Anne Urquhart (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I present the 13th report of 2023 of the Selection of Bills Committee and I seek leave to have the report incorporated in Hansard.

Leave granted.

The report read as follows—

SELECTION OF BILLS COMMITTEE

REPORT NO. 13 OF 2023

9 November 2023

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 Nick McKim (Australian Greens Whip)

Senator Ralph Babet

Senator the Hon. Anthony Chisholm

Senator the Hon. Katy Gallagher

Senator Matt O'Sullivan

Senator David Pocock

Senator Paul Scarr

Senator Lidia Thorpe

Senator Tammy Tyrrell

Senator David Van

Secretary: Tim Bryant 02 6277 3020

SELECTION OF BILLS COMMITTEE

REPORT NO. 13 OF 2023

1. The committee met in private session on Wednesday, 8 November 2023 at 7.08 pm

2. The committee recommends that—

(a) the Migration Amendment (Overseas Organ Transplant Disclosure and Other Measures) Bill 2023 be referred immediately to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 30 March 2024 (see appendix 1 for a statement of reasons for referral).

3. The committee recommends that the following bills not be referred to committees:

4. The committee deferred consideration of the following bills to its next meeting:

Primary Industries (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2023

(Anne Urquhart)

Chair

9 November 2023

Appendix 1

SELECTION OF BILLS COMMITTEE

Proposal to refer a bill to a committee

Name of bill:

Migration Amendment (Overseas Organ Transplant Disclosure and Other Measures) Bill 2023

Reasons for referral/principal issues for consideration:

A complicated matter.

Possible submissions or evidence from:

Various stakeholders

Committee to which bill is to be referred:

Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade

Possible hearing date(s):

November 2023- March 2024

Possible reporting date:

30 March 2024

(signed)

Wendy Askew

I move:

That the report be adopted.

Question agreed to.