A bill is a proposed law. See ‘The Legislative Process – the making of a law‘ for information on how bills are considered and passed by the Queensland Parliament.
Sources of Queensland Bills
| Queensland Legislation (OQPC) |
- Coverage: November 1992-
- Browse by year – bills are listed alphabetically within each year. Click on the title to access the bill (the ‘purchase’ link at the right hand side is for print copies of bills).
- To search full text, use the advanced search and select ‘Bills introduced’ from the ‘collection’ menu.
- The browsable lists also include a link to the explanatory note for each bill.
- Provided by the Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel.
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| Parliament |
- Coverage: full text bills 2006-; bills register 1996-
- Browse by title – current session or previous sessions.
- Also includes links to the explanatory note, the explanatory speech and the text of amendments relating to the bill 2009-
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| AustLII |
- Coverage: 1999-
- Browse by title or by year.
- Use ‘name search’ to search the titles of bills.
- Use ‘database search’ to search the full text of bills.
- Click on the ‘download’ link once you have located the bill to access versions formatted for printing etc.
- Click on the ‘related items’ link to access the explanatory note (where available on AustLII).
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| Lawlex |
- Coverage: current bills only
- Type in the name of the bill in the ‘keywords’ field and the year in the ‘year from’ field. Set the jurisdiction to ‘QLD’ and the document type to ‘Bill’.
- Each bill on Lawlex has a ‘home page’ – click on the title of the bill to link to the latest version of the bill on the Queensland Legislation (Office of Queensland Parliamentary Counsel) website.
- Note: the subscription version of Lawlex provides a deeper archive of full text bills, information about the progress of bills through Parliament, alerts and more.
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| GovPubs |
- Contains information about print holdings of Queensland bills in the National Library and State / Territory Libraries.
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Information about Queensland Bills
| Parliament |
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| GovPubs |
- Contains information about various indexes to Queensland bills, along with details of where to find them – some are online, others can be found in hard copy in the National Library and State / Territory Libraries.
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