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22 Aug 2024 · 11:20 AM · Division 4

Selection of Bills Committee

ReportAmendment

A vote on changing the text of a bill or motion, not on passing it.

Official title
Committees — Selection of Bills Committee; Report

Amendment agreed to

Aye
34
No
27
Not recorded voting
15

“Not recorded voting” is everyone eligible who isn't recorded as Aye or No, for example absent, paired, or presiding.

What was decided

No plain-English summary has been written for this division yet. The result above is read from the question recorded in the chamber, shown below.

Text recorded with this division

Anne Urquhart

URQUHART (—) (): I present the ninth report of 2024 of the Selection of Bills Committee. I seek leave to have the report incorporated in Hansard.

Leave granted.

The report read as follows—

SELECTION OF BILLS COMMITTEE

REPORT NO. 9 OF 2024

22 August 2024

MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE

Senator Anne Urquhart (Government Whip, Chair) Senator Wendy Askew (Opposition Whip)

Senator Ross Cadell (The Nationals Whip)

Senator Pauline Hanson (Pauline Hanson's One Nation Whip)

Senator Jacqui Lambie (Jacquie Lambie Network Whip)

Senator Nick McKim (Australian Greens Whip)

Senator Ralph Babet

Senator the Hon. Anthony Chisholm

Senator the Hon. Katy Gallagher

Senator Maria Kovacic

Senator Matt O'Sullivan

Senator Fatima Payman

Senator David Pocock

Senator Lidia Thorpe

Senator Tammy Tyrrell

Senator David Van

Secretary: Tim Bryant 02 6277 3020

SELECTION OF BILLS COMMITTEE

REPORT NO. 9 OF 2024

  1. The committee met in private session on Wednesday, 21 August 2024 at 7.10 pm.
  1. The committee recommends that—

(a) the Housing Investment Probity Bill 2024 be referred immediately to the Economics Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 4 October 2024 (see appendix 1 for a statement of reasons for referral).

  1. The committee recommends that the following bills not be referred to committees:
  1. The committee deferred consideration of the following bills to its next meeting:

(Anne Urquhart)

Chair

22 August 2024

Appendix 1

SELECTION OF BILLS COMMITTEE

Proposal to refer a bill to a committee

Name of bill:

Introduction of Housing Investment Probity Bill 2024

Reasons for referral/principal issues for consideration:

To allow the Committee to scrutinise this legislation and speak to stakeholders impacted.

Possible submissions or evidence from:

The construction sector, the housing sector, builders and Australians who are interested in this legislation.

Committee to which bill is to be referred:

Economics Legislation Committee

Possible hearing date(s): September

Possible reporting date: 4 October 2024

(signed)

Wendy Askew

I move:

That the report be adopted.

Katy Gallagher

I move:

At the end of the motion, add "but the Housing Investment Probity Bill 2024 be deferred".

Sue Lines

The question is that the amendment to the Selection of Bills Committee report, as moved by Senator Gallagher, be agreed to.

This is the question as put in the chamber, with the name of the member who spoke before the vote. It isn't a summary of the bill or motion.

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Votes by party

Both bars use the same scale: number of members.
Aye
34
No
27
Votes by party as a table
PartyAyeNo
Australian Labor Party230
Liberal Party019
Australian Greens90
Liberal National Party02
National Party02
Country Liberal Party01
Deputy Senate President01
Independent10
Jacqui Lambie Network01
Senate President10
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party01

How each member voted

Aye · 34

No · 27

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