Stephen Parry (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That—

(1)

To ensure appropriate consideration of budget-related bills by Senate committees without undue delay, the provisions of all bills introduced into the Parliament after 12 May 2009 and before 5 June 2009 that are proposed to commence prior to 11 August 2009 are, contingent upon their introduction into the Parliament, referred to committees for inquiry and report by 16 June 2009.

(2)

The committee to which each bill is referred shall be determined in accordance with the order of 13 February 2008 allocating departments and agencies to standing committees.

(3)

This order may be superseded in relation to any bill by:

(a)

a subsequent order of the Senate, including the adoption of a recommendation of the Selection of Bills Committee that the bill not be referred or be referred on different terms; and

(b)

a recommendation of the Selection of Bills Committee reported to the President when the Senate is not sitting that the bill not be referred or be referred on different terms.

(4)

A committee to which a bill has been referred may determine that there are no substantive matters that require examination and may report that fact to the Senate.

(5)

This order does not apply in relation to bills which contain no provisions other than provisions appropriating revenue or moneys (appropriation bills).

Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—For the purposes of clarity, I move the following government amendment:

Paragraph (1), omit “all”, substitute “these”.

Question agreed to.

Original question, as amended, agreed to.