Legislation: Bills
Bills
Bills are acts in draft form.
Every Bill has three readings in each House of Parliament. It is usually amended several times before being given royal assent and becoming an act.
One way to keep an eye on changes in different areas of law is to monitor the Bills that are before parliament.
Each Bill is accompanied by an explanatory statement, often referred to as an explanatory memorandum. This statement explains the content of the Bill, provision by provision.
Commonwealth - Bills
- Parliament of AustraliaYou can Search or Browse for Bills.
- Bills Digests (Parliamentary Library)You can Search or Browse the Digests.
- Lawlex - Bill TrackingLawlex can be used to track Bills. You can browse by Jurisdiction / Year, or you can apply various Advanced Filters such as keywords, date range, Bill type or Bill status.
Western Australia - Bills
- Parliament of Western AustraliaYou can search for Current Bills (Bills considered by the current Parliament). You can also search for All Bills that have been considered by Parliament since 1997.
- Lawlex - Bill TrackingLawlex can be used to track Bills. You can browse by Jurisdiction / Year, or you can apply various Advanced Filters such as keywords, date range, Bill type or Bill status.
Other Australian jurisdictions - Bills
- Lawlex - Bill TrackingLawlex can be used to track Bills. You can browse by Jurisdiction / Year, or you can apply various Advanced Filters such as keywords, date range, Bill type or Bill status.
Commonwealth - RSS feed - Bills Digests
To find out more about Bills, search this Bills Digests website, which provides a plain English summary of Bills and detail their purpose, background and main provisions (from Parliament of Australia).
Western Australia - RSS feed - new Bills
This feed advises of recent Bill activity within the Western Australian parliament. You can also subscribe to email tracking of each new Bill in the WA Parliament.
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