2017
This bill is Queensland's annual state budget in legal form. It authorises the Treasurer to spend $50.85 billion from the consolidated fund on government departments for 2017-18, and provides $25.43 billion in interim supply to keep government running in the first half of 2018-19 until the next budget passes.
Appropriation Bill 2018
This bill authorises the Queensland Government to spend $53.2 billion from the Consolidated Fund in the 2018-19 financial year. It is the annual appropriation bill that gives every government department legal authority to access its budget allocation for delivering public services including health, education, transport, policing, and community support.
Electoral (Improving Representation) and Another Act Amendment Bill 2015
This bill proposed to increase the size of Queensland's Parliament from 89 to 93 members and change how top appointments to the Electoral Commission of Queensland are made. It was a private member's bill introduced by Mr Katter MP that failed at the second reading stage and did not become law.
Local Government Electoral (Implementing Belcarra) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017
This bill responds to the Crime and Corruption Commission's Operation Belcarra report by banning political donations from property developers to candidates, councillors, political parties and state MPs in Queensland. It also tightens the rules on how councillors must handle conflicts of interest at council meetings, with new criminal offences and the possibility of being barred from office for four years.
Appropriation Bill 2024
This bill authorises the Queensland Government to spend $90.4 billion in 2024-25 to fund all state government departments and services. It also provides $45.2 billion in interim supply for early 2025-26 and retrospectively authorises $6.15 billion in unforeseen expenditure from the previous year.
Appropriation Bill 2019
This bill authorises the Queensland Government to spend $54.7 billion from the Consolidated Fund for the 2019-20 financial year. It is the standard annual appropriation bill that gives 28 government departments and agencies the legal authority to spend their allocated budgets on services for Queenslanders, and provides interim supply of $27.3 billion for 2020-21.
Electoral Laws (Restoring Electoral Fairness) Amendment Bill 2025
This bill makes a series of changes to Queensland's electoral laws covering political donations, prisoner voting, party preselections and campaign transparency. It removes the ban on property developer donations at the state level, resets donation caps on a financial year basis, allows political parties to borrow from banks for campaigns, removes Electoral Commission oversight of preselection ballots, tightens prisoner voting restrictions, and extends election material authorisation requirements to 12 months before a general election.
Industrial Relations Bill 2016
This bill replaces Queensland's Industrial Relations Act 1999 with an entirely new framework governing work for the state's public service, local councils and Brisbane City Council. It sets new minimum employment conditions, makes collective bargaining the main way to negotiate pay and conditions, introduces paid domestic and family violence leave for the first time, and makes Easter Sunday a public holiday from 2017.
Local Government Electoral and Other Legislation (Expenditure Caps) Amendment Bill 2022
This bill introduces spending caps for Queensland local government elections, limiting how much candidates, political parties and third parties can spend on campaigning. It follows recommendations from a parliamentary committee inquiry prompted by the Crime and Corruption Commission's Belcarra report, which found that uneven financial competition was deterring candidates and distorting local government elections.
Appropriation (2020-2021) Bill 2020
This bill authorises the Queensland Government to spend approximately $60.86 billion in the 2020-21 financial year across all government departments. It also provides $30.43 billion in interim supply for early 2021-22 to keep services running until the next budget is passed.
Local Government Electoral (Transparency and Accountability in Local Government) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016
This bill tightens the rules for money in Queensland local council elections and makes a range of technical fixes to planning and building laws. It lowers the donation disclosure threshold to $500, paves the way for real-time online donation reporting, and clarifies when council approval is needed alongside a private certifier's approval for building work.